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Third Grade History/Reading/Literature
Books arranged by SOTW III
Chapters/Topics:
SOTW Chapter 1, Holy Roman
Empire and Riches of Spain
Usborne: Hapsburgs
Kings and Queens for God:
Maria Theresa of Austria
Read from Christmas in Spain,
World Book
The Sad Night: the story of
an Aztec victory and a Spanish loss, Sally Matthews
Spanish Food and Drink, Maria
Pellicer
Lost Treasure of the Inca,
Peter Lourie (good)
Reading:
The Travels of Francisco
Pizarro, Lara Bergen
The Two Mountains: An Aztec Legend,
Eric Kimmel
Don Quixote, Michael Harrison
(we both read from this)
Literature:
Anno’s Spain, Mitsumasa Anno
The Legend of El Dorado,
Beatriz Vidal
Three Swords for Grenada,
Walter Myers
SOTW Chapter 2, Protestant
Rebellions
Herstory, Ruth Ashby: Mary,
Queen of Scots
Enchantment of the World:
Germany, Jean Blashfield - selections pertinent to time period
The Netherlands: Enchantment
of the World, Martin Hintz - selections
Masters of Art: Rembrandt and
Seventeenth-Century Holland, Claudio Pescio
Reading:
Katje The Windmill Cat,
Gretchen Woelfle
The Boy Who Held Back the
Sea, Thomas Locker
Literature:
Always Room for One More,
Sorghe Nic Leodhas
SOTW Chapter 3, King James
Usborne - the Discovery of
the Americas and the Elizabethans
The Colony of Virginia,
Brooke Coleman
James Towne: Struggle for
Survival, Marcia Sewall (good)
Stories from the New
Testament, Kate Leitch (good)
From National Geo's Mysteries
of History, we read about the First European Visitors to the New World, El Dorado
and the Lost Colony of Roanoke
A History of Britain through
Art, Jillian Powell - pertinent portions
Adventures in Colonial
America: Jamestown, New World Adventure, James Knight
Reading:
The Value of Curiosity: The
Story of Christopher Columbus, Spencer Johnson
The Lord is My Shepherd,
Tasha Tudor
Turn! Turn! Turn! Wendy
Halperin
Literature:
Pocahontas, D'Aulaires
SOTW Chapter 4, Northwest
Passage
The Travels of Samuel de
Champlain, Joanne Mattern
Life of the Powhatan, Bobbie
Kalman
Portions of Canada the
Culture, Bobbie Kalman
The MicMac, Ruth Whitehead
(good)
Reading:
Beyond the Sea of Ice: The
Voyages of Henry Hudson, Joan Goodman
Life in a Longhouse Village,
Bobbie Kalman
Our Strange New Land,
Patricia Hermes
Literature:
From Our Favorite Stories,
read The Coming of Raven, a Canadian Tale
The Broken Blade, William
Durbin (VERY good!)
SOTW Chapter 5, Japan’s
Warlords
Japan the Land, Bobbie Kalman
Look What Came From Japan,
Miles Harvey
A True Book: Japan, Ann
Heinrichs
Literature:
Sword of the Samurai, Eric
Kimmel (good)
SOTW Chapter 6, New World
Colonies
Blue Feather's Vision, James
Knight
Three Young Pilgrims, Cheryl
Harness
Places in Time, pertinent
portions, Elspeth Leacock
From Mysteries of History,
read about King George III
From A Child's Eye View of
History, read about the Pilgrims
1621, A New Look at
Thanksgiving, Grace and Bruchac
Sailing to America: Colonists
at Sea, James Knight
From the Library of the
Pilgrims, Susan Whitehurst, read:
A Plymouth Partnership:
Pilgrims and Native Americans
William Bradford and
Plymouth: A Colony Grows
Plymouth: Surviving the First
Winter
Watched VHS, Colonial Life:
Plimoth Plantation
Reading:
Pilgrims of Plymouth, Susan
Goodman
On the Mayflower, Kate Waters
An Early American Christmas,
Tomie DePaola
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant
Sailed into Town, Arnold Lobel
Finding Providence: The Story
of Roger Williams, Avi
The First Thanksgiving, J.C.
George
If You Lived in Colonial
Times, Ann McGovern
Squanto: Friend of the
Pilgrims, Clyde Bulla
Literature:
In 1492, Jean Marzollo
Ox-Cart Man, Donal Hall (a perennial favorite)
Echoes of the Elders, by Chief Lelooska, ed. Christine Normandin
Spirit of the Cedar People, same author as above (both have stories told by Chief Lelooska on CD)
SOTW Chapter 7, Rise of Slave Trade to Americas
Let's Talk about Smoking,
Elizabeth Weitzman
The Strength of these Arms:
Life in the Slave Quarters, Raymond Bial
Amistad Rising, Veronica
Chambers
The Yoruba of West Africa,
Calliope
Reading:
Africa Dream, Eloise
Greenfield
To Be a Drum, Evelyn Coleman
The Benin Kingdom of West
Africa, John Peffer-Engels
Literature:
In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies, Alice McGill (with songs on CD) (Good)
In the Time of the Drums, Kim
Siegelson
The Village that Vanished,
Ann Grifalconi (good)
SOTW Chapter 8, Persian
and the Ottoman Turks
Usborne, Persia and Ottoman
Turks
First Reports: Iran, Robin
Doak
Mosque, Macaulay
Reading:
One Riddle, One Answer,
Lauren Thompson
Literature:
Read stories from A Treasury
of Turkish Folktales for Children, Barbara Walker
SOTW Chapter 9, 30 Years’
War
Outrageous Women of the
Renaissance, Vicki Leon, re: Christina of Denmark
Look What Came from Germany,
Kevin Davis
Great Composers, Piero Ventura
Read from Denmark in
Pictures, Lerner Publications
Germany the People, Bobbie
Kalman (Kathryn Lane)
Reading:
The Glass Mountain, Diane
Wolkstein
The Hero of Bremen, Margeret
Hodges
Battle of the Beasts, Diz
Wallis
Rapunzel, Paul Zelinsky
The Pied Piper of Hamelin,
Robert Browning
Read from Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Little Brother and Little
Sister, Bernadette Watts
Little Red Cap, Lisbeth
Zwerger
Seven at One Blow, Eric
Kimmel
SOTW Chapter 10, Ming
China and Japan in Isolation
Read from China the Land,
Bobbie Kalman
Read from Made in China:
Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China, Suzanne Williams
Children of China, an
artist’s journey, Song Nan Zhang (good!)
Read from Japan the Culture,
Bobbie Kalman
Read from Moonbeams,
Dumplings and Dragon Boats, Nina Simonds, et al
Shipwrecked! Rhoda Blumberg
Read from Eyewitness Buddhism
re: Buddhism in China and Japan
Reading:
Made in China, Deborah Nash
Ten Suns, Eric Kimmel
The Boy of the Three Year
Nap, Dianne Snyder
Usborne Stories from Around
the World
Literature:
The Paper Dragon, Marguerite
Davol
The Cat Who Went to Heaven,
Elizabeth Coatsworth (longtime favorite!)
SOTW Chapter 11, Moghul
India
Usborne, Moghuls
Look What Came From India,
Miles Harvey
Monsoon, Uma Krishnaswami
Read from Great Events that
Changed the World, re: Moghul India
Read from Eyewitness India
The Taj Mahal, Christine
Moorcroft
Literature:
Read The Snake Charmer from
Stories from Around the World, Usborne
Read The Birth of Krishna
from Our Favorite Stories
SOTW Chapter 12, England
and Cromwell’s Rebellion
Usborne, life in Europe from
1600-1700
Read Daily Life in Ancient
and ModernLondon , Ray Webb (up to 1800)
The Great Fire of London of
1666, Megdalena Alagna
SOTW Chapter 13, The Sun
King
From Ten Kings, read about
Louis XIV
How Children Lived, read
about pre-revolution France
Look What Came From France,
Miles Harvey
Usborne First Book of France,
Louisa Somerville
The Inside-Outside Book of
Paris, Roxie Munro
The World in the Time of
Marie Antoinette, Fiona Macdonald
Reading:
The Turnip, Walter de la Mare
The Three Musketeers, Great
Illustrated Classics
The Cat Who Walked Across
France,
Crepes by Suzette, Monica
Wellington
Literature:
Read from Favorite Stories,
Puss in Boots
SOTW Chapter 14, Prussia
Usborne, read about Prussia
George Handel, Mike Venezia
(good)
Germany, Catherine and John
Bradley, read the spread on Prussian beginnings
Introducing Bach, Roland
Vernon
Listened to Hallelujah Handel
on tape
Mr. Bach Comes to Call,
listened to tape
Reading:
The Hole in the Dike, Norma
Green
Literature:
The Water of Life, Barbara
Rogasky (Grimm)
SOTW Chapter 15, North
American Conflicts between Settlers/Indians
From A Day in the Life Series,
Kathy Wilmore, read:
Wigmaker
Silversmith
Colonial Innkeeper
Schoolteacher
Reading:
Frontier Kentucky, Robert
Powell
Read from Traces (another Ky.
history book)
A Farmer Boy Birthday, Laura
Ingalls Wilder, adapted w/ illus. By Jody Wheeler
The Year at Mapel Hill Farm,
Alice and Martin Provensen
Literature:
Listened to The Boy Who Lived
with the Bears and Other Iroquois Stories, Joe Bruchac
SOTW Chapter 16, New World
Conflict
A Colonial Quaker Girl, Megan
O'Hara
Kids in Colonial Times, Lisa
Wroble
The Iroquois, Petra Press
The Iroquois, Virginia Sneve
Struggle for a Continent,
Betsy Maestro (good)
A Day in the Life of a
Colonial Blacksmith, Kathy Wilmore
Reading:
Ghosts of Salem and Other
Tales, Richard Starbuck
Literature:
Listened to unabridged Farmer
Boy, Wilder
SOTW Chapter 17, Age of
Reason and Agricultural Revolution
Galileo, Jacqueline Mitton
Growing Seasons, Elsie Splear
Why Doesn’t the Earth Fall
Up? Vicki Cobb
How to Think Like a
Scientist, Stephen Kramer
Reading:
Gulliver in Lilliput,
Margaret Hodges
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan
Swift (Young Readers, Usborne)
SOTW Chapter 18, Russia
Ten Kings, read about Peter
the Great
Reading:
A Weave of Words, Robert D.
San Souci
Look What Came from Russia,
Miles Harvey
Read from Folktales of the
Amur, Dmitri Nagishkin (we both read from this)
Literature:
The Fool of the World and the
Flying Ship, Arthur Ransome
The Contest, Nonny Hogrogian
The Sea King’s Daughter,
Aaron Shepard (good)
Read from Forests of the Vampire
SOTW Chapter 19, Ottoman
Turks
Read from Eyewitness Islam
Read from Cultures of the
World: Turkey, Sean Sheehan
Reading:
Count Your Way Through the
Arab World, Jim Haskins
SOTW Chapter 20, British
Rule in India
India the Culture, Bobbie Kalman
From Kings and Queens for
God, read about Victoria
Read from Enchantment of the
World: India, Sylvia McNair
Literature:
Read from Just So Stories,
Kipling (Moser, illus.)
SOTW Chapter 21, China and
its many Domains
The Dalai Lama, Demi
Journey Through China, Philip
Steele
Vietnam the Land, Bobbie
Kalman
Read from Taiwan in Pictures,
Ling Yu (Lerner Publications)
Reading:
Dragons, Lucille Penner
The Emperor and the Kite,
Jane Yolen
The Nightingale, Jerry
Pinkney
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain,
Arnold Lobel
Look What Came from China,
Miles Harvey
Literature:
Children of the Dragon,
Sherry Garland (re: Vietnam) (VERY good!)
Everyone Knows What a Dragon
Looks Like, Jay Williams (good)
Eyes of the Dragon, Margaret
Leaf (good)
The Last Dragon, Susan Nunes
(good)
Listened to The Emperor and
the Nightingale, Hans Christian Anderson (illus. Robert Van Nutt)
SOTW Chapter 22, American
Patriots; America on brink of War, etc.
Samuel Adams, Stuart Kallen
Sam and John Adams, Susan and
John Lee
The Revolutionary John Adams,
Cheryl Harness (good)
George Washington, D'Aulaires
Crossing the Delaware, Louise
Peacock
George Washington, James
Giblin
Paul Revere, Son of Liberty,
Keith Brandt (good)
Davy Crockett, Young Pioneer,
Laurence Santrey (good)
You Wouldn't Want to be a
Pirate's Prisoner! John Malam (good)
Continuing into next week:
The Story of Davy Crockett,
Frontier Hero, Walter Retan (good)
Great Events that Changed the
World, Brian Delf (re: American Revolution)
Herstory: Women who Changed
the World, Gloria Steinem (re: Deborah Samson)
Betsy Ross, Alexandra Wallner
The Liberty Tree: The
Beginning of the American Revolution, Lucille Penner
The Eve of Revolution: The
Colonial Adventures of Benjamin Wilcox, Barbara Burt (historical fiction)
The Secret Soldier: The Story
of Deborah Samson, Ann McGovern (good)
Continuing into the next
week:
From Places in Time, read
pertinent portions
African Americans and the
Revolutionary War: Journey to Freedom, Judith Harper (good)
George Washington Elected:
How America's First President was Chosen, Allison Draper
The Bill of Rights, Patricia
Quiri
From Mr. President: A Book of
U.S. Presidents, George Sullivan, read about Washington and Adams
Old Ironsides: Americans
Build a Fighting Ship, David Weitzman
Benjamin Franklin, D'Aulaires
Reading:
Great Illustrated Classics
version of Last of the Mohicans
Jack Jouett's Ride, Gail
Haley
Molly Pitcher, an Gleiter and
Kathleen Thompson
What's the Big Idea, Ben
Franklin? Jean Fritz
Will You Sign Here, John
Hancock? Jean Fritz
A More Perfect Union: The
Story of our Constitution, Betsy and Giulio Maestro
Sam the Minuteman, Nathaniel
Benchley
Where was Patrick Henry on
the 29th of May? Jean Fritz
Literature:
Indian Two Feet and His
Horse, Margaret Friskey
The Legend of the Indian
Paintbrush, DePaola
Rat is Dead and Ant is Sad,
Betty Baker
Giving Thanks, Chief Jake
Swamp
The Windigo’s Return, Douglas
Wood
SOTW Chapter 23, American
Revolution and New Constitution/New President
Giants in the Land, Diana
Appelbaum
The Boston Tea Party, Allison
Draper
Read selections from The
White House, An Illustrated History, Catherine Grace
Literature:
Can't you Make them Behave, King George? Jean Fritz (goos, as are all her books!)
Skippack School, Marguerite de Angeli (good!)
Watched animated video of Ben and Me, base on book by Robert Lawson (good!)
Bound for Freedom, Ruth Chessman (good!)
Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare (good!)
Mr. Rever and I, Robert Lawson (good!)
SOTW Chapter 24, Captain
Cook, Australian Penal Colony and Aborigines
Read from The World’s Great
Explorers: James Cook, Zachary Kent
Read about Cook from People
in the Past
Reading:
Captain Cook, Rebecca Levene
SOTW Chapter 25, French
Revolution
People of the Past, read
about French Revolution
Read about French Revolution
from Great Events that Changed the World, Delf
Usborne, French Revolution
Child’s Eye View of History,
read about French Revolution
Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette
and the French Revolution, Nancy Plain
Sightseers: Paris 1789,
Kingfisher
Redoute’, The Man Who Painted
Flowers, Carolyn Croll
Reading:
Marie Antoinette, Katie
Daynes
Usborne Famous Lives:
Napoleon, Lucy Lethbridge
Usborne Famous Lives: Nelson,
Minna Lacey
The Mutiny on Board HMS
Bounty, William Bligh, Great Illustrated Classics
SOTW Chapter 26, Catherine
the Great of Russia
From Herstory, read about
Catherine the Great
A Look at Russia, Helen Frost
Read from Russia in Pictures,
Heron Marquez
Read from People of the Past
re: Catherine
Literature:
Kashtanka, Anton Chekhov
The Tale of the Firebird,
Gennady Spirin (very good)
SOTW Chapter 27, Industrial
Revolution
Read about the industrial
revolution in Britain from:
Child’s Eye View of History
People in the Past
How Children Lived
Life on a Plantation, Bobbie
Kalman
From Cotton to T‑Shirt, Robin
Nelson
From Plant to Blue Jeans,
Arthur L'Hommedieu
Read from 1000 Inventions and
Discoveries, Roger Bridgman
Read from New Way Things
Work, David Macaulay re: steam engines, etc.
Literature:
Cotton Mill Town, Kathleen Hershey (I *think* this is US)
Working Cotton, Sherley Williams
SOTW Chapter 28, Qing
Dynasty
Read from Ancient China,
Nature Company, re: Qing Dynasty
A Time of Golden Dragons,
Song Nan Zhang, et al
Read about Qing personalities
from Hoobler’s Chinese Portraits
Read from People’s Republic
of China, Kim Dramer
Confucius: The Golden Rule,
Russell Freedman
Reading:
The Treasure Chest, A Chinese
Tale, Rosalind Wang
The Junior Thunder Lord,
Laurence Yep
SOTW Chapter 29, Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte, Brian
Williams
The Louisiana Purchase,
Magdalena Alagna
Louisiana Purchase, Peter and
Connie Roop
Napoleon, Alan Blackwood
Literature:
Watched I, Crocodile, Fred
Marcellino, about a crocodile Napoleon brought home to France, from Egypt
Read from Songs of Innocence
and of Experience, Blake
Read from Lyrical Ballads,
Wordsworth and Coleridge, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
A Visit to William Blake’s
Inn, Nancy Willard
SOTW Chapter 30, Haitian
Revolt
Read from Cultures of the
World: Haiti, Roseline Cheong-Lum
Reading:
Tap-Tap, Karen Williams
Toussaint L’Ouverture: The
Fight for Haiti’s Freedom, Walter Myers
Literature:
Read Haitian tales from How
Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux
Read from The Magic Orange
Tree and Other Haitian Folktales, Diane Wolkstein
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter, Richard Platt (very good!)
SOTW Chapter 31, Expansion
of Industrialization
Reading:
The Bobbin Girl, Emily
McCully
The Story of an English
Village, John Goodall
SOTW Chapter 32, Expansion
of the West
Lewis and Clark: Explorers of
the American West, Steven Kroll
From Heroines...., Rebecca
Hazell, read about Sacagawea
Audubon, Jennifer Armstrong
The National Anthem, Patricia
Quiri
The Star‑Spangled Banner,
Peter Spier
Cowboys on the Western Trail,
Eric Oatman
Incredible Wild West,
Caroline Bingham
The Glorious Fourth at
Prairietown, Joan Anderson
Don't Know Much About the
Pioneers, Kenneth Davis
Reading:
Meet Thomas Jefferson,
Francene Sabin
Lafitte the Pirate, Ariane
Dewey
Lewis and Clark: A Prairie
Dog for the President, Shirley Redmond
The Story of Johnny
Appleseed, Aliki
The Choctaw Nation, Allison
Lassieur
Thomas Jefferson, Cheryl
Harness
Thomas Jefferson: A Picture
Book Biography, James Giblin
Dancing Drum: A Cherokee
Legend, Terri Cohlene
The Star‑Spangled Banner,
Catherine Welch
An American Army of Two,
Janet Greeson
Sacajawea: Her True Story,
Joyce Milton
The Choctaw, Emilie Lepthien
The Battle for St. Michael's,
Emily McCully
Literature:
Swamp Angel, Anne Isaacs
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia Maclachlan (good)
Jim Brider's Alarm Clock, Sid Fleischman
Annie Oakley, James Kunstler (with tape)
High Elk's Treasure, Virginia Sneve
[Additional Titles read for
World and then U.S. Geography studies.]
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