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Posted: April 04 2008 at 10:29am \| IP Logged

I lucked up at a thrift shop and came across the book The Century, plus a set of the entire book on tapes! Got the whole set for only a few bucks!
Anyway, this was an especially timely find since ds wants to do 20th century history next year.
Since modern history is one of my very weakest areas personally, I'd really like to take this slowly and spend the whole year if necessary on it.
So...dear ladies, here is where you come in! I need living books to go along! I already have plenty of selections for WWII, so don't need those, but I'd love to hear ideas about great living books from other 20th century topics--awesome living books your middle schoolers/high schoolers loved. And even though I am mainly looking for chapter books, great picture books are wanted, too. Like Cay, I think there is great value in excellent picture books, even for older kids.
Lay it on me, girls!

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Posted: April 04 2008 at 11:02am \| IP Logged

There are lots of titles listed for twentieth century history in the history section of Mater Amabilis Level 4. Some may be a bit heavy, though I tried to flag them up in the notes. I was looking for books suitable for age 13-14 and up.

Three authors I really like are Gloria Whelan (quartet of books set in 20th century Russia, and books about girls in China, India and Vietnam), Michael Morpurgo (especially War Horse and Private Peaceful, both set in World War I) and Geoffrey Trease (The White Nights of St.Petersburg is historical fiction set during the Russian Revolution, and I think there are a couple of his set during the collapse of communism in eastern Europe).

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Posted: April 04 2008 at 11:15am \| IP Logged

Thanks, K, I will check it out!

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Posted: April 04 2008 at 11:39am \| IP Logged

You may want to check out the Sonlight catalog - Core 300 is 20th Century History...The catalog will have all the booklists....

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Posted: July 17 2008 at 2:36pm \| IP Logged

Theresa, this isn't a book exactly but rather a website with the top headlines from each year beginning in 1900 and an audio clip from that year. Archer Audio Archive. I had fun clicking around through the century.

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Posted: July 17 2008 at 3:29pm \| IP Logged

I meant to post this too but got distracted...

I picked up A Science Odyssey: 100 Years of Discovery at the library yesterday. It is the companion book to the PBS series. From the inner cover - "The most sweeping and startling scientific changes in human history have occurred during the past one hundred years. From the first Wright Flyer to Mars landings, from penicillin to organ transplants, from the telegraph to the vast realm of cyberspace, A Science Odyssey is just that: a voyage of discovery."

I don't know if it's simply recovering stuff that is in Peter Jennings book or not but I thought I'd toss it out onto the table.

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Posted: July 17 2008 at 4:08pm \| IP Logged

Thanks, Jennifer!

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Posted: July 17 2008 at 4:36pm \| IP Logged

My son's #1 choice was Red Scarf Girl. He stayed up and read it in one night. It's about China's Cultural Revolution.

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Posted: July 17 2008 at 4:37pm \| IP Logged

Theresa I don't know how I missed your first post.

Anyways, I have designed a three-year plan for my middle-schoolers to complete before hs to cover all of the 20th century in American History, a third of the century each year. I've always felt that this part of Am. Hist gets a quick glossing over...you move from the Civil War, Reconstruction, to the Great Depression, the WWars and then Vietnam and that's it. So I wanted to try to dive a bit deeper in some other US topics during the century too.

I'll list out the books that we used/are using. Some we didn't always get to, you know how that goes :-) but they were at least in the plan!

For the first third, 1900-1930ish...
"The Story of Inventions" by McHugh (Edison, Morse, Ford, Wright Bros)
"Scientists Thru The Ages" by VanCleave (Curie, Einstein, Hubble, Fleming)
"Carry A Big Stick" by Grant (TR bio)
"In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Lord
"Immigrant Kids" by Freedman
"East Side Story" by Bader
"World War I" by McGowen
"The Yanks are Coming" by Marrin
"Remember the Lusitania" by Preston or "Attack on the Lusitania" by Matthews
"Lord of the Nutcracker Men" by Morin
"After the Dancing Days" by Rostowski
"Time of Angels" by Hesse
"Influenza Pandemic of 1918" (sorry, didn't record author)
"Out of the Dust" by Hesse
"Children of the Dust Bowl"
"Year Down Yonder" by Peck
bios of FDR and Eleanor R

oh and another book that we never got to, and I didn't preview, so can't say what for sure is in it, "The Homecoming" by Hamner...yep the Waltons' Early Hamner.

For the above time frame we supplemented with Hakim's History of US (various chapters, we skipped around), some Cobblestone magazines, Kids Discover magazines and did a lot of articles from the the "Learning Through History" magazine issues (you can buy the back issues).

For the next segment...1930ish-1960ish

lots of WWII books...our faves "Devil's Arithmetic", "Upstairs Room", "True Stories of D-Day" by Usborne, "Smoke and Ashes" (really liked this one for Holocaust), "Parallel Journeys", "The Big Lie"

"The Korean War" by McGowen
"Peacebound Trains" by Balgassi (this is technically a pic book but I still liked it :-)
"Leon's Story" by Tillage (quick read, very good)
"Civil Rights Movement in America" by Landau
"JFK's Inaugural Address" (I found this very old book at the used book store, it's just his address with some illustrations, neat though)
"Cuban Missile Crisis: Cold War Goes Hot"
"March on Washington" by Andryszewski
"Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues" by Robinet
"The Space Race" by McNeese
"Team Moon" by Thimmesh
"Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam" (I personally loved this book, very neat perspective between the dog and his owner)
"Eyewitness Vietnam War"
"A Place Called Heartbreak" by Myers
"A Wall of Names" by Donnelly
"Lost in the WAr" by Antle

And again we used Hakim's History of US some and more magazine articles too.

I haven't done the last third yet...that's my job this summer! So I'll get back to you on what I find for that! You can probably tell we do quite a bit of historical fiction too! HTH

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Posted: July 17 2008 at 11:45pm \| IP Logged

Theresa

Here are some book lists for Modern Times and these Geography titles have many modern titles.

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Theresa, if you decide to give SL's books some consideration, be aware that some of them are very intense. I'm prereading several of them this summer for my soon to be 15 yr old. You can pm if you have questions about any books in particular.

hope this helps...

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Posted: July 18 2008 at 6:58am \| IP Logged

Erin those for those links!!!! I needed those two years ago

And at the risk of looking liking a moron, maybe it's too early in the morning...Books, what are the "SL" books? I can't think of what they are?!

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Posted: July 18 2008 at 6:59am \| IP Logged

Laura suggested looking at Sonlight's core 300. I abbreviated Sonlight to just SL. Sorry about that.

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Posted: July 18 2008 at 7:13am \| IP Logged

I thought maybe that was it! Thanks!

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I pre-read the SL core 300 last summer and I decided against several of them, not because they weren't good but because they were quite intense for my then 14 yo girl.Some of them like Fallen Angels have quite a bit of bad language. The literature selections for that core is also quite depressing. I did use some of the book suggested for the third quoter of SL's World History Core .We had not read them before so they were great books. Also I found that the activity guide for STOW Volume 4 had some great suggestions.

MA recommends several books from the Witness to History series. I bought quite a few more. I found them to be very good.Witness to HistoryThey are not High School level reading but they are very informative. They cover some difficult to find topics like the war in Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict etc.

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I agree with Natalia. I preread The Long Road Home and thought it was amazing (Armenian massacre). I preread Fallen Angels (Vietnam War). That one definitely needs to be considered individually by each family member as it is extremely intense and the language is just *awful*. I am 1/2 way through Brave New World, and I *hate* it. I mean, I just hate it. But its one of those "culturally literate" books. It won't be on my sophomore's reading list this year, but Aldous Huxley is British, so I am going to have him read it his senior year when we do British Lit...Honestly, in spite of the strange topic, its also just plain hard to understand unless you are dealing with an extremely advanced lit. student.

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Posted: July 18 2008 at 2:49pm \| IP Logged

Thanks, ladies! Wow! Now I feel like I am armed and ready to roll into the 20th century!LOL!

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