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Is anyone studying 20th Century World History?
We're planning to this year. After much deliberation I have decided to buy SOTW IV, still trying to decide if we need the Activity book. Of course we will add Lots of living books. Thinking of some Church History chapters for my older ones. We have Fr Laux's Church History, and Dominica and Johnson's Story of the Church, then again I may buy the Didache Church History too.
My 11th Grader and maybe my 9th grader will be jumping around a bit between the centuries  but for my 3rd, 5th and 7th grader we will be only in the 20th Century.
This doesn't seem to be a period we have discussed much on the forum although there was a picture bookthread and an older threada couple of years back.
Love to discuss ideas with anyone interested 
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It's a tough century to study in terms of finding good spine materials...
Your high schoolers will probably enjoy reading The Greatest Generation, which I read when we did the 20th century and promptly bought copies for all and sundry as Christmas gifts. (Of course, you will want to read it first.)
My military history buff son also loved the book and TV movie versions of Band of Brothers - not everyone's cup of tea, but definitely his.
Another great read - sad, too - is Red Scarf Girl, which is about the Cultural Revolution in China, from a young teen's point of view. Riveting. Both ds and I stayed up very, very late to finish it, on consecutive nights.
I would also recommend George Weigel's bio of Pope John Paul II, another excellent read (if lengthy) and a history of the 20th century through the life story of one of the greatest Church leaders of all time. If you study the 20th century Popes' lives, you probably don't need the Didache book - but it's wonderful. (Weigel's book about the election of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, is also excellent!)
We read The Myth of Hitler's Pope to study Pope Pius XII - excellent info about a very controversial time in Church history.
What about 20th century saints? (St. Pio, St. Gianna Beretta Molla, etc.)
I'd better stop or my family won't get dinner! 
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My high schooler did 20th Century world history last year, using Sonlight's Core 300. You might want to look at their booklists. I tried to pre-read or read along most of the books so we could have some good discussions and it was one of our best history years!
One of my favorites (that I'd never read before) - Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, about apartheid in Africa. Very enlightening to me; I'd never known exactly how all that started there.
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Cry the Beloved Country would have to be one of my favorite books.It has a poetic style that is almost lyrical. A deeply moving book.recently found a book by Alan Paton on St Francis, which I also like(yes I know not 20th c.)
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Mater Amabilis has a 20th century schedule
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It has great ideas for fiction and non-fiction alike. We specially enjoyed the Witness to History series.
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We were going to do the 20th Century last year so I checked out lots of the Sonlight 300 titles from the library- basically my son just read through them in the summer so we didn't have much of a plan! He liked Red Scarf Girl as well.
One that we have enjoyed a couple times is The Endless Steppe. It would be a super read for all your ages- a biographical novel written about life in Siberia. The author, when a young girl, was sent with her family from Poland to Siberia for being capitalists. They are a Jewish family. It is a very good story and really gives you a sense for the times and for life in that part of the world.
Hannah's Suitcase is another great read regarding the Holocaust. We were also lucky enough to see this one produced.
The Borrowed House is a great fast read.
Cry Thy Beloved Country is a fabulous book, in my humble opinion.
King Christian the Tenth- a great informative picture book.
Number the Stars- we have read or heard this many times. It is a very moving book about Danish Jews in WW2.
Angel in the Square- there are 3-4 books in this series dealing with pre, during, and post communist Russia. My daughter and son both really enjoyed these.
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze- this is an excellent book.
Oh my! It was so wonderful to think about all of these great books again. I was feeling so drained thinking about getting motivated for my younger crew after reading so many books to my olders, but reading this list made we want to start all over again!!!!
Edited: I had mistakingly written communist instead of capitalist!
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Erin,
we are about to use Sonlight's Core 300 with a few changes. I am adding Geoffrey Blainey's Short History of the Twentieth Century and having him read that rather than the IG notes which are, naturally enough, more concerned with American issues.
I am having him read the Visual History of the Twentieth Century first and make notes in a timeline which includes sport, technology, medicine etc. Then I'll have him answer a questionnaire a SLer came up with on the decade- who were the world leaders; what were the big events etc;then Blainey and some notetaking or summarizing; then he can choose one event etc to research and move on to the next decade/period.
I'm wanting him to go slow so he can think and learn some skills along the way.
I'm also adding in Truthquest for some heads up on Christian issues (we're not Catholic but I think this is fairly generic?).
Subtracted some books from the SL list (just made them free reading) and added in some Jackie French novels: Soldier on the Hill; The Donkey that Carried the Wounded (both with an Australian slant) and Hitler's Daughter. She also has an excellent sounding one called A Rose for the Anzac Boys which sounded more girl-y.
I have a couple of Australian History texts for reference on an Australian perspective.
I'll have him do some bigger projects and this will hopefully be a good year for him to watch movies and docos on various things- even the history of Rock which my husband is taping from the ABC right now!
HTH
Pam
PS I love some of the Mater Amabalis stuff- especially the Middle East, I think.
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