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Lauri B
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Posted: March 12 2008 at 12:33pm | IP Logged Quote Lauri B
Can anyone recommend a favorite Ancient History resource for Teens - preferably a narrative book? There are many on amazon which cover the periods of Egypt/Israel/Greece/Rome, but few which also include Ancient China, India & Africa as well as the Phoenecians.

Can anyone suggest a favorite or two? Is there such a book? LOL!

Thanks in advance!
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Posted: March 27 2008 at 11:06pm | IP Logged Quote SallyT
Well, this isn't a book . . . my teenager had read most of the good historical fiction you see on booklists before this year . . . but we've been using a lecture series from The Teaching Company: Foundations of Western Civilization, with a prof from Notre Dame who's very good. We've been doing ancient history and having it "dovetail" with readings in ancient and classical literature (myths, Iliad, Odyssey, Antigone, Plato's Crito, etc) in English. I mean for us to read aloud from Herodotus, too -- he's quite entertaining, but more than she's going to take on on her own. Hm, that doesn't really cover China, India, and so on, which it sounds as though you want to cover. But that's what we're doing. TC as a spine, with as many primary-source literary readings as we can get in, plus Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and a couple of early-Church historical novels: Helena by Evelyn Waugh and Louis de Wohl's The Restless Flame.

Don't know if that's even in the ballpark, but I hope it helps a little.

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Posted: March 28 2008 at 10:20am | IP Logged Quote Lauri B
Thank you! I love Teaching Company DVDs (for myself) but hadn't considered the idea of using it as a spine for History - terrific idea!!!
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