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KackyK
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Posted: Aug 15 2011 at 10:48am \| IP Logged

So I was wavering with what to do for ds 7th grade for history. I had thought of doing 10 Dates Every Catholic Should Know...but that just isn't going to be him, kwim? He won't get from it what he should and it's just not that appealing to my 7th grader. Then I thought about All Ye Lands, and that's not what I really want for him either.

I remembered with his big brother, when he was in the 7th grade, I had totally let him pick whatever he wanted for history (which he chose Aztecs and Mayans and loved). So I figured I should just ask him!

Well he said he wanted military history and wars! Lots of wars!

Okay not totally what I was thinking, but we can make this work, I hope!

I found this thread on military strategy which looks like a good starting point.

Anyone have any other suggestions? Websites? Texts? Spines? Living books? anything!!! I'm totally starting from scratch and have 2 weeks till school!!!!

This is what happens when I leave it last to plan!

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Posted: Aug 15 2011 at 11:57am \| IP Logged

My 8th grader's longtime favorite book is Sun Tzu's The Art of War -- it's a 6th Century B.C. Chinese book of military strategy.

He has also devoured books from the Politically Incorrect Guides series on the Crusades, the Civil War, and the Vietnam War.

You could start with the story of The Iliad and the Trojan War and work forward chronologically from there -- all the major Greek and Roman wars, wars of the Middle Ages (the Hundred Years War between France and England is a great one for analyzing strategy and the development of new weapons), and so forth.

I'll have to ask the son in question what other things he's read -- we haven't done military history in a formal sense, but it's what he reads all the time.

Oh, you might also look at what magazines on the topic of military history might be out there -- we get a Civil War Times magazine monthly, and it's always interesting and informative.

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Posted: Aug 15 2011 at 12:05pm \| IP Logged

Heritage History has a section on wars and battles which could be a useful starting point.

Due to the nature of the site you'd need another resource for 20th century wars but the accounts of wars and battles from the ancient Greeks to the first decade of the 20th century is fairly exhaustive at least to my amateur's eye.

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Posted: Aug 15 2011 at 12:13pm \| IP Logged

I just checked this book out by accident and I haven't read it: "What if? : the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been"

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Posted: Aug 16 2011 at 9:22pm \| IP Logged

I have read that book, Michelle. It is very interesting, but it does assume you know what actually did happen in each battle.

Literature tie-ins could work..."Lepanto" by G. K. Chesterton actually got my son interested in poetry because it is about a very important battle. "Paul Revere's Ride" could cover the Revolutionary War, along with Johnny Tremain.

There are more books, of course, but I can't look at my home library just now...I will think about this and add more to the thread later.

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