Other resources for ancient history and literature which aren't available in online form:
- The Founding of Christendom
- Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World
- Norton Anthology of World Literature
- The Timetables of History
Other possibilities (these are online resources)
Students' Friend Outline of World History
Hyper-History -- looks interesting
Would you like to elaborate on how you choose your source material for history? I am planning on doing a similar course this year and oh, the choices are overwhelming, especially for Greece and Rome! I'm trying to narrow things down quite a bit so that we'll actually get it done.
ReplyDeleteI've enjoyed your writing posts, too. I'm catching up after having been on vacation for a long while.
To be honest, Laura? I just went and looked for sourcebooks on the Google library. I find ancient history difficult because it's hard for a 14 year old to read Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon in entirety, and there are some passages I'd rather they didn't read about until older (I'm sort of squeamish that way). I usually scan through Mother of Divine Grace's booklist, and Kolbe Academy's, because I've used them before with my older kids (modified form).
ReplyDeleteI was pleased to find that the Google Library contained some "readers" intended for high school classes -- these ones I picked seem to be designed for kids about Kieron's age. We have a good printer so I just printed them out and comb-bound them.
You might want to look at Theresa's history post about plans for a student about Kieron's age. I am pretty sure your daughter is older. At Ambleside there is a Year 12 Student's Ancient History plans -- it gave me some ideas. Also, if you have David Hicks' Norms and Nobility, he has a curriculum outline near the back of the book. Year 9 is ancient history. Hope this helps! Oh, and I am sure you already saw MacBeth's cool 9th grade literature course -- it uses fairy tales to start off with. I love that approach. It is sort of how I want to approach writing this year.
"I find ancient history difficult because it's hard for a 14 year old to read Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon in entirety, and there are some passages I'd rather they didn't read about until older"
ReplyDeletePrecisely! I might look through these to get an idea about which passages to include. CZ is going into tenth grade this year, but in my mind, this isn't so much about age as what each child can handle. And that's the part I'm not quite sure about. So I'm trying to use a sampling of primary material for each major period, but not so much as to overwhelm and burn out.
Thanks!