Vintage HS Moms - Teaching History

with your co-hosts, Felice Gerwitz & Meredith Curtis

History is about a bunch dead people and stuff that happened long ago or so I thought when I was a kid. As a homeschool parent I found that history is actually “HIS†story and when it is revealed we find so many wonderful lessons to learn. In this session you’ll hear some of the ways that both Meredith & Felice have taught history to their children from the zany to the classes Felice asked her brother-in-law to teach to homeschool kids!

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Meredith and Felice discuss their favorite resources – here is a list of their combined books, below the audio player.

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September Reading Books
In the Days of Noah by Gloria Clanin
Life in the Great Ice Age by Michael and Beverly Oard
The Mystery of the Ark by Paul Thomsen
The Lost Kingdom (Reg Danson Adventure #2) by Clint Kelly
Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times by Ruth Beechick
Genesis: Finding Our Roots by Ruth Beechick
Dinosaurs in God’s World Long Ago by Henrietta Gambill
What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? (DJ and Tracker John) by John Morris and Ken Ham
Priceless Jewel at the Well: The Diary of Rebekah’s Nursemaid, Canaan, 1986-1985 B.C. (Promised Land Diaries)
The Magic School Bus Shows and Tells: A Book About Archaeology by Jackie Posner
Exploring Ancient Cities of the Bible by Michael and Caroline Carroll

October Reading Books
Tutankhamun by Robert Green
Tirzah by Lucille Travis
Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure: Secrets of Ancient Egypt by Lila Perl
Miriam’s Cup, a Passover Story by Fran Manushkin
Learning About Passover by Barbara Soloff Levy
Shadow Hawk by Andre Norton
Adventures in Ancient Egypt by Linda Bailey
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone : Key to Ancient Egypt by James Giblin
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki
Kids Discover: Ancient Egypt
The Peaceful Warrior: The Diary of Deborahs Armor Bearer, Israel, 1200 B.C. (Promised Land Diaries)
Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson
Journey for Tobiyah by Barbara Morgan
King Solomon’s Navy by Nora Benjamin Kubie
The Temple at Jerusalem by Jacqueline Morley

November Reading Books
The Usborne Story of Music by Simon Mundy
The Usborne Story of Painting by Anthea Peppin
The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago: Everyday life through the Ages, by Felicity Brooks and Helen Edom
God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah by Joanne Williamson
Aesop’s Fables for Children
Hour of the Olympics (Magic Tree House #16) by Mary Pope Osborne
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad (and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights) retold by Gladys Davidson
King Solomon’s Mines (Puffin Classics) by H Rider Haggard

December Reading Books
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls by AJ Church
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Famous Men of Greece by John Haaren and AB Poland
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
Usborne: The Greeks by Susan Peach & Anne Millard
Adventures in Ancient Greece by Linda Bailey
Cyrus the Persian by Sherman A Nagel
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
Within the Palace Gates: The King’s Cupbearer by Anna P. Siviter
The Greek and Roman Eras: (Journey Through History) by Carme Peris and Gloria & Oriol Verges
Hand Me Another Brick by Charles Swindoll
Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

January Reading Books
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. (The Royal Diaries) by Kristiana Gregory
About the History of the Calendar by AE Evenson
Battle of Actium (Great Battles Through the Ages) by David Califf
The Runaway by Patricia St. John
Fountain of Life by Rebecca Martin
Adventures in Ancient China by Linda Bailey
A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman
Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
Titus: A Comrade of the Cross by Florence Morse Kingsley
Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster
Famous Men of Rome by John Haaren & A.B. Poland
Rome and Romans (Usborne Time Traveler) by Heather Amery and Patricia Vanags
I and II Maccabees from the Apocrypha (available in Bibles that include the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books)
Life Stories Of Men Who Shaped History, From Plutarch’s Lives
Pompeii…Buried Alive! by Edith Kunhardt
The Robe by Lloyd C Douglas
Masada by Tim McNeese (Sieges That Changed the World)

February Reading Books
Devil’s Island by John Hagee
Outcast by Rosemary Sutcliff
See You Later, Gladiator (Time Warp Trio) by Jon Scieszka
Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld
The Eagle (previously published as The Eagle of the Ninth) by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Story of Valentine by Wilma Pitchford Hays
Augustine, the Farmer’s Boy of Tagaste by P. De Zeeuw
The City of God by Augustine
Ancient Rome: How It Affects You Today by Richard J. Maybury
The Ides of April by Mary Ray
Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray
Jesus Freaks: Martyrs by dc Talk
Foxe’s Book Of Martyrs by John Foxe (many different editions of this work are available)
Saint George and the Dragon retold by Margaret Hodges
Saint Patrick: Pioneer Missionary to Ireland by Michael McHugh

March Reading Books
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
Famous Men of the Middle Ages by Haaren and Poland
Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard
Beowulf
The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
Against the World: The Odyssey of Athanasius by Henry W. Coray
Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam by Diane Stanley
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French
Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla
The Book of Pastoral Rule (also published as Pastoral Care) by St. Gregory the Great
The Song of Roland (an epic poem)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson & Camelot by AJ Lerner (script for the Broadway play)
Viking Raiders (Usborne Time Traveler) by Civardi, Graham-Campbell, & Wingate

April Reading Books
Famous Men of the Middle Ages by Haaren and Poland
Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
A Chaucer Reader edited by Charles W. Dunn
Leif Eriksson: First Voyager to America by Katherine B. Shippen
In His Name by Edward E Hale
Paula the Waldensian by Eva Lecomte
Lost Baron: A Story of England in the Year 1200 by Allen French
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Hamlet by Shakespeare
El Cid, retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
Don Quixote (also published as Don Quijote) by Cervantes
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore M. Jewett
Castle by David Macaulay
Cathedral by David Macaulay
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Knights and Castles (Usborne Time Traveler) by Judy Hindley
The Striped Ships by Eloise McGraw ***
The Third Crusade: Richard the Lionhearted vs Saladin (Great Battles Through the Ages) by Samuel Willard Crompton
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (who also drew original illustrations for this book)
The King’s Shadow by Elizabeth Alder

May Reading Books
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
If All the Swords in England: A Story of Thomas Becket by Barbara Willard
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde by Harold Lamb
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael Chronicles–we recommend this series) by Ellis Peters)
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Dragon and the Raven (The Days of King Alfred) by G. A. Henty
The Magna Charta by James Daugherty
The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
The Life and Words of St. Francis of Assisi by Ira Peck
In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. Henty
The Beggars’ Bible by Louise Vernon
Ink on His Fingers by Louise A. Vernon
Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
Henry V by Shakespeare
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelly
Constantinople (Sieges That Changed the World) by Tim McNeese
A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh
Joan of Arc by Nancy Wilson Ross
The Hawk and the Dove by Penelope Wilcock