20th century History/ Literature...What haved you used??

[Mommyfaithe]

Tell me your favorite 20th century history/ literature resources, curricula, study guides etc.

Year 4 TOG is not available....
Anyone ever use Sonlight Core 300??
Ambleside Online is way too much (though I could pick and choose...)

Any others?? Free resources??

How do you teach your 4th year in your last istory cycle???

Thanks,
Faithe

[Veronica in VA]

We are using Sonlight 300 this year and love it. We have used SL almost all through our homeschooling time though so we are sort of biased.:001_smile:
My only complaint has been the writing - I don't like how it is organized and I used IEW some also. However, the core just been re-written and it looks like the literary analysis and writing sections have been greatly improved on.

Veronica

[Susan in IL]

The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History by Richard Goff. I found a syllabus online and there were study questions on that site too. It is a college level text but not too hard.

Ds1 really liked this book and ds2 (10th) has read it for fun. For lit, I just added some books that were relavant, like The Jungle, Farienheit 451, The Greatest Generation, etc. that ds would like.

Hope this helps.

[Harrison_B]

Some ideas I had:

o The Chosen
o To Kill a Mockingbird
o Night / Diary of Anne Frank / Hiding Place
o City of Thieves
o All Quiet on the Western Front
o The Great Gatsby
o Cry, My Beloved Country
o Town Called Alice
o Old Man and the Sea
o Kon - Tiki
o Kite Runner
o Three Cups of Tea
o Life of Pi
o 1984
o Alas, Babylon
o A Brave New World

I was pursuing a 20th Century Global Literature theme because I am planning to do human geography this year. However, my older son heard I was doing Lord of the Rings with my younger son, and he wanted to participate. So at the moment, I don't know what the outcome will be.

[CynthiaOK]

We used SL 300 this year also. However, we just used the history portion and omitted the literature. The boys have learned a lot and seemed to enjoy it.

[Lori D.]

This one has both history and lit. suggestions, plus links to even more great threads on 20th century history/lit:

Favorite curriculum for Modern World History?
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80445

[Jenny in Florida]

Okay, I was so looking forward to doing that year with my daughter. There were so many wonderful books I just couldn't wait to read and discuss with her. I had already raided our bookshelves and started making lists . . .

And then she decided to go to college a year earlier than I had anticipated.

Sigh.

However, here's the literature list I was busy compiling. The short story selections are drawn from two books I happened to have on my shelves: The Norton Introduction to Fiction (edited by Jerome Beaty) and Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction (edited by James H. Pickering).

Short Stories:

Irving: Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccinni's Daughter
Poe: Cask of Amontillado, Purloined Letter, Fall of the House of Usher
Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener
Dostoevksi: Grand Inquisitor
Tolstoy: How Much Land and/or Ivan Ilych
Bierce: Owl Creek Bridge
Conrad: Secret Sharer
Doyle: Speckled Band
Chekov: Lady With the Dog and/or The Darling
Anderson: The Egg
Joyce: Araby and/or The Dead
Kafka: Hunger Artist and/or Metamorphosis
Hemingway: A Very Short Story
Lawrence: Rocking Horse Winner
Porter: The Grave
Faulkner: Rose for Emily, Barn Burning and/or Dry September
Borges: Garden of Forking Paths
Thurber: Catbird Seat
Jackson: The Lottery
Welty: Why I Live at the P.O.
Gordimer: Train from Rhodesia
Garcia Marquez: Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Kawabata: Grasshopper and Cricket

Longer Works:

Moliere: Tartuffe
Milton: Paradise Lost – selections
Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Austen: Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility / Emma
Hugo: Les Miserables or Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dickens: Great Expectations
Fitzgerald: Great Gatsby
Buck: Good Earth
Huxley: Brave New World
Markandaya: Nectar in a Sieve
Huston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath or Mice and Men
Williams: Glass Menagerie
Potok: The Chosen
Orwell: 1984
Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
Miller: Crucible
Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Fugard: Master Harold and the Boys

Oh, and I should mention that we were planning to adapt the Hewitt Modern World History syllabus to use with a text we had on hand.

[Mommyfaithe]

Thank you all so much!! There is a lot to look at. I was really mulling over using SL 300, but really for the Lit analysis and writing assignments...but if they are crummy...well...I maight as well just do my own thing.

I am off to check that thread Lori posted...thanks!

And thanks for the booklists...

~~Faithe

[Veronica in VA]

Thank you all so much!! There is a lot to look at. I was really mulling over using SL 300, but really for the Lit analysis and writing assignments...but if they are crummy...well...I maight as well just do my own thing.

I am off to check that thread Lori posted...thanks!

And thanks for the booklists...

~~Faithe

I think this was the part Sonlight redid this year. They had the woman who wrote the Sonlight Brit Lit, write the literature and writing part for SL this year.

Veronica

[Mommyfaithe]

I think this was the part Sonlight redid this year. They had the woman who wrote the Sonlight Brit Lit, write the literature and writing part for SL this year.

Veronica

OH YEAH!!!!

I really like the look of this!
Thanks,
Faithe

[April in CA]

Hi!
Just to make sure you had correct info about TOG - they expect to release Yr 4 redesigned, digital edition, by units starting in June. Have you used TOG before? I expect it will be worth the wait!
Blessings,
April