RESOURCES: CHAPTER 18 For publisher and catalog addresses, telephone numbers, and other information, see the Sources section. Most books can be obtained from any bookstore or library; where we know of a mail-order option, we have provided it. The titles we list are only a few of the many available. Plan on exploring library and bookstore shelves for yourself. One of the best ways to find good history books is to call for the catalogs listed in Chapter Forty-Six and browse through the history sections (particularly those in the American Home-School Publishing and Greenleaf Press catalogs).
Basic texts for the four-year logic stage are listed first, followed by basic geography resources. A three-part supplementary list is provided for each year of study. The first section for each year lists, in chronological order, great men and women (for grades five and six) or major events (for grades seven and eight) that you might want to cover during the year; this is simply a checklist to help you organize your history study. The second section lists primary sources -- books and texts written during the period under study. The third section provided for each year lists books that provide general information about the historical period, including coloring books and other project resources.
Many of the resources recommended in Chapter 7 are still suitable for middle-grade students, particularly the Bellerophon coloring books and the Running Press Treasure Chests. Older students may also enjoy reading the elementary-level biographies as a refresher. Check the Resource List at the end of Chapter 7 for details.Basic Texts:
Evans, Charlotte, general editor. The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World. New York: Kingfisher Books, 1993.
$39.95. Order from a bookstore or from Rainbow Resource Center.O'Reilly, Kevin. Critical Thinking In United States History series. Pacific Grove, CA: Critical Thinking Press, 1990.
$19.95 for each student book; the teacher's guides (which you'll find helpful!) are $15.95 each. Order from Critical Thinking Books & Software.
Book One: Colonies to Constitution (seventh grade)
Book Two: New Republic to Civil War (seventh grade)
Book Three: Reconstruction to Progressivism (eighth grade)
Book Four: Spanish-American War to Vietnam War (eighth grade)Basic Geography Resources
Bown, Deni. The Eyewitness Atlas of the World, revised edition. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1994.
$24.95. Order from a bookstore or from Dorling Kindersley. A new edition will be available shortly; make sure you get the most recent edition, since political borders change almost daily.A globe is best bought at a local school or office supply store. Try to find one with raised mountains if possible.
Kapit, Wynn. Geography Coloring Book, second edition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1998.
$10.50. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. This detailed, junior-high level coloring book covers the United States and the world. A good memory aid.Maps: The World and United States. Teachers Friend Publications, 1991.
$8.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. This set of black-line maps covers the entire world in varying degrees of detail. You can color these, or reproduce them and color the copies. Each map has a labelled and unlabelled version.
A world map (hemispherical progression) can be purchased at any school supply store, or ordered from Rainbow Resource Center. If you subscribe to National Geographic, you'll get an updated world map each year.Ancients, 5000 B.C. - A.D. 400 AD (fifth grade)
List of great men and women
Cheops, pharaoh of Egypt (2700-2675 BC)
Abraham (c. 2100 BC)
Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC)
Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (c. 1480 BC)
Moses (c. 1450 BC)
Tutankhamen (c. 1355 BC)
Nebuchadnezzar (1146 - 1123 BC)
King David (c. 1000 BC)
Homer (c. 800 BC)
Romulus (753-716 BC)
Sennacherib (705-681)
Lao-tse (Chinese philosopher, b. 604 BC)
Pythagoras (581-497 BC)
Confucius (Kung Fu-tse) (551-479)
Buddha (Siddharthat Gautama) (550-480 BC)
Darius I of Persia (522-485 BC)
Socrates (470-399 BC)
Hippocrates (b. 460 BC)
Plato (427-347 BC)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC)
Shi Huangdi (first emperor of unified China, 221-207 BC)
Hannibal (fought with Rome c. 218-207 BC)
Judas Maccabeus (c. 168 BC)
Cicero (106-43 BC)
Julius Caesar (100-44 BC)
Virgil (70-19 BC)
Caesar Augustus (c. 45 BC-14 AD)
Jesus Christ (c. 4 BC-33 AD)
Caligula (died 42 AD)
St. Paul (c. 45 AD)
Nero (died 68 AD)
Marcus Aurelius (ruled 161-180 AD)
Constantine the Great (ruled 306-337 AD)Primary sources
Jackdaw Portfolios. Amawalk, NY: Jackdaw Publications.
$37 each. Order from Jackdaw Publications; some are also available from Rainbow Resource Center at a small discount. Jackdaws contain facsimiles of primary documents, essays (called Broadsheets) that combine relevant research into a single narrative, along with photos; annotated notes about the background of each primary source; transcripts of anything that might be hard to eat; and study guides with activities, vocabulary, writing activities, reading ideas, debate and drama ideas. You can pick and choose among these portfolios:
Ancient Athletic Games: Heracles and the Olympics
Arabs
China
Hadrian's Wall
Inspirational Women: Muses and Women in Antiquity
Major Temples and Famous Statues of Deities
Many Faces of the Hero: Odysseus, Theseus and Jason
Oracles and Sibyls: Telling the Future in the Past
Tutankhamen & the Discovery of the Tomb.
Plato. The Last Days of Socrates, trans. Hugh Tredennick. New York: Penguin, 1995.
$10.95. Order from a bookstore or Greenleaf Press. For good readers, this primary source contains two dialogues -- On Piety and The Death of Socrates. You and your middle-grade student could enjoy reading these together; the dialogue is often funny, and the idea are thought-provoking.
General informationAldred, Cyril. A Coloring Book of Tutankhamun. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1995.
$3.50. Uses actual images from the ancient world to tell the story of Tutankhamun's reign and burial. Detailed and challenging.
Amery, Heather, et al. Rome & Romans. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1998.
$6.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Part of the Usborne Time-Traveler Series, this is written at a lower reading level (approximately fourth grade) and would be good for students who find reading difficult.
Anderson, John K. Alexander the Great Coloring Book. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1981.
$3.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. These illustrations of Alexander the Great are taken from Greek art, from Persian and Indian drawings, and from the art of medieval Europe; includes biographical material.
Art, Suzanne Strauss. Early Times series. Wayside Publishing, various dates.
Art, an ancient history teacher, wrote this series because she couldn't find history texts for fifth graders that covered the ancient world in a systematic way, while still providing plenty of interesting details. These books are wonderful; clear, readable, gripping, and full of projects, maps, writing assignments, personality profiles, and suggested readings.
Early Times: The Story of Ancient Egypt, second edition (1993).
Early Times: The Story of Ancient Greece, second edition (1994).
West Meets East: The Travels of Alexander (1996)
Early Times: The Story of Ancient Rome (1993)
Ashman, Iain. Make This Egyptian Temple. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1990.
$9.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. This kit, 23x18 inches, is a punch-out-and-assemble temple that includes obelisks, courtyard, sanctuary, priest's adjacent house, and lots of art.
______. Make This Model Trojan Horse. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1994.
$9.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. An Usborne Cut-Out Model; the wheels turn and the hatch opens to show where the Greeks hide.
______. Make This Roman Villa. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1990.
$9.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. A 23x18 punch-out-and-assemble model, including house, gardens, stables, and servant's quarters.
Baker, Charles F., III and Rosalie F. Baker. The Classical Companion. Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone Publishing, 1988.
$14.95. Order from Greenleaf Press or Cobblestone Publishing. Spanning ancient Persia through the fall of Rome, this readable paperback is full of interesting history, profiles, projects, puzzles, mythological tidbits, Greek and Latin roots, and bits of trivia.
______. Classical Ingenuity. Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone Publishing, 1993.
$14.95. Order from Cobblestone Publishing. Articles, projects, research topics, activities, writing assignments, and debate topics; all dedicated to examining the ways that Greek and Roman architecture, art, and inventions have affected modern civilization. Fun reading, challenging projects -- wonderful for the child who is beginning to think logically!
By Jove. Ann Arbor: Aristoplay, 1994.
$19.95. Order from Aristoplay or from Rainbow Resource Center. A board games for 2-6 players, where mortals are forced to risk the whims of the unpredictable gods and the decrees of the Oracles.
Chattington, Jenny. The Ancient Greeks: Activity Book. Thames and Hudson, 1995.
$5.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. Detailed drawings to color, cartoons, maps, mysteries, fashions, monsters, and weapons.
Conolly, Peter. Roman World series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, various dates.
Order from American Home-School Publishing. These books combine history with a fictional "eyewitness" account; they're absorbing, accurate, full of illustrations and fasincating explorations of religion, archaeology, geography, warfare, and daily life. About sixth grade in reading level:
The Legionary, second edition (1998). $12.95.
The Calvaryman, second edition (1998). $12.95.
The Roman Fort, second edition (1998). $9.95
Pompeii (1994). $12.95
Corbishley, Mike. What Do We Know About Prehistoric People? New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1995.
$18.95. An illustrated collection of information about early civilizations.
Doxey, Denise M. Ancient Egypt Explorer's Kit. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1996.
$18.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. A 64-page handbook with instructions on how to make Egyptian clothes, paintings, and hieroglyphics; includes three buried talismans which you excavate from a block of clay and then restore.
Eyewitness Books. New York: Knopf, various dates.
$19-24.95 each. These books, designed by Dorling Kindersley, are available in libraries, bookstores (you may need to special-order them, but all are in print), and online book services (such as Barnes & Noble Online and Amazon.com). The pictures and layout are beautiful and will give you more information than you'll ever need. Consider keeping these on hand for several months, referring back to them as you progress through the time line.
Ayo, Yvonne, et al. Ancient Africa (1995).
Cotterell, Arthur, et al. Ancient China (1994).
Hart, George, et al. Ancient Egypt (1990).
James, Simon, et al. Ancient Rome (1990).
Pearson, Anne, et al. Ancient Greece (1992).
Putnam, James, et al. Pyramid (1992).
Tubb, Jonathan N., et al. Bible Lands (1991).
Grant, Neil. The World of Odyesseus. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publications, 1992.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. A BBC Fact Finder with great illustrations and lots of quotes from the ancients themselves.
Green, John. Egyptian Stained Glass Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publications, 1995.
$3.50. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. Color on translucent paper with crayons or colored pencils and end up with a beautiful stained-glass effect. (You can also order the Little Coloring Book for $.90 for little brother or sister.)
Harrison, Steve and Patricia Harrison. Ancient Greece. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publications, 1995.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. A BBC Fact Finder with great illustrations and lots of quotes from the ancients themselves.
______. Egypt. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publications, 1992.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. Another BBC Fact Finder.
How Would You Survive? series. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts, 1996.
$7.95 each. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. This series gives you a new identity and sends you back in time for an adventure. Books contain time spiral, maps, and a quiz to check out your performance. These are heavy on the daily-life aspect of ancient history.
Ganeri, Anita, et al. How Would You Survive as an Ancient Roman?
This book includes a recipe for flamingo with dates.
Macdonald, Fiona, et al. How Would You Survive as an Ancient Greek?
This book gives you dual identities, as wealthy citizen and as a slave.
Morley, Jacqueline, et al. How Would You Survive as an Ancient Egyptian?
Knill, Harry. A Coloring Book of the Trojan War: The Iliad. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1994.
$3.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. These detailed drawings, taken from Greek sculpture and architecture, can be turned into real works of art.
______. A Coloring Book of the Olympics and Other Ancient Games. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1984.
$3.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Events of the ancient Olympics described and illustrated with actual Greek images.
Langley, Andrew, et al. The Roman News. New York: Candlewick Press, 1997.
$15.99. Order from Greenleaf Press. Headline stories from ancient history, along with lots of facts, quotes, news flashes and even want ads; entertaining and informative, written for fifth-graders.
MacAuley, David. City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
$7.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. All the stages of construction in a Roman city. Fascinating for the mechanically-minded; incorporates history and culture into descriptions of the construction process.
______. Pyramid. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
$7.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. Incredibly detailed drawings and explanations of pyramid construction.
McCord, A. The Visual Dictionary of Prehistoric Life. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1995.
$15.95. An Eyewitness guide to early human civilizations.
Payne, Elizabeth. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. New York: Random House, 1998.
$4.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Each chapter tells about one pharaoh on a fifth grade reading level. Covers Egypt's history from beginning to its conquest by Greece and Rome.
Powell, Anton, and Philip Steele. The Greek News. New York: Candlewick Press, 1997.
$15.99. Order from Greenleaf Press. Headline stories from ancient history, along with lots of facts, quotes, news flashes and even want ads; entertaining and informative, written for fifth-graders.
Queen Nefertiti. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1992.
$2.50. The story of one of the great women of the ancient world, told through a coloring book that uses complex images from Egyptian art itself.
Roehrig, Catharine. Fun with Hieroglyps. New York: Penguin, 1990.
$22.50. Order from Greenleaf Press. Designed by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, this set includes rubber stamps, an ink pad, and a key.
Savage, Stephen A. Ancient Greek Monuments to Make. Owings Mill, MD: Stemmer House Publishers, 1996. Thi
$6.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Two heavy card-stock models to color, cut out, and assemble: the Parthenon and the theater of Dionysus.
Steedman, Scott, ed. The Egyptian News. New York: Candlewick Press, 1997.
$15.99. Order from Greenleaf Press. Headline stories from ancient history, along with lots of facts, quotes, news flashes and even want ads; entertaining and informative, written for fifth-graders.Medieval/Early Renaissance, 400-1600 (sixth grade)
List of great men and women:
This list includes a few early rulers of major countries up until about 1050. After Edward the Confessor, any ruler of England, Holy Roman Emperor, ruler of France, emperor of Japan, or emperor of China is worth making a notebook page on; we don't list them here (there are simply too many). Check the encyclopedia for complete listings.Attila the Hun (c. 433-453)
St. Augustine (writing c. 411)
King Arthur (the original Arthur was probably killed in 537 at
the Battle of Camlan)
Gregory of Tours (540-594)
Mohammed (570-632)
The Venerable Bede (672-735)
Charles Martel (688-741)
Charlemagne (ruled 768-814)
Alfred the Great (849-899)
Leif Ericson (discovered America c. 1000)
Omar Khayyam (1027-1123)
Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)
Genghis Khan (b. 1155)
Chretien de Troyes (1144-1190)
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441)
Johann Gutenberg (c. 1396-1468)
Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510)
Christopher Columbus (1482-1506)
Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512)
Leonardo da Vince (1452-1519)
Erasmus (1465-1536)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Titian (1477-1576)
Thomas More (1478-1535)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Raphael (1483-1520)
Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556)
Correggio (1494-1534)
Giovannie Angelo de Medici (1499-1565)
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
Nostradamus (1503-1566)
John Knox (1505-1572)
John Calvin (1509-1564)
Hernando Cortes (enters Mexican capital, 1519)
Pieter Brueghel (1520-1569)
Palestrina (1525-1594)
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
Philip Sidney (1551-1586)
Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Jan Brueghel (1568-1625)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Inigo Jones (1573-1652)
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)Primary sources
Jackdaw Portfolios. Amawalk, NY: Jackdaw Publications.
$37 each. Order from Jackdaw Publications; some are also available from Rainbow Resource Center at a small discount. Jackdaws contain facsimiles of primary documents, essays (called Broadsheets) that combine relevant research into a single narrative, along with photos; annotated notes about the background of each primary source; transcripts of anything that might be hard to eat; and study guides with activities, vocabulary, writing activities, reading ideas, debate and drama ideas. You can pick and choose among these portfolios:
1066
The Black Death
Byzantine Empire
Columbus and the Age of Explorers
Elizabeth I
Magna Carta
Martin Luther
The Plague and Fire of LondonGeneral information
Anglo-Saxon Helmet Cut-Out Model. Jersey City, NJ: Parkewest Publishing, 1993.
$4.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing.
Ashman, Iain. Make This Model Crusader Castle. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1996.
$9.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Based on the Krak des Chevaliers in Syria, this cut-out-and-assemble castle includes knights to defend and attack.
______. Make This Viking Settlement. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1994.
$9.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. The settlement includes forty cut-out figures.
______. Usborne Cut-Out Models. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1988.
$9.95 per set. Each set is designed to fit together with the other three into one large model.
Make This Model Castle
Make This Model Cathedral
Make This Model Town
Make This Model Village
Birmingham, Duncan. The Maya, Aztecs, and Incas Pop-Up. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publishing, 1985.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. This high-quality series from Parkwest offers interesting text and great pop-up pictures.
Chorzempa, Rosemary A. Design Your Own Coat of Arms: An Introduction to Heraldry. New York: Dover Publishing, 1987.
$3.50. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. Explains the symbolism and history of coats of arms so that you can design your own.
Civardi, Anne. The Viking Raiders. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1998.
$6.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Part of the Usborne Time-Traveler Series, this is written at a lower reading level (approximately fourth grade) and would be good for students who find reading difficult.
Clare, John D., ed. Living History series. New York: Harcourt Brace, various dates.
$16.95 each. Order from Greenleaf Press. The Living History books use miniatures and actors in costume to illustrate excellent text with striking photographs. The paperbacks are published by Gulliver Books and cost $10.95 each; these should be ordered through a bookstore.
The Vikings (1992)
Knights in Armor (1992)
14th Century Towns (1996)
The Renaissance (1995)
This is a particularly good book; interesting and clear information with striking photographs.
Corbishley, Mike. The Celts Activity Book. London: Thames & Hudson, 1993.
$5.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. This British Museum Press Activity Book includes detailed drawings to color, cartoons, maps, mysteries, fashions, monsters, and weapons.
Davis, Courtney. Celtic Stained Glass. New York: Dover Publications, 1993.
$3.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. The Dover stained glass coloring books reproduce medieval windows on translucent paper; color them and put them against a window for a beautiful effect.
Duncan, Deborah, and Keith A. James. The Vikings: With Standup Scenes to Cut Out and Glue Together. London: Thames & Hudson, 1997.
$4.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. This British Museum Press Activity Book includes detailed drawings to color, cartoons, maps, mysteries, fashions, monsters, and weapons.
Dyson, John, et al. Westward with Columbus. New York: Scholastic, 1993.
$6.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. One of the Time Quest series, this book uses photos and illustrations to combine a 1990 reenactment of Columbus' voyage with an accurate account of the real one in 1492.
Eyewitness Books. New York: Knopf, various dates.
$19-24.95 each. These books, designed by Dorling Kindersley, are available in libraries, bookstores (you may need to special-order them, but all are in print), and online book services (such as Barnes & Noble Online and Amazon.com). The pictures and layout are beautiful and will give you more information than you'll ever need. Consider keeping these on hand for several months, referring back to them as you progress through the time line.
Baquedano, Elizabeth, et al. Aztec: Inca & Maya (1993)
Brightling, Geoff, et al. Medieval Life (1996)
Byam, Michelle, et al. Arms and Armor (1988)
Gravett, Christopher, et al. Castle (1994)
______. Knight (1993)
Margeson, Susan M., et al. Viking (1994)
Grant, Neil. Explorers and Discoverers. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publishing, 1993.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. A BBC Fact Finder, this provides a colorful guide to the lives, beliefs, and achievements of ancient peoples. Great illustrations and quotes from the ancients themselves.
Green, John. Cathedrals of the World Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publishing, 1995.
$3.50. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. Over 40 great cathedrals; floor plans, elevants, interior, and exterior views.
Griffiths, David. The Pop-Up Paris. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publishing, 1986.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. This high-quality series from Parkwest offers interesting text and great pop-up pictures; this title surveys the history of the city of Paris.
Hall, Jerry and Christie Jones. Roman Britain. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publishing, 1997.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. A BBC Fact Finder, this provides a colorful guide to the lives, beliefs, and achievements of ancient peoples. Great illustrations and quotes from the ancients themselves.
Henry VIII & His Wives Coloring Book. New York: Bellerophon, 1989.
$3.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Paper dolls to color; detailed and attractive. Includes all six wives with several outfits for Henry.
Hindley, J. Knights & Castles. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1998.
$6.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Part of the Usborne Time-Traveler Series, this is written at a lower reading level (approximately fourth grade) and would be good for students who find reading difficult.
Inside Story series. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, various dates.
$10.95 each. Order from Greenleaf Press. These beautiful books are filled with cutaway illustrations of fascinating text; each inclues sections on Food & Drink, Family Life, Sports, Trade, and Wars.
Humble, Richard. A 16th Century Galleon: The Inside Story, illus. Mark Bergin (1995).
Macdonald, Fiona. A 16th Century Mosque: The Inside Story, illus. Mark Bergin (1994).
______. A Medieval Castle: The Inside Story, illus. John James (1994).
______. A Medieval Cathedral: The Inside Story, illus. John James (1991).
______. A Samurai Castle: The Inside Story, illus. John James (1995).
______. A Viking Town: The Inside Story, illus. Mark Bergin (1995).
Morley, Jacqueline. A Renaissance Town: The Inside Story, illus. John James (1996).
Lindow, John. Viking Ships to Cut Out & Put Together. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1992.
$5.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Paper models of the Skuldelev wreck, the Gokstad ship, and the Oseberg ship, along with explanations of Viking design and construction.
Loverance, Rowena. The Anglo-Saxons. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publishing, 1993.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. A BBC Fact Finder, this provides a colorful guide to the lives, beliefs, and achievements of ancient peoples. Great illustrations and quotes from the ancients themselves.
MacAuley, David. Castle. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
$8.95. Order from The Home School. MacAuley's books are engrossing, incredibly detailed drawings and explanations of how things work. Absolutely fascinating for the mechanically-minded. This title traces the social, cultural, and political role of a castle through its construction.
______. Cathedral. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
$8.95. The story of a cathedral's construction, beginning in a French town in 1252.
______. Ship. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
$8.95. A fifteenth-century Spanish wooden sailing ship is built, shipwrecked, and then discovered; the story switches from the present day to the fifteenth century and back again.
A Medieval Alphabet To Illuminate. New York: Bellerophon, 1985.
$4.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Ornate capital letters from medieval alphabets; each is a full page drawing, ready to be colored.
Morley, Jacqueline, et al. How Would You Survive as a Viking? Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts, 1996.
$5.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. This book gives you a new identity and sends you back in time for an adventure; contains a time spiral, maps, and a quiz to check out your performance.
Nicole, David. Paper Soldiers of the Middle Ages. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1992.
$3.95 each. Order from Greenleaf Press. Each set contains 60-70 detailed, two-sided figures to be colored.
Set 1: The Crusades. Includes Byzantine , Mongol and Iranian cavalry, Moslem soldiers, crusader knights, and even Richard the Lion-Hearted.
Set 2: The Hundred Years War. Includes knights, archers, kings, queens, and peasants.
Queen Elizabeth I. New York: Bellerophon, 1985.
$4.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Paper dolls to color; detailed and attractive. Includes Sir Walter Raleigh, the Earl of Essex, and Mary Queen of Scots.
Reeve, John, et al. The Anglo-Saxons. London: Thames & Hudson, 1993.
$4.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. This British Museum Press Activity Book includes detailed drawings to color, cartoons, maps, mysteries, fashions, monsters, and weapons.
Sibbet, Ed. Cathedral Stained Glass. New York: Dover Publications, 1979.
$4.50. Order from Greenleaf Press. The Dover stained glass coloring books reproduce medieval windows on translucent paper; color them and put them against a window for a beautiful effect.
Smith, A. G. Cut & Assemble a Medieval Castle. New York: Dover Publications, 1984.
$9.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. A full-color model of Caernarvon Castle, built by Edward I in 1283.
Steele, Philip, ed. The Aztec News. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1997.
$15.99. Order from Greenleaf Press. Headline stories from ancient history, along with lots of facts, quotes, news flashes and even want ads; entertaining and informative, written on a fifth-grade level.
Wild, Anne. The Pop-Up London. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publishing, 1985.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. This high-quality series from Parkwest offers interesting text and great pop-up pictures; this title surveys the history of the city of London.
Wingate, Philippa, et al. The Viking World. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1994.
$10.50. Order from The Home School Part of the Usborne Illustrated World History series, this is an appealing reference book with pictures, maps, and charts; written for fifth grade and up.
______. The Usborne Book of Kings & Queens. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1995.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. This survey of royal lives from Ramses to Elizabeth I contains portraits, maps, illustrations, and stories of victories and defeats.
Wright, Rachel, ed. The Viking News. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1998.
$16.99. Order from Greenleaf Press. Headline stories from ancient history, along with lots of facts, quotes, news flashes and even want ads; entertaining and informative, written on a fifth-grade level.LATE RENAISSANCE/EARLY MODERN, 1600-1850 (seventh grade)
List of topics to explore
the Mayflower
early American settlements
Russia under Peter the Great and his successors
Prussia in the eighteenth century
the Enlightenment
the agricultural revolution
native American cultures
the British in India
the French revolution
British-French conflict in Canada
the American revolution
The Napoleonic wars
the Industrial Revolution
Simon Bolivar's fight for independence in South America
the siege of the Alamo
the California gold rush
the Lewis & Clark expedition
the U.S. acquisition of North American territories
Australia's beginnings as a prison colony.Primary sources
Jackdaw Portfolios. Amawalk, NY: Jackdaw Publications.
$37 each. Order from Jackdaw Publications; some are also available from Rainbow Resource Center at a small discount. Jackdaws contain facsimiles of primary documents, essays (called Broadsheets) that combine relevant research into a single narrative, along with photos; annotated notes about the background of each primary source; transcripts of anything that might be hard to eat; and study guides with activities, vocabulary, writing activities, reading ideas, debate and drama ideas. You can pick and choose among these portfolios:
The American Revolution
California Gold Rush -- 1849
French Revolution
Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806
The Making of the Constitution
The Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt -- 1831
Rise of Napoleon
Salem Village and the Witch Hysteria
Slavery in the United States
Women in the American Revolution
Roop, Connie and Peter, eds. Pilgrim Voices: Our First Year in the New World. New York: Walker & Co., 1998.
$16.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. These are actual writings of the Pilgrims themselves, including Bradford edited into short selections. Written on a fairly easy reading level.
Zeinert, Karen, ed. The Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: Patriot and Privateer of the American Revolution. North Haven, CT: Linnet Books, 1993.
$16.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. Zeinert has edited Sherburne's actual first-person account of his service in the colonial navy during the American Revolution.General information
Anderson, J. K. Castles to Cut Out & Put Together. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1987.
$4.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. These are models of the Tower of London, and Chateau Gaillard, with all the turrets, towers and walls. Needs to be colored before assembly.
Anderson, J. K. and Nick Taylor. Castles of Scotland to Cut Out & Put Together. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1990.
$3.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Doune Castle and Caerlaverock Castle to be colored and assembled.
Bliven, Bruce. The American Revolution. New York: Random House, 1987.
$6.50. Order from Greenleaf Press. This history for young people was first published in 1958; it gives a very detailed account of the struggle for independence and of George III's misdeeds.
Blos, Joan W. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32. New York: Aladdin, 1990
$3.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. This is a Newbery-award winning novel, not a history book (the story is told through the journal of a teenage girl in colonial New Hampshire). But it provides a well-researched look into everyday life in colonial America.
Brownell, David, ed. A Coloring Book of Kings & Queens of England. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1985.
$4.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. All the kings and queens, from before Edward the Confessor right down to Elizabeth II, with text about each. Great for the student memorizing those kings and queens.
Cooper, Donna and Bill Clifflands. Tudors and Stuarts. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publishing, 1997.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. A BBC Fact Finder -- colorful guides to the lives, beliefs, and achievements of ancient peoples.
Copeland, Peter F. Early American Crafts and Occupations Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publishing, 1994.
$2.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. Historically accurate, detailed drawings with interesting text.
______. Early American Trades Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publishing, 1980.
$2.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center.
______. Everyday Dress of the American Colonial Period. New York: Dover Publishing, 1992.
$2.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center.
______. Indian Tribes of North America Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publishing, 1990.
$2.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center.
______. Lewis and Clark Expedition Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publishing, 1983.
$2.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center.
______. Western Pioneers Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publishing, 1997.
$2.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center.
Eyewitness Books. New York: Knopf, various dates.
$19-24.95 each. These books, designed by Dorling Kindersley, are available in libraries, bookstores (you may need to special-order them, but all are in print), and online book services (such as Barnes & Noble Online and Amazon.com). The pictures and layout are beautiful and will give you more information than you'll ever need. Consider keeping these on hand for several months, referring back to them as you progress through the time line.
Holmes, Richard, et al. Battle (1995)
Matthews, Rupert O., et al. Explorer (1991)
Murdoch, David, et al. North American Indian (1995)
Platt, Richard, et al. Pirate (1995)
Renaissance (1999, Eyewitness staff)
Hakim, Joy. A History of US series. Oxford: Oxford Universit Press, various dates.
$10.95 each; teacher's guides for each volume are $6.95. Order from The Home School. This series is immensely popular among history fans; it's readable, written in story format, and interesting. You can buy teacher's guides with overviews of each chapter and teaching strategies, but you probably don't need them. The volumes are in the process of revision, so look for the latest edition.
Volume 1: The First Americans (Prehistory-1600), second revised edition (1998)
Volume 2: Making Thirteen Colonies (1607-1732), second revised edition (1998)
Volume 3: From Colonies to Country (1710-1791), second revised edition (1998)
Volume 4: The New Nation (1789-1850) (1994)
Knill, Harry and Nancy Conkle. A Coloring Book of The American Revolution. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1987.
$3.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Based on a set of eighteenth-century caricatures.
Made for Trade. Ann Arbor, MI: Aristoplay, 1994.
$24.95. Order from the Education Connection. Learn about both history and economics through this game of early American bartering.
Spier, Peter. The Star-Spangled Banner. New York: Yearling Books, 1992.
$9.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. An illustrated National Anthem, with historical notes and maps describing the War of 1812, and a history of the anthem's composition.
Steedman, Scott. A Frontier Fort on the Oregon Trail: The Inside Story, illus. Mark Bergin. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1994.
$10.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Filled with cutaway illustrations of fascinating text.
Waters, Kate. The Day series, illus. Russ Kendall. New York: Scholastic, various dates.
Order from Greenleaf Press. The Kate Waters series on early American life uses re-enactors and interpreters at Plimouth Plantation for photographic illustration. Excellent information.
On the Mayflower (1996)
$16.99 (hardback only). Shows what sailing on this tiny boat was really like.
Samuel Eaton's Day (1996)
$5.99 (paperback). A typical day for a young boy at
Plymouth.
Sarah Morton's Day (1993)
$5.99 (paperback). The daily life oout a young girl in Plymouth colony.
Tapenum's Day (1996)
$16.99 (hardback only). The daily life of an Indian boy living near Plymouth.
Woodhouse, Jayne. The Victorians. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publishing, 1995.
$8.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. A BBC Fact Finder -- colorful guides to the lives, beliefs, and achievements of ancient peoples.Modern Times, 1850-present (eighth grade)
List of topics to explore
Africa under European control
The Indian mutinies
The Crimean War
The Victorian era
The War Between the States/Civil War
Exploration in the American west
American conflict with the Native American tribes
The Boxer Rebellion in China
World War I
The Russian Revolution
The Soviet Union
South African segregation
Zionism/The Jews return to Palestine
World War II
Nazi Germany/Hitler
The Holocaust
Civil war in Spain
The Axis and the Allies
The Great Depression
The New Deal
China under Mao
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
The civil rights movement
Landing on the moonPrimary sources
Aten, Jerry. Our Living Constitution, Then and Now. Good Apple, 1986.
$10.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. The original text of the Constitution in one column; interpretation in another column. Comes with games and writing activities.
Frank, Anne, et al. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1997.
This classic journal is a good place to begin discussions of the Holocaust.
Jackdaw Portfolios. Amawalk, NY: Jackdaw Publications.
$37 each. Order from Jackdaw Publications; some are also available from Rainbow Resource Center at a small discount. Jackdaws contain facsimiles of primary documents, essays (called Broadsheets) that combine relevant research into a single narrative, along with photos; annotated notes about the background of each primary source; transcripts of anything that might be hard to eat; and study guides with activities, vocabulary, writing activities, reading ideas, debate and drama ideas. You can pick and choose among these portfolios:
The 1920s: America Enters the Modern Age
Atomic Bomb
Black Voting Rights
Century of Smoking and Tobacco
The Civil War
The Cold War
Computers
The Depression
Early Industrialization of America
The New Deal
World War I: 1914-1918
World War II: The Home Front
Mulvey, Deborah. We Had Everything But Money. Greendale, WI: Reiman Publications, 1992.
$14.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. Personal recollections of those who lived through the Great Depression, in their own words; black & white photos.
Murphy, Jim. The Boy's War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War. New York: Clarion Books, 1993.
$7.95. Order from American Home-School Publishing. Journal entries and letters from boys sixteen and under who fought in the Civil War; sepia photographs.
Schroder, Walter K. Stars and Swastikas: The Boy Who Wore Two Uniforms. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1997.
$28. Order from American Home-School Publishing. Very expensive (try your library), but this story of a German soldier who joined the U.S. Army after Hitler's defeat should start some interesting discussions about loyalty and patriotism.General information
Archambault, Alan. Black Soldiers in the Civil War Coloring Book. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1995.
$3.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. The story of the Massachusetts 54th as well as other units.
Archambault, Alan and Jill Caron. Civil War Heroes: A Coloring Book. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1991.
$4.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. 24 of the most important figures from both sides, each with a full-page drawing and a one-page biography.
Biggs, Bradley. The Triple Nickles: America's First All-Black Paratroop Unit. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1994.
$17.50. Order from American Home-School Publishing. Accurate history about honor, courage, and racism in the WWII troops (the price is high, so you might want to try your library).
Clare, John D., ed. Growing Up in the People's Century: Children's Eyewitness Accounts of the 20th Century. Jersey City, NJ: Parkwest Publishing, 1998.
$23.95. First-person accounts of daily life during all the decades of this century.
______. Living History series. New York: Harcourt Brace, various dates.
$16.95 each. Order from Greenleaf Press. The Living History books use miniatures and actors in costume to illustrate excellent text with striking photographs. The paperbacks are published by Gulliver Books and cost $10.95 each; these should be ordered through a bookstore.
The Industrial Revolution (1994)
The First World War (1995)
Coloring Book of Our Presidents. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon, 1988.
$4.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. From George Washington to Bill Clinton; full-page portraits, each from a historical source (paintings, campaign posters, etc.). Great memory aid.
Cooper, Michael. From Slave to Civil War Hero: The Life and Times of Robert Smalls. New York: Lodestar Books, 1994.
$13.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. The biography of Robert Smalls, who rose from slavery to the United States Congress.
Copeland, Peter F. Naval Battles of the Civil War Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publishing, 1996.
$2.95. Detailed and historically accurate drawings along with a narrative.
Eyewitness Books. New York: Knopf, various dates.
$19-24.95 each. These books, designed by Dorling Kindersley, are available in libraries, bookstores (you may need to special-order them, but all are in print), and online book services (such as Barnes & Noble Online and Amazon.com). The pictures and layout are beautiful and will give you more information than you'll ever need. Consider keeping these on hand for several months, referring back to them as you progress through the time line.
Coiley, John and Mike Dunning. Train (1992)
Cribb, Joe, et al. Money (1990)
Murdoch, David, et al. Cowboy (1993)
Nahum, Andrew, et al. Flying Machine (1990)
Stott, Carole, et al. Space Exploration (1997)
Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: A Photobiography. New York: Clarion, 1989.
$7.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. The personal and public story of Lincoln, with a series of profiles that shows him aging during his terms in office. A Newbery Medal winner.
______. Wilbur and Orville Wright: How They Invented the Airplane. New York: Holiday House, 1994.
$9.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Uses the brothers' own photographs along with a readable account of their achievements; lots of quotes from the Wrights' own writings.
Hail to the Chief Game. Ann Arbor, MI: Aristoplay, n.d.
$24.95. Order from the Education Connection. Become president by answering questions about former presidents, the Constitution, history and geography, and state capitals.
Hakim, Joy. A History of US series. Oxford: Oxford Universit Press, various dates.
$10.95 each; teacher's guides for each volume are $6.95. Order from The Home School. This series is immensely popular among history fans; it's readable, written in story format, and interesting. You can buy teacher's guides with overviews of each chapter and teaching strategies, but you probably don't need them. The volumes are in the process of revision, so look for the latest edition.
Volume 5: Liberty For All? (1828-1860) (1994)
Volume 6: War, Terrible War (1994)
Volume 7: Reconstruction and Reform (1865-1890) (1994)
Volume 8: An Age of Extremes, second revised edition (1998)
Volume 9: War, Peace, and All That Jazz (1915-1945) (1995)
Volume 10: All the People (1945-Present), second revised edition (1998)
Hayman, Leroy. The Death of Lincoln: A Picture History of the Assassination. New York: Scholastic, 1990.
$2.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. Great for mystery fans -- examines the circumstances around the assassination with photos, engravings, paintings.
Heinrichs, Ann. America the Beautiful series. Danbury, CT: Children's Press.
This series includes one title for each state and will provide the eighth-grade student with a good basic review of state history (required by most state educational boards).
MacAuley, David. Mill. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
$8.95. The detailed history of a fictional New England mill, its construction, operation, and its place in social and political change.
Maybury, Richard. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Shingle Springs, CA: Bluestocking Press, 1992.
$9.95. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. A simple, clear introduction to economic theory: origin of money, history of the dollar, inflation, recession, the federal debt.
Miles, Lisa. The Usborne Illustrated Atlas of the Twentieth Century. Tulsa, OK: E.D.C. Publications, 1997.
$12.95. A good supplement to the Kingfisher history, which occasionally dismisses important twentieth-century events and people (Martin Luther King!) in one sentence. Good maps, focuses on cause and effect.
Presidential Rummy. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution.
$5.95. Order from the Education Connection. An old stand-by; 41 presidents, each with his home state, political party, First Lady, Vice President, and vital facts. Play and learn.
States & Capitals Flash Cards.
$4.50. Order from Rainbow Resource Center. States, capitals, dates of statehood, state birds and flowers, main industries, attractions.
Sullivan, George. The Day Pearl Harbor Was Bombed - A Photo History of World War II. New York: Scholastic, 1991.
$5.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. The story of December 7th and the entire war in photographs and newspaper headlines. Fairly simple, but a good introduction.
______. The Day We Walked on the Moon - A Photo History of Space Exploration. New York: Scholastic, 1992.
$5.95. Order from Greenleaf Press. From John Glenn through Neil Armstrong and the Challenger astronauts.
Time Quest series. New York: Scholastic, various dates.
$16.95 for hardbacks, $6.95 for paperbacks. Order from Greenleaf Press. This series explores mysteries of the recent past, with lots of illustrations and historical detail.
Ballard, Robert D. Exploring the Bismarck, illus. Ken Marshall (1993).
The story of the WW II battleship and the discovery of the wreck nearly 50 years later.
______. Exploring the Titanic, illus. Ken Marshall (1993).
Written by the man who actually discovered the famous ship; with photos from the 1985 expedition.
Beattie, Owen, et al. Buried in Ice (1993).
The mystery of a failed 19th-century expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
Tanaka, Shelley. The Disaster of the Hindenburg: The Last Flight of the Greatest Airship Ever Built (1996).
The narrator is a cabin boy who tells the story of the voyage and the crash; illustrations and archival photographs.