Teaching history at home (vanity)

[PistolPaknMama]

Hello Dear Freepers! My little grandsons are almost 7 and 10. They attend a private Christian school, but we remain concerned about what is required history -- or rather what is not required. Do any of you have suggestions for age appropriate materials for teaching at home so it's fun and interesting? They are both very bright and the oldest is all about some Trump and likes to talk politics. I just don't want their history taken from them.

Thanks in advance! PPM

[sjeann]

I second American literature. I read such books as Johnny Tremain, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Gone With the Wind to my daughter. These allowed good discussion between us about our history. The movie “1776” is also great.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Rush Limbaugh has a series of kids’ history books.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

If I had young kids Rush Revere would be the absolute way I would teach the history to them!! If ANYONE here has grandkids you NEED to get these books into the child’s home and a set for you when they come to visit!!

[Agamemnon]

Compass Classroom

FReegards!

[Teflonic]

For the Vietnam War:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3829543/posts

[loveliberty2]

Visit Janine Turner’s “Constituting America” web site for all sorts of teaching and learning materials—all sound in their adherence to the Founders’ principles and ideas. Entertaining and truly great for kids’ (and their parents’) learning about our nation’s founding.

[A_perfect_lady]

For reading, I’d suggest The Boxcar Children. If they were girls, I’d suggest Pollyanna and the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, but I don’t know how much boys would like that. I also loved Black Beauty when I was that age.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Yes, I have a suggestion for home teaching. I currently create audiobooks and put them online in the public domain.

https://librivox.org/reader/6080

I mainly cover the bad guys - progressives, but a few of note such as these below cover the American Revolution.

https://librivox.org/the-colored-patriots-of-the-american-revolution-by-william-cooper-nell/

https://librivox.org/the-columbian-orator-by-caleb-bingham-by-caleb-bingham/

(See entry #10)
https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-021-by-various/

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Were I a history teacher, I would consider doing a project of genealogy. Idea being, that kids’ ancestors were affected by historical events.

Concept works better with some people than with others whose genealogy isn’t well documented on paper. But at least check to see if there’s a genealogy buff in each side of the kids’ families . . .

My own great-grandparents couldn’t possibly have met except for an incident in the Civil War - and the same holds true for an awful lot of Americans. And absent the slavery practiced in the antebellum south, how would the great-great grandparents of modern blacks ever have met???

[JoeFromSidney]

<My wife home-schooled her children from her previous marriage. She suggests ABEKA, a Christian home school curriculum. All her children did well in college. Look into it. My first wife used to say that she could teach our children so much more if she could home-school them, but we wanted them to go to Catholic schools. That’s where we sent them. They also did well in college: two Masters and a PhD. Give it a try.

[mabarker1]

Start with The American Revolution including The Bill of Rights and Constitution and work the way to current using major wars and fill in between with the advances of Society as the result of Wars. It blends quite well.

(Be sure they know the We started WWII by Nuking Hiroshima & Nagasaki and that is why the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor.)

Branch off of the Cold War to cover the Space Race noting the first rockets were also ICBM's

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[EvilCapitalist]

The Rush Revere series of books is VERY good.

[Twotone]

I just heard Glenn Beck speak to Bob Woodson of the Woodson Center. He’s a black historian who’s trying to tell the truth about black life in America. He’s also just started the 1776 Unites campaign as an answer to the 1619 Project...

https://1776unites.com/

You might want to listen to some of his stuff on YouTube & see if anything is appropriate for your youngsters.

[Night Hides Not]

I just purchased 5 books from Osprey Publishing Co. in England, they have a wide selection of history books. They come complete with maps. My grandson will be learning Texas History this coming year, so my selections included a book on the Texas Revolution.

I'll be taking him to Gonzales, San Jacinto, and other sites as time permits.

I also picked up several other books for my reading, to include the Battle of Blenheim, and Operation Market Garden. Both topics are of deep personal interest to me.

I lived in the town of Traben-Trarbach, site of the final victory for John Churchill in the Blenheim campaign (though I never saw any historical markers in the town).

5 months after graduating from college, I earned my Jump Wings at Fort Benning. Several months later, "A Bridge Too Far" was released, and I saw it at the Hahn AB theatre.

[PistolPaknMama]

Rush Limbaugh has books on American history for kids.

I don't think they have all of Rush's books but I know the oldest loved it. I'll have to check on that!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Great boys adventure / historical fiction books:
* All of the Kenneth Roberts books written in the 30s and 40s
* The entire Captain Horatio Hornblower series of books

The boys may do better with these when they are about 12 to 14. These make learning history a lot of fun.

[PistolPaknMama]

Such great suggestions! We will be checking most all of them.THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[PistolPaknMama]

Idea being, that kids’ ancestors were affected by historical events.

Yes, we have lots of family history all the way back to the battle of Bannockburn forward. It's fascinating to find an ancestor in an event back there.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I bought a used copy of the 1960 American Heritage “Picture History of the Civil War” some years ago. It is magnificent. As another poster said, buy books before Howard Zinn corrupted the magnificent views of the United States.

[nicollo]

I can put together useful summer enrichment courses for you here: https://school4schools.com/tutoring/a-club-coronavirus-summer-classes/

I’m published author and former high school history teacher.