Let’s Talk About Your Homeschool Teaching Checklist!

with your host Felice Gerwitz

Do you have a Homeschool Teaching Checklist? It’s time to get personal. How are you doing? But you may be saying, “Hold on! We just started school.” And that’s why this podcast is soooooo important. Before the year gets away from you and you waste an entire year, let’s look at your methodology, how the kids are doing, and most importantly, the sense you feel at the end of the day. Is it one of satisfaction or one of thinking you are not getting enough done? I’ll explore some tried and true methods and explain ways to short-cut your child’s education without sacrificing true learning.

Listen to this podcast on giving your child time to find their passion here.

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Show notes: 

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Different teaching philosophies in the homeschool world:

• Charlotte Mason
• Classical Education
• Notebooking
• Unit Studies
• Textbook/Workbook
• Eclectic
• Unschooling

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Special Replay: Let’s Talk About 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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World History Reading List  – All rights reserved Media Angels, Inc. 2014

September Reading Books

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

October Reading Books

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

November Reading Books

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

December Reading Books

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

January Reading Books

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

February Reading Books

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

March Reading Books

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

April Reading Books

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

May Reading Books

1. Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
2. If All the Swords in England: A Story of Thomas Becket by Barbara Willard
3. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
4. Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde by Harold Lamb
5. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael Chronicles–we recommend this series) by Ellis Peters)
6. Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
7. The Dragon and the Raven (The Days of King Alfred) by G. A. Henty
8. The Magna Charta by James Daugherty
9. The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
10. The Life and Words of St. Francis of Assisi by Ira Peck
11. In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. Henty
12. The Beggars’ Bible by Louise Vernon
13. Ink on His Fingers by Louise A. Vernon
14. Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
15. Henry V by Shakespeare
16. Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
17. The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
18. The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelly
19. Constantinople (Sieges That Changed the World) by Tim McNeese[/easyazon_link]
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History

History is about a bunch of 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!

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

American History Online Course 

World History Reading List  – All rights reserved Media Angels, Inc. 2014

September History Reading Books

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

October Reading Books

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

November Reading Books

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

December Reading Books

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

January Reading Books

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

February Reading Books

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

March Reading Books

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

April Reading Books

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

May Reading Books

1. Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
2. If All the Swords in England: A Story of Thomas Becket by Barbara Willard
3. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
4. Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde by Harold Lamb
5. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael Chronicles–we recommend this series) by Ellis Peters)
6. Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
7. The Dragon and the Raven (The Days of King Alfred) by G. A. Henty
8. The Magna Charta by James Daugherty
9. The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
10. The Life and Words of St. Francis of Assisi by Ira Peck
11. In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. Henty
12. The Beggars’ Bible by Louise Vernon
13. Ink on His Fingers by Louise A. Vernon
14. Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
15. Henry V by Shakespeare
16. Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
17. The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
18. The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelly
19. Constantinople (Sieges That Changed the World) by Tim McNeese[/easyazon_link]
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