Description
Homeschool Writing Curriculum:
Writing Through Modern History Level 2
Writing Through Modern History Level 2 covers modern history from the early 1800′s to 1985–the fourth year of a 4-year history cycle. It is divided into four chapters: short stories, text excerpts from primary source documents, poetry, and cultural tales.There are more than 60 selections included in Writing Through Modern History.
With the Level 2 Writing Through Modern History book, students read historical narratives (4th-6th grade reading level) about:
- slavery
- Abraham Lincoln
- Robert E. Lee
- Stonewall Jackson
- Thomas Edison
- the Red Cross
- Yellow Fever
- the Wright brothers
- Sergeant york
- the Navajo Code Talkers
- the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Watergate,
- and more…
child friendly text excerpts from:
- The Gettysburg Address
- a Sermon by Sojourner Truth
- The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
- The Atlanta Compromise
- Foot binding in China
- Famous presidential speeches
- selections by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lewis Caroll, Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman
- and more…
and fun cultural Tales by:
- L. Frank Baum
- Andrew Lang
- Selections from Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories
- and more…
