This post is part of my 10 Ways to Teach Prehistoric and Ancient History series, which is part of 10 Days of Tips for Homeschoolers, hosted by Living Life and Learning.
As homeschoolers, we’ve always spent a lot of time reading together. I love sharing my favorite books from childhood with my own kids, and I appreciate when we can relate our reading to the subjects they’re learning about in their school subjects.
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My girls have always been drawn to historical fiction (one of our first read-alouds as homeschoolers was the American Girl Kirsten series, my favorite growing up) but since we really started studying world history, I’ve started reading historic texts with them from the time periods we’re learning about.
From Gilgamesh, to The Iliad, Beowulf, and The Aenid (we read the Alfred J. Church version, and truthfully it was a struggle to get through. There is a friendlier version by Emily Frenkle, as well as a graphic novel version), we’ve spent countless nights before bed reliving history together.
Which is also why as I started creating Big Ideas through History, I made it essential that my books lists for each Unit Peoples section include texts written and left for us by those civilizations.
Unit 2 Peoples, the Sumerians, gave us not only Gilgamesh, but also:
And the Ancient Egyptians of Unit 3 left their mythology but also other important texts and writings:
And as Big Ideas through History moves through the ages, the amount of fantastic historical texts available only gets greater. (Get the Complete Program Outline for free when you signup for newsletter updates and special promotions to see which peoples and civilizations are explored in Big Ideas through History .)
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