Our main history resource is another book recommended in The Well-Trained Mind: The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. As we read it, we each choose details to note on our timeline. I love it; I am learning so much. The kids also borrow Horrible Histories books and magazines from the library on whatever period we are reading about in the Kingfisher Encyclopedia. When they are especially interested in a period, we take a break from the Kingfisher Encyclopedia to spend time reading books and doing activities related to that period.
The literature I choose for reading aloud is often chosen to connect with the period of history we are studying. This idea is straight out of The Well-Trained Mind and many of the books I choose come from lists in The Well-Trained Mind. We are currently studying the 1600s so have been reading Don Quixote and The Three Musketeers.
I think it could take us all of next year to finish the Kingfisher Encyclopedia because as we get to modern times I imagine there will be a lot the kids want to investigate more deeply.
I can't remember what resources The Well-Trained Mind suggests for high school history but I know what I'd like to do: I'd like to read aloud some of the excellent history books for adults I've come across:
- Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors - The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific.
- Michael King's Penguin History of New Zealand.
- Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom.
Perhaps not a rigorous high school history course, just to read books like those and discuss them, but so interesting!
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