Fourth Grade, History, Set Seven

Covering World War I; Years 1914 - 1919

I used the book, The 1910s: Decade in Photos by Jim Corrigan, at the end of this Set to review the decade and cover or introduce a few things we didn't cover in other books.

A Child's History of the World, chapter 84

Mother's Day was instituted

• Mother's Day by Ann Heinrichs

Stories about animals in World War I

• Bunny the Brave War Horse by Elizabeth MacLeod
• The Donkey of Gallipoli by Mark Greenwood
• Rags: Hero Dog of WWI by Margot Theis Raven 
• War Horse by Michael Morpurgo -- we watched the movie instead of reading the book
• Fly, Cher Ami, Fly! by Robert Burleigh

Historical fiction books about WWI

• The Doll Shop Downstairs by Yona Zeldis McDonough -- about a family with three girls in New York that own a doll repair shop. Repair parts for the dolls come from Germany, so when war breaks out they can no longer get parts. How can they stay in business?
• Hero Over Here by Kathleen Kudlinski -- Ten year old Theodore dreams of being a hero in Europe like his father and brother, but must nurse his mother and sister, who are sick with the Spanish flu. 
• The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett
• Tikhon by Ilse-Margret Vogel
• Archie's War: My Scrapbook by Marcia Williams
• Waiting for the Evening Star by Rosemary Wells -- picture book about a family whose son goes off to war
• When Christmas comes Again by Beth Seidel Levine
• The Extraordinary Music of Mr. Ives byJoanne Stanbridge -- story of a musical piece written because of the sinking of the Lusitania

 Nonfiction books about WWI

• Everything World War I by Karen Kenney -- covered the war well; lot of illustrations
• World War I: An Interactive History Adventure by Gwenyth Swain
• Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan
• Line of Fire: Diary of an Unknown Soldier Introduced by Michael Morpurgo
• America's First World War: General Pershing and the Yanks by Henry Castor
• World War I Memorial by Maureen Picard Robins -- tells about the end of the war and the memorial built in Kansas City, Missouri 
• Going to War in World War I by Adrian Gilbert -- lots of information and illustrations
• The Sinking of the Lusitania: An Interactive History Adventure by Steven Otfinoski
• World War I for Kids by R. Kent Rasmussen -- this has some activities I wish we had been able to do, but there are only so many hours available.
• Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood by Nathan Hale

Books that I will want to get when we study WWI when K is older.

• Assassination at Sarajevo by Robin S. Doak
• The Split History of World War I by Michael Burgan
• Voices from the Past: World War I by Kathlyn and Martin Gay
• World War I: From the Lusitania to Versailles by Zachary Kent
• The United States in World War I by Don Lawson
• Stubby the War Dog by Ann Bausum 

Black Sox Scandal

•  The Black Sox Scandal of 1919 by Dan Elish

 18th Amendment

• The Constitutional Amendments by William Loren Katz