{"id":14890,"date":"2020-06-08T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=14890"},"modified":"2020-06-09T09:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:57:20","slug":"10-ways-teach-history-read-historic-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/08\/10-ways-teach-history-read-historic-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Teach History: Read Aloud Historic Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of my 10 Ways to Teach Prehistoric and Ancient History series<\/a>, which is part of 10 Days of Tips for Homeschoolers, hosted by Living Life and Learning<\/a>.<\/em><\/h4>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

From Gilgamesh, <\/a>to The Iliad<\/a>, Beowulf<\/a>, and The Aenid (we read the Alfred J. Church version<\/a>, and truthfully it was a struggle to get through. There is a friendlier version by Emily Frenkle<\/a>, as well as a graphic novel<\/a> version), we’ve spent countless nights before bed reliving history together.<\/p>\n

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Which is also why as I started creating Big Ideas through History<\/a>, I made it essential that my books lists<\/a> for each Unit Peoples<\/a> section include texts written and left for us by those civilizations.<\/h4>\n

Unit 2<\/a> Peoples, the Sumerians<\/a>, gave us not only Gilgamesh<\/a>, but also:
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