Are you looking for some really good books that will interest your fifth to eighth graders in American history and world history?

Here are some of my favorites. They cover roughly 1550 to 1850 or so, the early modern time period, just for that age group.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. I love talking books.

And today I have a lineup of some great ones that I recommend wholeheartedly and that we include

in our history curriculum, a pageant of history early modern.

Fifth to eighth grade students are beginning to do more of their schoolwork independently,

and history is no exception. Oh, we still encourage you to keep your whole family together

studying the same time period. There are so many advantages to that approach. But

at the same time, it's good to give your middle school students opportunities to grow in learning

for themselves. With our curriculum, you get the best of both. A pageant of history schedules

wonderful living books for your family to read all together,

and also age-specific titles for your students to enjoy individually.

It's an effective combination.

I'll leave a link in the description so you can explore the curriculum and the other books

in the Early Modern Study.

Today I'm going to share with you

the titles that we have selected for fifth through eighth graders, their individual reads.

Don't worry about scheduling. The curriculum will tell you exactly what to read each day.

In fact, there is a student narration guidebook available for your middle school student.

It will give daily reading assignments and narration prompts for all the readings.

The details are taken care of, so you and your student can sit back and enjoy these wonderful

books.

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