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The World in the Dynamic Modern Age. Meet the authors, poets, leaders and legislators from the middle of the nineteenth century through the twentieth century and into the 2020s. Explore firsthand accounts, letters, groundbreaking legislation, speeches, poems and humorous short stories from this era of rapid changes. Hear from those who lived through communism, the World Wars, the Holocaust, the Cold War, the Space Race, the fight for Civil Rights, and more. Tackle unabridged excerpts of original works by Marx, Tolstoy, Roosevelt, Chesterton, and Bonhoeffer, all in an easy-to-read narrative format. The more challenging of these readings are ideal for reading aloud and discussion.This Reader is illustrated with beautiful, full-color paintings from Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and more, to bring the modern world to life. As with all Nourished Upon Ideas titles, artwork has been carefully selected to be suitable for all ages.In this Reader, students will read selections from:Mark Twain, Florence Nightengale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clara Barton, Leo Tolstoy, Booker T. Washington, P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Virginia Woolf, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Elie Wiesel, Thomas Sowell, Eric Metaxas and more.

History & Humanities is a Charlotte Mason-inspired curriculum for high school and middle school-aged students, covering history, literature, language arts and writing as its core subjects in each cycle. In addition, woven beautifully throughout are threads of citizenship, Bible, philosophy, worldview, government and economics. Using living books, written narration, dictation, picture study and more, this curriculum utilizes Miss Mason's philosophy of education. History & Humanities is also designed to be customizable for varying grade levels, making education simplified for families with multiple ages learning together, and for teachers with multiple grades in a class.
 
8.5"x11" Softcover, color
ISBN: 979-8902147022
Page count: 246