We studied World War II with Notebooking, Books, Videos, and Trips.
World War II Unit
Travel
Resources
- WWII Lapbook and Notebooking Pages
- Homeschool Share Holocaust
- Free Unit from Something 2 Offer
- Unit Study from Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus
- Remembering the Holocaust {Scholastic}
- Productive Homeschooling $
Movies
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- Swing Kids
- Hart’s War
- The Pianist
- Schindler’s List
- Life is Beautiful
- Paradise Road
- Come See the Paradise
- In Enemy Hands
- Saving Private Ryan
- Red Tails
- The Thin Red Line
- Windtalkers
- Memphis Belle
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Books
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- The Hiding Place
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Devil’s Arithmetic
- Number the Stars
- Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust
- Yankee Doodle Gals
- Early Sunday Morning
- Meet Molly
- Catch-22
- World Wars
- A History of US: War, Peace, and All That Jazz: 1918-1945 A History of US
- Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust
- Baseball Saved Us
- Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
- Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2,500 Children During the Holocaust
- The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark
- Star of Fear, Star of Hope
- The Butterfly
- Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
- The Little Riders
- The Harmonica
- A Father’s Promise
- The Cats in Krasinski Square
- The War That Saved My Life
- War Boy: A Wartime Childhood
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
- Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
- The Bracelet
- The Whispering Town
- Six Million Paper Clips: The Making Of A Children’s Holocaust Memorial
How we do history…
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We use Tapestry of Grace for our main history studies.
My girls especially love the living books and literature selections. They have a government supplement that is wonderful for high school. Four learning levels means the whole family learns together. Each unit has Internet links to relevant sites (most I’ve never heard of). The Revolutionary War begins at the end of Year 2 (from Byzantium to the New World) and the beginnings of our new nation is in the first unit of Year 3 (from Napoleon to Teddy Roosevelt).
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Great resource list for WW2. I have already heard of a few of those books but there are some on the list that I haven’t. I read Anne Frank when I was in high school.
Thanks! I hope it helps in your history studies.
Oh, you are talking my heart language this week! LOVE LOVE LOVE this series! Thank you for linking up at Ultimate Mom Resources – pinning to use for my big guys
Great movie list! I love Pianist, Life is Beautiful, Red Tails and Boy in the striped Pajamas….One good Christian movie is Hidden in Silence, which is about a teenage girl and her younger sister who hid 13 Jews in their attic throughout the war.
Oh, I’ll have to check that out! Thanks for the tip!
Thanks so much for including our WWII Unit Study in your great list of History resources! I can’t wait to peruse some of the ones listed that I didn’t know about!