A unit on Africa

Here it is, our unit on Africa. I am still missing some books on coffee, tea, diamonds, aviation, Third World and jungle animals. Any suggestions would be apreciated.

In case anyone is interested, I am sharing it here. Our main reference book is Konos, Africa. You will notice that no books on religion are on my list. This is how I teach my kids. I know Konos is religion base but I always work around that.

Africa

The Africa Cookbook (Jessica B. Harris ISBN 0684802759)
The Panama Canal (Elizabeth Mann ISBN 0965049345)
Africa the Serengeti (dvd)
Africa's Wildlife Collection (National Geographic, dvd)
Children's Stories From Africa (dvd)


Week 1

People:

- Ramses II
- Jean Francis Champollion
- Alexander the Great
- Augustine
- Cleopatra
- Tutankhamen

Related Subjects:

- Pyramids
- Irrigation
- Snakes

Additional Books and DVD Titles:

- I Wonder Why the Sahara is Cold at Night (Jackie Gaff ISBN 0753454343)
- Desert Animals (Stephen Savage, ISBN 0750248254)
- Enchantment of the world; Egypt (Ann Heinrichs, ISBN 0516248669)
- The Great Pyramid (Elizabeth Mann, ISBN 0965049310) *
- The Water Harvester (Mary Witoshynsky ISBN 0797421233)
- Desert Song (Tony Johnston ISBN 0871564912)
- Akimbo and the Snakes (Alexander McCall Smith ISBN 1599900346)
- Prince of Egypt (dvd) *

Week 2

People:
- Mohammed
- Fatima
- T.E. Lawrence
- Gamal Abdel
- King Faruk

Related Subjects:
- Islam
- Sahara Desert
- Ramadan
- Suez Canal
- Camp David Accords
- Oil industry
- Aswan Dam
- Israel

Additional Books and DVD Titles:
- Arabian Nights (Husain Haddawy ISBN 0393313670)
- Aladdin (dvd) *
- The Wind and the Lion (dvd)
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones, dvd)
- The Sahara: The Forgotten of the World's Harshest Desert (dvd)
- Empires of Industry: Black Gold - The Story of Oil (dvd)

Week 3

People:
- Anwar El Sadat
- Menachem Begin
- President Jimmy Carter
- Thomas Jefferson
- King Hassan II
- Stephen Decatur
- Muammar Quaddafi

Related Subjects:
- Berber
- Nomad
- Morocco
- Tuareg
- Camel

Additional Books and DVD Titles:
- Enchantment of the World: Morocco (Martin Hintz ISBN 0516209612)
- Sahara: Vanishing Cultures (Jan Reynolds ISBN 1600601316)
- Kassim's Shoes (Harold Benson ISBN
- I Wonder Why Camels Have Humps (Anita Ganeri ISBN 1856971015)
- Is a Camel a Mammal? (Tish Rabe ISBN 0679873023)
- This is the Oasis (Miriam Moss ISBN 1845070801)
- El Cid (dvd)
- Beau Geste (dvd, The Gary Cooper Collection)
- Aladdin (dvd) *
- Lion King (dvd) *
- Casablanca (dvd)
- Four Feathers (dvd)
- Exodus (dvd)

Week 4

People:
- Mary Slesser
- Alex Haley
- Kunta Kente
- Harvey Firestone
- Uncle Remus

Related Subjects:
- Ashanti
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Mali

Additional Books and DVD Titles:
- The Village of Round and Square Houses ( Ann Grifalconi ISBN 0333485211)
- The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Julius Lester ISBN 1439512175)
- A Story, A Story (Gail Haley ISBN 0689712014)
- Spider Stories (Matthew Kirby ISBN 1419663593)
- The Biography of Chocolate (Adrianna Morganelli ISBN 0778725170)
- The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (dvd)


Week 5

People:
- Patrice Lumumba
- Albert Schweitzer
- Jane Goodall
- Dian Fossey
- King Leopold

Related Subjects:
- Jungle
- Olduvai Gorge
- Gorilla
- Chimpanzee

Additionnal Books and DVD Titles:
- The Monkey and the Crocodile (Paul Galdone ISBN 0899195245)
- Koko's Kitten (Francine Patterson ISBN 0590444255)
- Nim's Island (Wendy Orr ISBN 0440418682)
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Verna Aardema ISBN 0140549056)
- Enormous Crocodile (Roald Dahl ISBN 0142302457)
- Akimbo and the Crocodile Man (Alexander McCall Smith ISBN 1599900339)
- The Clever Monkey: A Folktale from West Africa (Rob Cleveland ISBN 0874838010)
- Water Hole Waiting (Jane Kurtz ISBN 0060298510)
- The African Queen (dvd)
- Nim's Island (dvd) *

Week 6

People:
- Louis Leakey
- Mary Leakey
- Richard Leakey
- Haile Selassie
- Jomo Kenyatta
- Karen Blixen-Finecke
- Kipchoge Keino
- Idi Amin
- Winston Churchill
- Bushmen

Related Subjects:
- Archeology
- Coffee

Additional Books and DVD Titles:
- Archaeology (Usborne ISBN 0746094973)
- Out of Africa (dvd)
- Hatari (dvd)

Week 7

People:
No People

Related Subjects:
- Safari
- Segengeti National Park
- Swahili
- Ostrich
- Zebra
- Giraffe
- Lion
- Vulture
- Hyena
- Elephants
- Cheetah
- Leopard
- Baboon
- Vanilla
- Lemur
- Octopus Tree
- Chameleons
- Rhinoceros

Additional Books and DVD Titles:
- Favorite Poems Old and New (Helen Ferris ISBN 0385062494)
- Akimbo and the Elephants (Alexander McCall Smith ISBN 1405218118)
- Akimbo and the Lion (Alexander McCall Smith ISBN 1405218126)
- Akimbo and the Baboons (Alexander Mc Call Smith ISBN 0307397076)
- The Biography of Vanilla (Julie Karner ISBN 0778724905)
- Lion King (dvd) *
- Lion King II (dvd) *
- Madagascar (dvd) *
- Madagascar II (dvd) *

Week 8

People:
- Cecil Rhodes
- David Livingstone
- Henry Stanley
- Desmond Tutu
- Nelson Mandela
- Shaka
- Piet Retief
- Gary Player
- Christian Bernard

Related Subjects:
- Boer War
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Kalahari Desert
- Mining
- Zulu
- Apartheid

Additionnal Books and DVD Titles:
- Shaka: King of the Zulus (Diane Stanley & Peter Vennema ISBN 068813114x)
- South Africa: Enchantment of the World (Ettagale Blauer ISBN 0516248537)
- Zimbabwe: Enchantment of the World (Barbara Radcliffe-Rogers ISBN 0516211137)
- Bushmen of Southern Africa (Galadriel Findley Watson ISBN 1590362225)

Week 9

People:
- John Wycliffe
- Haile Gebreselassie

Related Subjects:
- Aviation
- Disease
- Missions
- Africa

Additionnal Book and DVD Titles:
- Endurance (dvd)