Cycle 3 History: Biography Anthologies

Form II

Builders of Our Country Book 1 by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth

and

Builders of Our Country Book 2 by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth

These books are each read over half of the year, so that if you read both books, you will cover a full year’s worth of reading. There are two chapters scheduled each week, and the chapters vary in length–between four and eighteen pages. Each chapter is a biography of a person who actually lived and breathed in history and played a part in the building of America. Some of the biographies in Book 1 are about people who lived before our Cycle 3, 1550-1850 timeline. Likewise, some of the biographies in Book 2 are about people who lived and did things after 1850. For reading that is lined up to the memory work, there is reading scheduled for Book 1 in week 12 and for Book 2 in weeks 19 and 21. Samples can be seen on the Yesterday’s Classics website.

Book 1

Book 2

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Four Great Americans by James Baldwin

This book contains stories about four famous men: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln. We will technically study Abraham Lincoln in Cycle 4, but it doesn’t hurt to read ahead a bit! There are two chapters scheduled each week for the entire year, and each chapter is two to four pages in length. A sample can be seen on the Yesterday’s Classics website.

Project Gutenberg free
Gateway to the Classics free
Yesterday’s Classics ebook
Amazon paperback, hardcover, or Kindle
LibriVox Audio free
Audible Audio
Amazon audio CD

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