Check out the books we have right now in our home: art, authors, architecture, faith, Black history, science, geography and events. That's a lot of cool FREE learning on my floor there :-) |
I had my 15-year-old son Joel compose a list of the Who Was/Is books from Penguin because we are finding them to be so awesome. We do love Story of the World as well, for history for multiple ages, but it's fun to stop and read a quick biography of a person we find out about in Story of the World or just pick one up to read anytime.
I like to read these to all five kids at once and call it English and History. I like to homeschool multiple kids at a time to SAVE time and also do multiple subjects to save time ... this is how we can be more laid-back and have more time for playing outside, meeting friends at the park, etc. You can read a chapter a day or easily blow through one in a day. We normally do a chapter or two a day.
There's even a Mad Libs so you can beef up your kids' parts of speech knowledge while having fun at the same time!
If the thought of finding time to read to the kids right now freaks you out, you can assign a book to a kid to read and then have them tell the family about it orally or have them practice their report-writing skills. It's all up to you! And these are at the library so you can also homeschool for free using these resources.
Here's the list in alphabetical order by first name. I'll do another post for the "What Was" series or just add them here ... I haven't decided yet ... you let me know what you prefer :-)
Abigail
Adams
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Abraham
Lincoln
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Albert
Einstein
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Alexander
Graham Bell
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Alexander
Hamilton
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Alexander
the Great
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Amelia Earhart |
Andrew
Jackson
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Andy
Warhol
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Anne
Frank
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Annie
Oakley
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Babe
Ruth
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Barack
Obama
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Beatrix
Potter
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Beecher
Stowe
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Ben
Franklin
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Betsy
Ross
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Bill
Gates
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Blackbeard
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Bob
Dylan
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Bob
Marley
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Bruce
Lee
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Bruce
Springsteen
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Cesar
Chavez
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Charles
Darwin
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Charles
Dickens
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Charlie
Chaplin
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Christopher
Columbus
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Clara
Barton
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Claude
Monet
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Daniel
Boone
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Davy
Crockett
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Derek
Jeter
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Dolly
Parton
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Dr.
Seuss
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Earnest
Shackleton
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Edgar
Allan Poe
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Eleanor
Roosevelt
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Elton
John
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Elvis
Presley
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Ferdinand
Magellan
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Fidel
Castro
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Frank
Lloyd Wright
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Franklin
Roosevelt
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Frederick
Douglas
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Frida
Kahlo
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Galileo
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Gandhi
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Genghis
Khan
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George
Lucas
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George
Washington Carver
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George
Washington
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Gloria
Steinem
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Hail
to the Chiefs
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Harriet Tubman |
Harry
Houdini
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Helen
Keller
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Henry
Ford
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Hillary
Clinton
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Isaac
Newton
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J.K.
Rowling
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J.R.R.
Tolkien
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Jackie
Kennedy
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Jackie
Robinson
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Jacques
Cousteau
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Jane
Goodall
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Jeff
Kinney
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Jesse
Owens
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Jesus
|
Jim
Henson
|
Joan
of Arc
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John
F. Kennedy
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Johnny
Appleseed
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Jules
Verne
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Julia
Child
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Julius
Caesar
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King
Tut
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Laura
Ingalls Wilder
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Leonardo
Da Vinci
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Lewis
Carroll
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Louis
Armstrong
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Louis
Braille
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Lucille
Ball
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Malala
Yousafzai
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Marci
Polo
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Maria
Talchief
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Marie
Antoinette
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Marie
Curie
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Mark
Twain
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Martin
Luther King. Jr.
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Maurice
Sendak
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Maya
Angelou
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Michael
Jackson
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Michelle
Obama
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Milton
Bradley
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Milton
Hershey
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Mother
Theresa
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Muhammad
Ali
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Neil
Armstrong
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Nelson
Mandela
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Pablo
Picasso
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Paul
Revere
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Pete
Seeger
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Pope
Francis
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Princess
Diana
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Queen
Elizabeth
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Queen
Victoria
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Rachel
Carson
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Ralph
Lauren (coming soon)
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Richard
Branson
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Roald
Dahl
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Robert
E. Lee
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Robert
Ripley
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Roberto
Clemente
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Ronald
Reagan
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Rosa
Parks
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Sacagewea
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Sally
Ride
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Seabiscuit
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Sitting
Bull
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Sojourner
Truth
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Sonia
Sotamayor
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Stan
Lee
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Steve
Erwin
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Steve
Jobs
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Steven
Spielberg
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Stevie
Wonder (coming soon)
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Susan
B. Anthony
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The
Beatles
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The
Brothers Grimm
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The
Rolling Stones
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The
Three Stooges (coming soon)
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The
Wright Brothers
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Theodore
Roosevelt
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Thomas
Alva Edison
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Thomas
Jefferson
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Ulysses
S. Grant
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Venus
and Serena Williams
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Walt
Disney
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Wayne
Gretzky
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Who
was Activity Book
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Who
was Mad Libs
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William
Shakespeare
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Winston
Churchill
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Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
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