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12yo DS has long had a moderate interest in WWII... he read the DK Eyewitness book years ago, he bought a non-fiction book on the Olympics in Nazi Germany ("Hitler's Games") at a yard sale a couple years ago, etc.  But we've never done an actual "study" on it, I didn't want to squash his interest by doing too much, KWIM?  And in truth, the interest has waxed and waned over the years.

 

Well, he's hitting another burst of interest, and I think he's ready for a more in-depth, deliberate study now.  He just read "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", just finished it today in fact, and he had lots of questions.  

 

We're fairly Charlotte Mason influenced, so I want to have a lot of literature-based stuff for him rather than textbooks (though some textbooks are fine for him too).

 

My plan thus far... Up next, have him read the Diary of Anne Frank and do the Bravewriter "Boomerang" unit on it.

 

Get the Moving Beyond the Page unit on WWII (age 10-12), and the corresponding literature unit of "Number the Stars" and have him work through those.

 

Look for film adaptations of any and all of these books, as well as history channel - style documentaries, and the "Life is Beautiful" movie.

 

Do the Intellego World War II Era unit study (grades 6-8) -- we already bought this one recently via a Homeschool Buyers Co-op package deal, he chose it.

 

That's probably enough for him, I don't want to overwhelm him (he's Aspie and a "reluctant writer" with low executive function).  Just wondering, before I buy these other unit studies, if there's anything out there that's even better that we're really love.  Or if the MBTP unit would be really redundant if we`re already doing the Intellego unit.  I`ll have to look through the Intellego study and see what it entails...