Biography

Just found an old Amazon review which is actually really helpful to me right now... the list of biographies included in a book I have on my shelf. Road to Greatness (Collier's Junior Classics, Volume 8)

This book, volume 8 in a wonderful series, contains short -- but not babyish -- biographies of the following people from history:

Robert E. Lee
Helen Keller
Mohandas Gandhi
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Mary McLeod Bethune
Thomas Alva Edison
Anna Pavlova
Lou Gehrig
Saint Francis of Assisi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Florence Nightingale
Fridtjof Nansen
Edgar Allen Poe
Louis Armstrong
Marie Curie
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nathaniel Bowditch
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Moses
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Louisa May Alcott

A wonderful addition to a homeschooler's library!

Natalie is about to read about Nathanial Bowditch to accompany her Geometry block... and I can put Poe and Clemens in the Lit Crit block... and I can make a note of Michelangelo for Leah's block next year on the Renaissance... Helen Keller goes with the Philosophy topic Courage... Not a bad find!

Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller

Other teaching topics which could tie in with one of these Biographies? Please let me know and I will add them to the tags for this post.