Tuesday, May 3, 2022

How They Croaked


How They Croaked: The Awful Ends Of The Awfully Famous
by Georgia Bragg


In the same irreverant (think, 10 year olds will *love* this!) vein as Poop Happened! by Sarah Albee, and Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill by Heather Montgomery, comes Georgia Bragg with How They Croaked and How They Choked.


Since I'm working with a 10 year old right now who absolutely adores books like this, and I always like to make teacher notes for myself as I go along, here are some thoughts about How They Croaked. If you know of another book in this category, please share it in the comments!


King Tut

    love "Things To Do with Old Mummies," especially mummy paper!!!!


    Tutankhamen's Gift
    by Robert Sabuda


    The Mummy Makers of Egypt
    by Tamara Bower (Yuya and Thuya)
    A-MAZ-ING! if you are interested in every detail of the mummification process, get this book (and Tutankhamen was Yuya's great-grandson)

    here are the rest of the books in my
    Ancient Egypt Booklist


Julius Caesar

    math problem:
    if there were 60 senators and 23 stabbed Caesar, how many didn't?

    look up < assassin > on etymonline (we found out it's from Arabic)


    The Story of Clocks and Calendars
    by Betsy Maestro

    Maths of Practical Life: Time
    look at the bottom of the post for the finger knitted string lesson which clarifies for kids why a lunar calendar will always be wrong (Georgia Bragg keeps it brief and just says "snow in summer")


Cleopatra


    You Can Write Hieroglyphs
    by James Rumford
    contains the cartouche for Cleopatra


    Cleopatra and Ancient Egypt for Kids: Her Life and World, with 21 Activities
    by Simonetta Carr
    this is a great book if you have time; we only focused on a few parts

      "A Cinematic Appearance," pp.63-66
      "The Inimitables," pp.67-70
      "An Unusual Celebration," pp.82-85"
      "Dying Hopes," pp.96-97
      "The End of an Era," pp.99-100
      "A Last Resistance," pp.100-101

    FREE Cleopatra lesson from SHEG
    Cleopatra Student Materials (PDF)

      Cleopatra Timeline
      Doc A - Cleopatra by Michelangelo (1534 CE)
      Doc B - Shakespeare Play, Antony and Cleopatra (1623 CE)
      Doc C - Plutarch, Life of Antony (approx 50 CE - 120 CE)
      Doc D - Cassius Dio, Roman History (approx 164 CE - 230 CE)
      Doc E - scholarly journal Acta Theologica (2005 CE)


Christopher Columbus


Henry VIII


Elizabeth I


Pocahontas

    before reading the chapter, review the plot of the Disney version

    if you wanted to spend more time on her story, examining the more and less authentic ways it has been portrayed over time, there's also


    Pocahontas
    by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire


    The World of Captain John Smith
    by Genevieve Foster


Galileo Galilei


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Marie Antoinette

    revisit Letters to Horseface

    read excerpts from letters that pertain to Marie Antoinette

      p.40 Florence (April 4, 1770)

      p.61 Naples (May 30, 1770)

    compare Georgia Bragg's succinct conclusion about the Dauphin ("Her son escaped the guillotine but died in prison two years later of tuberculosis at age ten") with Constance Rourke's fascinating musings in Audubon

    read beginning of chapter 1, "A Mystery -- But No Matter," through the top of page ten ("He must have known then that his birth and parentage were not altogether clear. The date of his adoption, March 7, 1794, remains as the first positive date in his history.")

    sadly, in the year 2000, DNA evidence answered the question of the fate of Louis-Charles


George Washington


Napoleon Bonaparte


Ludwig van Beethoven


Edgar Allan Poe


Charles Dickens

    of course, you have to watch a version of A Christmas Carol!

    Dickens's tomb at westminster-abbey.org


James A. Garfield


Charles Darwin


Marie Curie


Albert Einstein


Table of Contents

    Koehler disease - Tut

    stabbed - Caesar

    poisoned - Cleopatra

    Reiter’s syndrome - Columbus

    leg infection - Henry VIII

    pneumonia - Elizabeth I

    tuberculosis - Pocahontas

    lead poisoning - Galileo

    strep throat - Mozart

    beheaded - Marie Antoinette

    mouth infection - G. Washington

    cancerous stomach ulcer - Napoleon

    maps of Elba and Ste. Helena

    lead poisoning - Beethoven

    “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

    rabies - Edgar Allan Poe

    stroke - Dickens

    bullet wound infection - J. Garfield

    heart attack - Darwin

    heavy exposure to radiation - Marie Curie

    aortic aneurysm - Einstein


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another title with similar irreverent humor: WHO GIVES A POOP? SURPRISING SCIENCE FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER

May 4, 2022 at 7:09 AM
Renee said...

Found it. Thank you! Also by Heather Montgomery. https://amzn.to/3Fd5CQP

May 4, 2022 at 9:07 AM

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