Georgia Bragg, et al.

Just finished doing How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous AND Caught: Nabbing History's Most Wanted, both by Georgia Bragg, with my Zoom tutoring clients (age 10) and now we are moving on to some titles by Carlyn Beccia.

list of people in How They Croaked (and here are my teaching notes):

King Tut

Julius Caesar

Cleopatra

Christopher Columbus

Henry VIII

Elizabeth I

Pocahontas

Galileo Galilei

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Marie Antoinette

George Washington

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ludwig van Beethoven

Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Dickins

James A. Garfield

Charles Darwin

Marie Curie

Albert Einstein

NOTE: Kids love How They Croaked. And they often come up with the most hilarious book report projects based on it! I have one student who is doing a book report on Napoleon Bonaparte using this book as her resource, and her "artistic element" is a display of black & silver pipe cleaners twisted together, cut into short lengths, and carefully arranged sticking out of a clay block. This is meant to be a souvenir display of locks of his hair for sale, and she's going to walk all around her classroom as the souvenir seller, asking her fellow students if they'd like to buy a lock of the deceased Napoleon's hair!

list of people in How They Choked:

Marco Polo

Isabella of Castile

Montezuma II

Ferdinand Magellan

Anne Boleyn

Isaac Newton

Benedict Arnold

Susan B. Anthony

George Armstrong Custer

Thomas Alva Edison

Vincent van Gogh

J. Bruce Ismay

Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson

Amelia Earthart

list of people in Caught!:

Joan of Arc

Sir Walter Raleigh

Caravaggio

Blackbeard

John Wilkes Booth

Jesse James

Billy the Kid

Mata Hari

Typhoid Mary

Rasputin

Vincenzo Peruggia

Bernard Otto Kuehn

Anna Anderson

Al Capone

new books I just bought:

Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science Behind Your Favorite Monsters

this book turned out to be a Science book and not a History book



I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures



They Lost Their Heads! What Happened to Washington's Teeth, Einstein's Brain, and Other Famous Body Parts

Inês de Castro

Galileo Galilei

King Louis XIV

George Washington

Franz Joseph Haydn

Ludwig van Beethoven

Abraham Lincoln

Chang and Eng Bunker

Phineas Gage

John Wilkes Booth

Sarah Bernhardt

Vincent van Gogh

Mercy Brown

Mata Hari

Albert Einstein

Elvis Presley

Thomas Alva Edison



10 at 10: The Surprising Childhoods of Ten Remarkable People

note: this book is very intense and I think it is best for grade 8

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Albert Einstein

Louis Armstrong

Frida Kahlo

Eugenie Clark

Audrey Hepburn

Roberto Clemente

Raven Wilkinson

Bruce Lee

André the Giant

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