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Eastern Hemisphere/Non-Western Cultures cont.
WEEK 19 Russia
Reader: Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess  (Royal Diary)
RA: Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky
CG: 402-405
GSA: Earth’s Landforms (rivers)
FILM: Fiddler on the Roof
WEEK 20 Central Asia
Reader: Daughter of the Mountains by Rankin
RA: Rebel: A Tibetan Odyssey by Cheryl Whitesel
MW: pg. 72-79 (Bhutan), pg.96-105 (Uzbekistan)
CG: 406-411
DK Geography: 160-165
GSA: Earth’s Landforms (rivers)
Trail Guide to World Geo - Central Asia week 20
BG: Tara
Shabanu Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Staples Pakistan Khan’s Daughter by Yep
FILM: 7 Years in Tibet - Lib.
FILM: Kundun - Lib
FILM: Himalaya
FILM: Little Buddha - Lib
FILM: Himalayan Adventure - Lib.
WEEK 21 Southeast Asia
Reader: The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho 
RA: The Land I Lost by Nhuong
MW: 80-95
CG: 472-479, 504-512
Children Just Like Me pgs. 68-73
GSA: Earth’s Landforms (lakes)
Trail Guide to World Geo - Southeast Asia week 23
Geo Thru Art pg. 23 (Hmong story cloth)
So Far from the Bamboo Grove(Korea) by  Yoko Watkins 
Sing for Your Father, Su Phan by Stella Pevsner N. Vietnam Little Brother by Allan Baillie
Silk Umbrellas by Marsden
Monsoon Country - Pira Sudham  Thailand
FILM: The King and I
FILM: Anna and the King
MENU:
   Coconut-Curry Pork Satay
   Roasted Chicken with Coconut Lime Glaze
WEEK 22 India
Reader: Neela-Victory Song by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
RA: Mother Theresa - Sister  to the Poor by Giff
MW: pg. 64-71
CG: 454-463
DK Geography: 166-173
Children Just Like Me: 56-58
GSA: Earth’s Landforms (ocean movement/coastlines)
Geo Thru Art pg. 25 (Mughal Indian painting), pg. 27 (elephants in India), pg. 25 (TajMahal), pg. 26 (Batik)
WEEK 23 India
Reader: Just So Stories
RA: Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
GSA: Earth’s Landforms (ocean floor)
Trail Guide to World Geo - South Asia week 21
WEEK 24 India
Reader:  Around the World in 80 Days by Verne (use unit in Trail Guide to World Geography)
RA: Shiva’s Fire by Suzanne Staples (lib)
GSA: Earth’s Landforms (deserts)
India: The Culture
Trail Guide to World Geo unit on Around the World in 80 Days
Road to Agra--Aimee Sommerfelt
WEEK 25 India
Reader: Around the World in 80 Days (Cont.)
RA: Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Trail Guide to World Geo Around the World in 80 Days unit cont.
Ghandi
FILM: A Passage to India
FILM: Around the World in 80 Days
WEEK 26 India
Reader: Jahanara, Princess of Princesses by Kathryn Lasky
RA: Hero’s Walk by Badami 
BG: Sarasvati
India: The People
Film: Gandhi
WEEK 27 India
Reader:Lawrence of Arabia (Landmark)
RA: 
BG: Lakshmi
WEEK 28 Arabia
Reader: Ali and the Golden Eagle by Grover
RA: Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
CG: 440-448
DK Geography: 152-159
Count Your Way Through the Arab World  Haskins, Jim
Arabs in the Golden Age by Moktefi
RILM: Lawrence of Arabia
FILM: Arabian Nights
WEEK 29 Middle East
Reader: Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian NIght Stories
RA: Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Cohen
MW: pg. 226-247
CG: 412-439
DK Geography: 146-151
Children Just Like Me: 60-63
GSA: Earth’s Landforms
BG: Isis
One More River by Lynn Reid Banks   Israel
The Boy from Over There by Tama Bergman
The Answered Prayaer and Other Yemenite Folktales by Sharly God and Mishael Maswari Caspi
Against the Storm by Gaye Hicyilmaz
FILM: Aladdin (Disney)
WEEK 30 Middle East
Reader:The Breadwinnerr by Deborah Ellis (Afghanistan)
RA: Shabanu by Staples
Trail Guide to World Geo - Middle East week 19
Haveli by Staples (sequel to Shabanu)
Parvana’s Journey by Ellis (Sequel to Breadwinner)
WEEK 31 Africa - North
Reader: King of the Wind by Henry
RA: Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
MW: pg.13-21
CG: 129-167
DK Geography: 204-219
Trail Guide to World Geo: North Africa week 14
Geo Thru Art pg. 44 (camel saddle), pg. 49 (cats in Egypt), pg. 48 (Pyramids of Gizeh), pg. 49 (how to draw like an Egyptian)
Story of Albert Schweitzer Daniel, Anita
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Steptoe, John
One Small Square: African Savanna  Silver, Donald
It Takes A Village  Cowen-Fletcher, Jane
Kai: A Mission for Her Village, Africa 1440 (Girlhood
Journeys)  by Dawn Thomas (RL3-5)
At Her Majesty's RequestAn African Princess in Victorian
England by Walter D. Myers (RL5-8)
The Butterfly Lion--Michael Morpurgo (RL3-6)
Song of Be by Lesley Beake (YA)
3 Brothers and 3 Sisters by Reba Mirsky Poeff
FILM: Born Free
FILM: The Gods Must be Crazy
FILM: The Gods Must Be Crazy II
FILM: Snow of Kilimanjaro
FILM: African Queen
FILM: King of the Wind
FILM: Living Free
FILM: Gorillas in the Mist
FILM: Out of Africa
FILM: To Walk with Lions
FILM: LIon King
MENU:
   Moroccan Chicken and Lentils
WEEK 32 Africa - West
Reader: Queen Nzingha-Warrior Princess of Matamba by-Patricia McKissack  )Royal Diary)
RA: Baboon King by Anton Quintana
MW: pg.28-35
CG: 168-192
DK Geography - 220-231
Children Just Like Me: 34-45
Trail Guide to World Geo - W. Africa week 15
Geo Thru Art pg. 51 (sculpture), pg. 43 (coffin art), pg. 47 (masks), pg. 46 (golden staff)
WEEK 33 Africa - Central
Reader: Song of Be by Lesley Beake
RA: Thunder Cave by Roland Smith
CG: 193-225
DK Geography: 232-245
Trail Guide to World Geo: Central Africa week 16
BG: Oya
Geo Thru Art pg. 55 (Mt. Kilimonjaro), pg. 43 (butterfly art)
One Small Square: African Savanna Silver, Donald