Here's my really big list for our Middle Ages history study. I've pulled these books from Elizabeth Foss at Serendipity, Story of the World Vol. II, History Odyssey, and Reading Your Way Through History. I've tailored it to my Little Girls in grades first and third, as well as, my Big Kids in grades six and eight. Since we just finished trotting around the globe, learning about many different countries and their histories, I focused our study this year on the European Middle Ages. If a chapter is listed without any further reading, then we will listen to the chapter from Story of the World but not explore it any further. My hope is to present our learning on the blog again in little units as move through time. This worked very well last year and helped to keep me accountable. It will also be a great resource for when we return to the glorious Middle Ages! This list is my jumping off point, but I will list all the books that we actually used and any highlights in the unit reports.
I can let you know, since we are already well into our studies, that there are some great stories here and very fun projects to be accomplished by all age levels. Our year is off to a great start!
One more item: I have cross referenced the Story of the World II with History Odyssey Middle Ages Level One. That is why you see all the conflicting chapter information. If I really get my act together, my plan is to cross reference STOW, HO, Children's History of the World, All Ye Lands, The Old World and America, and The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. Wouldn't that be a sight to behold! Don't hold your breath on that one. :-)
Okay, here it is, straight form my word doc. I have not polished it for perfection as it would never be published if I tried to do that. Also, there are few authors listed, so please feel free to email me if you have any questions. Enjoy.
Little Girls
I can let you know, since we are already well into our studies, that there are some great stories here and very fun projects to be accomplished by all age levels. Our year is off to a great start!
One more item: I have cross referenced the Story of the World II with History Odyssey Middle Ages Level One. That is why you see all the conflicting chapter information. If I really get my act together, my plan is to cross reference STOW, HO, Children's History of the World, All Ye Lands, The Old World and America, and The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. Wouldn't that be a sight to behold! Don't hold your breath on that one. :-)
Okay, here it is, straight form my word doc. I have not polished it for perfection as it would never be published if I tried to do that. Also, there are few authors listed, so please feel free to email me if you have any questions. Enjoy.
Little Girls
Big Kids
All
L = Library
B = to be Bought
H = Have
HO = History Odyssey
H- The Old World and America
H- Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
H- Story of the World II
H- A Child’s History of the World
H- Story of the Middle Ages (audio)
Ch. 1 The Glory that was Rome (Ch.1 HO)
1 week
H- Aesop’s Fables
L- Roman News
Ch. 2 The Early Days of Britain (Celts)
(Ch. 20 HO)
2 weeks
H- St. Patrick (395 -461 AD)
H- Brendan the Navigator
H- Tim O’Toole and the Wee folk
H- Favorite Medieval Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
Beowulf (500’s
AD) Stories of Beowulf Told to Children (audio)
H- Flame over Tara (St. Patrick, 432)
H- Beowulf the Warrior
H- Between the Forest and the Hills
Ch. 3 Christianity Comes to Britain (Ch.
4 HO)
2-3 weeks
H- The Holy Twins (480 – 547 AD)
H- Pascual and the Kitchen Angels
H- Brother Bartholomew and the Apple Grove
H- Across a Dark and Wild Sea
H- Marguerite Makes a Book
L- The Man who Loved Books by Jean Fritz
L- The Church: Life in the Middle Ages by Kathryn Hinds
L- Calligraphy, Illuminations (look at library)
H- Augustine Came to Kent (605 ad)
H- St. Benedict: Father of Western Monks
A Medieval Alphabet to Illuminate (Coloring Book) find pages online
Ch. 4 The Byzantines (Ch. 2 HO)
1 week
H- Saint Nicholas: The Miracle of St. Nicholas
*B- The Legend of St. Nicholas by Demi
L- Byzantine Fashions (look
at library)
How the
Monastery Came to be on Top of the Mountain ($$$)
Ch. 5 The Medieval Indian Empire
Ch. 6 The Rise of Islam (Ch. 5 HO)
1 week
H- Mosque by David Macaulay
H- World Religions by Usborne
Ch. 7 Islam Becomes an Empire (Ch. 6 HO)
1 week
H- Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian Night Stories
H- The Arabs in the Golden Age
L- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
H- The Beduin’s Gazelle (1302)
Ch. 8 The Great Dynasties of China
Ch. 9 East of China
H- Little Pear (Japan) for fun
Ch. 10 The Bottom of the World
Ch. 11 The Kingdom of the Franks (Clovis)
(Ch. 3 HO)
2-3 weeks
L- The Duke and the Peasant: Life in the Middle Ages by
Sister Wendy
Arthurian Legend Unit
Stories of King Arthur’s Knights Told to Children (audio)
Favorite Medieval Tales (The Song of Roland)
·
Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
H- King Arthur and His Knights
(audio) Weiss
H- Merlin and the Making of a King by Hodges
*B- The Kitchen Knight by Hodges
H- Arthur of Albion
H- Otto of the Silver Hand
H- Black Horses for the King (5th Britain)
H- The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
(Break for Christmas)
Ch. 12 The Islamic Invasion
L- Three Golden Oranges by Alma Flor Ada
Ch. 13 The Great Kings of France
(Charlemagne) (Ch. 3 HO)
1 week
L- The Marvelous Blue Mouse
L- His Majesty’s Elephant
H- Son of Charlemagne (768 – 814 AD)
Ch. 14 The Arrival of the Norsemen (Ch. 7
HO)
2 weeks
H- Who were the Vikings?
H- Leif the Lucky (1000 AD)
H- The Vikings – Landmark Book
H- What Life was Like When Longships Sailed
H- Beorn the Proud (800’s AD)
L- Sword Song
H- The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (1000 AD)
Ch. 15 The First Kings of England (Ch. 8
& 10 HO)
1 week
H- CHOTW Ch. 56 Bibles Made of Stone and Glass
H- Cathedral by David Macaulay
H- Cathedral Stained Glass Coloring Book
H- Who in the World was the Unready King?
H- Art of the Middle Ages
H- The Little Duke
Ch. 16 England After the Conquest
(Language, Feudal System, Castles) (Ch. 12 & 14 HO)
(William the Conqueror, 1066 AD)
2 weeks
H- Living in Castle Times
H- A Medieval Feast
H- Castle Diary
H- The Whipping Boy
H- Castle by David Macaulay
H- The Secret World of Hildegard
H- Understanding People in the Middle Ages
H- If ALL the Swords in England: A Story of Thomas Becket
(1170 AD)
L- A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (King Henry II)
H- The Hidden Treasure of Glaston (1171 AD)
Ch. 17 Knights and Samurai (Ch. 13 HO)
2-3 weeks
H- The Sword in the Tree
L- Knights in Shining Armor by Gibbons
L- Good Knight, Good Knight
L- The Bravest Knight
L- The Making of a Knight: How Sir Earned his Armor
L- Bearskin
H- Barefoot Book of Knights
H- St. George and the Dragon
H- Knights Treasure Chest
B- The Red Keep
B- The Samurai’s Tale (16th Century, Japan)
Ch. 18 The Age of the Crusades (Ch. 18
& 26 HO)
2 weeks
L- Chanticleer and the Fox
H- Saint Francis (1181 – 1226 AD)
H- The Minstrel in the Tower
B- Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by M. Williams
L- Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam
B- Canterbury Tales by Cohen
L- El Cid by McCaughrean
B- Francis and Clare: Sts. Of Assisi
H- Big John’s Secret
Ch. 19 A New Kind of King (Ch. 19 HO)
2 weeks
B or L- Dick Wittington and His Cat
B- Favorite Medieval Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
B- The Adventure of Robin Hood and His Merry Outlaws by
McSpadden
(1167 – 1216 AD)
H- The Apple and The Arrow (1290 AD)
H- The Three Musketeers and Robin Hood (audio)
B- St. Elizabeth’s Three Crowns
H- St. Thomas Aquinas
B or L- 1215: The Year of the Magna Carta
B or L- The Magna Charta by Daugherty
(Break for Easter)
Ch. 20 The Diaspora (Ch. 16 HO)
Ch. 21 The Mongols Devastate the East
Ch. 22 Exploring the Mysterious East (Marco
Polo)
Ch. 23 The First Russians (Ch. 25 HO)
Ch. 24 The Ottoman Empire (Ch. 36 OH)
H- The Great and Terrible Quest (Late Middle Ages)
?- The Siege of
Constantinople by McNeese
Ch. 25 The End of the World (Plague)
1 week
H- The Door in the Wall (audio)
H- The Duchess Bakes a Cakes
L- Master Cornhill (1665, Black Plague)
?- The Black
Death by Hahn (search for bubonic plague books at library)
Ch. 26 France & England at War (100 yrs War) (Ch. 11 OH)
1 week
B- Joan of Arc: The Lily Maid by Hodges (1412 – 1431 AD)
H- Joan of Arc by Poole
H- Trumpeter of Krakow (1461 AD)
B- St. Joan (Vision Book)
Ch. 27 War for the English Throne (War of
the Roses)
(Ch. 22 HO)
1 week
L- The Apprentice (Florence) by Llorente
H- Adam of the Road
L- Catherine Called Birdy (13th)
Ch. 28 The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal
2 weeks
L- Three Swords for Granada
L- The White Stallion of
Lipizza (Spain, Renaissance)
L- Isabel, Jewel of Castilla Spain, 1466
L- I, Juan de Pareja (1660, Velazquez, Spain) (audio
cd)
L- Shadow of the Bull (Spain LIT) (audio cd)
H- Nacar the White Deer
Ch. 29 African Kingdoms
Ch. 30 India Under the Moghuls
Ch. 31 Exploring New Worlds - ?May skip
H- Columbus by D’Aulaire
L- The World in 1492 by Jean Fritz
H- Brendan the Navigator (486 – 578 AD)
Ch. 32 The American Kingdoms (Ch. 35 HO)
Ch. 33 Spain, Portugal, and the New World
Ch. 34 Martin Luther’s New Ideas (Ch. 40
HO)
Do ch. 34 & 36 together, 2 weeks
L- A Medieval Cathedral by MacDonald
H- The Old World and America
H- Mary Bloody Mary
?- Luther, The Rest of the Story (audio, St Joseph Press)
Ch. 36 Reformation & Counter
Reformation, 1560
(Ch. 37 HO)
B- St. Thomas More (Vision Book)
Ch. 35 The Renaissance (Ch. 37 HO)
Do ch. 35 & 37 together, 2-3 weeks
H- Who in the World was the Secretive Printer?
H- Michelangelo
H- Da Vinci
H- Da Vinci Art Book
H- Rembrandt
H- The Story of Painting by Sister Wendy
H- Great Artists
L- The Second Mrs. Giaconda (Leonardo de Vinci, 16th
C)
H- Leonardo Da Vinci- Landmark Book
Ch. 37 The New Universe
**Look for
Catholic resources on Copernicus and Galileo
H- Galileo and the Stargazers (audio)
Ch. 38 England’s Greatest Queen
(Elizabeth I) (Ch. 41 HO)
1 week
H- The Public and Private Worlds of Elizabeth I
H- Mary Bloody Mary
Vision book entitled Edmund Campion - Hero of God's
Underground by Harold C. Gardiner to gain a Catholic perspective of the
Catholic persecution during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Ch. 39 England’s Greatest Playwright
L- The Shakespeare Stealer (1601)
Ch. 40 New Ventures to the Americas
Ch. 41 Explorations in the North
Ch. 42 Empires Collide
