Ancients History Schedule ~ Book List

Here is the link to a pdf of many of the books listed in this post.
(I haven't included the titles of the books to go in our book baskets.)
Any books that we add as we go along I'll create a link over, titles we dropped are crossed out.

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Ancients History Book List for 2013
Family Reading
Family Reading: History & Geography - Spines
Starting in week 1: KJV Bible
1: Biblioplan Ancient Companion Text
2: The Book of the Ancient World ~ Dorothy Mills
18: The Greeks – Burrell
27: The Romans – Burrell
32: The Invaders ~ Burrell

Family Reading: Other Non fiction
1: Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends ~ the Malleys (select portions only)
4: Our Young Folks Josephus (select portions only)
12: The Fallacy Detective ~ Bluedorn

Family Reading: Literature
1: Legends of Long Ago (Stories by Padric Colum)
2: Crowns of Fire ~ Michelle Morrow
2: Ice Age books (Life in the Great Ice Age ~ Oard, Adventures in the Ice Age ~ Bailey)
2: The Golden Goblet ~ SL G (audio book)
5: House of Love ~ Elizabeth Cheney
6: Remembering God's Awesome Acts: The Epic of Gilgamesh pg 66-68
7: Death Comes As the End (Egypt around 2000BC) ~ Christie (audio book)
8: The Pillar of Fire - J.H. Ingraham
10: Hittite Warrior ~ SL G
10: The Cat of the Bubastes ~ Henty (audio book)
12: Homesick ~ Jean Fritz (China tie-in) ~ SL F dropped read book below as family read aloud instead
12: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon ~ Lin (mum to read to S)
13: Mary Slessor ~ Benge (Africa tie-in) (switched to a reader)
14: Michael O'Halloran ~ Gene Stratton Porter (delayed)
18: God King
18: Famous Men of Greece
18: Aesop’s Fables ~ Sheila Carroll (select portions only)
19: Black Ships Before Troy ~ Sutcliff (audio book)
20: Homeless Bird ~ Whelan   OR    Keeping Corner ~ Sheth
21: Cyrus the Persian ~ Sherman A. Nagel (switched to Bobs as a reader)
22: Wanderings of Odysseus ~ Sutcliff (audio book)
23: Within the Palace Gates : The Kings Cupbearer ~ Siviter
23: D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths (some of) ~ (audio book)
26: Daughter of the Mountains ~ Rankin (silk route tie-in – mum to read to S) ~ SL F
27: Famous Men of Rome (audio & book)
27: The Invaders ~ Burrell
28: Stories From Shakespeare ~ retold by Marchette Chute - Julius Caesar pg 145-150
28: The Young Carthaginian ~ Henty (audio book)
29: restart at Ch:14 pg282 Our Young Folks' Josephus (read until completed)
29: Ancients Ocean Blue ~ (audio book)
insert- Quo Vadis ~ Sienkiewicz
30: The Prince of the House of David ~Ingraham
30: The Luke Reports ~ Focus on the Family (audio)
32: Beric the Briton ~ Henty (audio book)
32: The Eagle of the Ninth ~ Sutcliffe (audio book, for S)
33: Looking for the King ~ Downing
34: For the Temple ~ Henty (audio book)
35: Polycarp: The Crown of Fire ~ Newsome

Bobs' Books
Bobs: History Spines
1: Victor Journey Through the Bible
1: Glencoe World History
1: Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
1: The Story of Mankind

Bobs: Non fiction
5: Exploring Planet Earth ~ John Tiner
8: Do Hard Things ~ Harris
11: Created for Work ~ Bob Schultz
26: Silk Worms ~ Johnson
26: The Silk Route ~ Major
26: Confucius & Ancient China ~ Rowland-Entwistle (BC 551-479)
28: Flick through read: A Roman Centurion ~ Wood
29: Flick through read: Julius Caesar & the Romans ~ May
30: The World of the Roman Emperor ~ Chrisp

Bobs: Ancient Lit Studies (with mum)
Invitation to the Classics ~ Cowan      and listening to, or reading, select works
which may be abridged/edited! versions. (updating as we go along)
The King James Bible: The Old Testament (entire Old Testament, lit/hist/ study)
 The Epic of Gilgamesh  (abridged & selections)
The Iliad (abridged)
The Odyssey
The Aeneid (abridged & audio)
Julius Caesar ~ Shakespeare (not in Invitation to the Classics)

Bobs: Literature
1: The Waterstone ~ Rupp or The Book of the King ~ Jenkins The Island of Sheep ~ Buchan  or The Enemy Below ~ Rayner
3: The White Stag~ Seredy
5: Gifted Hands ~ Carson
6: Gilgamesh Triology
8: Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt
12: William Carey ~ Benge (India tie-in)
12: Tales of the Dead, Ancient China
13: J.R.R Tolkien (choose 1 as a delight led read)
15: The Well of Sacrifice (Aztecs. Americas tie-in)
18: The Way of Danger ~ Serraillier
19: Tales of the Dead: Ancient Greece (rivalry at the Olympic Games)
19: In Search of Troy ~ Ventura & Ceserani
20: Boys with No Names ~ Sheth
22: The Lion in the Gateway: Story of the Persian Wars (easy reading)
23: Theras & His Town ~ Snedeker
24: Jason and the Golden Fleece ~ Riordan (read and discuss)
25: Archimedes and the Door of Science ~ Bendick
27: Warrior Scarlet ~ Sutcliff (900 years before Christ)
28: Classics Illustrated: Julius Caesar
insert- Quo Vadis ~ Sienkiewicz
29: Detectives in Togas ~ Winterfeld (switched to a reader for Daisy)
30: The Bronze Bow ~ Speare (switched to family read aloud)
33: The Mystery of the Periodic Table ~ Wiker (chemistry start tie-in)
35: Summer of the Monkeys ~ Rawls
35: Galen: Greatest Doctor of the Roman Empire ~ Bendick

Daisy's Books
Daisy: History Spines
1: Usborne Internet Link History Encyclopedia
2: Mystery of History Vol 1 (select portions only)
3: The Ancient World: A History of Fashion & Costume ~ Bingham
6: Story of the World Vol 1 (audio – select portions only)

Daisy: Non fiction
1: What the Bible is All About: For Young Explorers
2: The True Story of Noah's Ark
2: Around the World in 80 Days ~ SL F (audio book)
9: Hatshepsut
11: The Body Book ~ Nancy Rue dropped
26: Silk Worms ~ Johnson
26: The Silk Route ~ Major
26: Confucius & Ancient China ~ Rowland-Entwistle (BC 551-479)
28: Flick through read: A Roman Centurion ~ Wood
29: Flick through read: Julius Caesar & the Romans ~ May
30: The World of the Roman Emperor ~ Chrisp
32: A Celtic Farmer ~ Caselli

Daisy: Literature
1: Magicians Nephew
3: Hand of the King ~ Morgan (OOP)
5: The Story Book of Science ~ Jean H Fabre
6: Gilgamesh Triology
8: Miriam ~ Gormley
8: Adventures in Ancient Egypt ~ Bailey
10: Tirzah ~ Travis
12: The Dragon of Lonely Island ~ Rupp (China etc)
12: Tales of the Dead, Ancient China
16: Adara (surrounds the healing of Naaman)
19: Tales of the Dead: Ancient Greece (rivalry at the Olympic Games)
19: In Search of Troy – Caselli
20: Mooltiki: & Other Stories & Poems of India ~ Godden
23: Theras & His Town ~ Snedeker
24: Jason & the Argonauts ~ Osborne dropped
27: Roman Mysteries ~ Lawrence (audio series)
28: A Triumph for Flavius ~ Snedeker
28: Classics Illustrated: Julius Caesar
29: Cleopatra ~ Stanly
30: The Vinegar Boy ~ Hawse
30: Sparrow Alone ~ Petersen (mum to read to Daisy)
33: Twice Freed (Onesimus) ~ St. John
35: Galen: Greatest Doctor of the Roman Empire ~ Bendick
35: Book basket choice