Middle Ages History in 2014 ~ Highschool List

The list of books for Jays high school levelled Middle Ages study.

Spines, Guides, Reference: 

1: The History of the Medieval World ~ Bauer (Discussion)
1: Bilioplan 2's Companion Text  (he likes it!)

2: This Sceptred Island  (55BC – 1660) audio dropped
10: (Start) Classics of British Literature ~ Sutherland (The Great Courses.  audio)
26: The History of the Renaissance World ~ Bauer (Discussion) 
Online Courses

All/anyone

Non – fiction (mostly) Scheduled  (Bobs portion)
3: Audio: Augustine's Conversion ~ Mclean

3: How the Irish Saved Civilization ~ Cahill  (selections)

5: The Arabs of the Golden Age ~ Moktefi (SLF)   Flick through read only

16: Da Gama ~ Doak    (1500's India's "Discovery")

16: Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road ~ Galloway (N/F) (selections)

18A: The Story of New Zealand ~ Basset/Sinclair/Stenson

19: The Mongols ~ Nicholson SLF

23: El Cid Champion of Spain ~ Matthews (N/F reference. selections)

 

Family

Read Alouds/Audios (Bobs portion) 

2B: Idylls of the King ~ Tennyson (audio)

9: 1066: History in an Hour ~ K. Jones (car time audio)

15: Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo (opt)  (1482 AD)

27: Luther in His Own Words ~ Martin Luther

30: Famous Men of the 16th & 17th Century ~ Shearer                                      

Family Read Aloud

Optional Book Basket Choices (Bobs portion)
The Trumpeter of Krakow ~ Kelly SL 200 (1241 AD)  (he really enjoyed this book!!)

The Great Courses: C.S Lewis Study (audio) & select works of Lewis

C.S Lewis at War: The Dramatic Story Behind Mere Christianity (FOTF Radio Theatre)
14:  Girl in a Cage ~ Yolen    Robert the Bruce (Scotland) (1380AD)

16:  There's a Sheep in my Bathtub (... Mongolian Church Planting Movement) ~ Hogan (SL300)

Literature  Books & Audios (scheduled) 

2: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ~ Twain (opt)

5: Tales for the Arabian Nights ~ edited by Lang

9: Discovery Mag #14 William the Conq, Battle of Hastings

9: The Gauntlet ~ Welch (opt)

12: Saladin: The Muslin Who Defended His People~ Macdonald

12: The Magna Charta ~ Daugherty

13: Robin Hood ~ J.C. Holt (selections)

15: Dante Aligihieri: The Divine Comedy  ~ Longfellow (inferno selections)      

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0045U9RDC 

http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/The-Divine-Comedy-Audiobook/B002V1BVH2  (audio tie in)

18A: Favourite Maori Legends ~ A.W. Reed

19: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World ~ Weatherford N/F  (favourite listen!)

21:  (African Missionary) choose 1 biography

24: The Kings Fifth ~ O'Dell  (1541) (audio opt)

25: Ferdinand Magellan ~ Brewster (ex.SL really easy reading)

27: Martin Luther’s “Here I Stand”  (Narrator Max McLean)

Book Basket (scheduled) 

** Includes a highschool, Medieval Literature, study (detailed at the end of this post)

2: Thirty Days Has September ~ Chris Stevens

2: The Hound of Ulster ~ Sutcliff (opt)

6: The White Stage ~ Seredy (AD 408) (already read so dropped)

7: Great Battles ~ Jorgensen: Tours/Poitiers AD732 p. 59-65 (optional)

8: Viking's Dawn ~ Treece (opt)

9: Hero Myths & Legends of Britain & Ireland ~ Ebbutt: Hereward the Wake

10: A Proud Taste for Scarlet & Miniver ~ Koningsberg (opt) discuss before reading, content issues!

10: Cadfael titles by Ellis Peters (audio)  We ended up going with the BBC dramatized options :)

14: The Story of Joan of Arc ~ Twain (audio) (opt)

27: Reformation & Society in 16th Century Europe ~ Dickens (selections) refer to during  wks 27-29

(Personal Growth books still to be decided)

Book Basket (Optional)
The Crest of the Dragon ~ Leonard, 

or, The Gauntlet ~ Welch

The Hawk & The Dove ~ Wilcock SL200 (1300'sAD)

Made You Look : How Advertising Works… ~ Graydon (SL200) 
2: Tales from King Arthur

9: Wulf the Saxon ~ Henty (Repeat listen. Dropped)

14: (1415AD) Ring Out Bow Bells! ~ Harnett

17: The Samurai's Tale ~ Haugaard SLG (opt)

20: St George for England ~ Henty (opt),

20: or, The Seas of Morning ~ Trease

25: Cortez, Conqueror of Mexico ~ Syme (opt)

28: Leonardo’s Notebooks https://archive.org/details/noteboo00leon

34: Cue for Treason ~Trease

Masterman Ready ~ Marryat set in the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) and will be a summer read sometime

Mr. Midshipman East ~ Marryat   set in the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) and will be a summer read sometime 

The Westing Game ~ Raskin (SLG R/A)

Here Lies the Librarian ~ Peck

LIBRARY LOAN

Great Tales from English History ~ Lacey   942 LAC

The Year 1000 ~ Lacey  942.01 Lac  (audio option)

The Knights Templar  ~ Hodge   271.7913 Hod

The Times: Kings & Queens of the British Isles ~ Cussans   941 Tim

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Medieval Literature Study 400 - c.1600AD 
Guides 
A:  The Greeleaf Guide to Medieval British Literature ~ Shearer

B:  Level 3, English AME Workbook (selections)

C:  Invitation to the Classics ~ Cowan & Guinness (ITTC)

D:  Stories from Shakespeare ~ Marchette Chute (selections) (n/f)

Online Guides:

E:  Pink Monkey

F:  Spark Notes

G:  Glencoe Literature

The 8 items in bold, listed beneath, are the medieval literature selections Bobs will be studying in depth this year, alongside our Middle Ages/Renaissance History study:
Selection:

3: Augustine  (selections)  (c. 411)      audio/guide   (ITTC pg 81-84. pg 84 Issues to explore)

1: Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (AD 731) GGuide

6: The Song of Roland (selections) ~ Translated by Dorothy L. Sayers (AD 778)

2: King Arthur (c 500 + AD)        (various)

3: Beowulf (c. 1000)      translated by Seamus, illustrated edition  GGuide

9: 1066: The Year of Conquest     audio (modern times work, about 1066)

8: Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1400)     audio/book  GGuide

11: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (selections)(c. 1400) GGuide

27: Writings of Luther (selections) Martin Luther  (c. 1520) audio/book/guide

(weeks 16, 21, 27, 32: Shakespeare (c. 1600’s)   4 plays (GGuide: Hamlet)  )
Plays:
14: Saint Joan ~ George Bernard Shaw (audio production)

B: Shakespeare Unit:

16a: Level 3, English AME Workbook (selections)

16: Stories from Shakespeare ~ Marchette Chute (selections) (n/f)

16: Shakespeare Stories ~ audios (for Daisy)

16-20: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1600) BBC production/guide

16-20: The Tempest (1623)  BBC production/guide

21: Hamlet (Greenleaf Guide, Lessons 15-19) Hamlet (1603) (BBC Production)
Hamlet audio  & whispersync kindle option

27: Henry VIII (1623)     BBC production/guide

32: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead ~ Tom Stoppard (GGuide Lesson’s 21-23) ** we chose to edit out the portions that used God's name in vain here - and used the 'gods' instead.  Our play study, our choice :)   Jay enjoyed this play so much, he read through it at least twice.

Poetry:

4: Treasury of English Verse: New & Old  (selections) ~ University Tutorial Press