Creation Through 1600's
Ancient History
Middle Ages
Medieval History
Renaissance
If you need a list of some book options to slip into your Sonlight (SL) Core G, broken down by scheduled week, here is a list I am working on. Some times SL will schedule a book that you know won't fit into your lessons, and you want to find a replacement---this list may help. I know my Dd gets tired of so many male main characters, and wants a few female main characters---or perhaps they don't clip with a specific book and really want to drop it. Hope this list may help someone; I know I love book lists like this!!! This is only the "history" books we read with this core, I didn't include literature, bible, or fun books.
Favorite Spine books:
(books that we will be reading off and on through the whole core, or most of the core):
Story of the World: Ancients & Middle Ages, SOTW: Activity Book, SOTW Test Book
Mystery of History: Vol.1: Creation Through Resurrection
Mystery of History: Vol II The Early Church and the Middle Ages by Linda Lacour Hobar
BiblioPlan: Ancients Companion, BP:Ancient Maps,
will be using BP Medieval History Companion & Maps
Invitation to the Classics, A Guide to Books You've Always Wanted to Read
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
History Lives Series by Mindy and Brandon Withrow:
First we read, Peril and Peace, then Monks and Mystics, (Courage and Conviction...Hearts and Hands)
Trial and Truimph by Richard Hannula
The Kingdom Strikes Back by Dr. Ralph Winter
Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
YouTube, history video's
Khan Academy, history video's and information
Memoria Press:
The Book of the Ancient World by Dorothy Mills (Reader, Teacher, and Student books)
Sonlight Book of Time with Homeschool in the Woods, Historical Timeline Figures: Creation To Christ and Resurrection to Revolution
Lesser Used Spine Books:
One Million Things: Ancient History DK PUblishing
Usborne Introduction to Archaeology by Abigail Wheatley
Usborne Encyclopedia of World Hisoty by Jane Bingham
The Usborne Internet-linked Encyclopedia of World History
The Usborne Encyclopedia of the Roman World
The Atlas of Ancient Worlds
Holman Bible Atlas
PB:Picture Book
GN: Graphic Novel
*It needs to be stated that I spent a few weeks doing each week, so there are numerous resources that we used.
Week 1: Two Weeks
The Sumerians by Elaine Landau
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Heroes in Mythology by Jim Weiss
The Kingdom Strikes Back by Dr. Winter and John Holmann
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
DVD:
The History Channel Egypt Collection Box Set, The Daily Life of Ancient Egyptians...
Ancient Egypt Unearthed (2009)
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley (PB)
Khan Academy: Law Code of Hammurabi, The Babylonian Mind....various video's.
Pharaoh and Foot Soldiers by Kristen Butcher
Story of the Nile by Anne Millard
Week 2: spent five weeks on it
The Pharaoh's of Ancient Egypt (Landmark) by Elizabeth Payne
Gilgamesh, The Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
You Wouldn't Want to Be Tutankhamen! by David Stewart
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy! by David Stewart
10 Kings and Queens Who Changed the World by Clive Gifford
Miram by Beatrice Gomley
Tirzah by Travis Lucille
Ancient Egypt by Daniel Cohen
Ancient Wonders by Tim Wood
Ancient Egypt -Eyewitness-by George Hart
Week 3: three weeks on it
DVD: In Search of Myths and Heroes by Michael Wood PBS Home Video
Cleopatra by Adele Geras
Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson
The Usborne Internet-linked Encyclopedia of World History
Khan Academy: Ishtar Gate, Towers of Babel, The Cradle of Civilizations, The Sumerians and Mesopotamia's, Sumerian Art, ....
Week 4: one week on it
Ancient China (Eyewitness Books) 2005
God King
Week 5: one week on it
Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge
Week 6: two weeks on it
Lamps, Scrolls & Goatskin Bottles by Julia Hans
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge
Pyramid by David Macaulay
Week 7: five weeks on it
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Within the Palace Gates by Anna Siviter
Famous Men of Greece by Memoria Press
The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff
Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker
Glaudia, the Greek Slave by Emma Leslie (Lamplighter book)
Youtube: Who Were the Greeks, Episode 1
Percy Jackson's Greek God's by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
DVD: Clash of the Titans (1981)
Graphic Novels:
Hades: Lord of the Dead by George O'Connor
Hera: The Goddess and her Glory by George O'Connor
Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess by George O'Connor
Perseus and Medusa by Blake A. Hoena
Week 8: eight weeks on it
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick
Tools of the Ancient Greeks; a Kids Guide to the History & Science of Life in Ancient Greece by Kris Bordessa
Audio CD: Galileo and the Stargazers by Jim Weiss
Youtube: The Aeneid: The animated short,
Socrates, and the Socratic Method
Archimedes the Greatest Mathematician
DVD: The Greeks; Crucible of Civilization, PBS
Week 9: three weeks on it
Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray
The Art of the Etruscans by Shirley Glubok
Khan Academy has a lot under :"Etruscans"
Alexander the Great (DK) by Peter Chrisp
Alexander the Great (World in the Time of...)by Fiona MacDonald
Khan Academy: Ancient Near East, The Cyrus Cylinder, Ancient Persia, Ancient Rome, Royal Tombs of Ur, Afghanistan: The Ancient Thebes with it's Necropolis, OLMEC mask.., Lasting Legacy of Alexander the Great...
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
DVD: In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great 2010
You Wouldn't Want to Be in Alexander the Great's Army! Jacqueline Morley
Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfield
Tools of the Ancient Romans by Rachel Dickenson
Youtube:
Hoplite Spartan Phalanx: historical real tactics (with historical Greek music in background)
DVD:
PBS Roman City by David Macaulay (very good!!!)
National Geographic, Alexander the Great, the Man Behind the Legend 2004
Week 10: six weeks on it
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator by John Malam
Tools of the Ancient Romans by Rachel Dickinson
Vinegar Boy by Alberta Hawse
Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster
Invitation to the Classics by Louis Cowan
YouTube:
Alexander Sarcophagus by SmartHistory
Hannibal: The Man, The Myth, The Mystery by Goddess Mohamed
Dipylon Amphora by SmartHistory
Ezekiah, Attic Black Figure Amphora
Hannibal Verses Rome by Lupi
Exekia, Dionysus Kylix
Hannibal Barca by Twodeez (Parts 1, 2, and 3) very good!
The Great Conspiracy Against Julius Caesar
The Roman Empire or Republic, or which was it? Crash Course, World History, #10 by Crash Course (we are not huge fans of "Crash Course" episodes...there are some issues with these productions, and should be previewed ahead of time)
Julius Caesar Part 1, 2, 3 by Twodeez
Battle of Actium-Antony vs Octavian-by Great Military Battles
Antony and Cleopatra-Ancient Civilizations by Impineusa
A Glimpse of Teenage Life in Ancient Rome-Ray Laurence-
Ted Ed
The History of the Second Triumvirate by Richard Keogh
History DVD's:
Nat'l Geographic: When Rome Ruled: Disc 2:Doomsday Pompeii & Killing Caesar
National Geographic: When Rome Ruled, Disc Two, Doomsday Pompeii, Killing Caesar
History Classics: Ancient Greece: Gods And Battles: Disc 1: Gods and Goddesses
I, Caesar: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (Kultur) Disc 1: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero
Rome and Pompeii 2002 by Questar
Week 11: two weeks
The Aeneid For Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church
Roman Warriors-Age of Conquerors
Clothes and Crafts in Roman Times
Hostage Lands by Douglas Bond
Youtube: Killer Queens-1-Boudicca Part 1 Xixe Tu with Rory McGrath
Killer Queens-2-Boudicca by Xixe Tu
Week 12: two weeks
Victory On The Walls: Story of Nehemiah-Frieda Clark Hyman
Famous Men of Rome
Adara by Beatrice Gomley
Week 13: seven weeks
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Shaw
The White Stag by Kate Seredy
Ides of April by Mary Ray
Flame Over Tara
Week 14: four weeks
The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff
Peril and Peace-Vol 1-Chronicles of the Ancient Church
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (audio)
Week 15: three weeks
Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye
Youtube:
Polycarp by Randall Niles
Polycarp of Smyrna by Post-Apostolic Church
Beuwulf (1998) TV movie Lupo Canis
Beowulf Characters Part 1 by 60 Second Recap Series
Beowulf Characters Part 2 by 60 Second Recap Series
Beowulf The Plot Part 1 by 60 Second Recap Series
Beowulf The Plot Part 2 by 60 Second Recap Series
Beowulf Summary/Overview by 60 Second Recap Series
Week 16: three weeks
Trial and Triumph by Richard M. Hannula
Drive Through History Vol.3 Bethlehem to Caesarea, Miracles, Messiah, and the Roman Empire
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle (audio)
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
Youtube: Britain AD Episode 1
Mystery of History: Middle Ages: Lessons 17-24
Story of the World: Middle Ages: Ch. 2
Black Horses For the King by Anne McCaffrey
Peril and Peace
Week 17: four weeks
Black Horses for the Kind by Anne McCaffrey
Story of the World: Middle Ages: Ch. 3-5
The Hidden Treasure of Gaston by Eleanor Jewett
BiblioPlan Middle Ages Ch. 3
YouTube: lots of history video's, esp. on the History of the Nicene Creed
DVD: Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine
DVD: Drive Thru History: Holy Lands, Bethlehem to Caesarea, Miracles, Messiah, and the Roman Empire
Week 18: two weeks
Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
Peril and Peace by Mindy and Brandon Withrow
Mystery of History: Middle Ages: lessons 17-24
Weeks 19: one week
BiblioPlan: Middle Ages: Ch. 4
(don't forget we add in BP's Advanced Medieval Maps for each week)
Weeks 20: three weeks
BiblioPlan: Medieval: Ch. 4, 5, 6, 7
Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed
Weeks 21: three weeks
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed
Monks and Mystics
Trial and Triumph
Otto of the Silver Hand
Catherine, Called Birdy
Khan Academy - many history video's, especially on Medieval Book Making, Charlemagne....etc.
The Great and Terrible Quest
The Kingdom Strikes Back
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies, Voices from a Medieval Village
Week 22: One Week
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed
DVD: CASTLE by David Macaulay
DVD: Engineering the Impossible
Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cohen
BiblioPlan: Medieval: Ch. 8: Vikings
YouTube video's on VIKINGS
Week 23: Three Weeks
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed by Priscilla Galloway
The Real Vikings by Melvin and Gilda Berger
The Saga of Erik the Viking
The Second Mrs. Gioconda by E.L. Konigsburg
BiblioPlan Companion (Medieval), Chapter 9
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit (Chapter on Macbeth)
Week 24: One Week
Monks & Mystics: (What were the Crusades, Bernard of Clairvaus) by Mindy Withrow
Trial & Triumph (Peter Waldo & Alfred the Great) by Richard M. Hannula
YouTube: The Crusades-Pilgrimage or Holy War
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Week 25: One Week
Trial & Triumph (Anselm/Bernard Clairvaux/Francis of Assissi) by Richard M. Hannula
Monks & Mystics: Francis Assisi
Macbeth: Movie from library
YouTube: The Siege of Jerusalem
Week 26: Four Weeks
Mystery of History (audio) (lessons 56-69)
The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford (samurai reader)
Monks & Mystics (How the University was Born, Thomas Aquinas, We Called Him the Dumb Ox)
Story of the World, Vol.2, (Chapters 1-10)
Mystery of History (Disc 9 & 10)
Hawksmaid, The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marion by Kathryn Lasky
The Way of the Sword, Young Samurai, book 2, by Chris Bradford
Magna Charta by James Daugherty
Week 27: Four Weeks
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
Saladin by Diane Stanley
The Samurai's Tale by Eric Christian Haugaard
BiblioPlan Companion: Medieval: Ch. 16
Week 28: Two Weeks
continued to finish previous books
Week 29: One Week
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
Week 30: One Week
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Barton De Trevino
Week 31: Two Weeks
Leonardo da Vinci by Emily Hahn
A Glorious Age in Africa by Daniel Chu
Story of the World, Vol. 2, Ch. 33-34
Week 32: Two Weeks
Mystery of History, Vol 2, Lessons 80-84
Ink on His Fingers by Lousie A. Vernon (on Gutenberg)
Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
Famous Men of Renaissance and Reformation (Petrarch, Giotto, Filippo Brunelleshi and Donatello) by Robert G. Shearer
The Monk Who Shook the World by Cyril J. Davey
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
BiblioPlan Companion: Ch. 19, Mongol Empire
Famouse Men of the Renaissance & Reformation by Robert Shearer (Lorenzo Valla)
Monks & Mystics (Thomas Aquinas) by Mindy Withrow
Trial & Triumph by Richard M. Hannula (Francis of Assisi, Elizabeth of Hungary)
Week 33: One Week
Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
Monks & Mystics (John Wyclif) by Mindy Withrow
Week 34-36: Five Weeks
BiblioPlan Companion, Medieval, Ch. 20-26
Mystery of History, Vol III, lessons 1-4: War of the Roses, Cosimo de Medici & Italian Renaissance, Isabella and the Spanish Inquisition, Ivan the Great...
Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World by Gregory Blanch
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (3 VHS tapes)
Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines by Deborah M. Prum
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