History and Religion

Literature

Trimester     One:

Renaissance and Exploration

Teacher Texts

*Europe Finds The World (Cambridge Intro. To the History of the Mankind, Book 5), Trevor Cairns, ed.

*The Old World & America (Unit VIIand following), Philip Furlong

*Story of the World, Vol. 3: Early Modern Times, Susan Wise Bauer

The Discovery of New Worlds, M.B. Synge (2nd half)

Student Text

* Story of the World, Vol. 3: Early Modern Times, Susan Wise Bauer

Supplemental Texts

*Story of the World, Vol. 3: Early Modern Times Activity Guide, Susan Wise Bauer
Evangelization of the New World, James Leek
The Catholic Faith Comes to the Americas, Illeen Reninger

Renaissance (DK Eyewitness)

Giotto (DK Eyewitness)

Raphael (DK Eyewitness)

Michelangelo (DK Eyewitness)

Johannes Gutenberg (DK Eyewitness)

Who was Leonardo da Vinci, Edwards & Kelly 

A Long & Uncertain Journey, Tom McNeely (Vasco da Gama) 

Meet Christopher Columbus, deKay & Edens

Cortez & the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Herzog & Brown 

Pizarro & the Incas, Nicholas Saunders

Ferdinand Magellan, Katherine Bailey

Sir Francis Drake, Hook & Pearson

Literature Related to History

St. Isaac & the Indians, Milton Lomask

St. Rose of Lima, Mary Fabyan Windeatt

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevens

Trimester Two:

Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Teacher Texts

*The Birth of Modern Europe (Cambridge vol. 6), Trevor Cairns, ed.

*The Old World & America (Units XI-XII), Philip Furlong

*Story of the World, Vol. 3: Early Modern Times, Susan Wise Bauer

Student Text

* Story of the World, Vol. 3: Early Modern Times, Susan Wise Bauer

Read Aloud Texts

*St. Ignatius & the Company of Jesus, Derlith & Lawn

Edmund Campion, Hero of God’s Underground, Harold Gardiner

Supplemental Text

*Story of the World, Vol. 3: Early Modern Times Activity Guide, Susan Wise Bauer 

Literature Related to History

Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb

Poetry 

Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Southwell, Edmund Spenser 

St. Francis of the 7 Seas, Albert Nevins;

St. Thomas More of London, Elizabeth Ince

St. Teresa of Avila, Joyful in the Lord, Susan Helen Wallace

St Philip of the Joyous Heart, Francis St. Ignatius Loyola, In God’s Service, Peggy Sklar

Trimester Three:

Empires: Napoleon, British, Ottoman;

World Wars

Teacher Text

*Europe Around the World (Cambridge 9), Trevor Cairns, Ed.

*The Navy That Beat Napoleon, Walter Brownlee

*Story of the World, Vol. 3: Early Modern Times, Susan Wise Bauer

*The Little Book of the War, Eva March Tappan

Student Text

*Story of the World, Vol. 3: Early Modern Times, Susan Wise Bauer

*The Little Book of the War, Eva March Tappan

Supplemental Text

*Story of the World, Vol. 3: Early Modern Times Activity Guide, Susan Wise Bauer

World War I (DK Eyewitness)

World War II (DK Eyewitness)

The Good Fight: How WWII Was Won, Stephen Ambrose 

Literature Related to History

In the Reign of Terror: Adventures of a Westminster Boy, G.A. Henty

Les Miserables, A Stepping Stone Book, Monica Culling, Victor Hugo

By Conduct & Courage, A Story of the Days of Nelson, G.A. Henty

The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

Patriotic Song: A Book of English Verse : Being an Anthology of the Patriotic Poetry of the British Empire from the Defeat of the Spanish Armada Till the Death of Queen Victoria, Arthur Stanley

The Hungry Coat, A Tale from Turkey, Demi

“In Flanders Fields,” Lt. Col. John McCrae

In Flanders Fields, The Story of the Poem, Linda Granfield

Where Poppies Grow, A WWI Companion,

 Linda Granfield

Hero Over Here, Katherine Kudlinski

Number the Stars, Lois Lowry

Service Songs: Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines