Apple Bean Tripod School Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I am looking for suggestions for novels that take place during: The Norman Conquest (I'm trying to get my hands on an affordable used copy of The Shield Ring by Sutcliff, but it's evading me.) The Hundred Years' War The War of the Roses Viking Age (would like one about the daily lives of the Vikings, not the raiding side, if possible. I was considering Raven Speak, but it seems heavily horse-themed and we are already reading a lot of horse-centered books, including I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by the same author to cover Mongolia. We will also be doing Norse mythology, but again, that's more of the hero tales, fighting, raiding, etc.) Aztec/Maya (I am considering ​The Well of Sacrifice but I'm not sold on it yet) The People of the Pacific in the Middle Ages North Africa in the Middle Ages Something about Russia in the Middle Ages The Byzantine Empire The Ottoman Empire I'm awash in books that take place in England :) Also, and very important, we are a secular family. I totally understand that books about this era may be about religion, but I am not interested in Christian worldview/morals/themes, etc. My rising 6th grader is a gifted reader, but since she will be reading a book a week, I'm looking for something under or around 200-250 pages. She gets overwhelmed easily and this will be our first year of classical education, so she will have a lot on her plate already :) TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Here are a few we'll be using (or did use): The Dancing Bear - Peter Dickinson - late Roman empire, during the barbarian attacks/mostly eastern empire The Golden Dream of Carlo Cuchio - Lloyd Alexander - middle east Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - China Call it Courage - Polynesian/Maori The Samurai's Daughter The Saracen Maid Beautiful Warrior The Adventures of Marco Polo Travelling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta The Seven Wise Princesses The Iron Ring - Lloyd Alexander (India) The Apprentice The Castle Corona Secrets of the Andes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinivanMom Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Some that we used: Children of Odin The Sword and the Circle Anna of Byzantium Thousand and One Arabian Nights (McCaughrean) Son of Charlemagne The Canterbury Tales (McCaughrean) A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver I Rode a Horse of Milkwhite Jade Sita's Ramayana The Ch'i-lin Purse Twenty Jataka Tales Outlaws of Sherwood Adam of the Road The Ramsay Scallop The Trumpeter of Krakow 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirstenhill Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Have you seen this site?: http://www.guesthollow.com/homeschool/history/awesomehistory/awesome_history.html I thought it was helpful in making my Middle Ages list. I also used this list: http://www.classicalhouseoflearning.com/logic-stage-literature.html#MiddleAges Sorry, I am not sure off the top of my head which ones fall into the categories you are looking for, but I think you might find some things on one or both of those sites. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Here's the mega list of resources that my daughter used when she was in 8th grade (quite some moons ago). Since she'd only begun homeschooling in 7th grade, she was on the second year of a three year sweep through world history and was studying the time period AD500 to AD 1700. The list includes books, videos and music. She was/is a speedy reader so she read many more books than others might. Asterisked entries were used only in part. Eighth Grade History Reading and Resource List Dorling Kindersley History of the World edited by Plantagenet Somerset Fry ** The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon ** The Story of Mankind: A Picturesque Tale of Progress by Olive Beaupre Miller ** The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart The Man Who Loved Books by Jean Fritz Across a Dark and Wild Sea by Don Brown The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White Brendan the Navigator by Jean Fritz The Illustrated History of the World, Vol. 3, Rome and the Classical West by J. M. Roberts ** The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley – audio (Vol. 1) The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin ** Then and Now by Stefania and Dominic Perring ** I am Mordred by Nancy Springer The Illustrated History of the World, Vol. 4, The Age of Diverging Traditions by J. M. Roberts ** Tusk and Stone by Malcolm Bosse Muhammad by Demi The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff The Real Middle Earth by Brian Bates ** The Middle Ages by Mike Corbishley ** Beowulf the Warrior by Ian Serraillier Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye The Collected Beowulf by Gareth Hinds Maples in the Mist by Minfong Ho Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde by Caroline Arnold The Arabian Nights retold by Neil Philip The Age of Chivalry edited by Merle Severy ** His Majesty’s Elephant by Judith Tarr Charlemagne and the Early Middle Ages by Miriam Greenblatt Prison Window, Jerusalem Blue by Bruce Clements Norse Gods and Giants by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire The Real Vikings by Melvin and Gilda Berger Medieval Knights by Trevor Cairns ** Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way by Joy Hakim ** The Edge on the Sword by Rebecca Tingle Alfred the Great and the Saxons by Robin May The Time Traveler Book of Viking Raiders by Anne Civardi and James Graham-Campbell Blood Feud by Rosemary Sutcliff The Song Dynasty by Scott Ingram Hakon of Rogen’s Saga by Erik Haugaard Early Explorers of North America by C. Keith Wilbur ** The Cartoon History of the Universe III by Larry Gonick Fafnir by Bernard Evslin The King’s Shadow by Elizabeth Alder 1000 Years Ago on Planet Earth by Sneed Collard The Legend of the Cid by Robert Goldston Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield ** Shakespeare and MacBeth: The Story Behind the Play by James Barter Shakespeare’s MacBeth (video) William the Conqueror by Thomas B. Costain Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett A Travel Guide to Medieval Constantinople by James Barter Robin Hood by Neil Philip A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Paul B. Newman ** Brother Cadfael videos: A Morbid Taste for Bones and Monk’s Hood Tales of the Crusades by Olivia Coolidge A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park Saladin by Diane Stanley In a Dark Wood by Michael Cadnum The Story of the Wise Men by Regine Pernoud and Canon Grivot Canticles of Ecstasy (the music of Hildegard von Bingen) by Sequentia The Magna Charta by James H. Daugherty Marvels of Science by Kendall Haven ** The Road to Damietta by Scott O’Dell Eyewitness Medieval Life by Andrew Langley Music of the Gothic Era (The Early Music Consort of London/David Munrow) Brother Sun, Sister Moon (video) (Wertmuller and Zeffirelli) Book of the Lion by Michael Cadnum Angkor: Heart of an Asian Empire by Bruno Dagens ** Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (video, BBC production) Quest for a Maid by Frances Hendry Castle by David Macaulay The Ramsay Scallop by Frances Temple Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed by Priscilla Galloway The King’s Swift Rider by Mollie Hunter Marco Polo: To China and Back by Steven Otfinoski Cathedral by David Macaulay The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer as retold by Geraldine McCaughrean Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (read by Prunella Scales and Martin Starkie)** Dog of the Bondi Castle by Lynn Hall Harold the Herald by Dana Fradon Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 by James Rumford The Inferno of Dante (cantos 1 – 5) translated by Robert Pinsky Beckett (video, 1964) The Lion in Winter (video, 1968) A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman ** The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly The Second Mrs. Giaconda by E. L. Konigsburg Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines by Deborah Prum The Passion of Joan of Arc (video, 1928, Carl Th. Dreyer) 1492: Music from the Age of Discovery by The Waverly Consort The Cargo of the Madalena by Cynthia Harnett 1492: The Year of the New World by Piero Ventura The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Great Painters by Piero Ventura ** Accidental Explorers by Rebecca Stefoff ** Greensleeves: A Collection of English Lute Songs by Julianne Baird and Ronn McFarlane Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer The Sea King: Sir Francis Drake and His Times by Albert Marrin Elizabeth R: The Lion’s Cub (video, BBC production, 1971) Elizabeth (video, 1998, with Cate Blanchett) Den of the White Fox by Lensey Namioka From Coronado to Escalante: The Explorers of the Spanish Southwest by John Miller Morris Cantos 1 – 5 of Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: A retelling of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book 1 by Roy Maynard On the Banks of the Helicon: Early Music of Scotland by the Baltimore Consort The Inquisition (video, The History Channel, 1996) The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes (adapted by Leighton Barret) The World of Captain John Smith by Genevieve Foster ** The World of Lully by the Chicago Baroque Ensemble John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress retold by Gary D. Schmidt I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Dowland: Ayres and Lute Lessons by the Deller Consort Out of Many Waters by Jacqueline Dembar Greene The Trial and Execution of Charles I by Leonard W. Cowie Rembrandt by Ceciel de Bie and Martijn Leenen The Reduced Shakespeare Company (video, Acorn Media, 2003) Witch Child by Celia Rees At the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery: A Tale of Venice and Violins (audio) Girl with a Pearl Earring (video, 2003) Regards, Kareni 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Bean Tripod School Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 Man, I love this place :). You guys are so helpful! Thanks soooooo much! I will spend tomorrow scouring the used book shops :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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