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I couldn't bump this thread, so I'm copying and pasting this post and linking to it.

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/172250-aowtm-schedule/?p=1659079

 

Ambleside Selections in a 4 Year Rotation 

Year 1: Ancients, BC 5000 – 400 AD 

Trial & Triumph by Richard Hannula 
- Polycarp 
- Blandina 
- Constantine 
- Athanasius 
- Ambrose 

Book of your choice for Creation to Abraham 
(ideas: Egermeier’s Bible Story Book, Adam and His Kin) 

On The Shores of the Great Sea by M.B. Synge 
- Entire Book 

The Discovery of New Worlds by M.B. Synge 
- Chapters 1 – 11 

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin 
- The Blind Men and the Elephant 
- Horatius at the Bridge 
- The Brave Three Hundred 
- The Story of Cincinnatus 
- The Sword of Damocles 
- Damon and Pythias 
- A Laconic Answer 
- The Ungrateful Guest 
- Alexander and Bucephalus 
- Diogenes the Wise Man 
- Socrates and His House 
- The Story of Regulus 
- Cornelia’s Jewels 
- Androclus and the Lion 

Literature 
- The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter 
- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 
- Parables From Nature by Margaret Gatty 
- The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang 


Year 2: Medieval/Early Renaissance, 400 - 1600 

Trial & Triumph by Richard Hannula 
- Monica and Augustine 
- Patrick 
- Pope Gregory I 
- Boniface 
- Charlemagne 
- Alfred the Great 
- Anselm 
- Bernard of Clairvaux 
- Peter Waldo and the Waldensians 
- Francis of Assisi 
- Elizabeth of Hungary 
- John Wyclif 
- John Huss 
- Martin Luther 
- William Tyndale 
- John Calvin 
- Anne Askew 
- Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer 
- John Knox 
- Jeanne d’Albret 
- Renee 

Discovery of New Worlds by M.B. Synge 
- Chapters 12 – 50 

The Awakening of Europe by M.B. Synge 
- Chapters 1 – 30 

Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall 
- Chapters 1 – 94 

This Country of Ours by H.E. Marshall 
- Chapters 1 – 28 

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin 
- King Alfred and the Cakes 
- King Alfred and the Beggar 
- King Canute on the Seashore 
- The Sons of William the Conqueror 
- The White Ship 
- The King and His Hawk 
- A Story of Robin Hood 
- King John and the Abbot 
- Three Men of Gotham 
- Other Wise Men of Gotham 
- Bruce and the Spider 
- The Black Douglas 
- The Story of William Tell 
- The Inchcape Rock 
- Whittington and his Cat 
- Arnold Winkelried 
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert 
- Sir Walter Raleigh 
- Sir Philip Sidney 
- The Miller of the Dee 
- The Ungrateful Soldier 

Viking Tales by Jennie Hall 
- Chapters 1 – 11 

Literature 
- Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb 
- Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan 
- Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 
- The Heroes by Charles Kingsley 
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 
- The Children of the New Forest by F Marryat 
- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 

Historical Tales/Biography 
- The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge 
- Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley 
- Bard of Avon by Diane Stanley 
- Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty 

Year 3: Late Renaissance/ Early Modern, 1600 – 1850 

Trial & Triumph by Richard Hannula 

- Gustavus Adolphus 
- Richard Cameron 
- The Two Margarets 
- John Bunyan 
- Jonathon Edwards 
- George Whitefield 
- John Wesley 
- John Newton 
- David Brainerd 
- William Carey 

The Awakening of Europe by M.B. Synge 
- Chapters 31 – 53 

The Struggle for Sea Power by M.B. Synge 
- Chapters 1 – 47 

The Growth of the British Empire 
- Chapters 1 – 12 

Our Island Story 
- Chapters 95 – 98 (George III) 

This Country of Ours 
- Chapters 29 – 91 

George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster 

Abraham Lincoln’s World by Genevieve Foster 


Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin 
- Pocahontas 
- The Kingdoms 
- George Washington and His Hatchet 
- Doctor Goldsmith 
- Antonio Canova 
- Casabianca 
- Mignon 
- How Napoleon Crossed the Alps 
- Picciola 
- Maximilian and the Goose Boy 
- Grace Darling 

Literature 
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dufoe 
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 
- The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford 
- The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle 

History Tales/Biography 
- Poor Richard by James Daugherty 
- Of Courage Undaunted by James Daugherty 

Year 4: Modern Times, 1850 - Present 

Trial & Triumph by Richard Hannula 
- David Lingstone 
- John Paton 
- Hudson Taylor 
- Amy Carmichael 
- Charles Spurgeon 
- Chinese Christians 
- Abraham Kuyper 
- J. Gresham Machen 
- C. S. Lewis 
- Richard Wurmbrand 

The Growth of the British Empire by M.B. Synge 
- Chapters 13 – 43 

Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall 
- Chapters 99-110 

This Country of Ours by H.E. Marshall 
- Chapters 92 – 99 

The Story of the World Volume 4 by Susan Wise Bauer 

Literature 
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling 
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 
- Animal Farm by George Orwell 

History Tales/Biography 
- Carry a Big Stick by George Grant 
- Never Give In by Stephen Mansfield

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Thanks for taking the time to bring this thread back to the living, Hunter. I think I'm finally getting a feel for picking and choosing sources because I have used most of these on our journey so far. I didn't know I was being so AO in my selections!

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If You cannot afford Trial and Triumph, I found these public domain texts and split them up.


 


Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages


by George Hodges


Cyprian, 200-258 


Athanasius, 296-373 


Ambrose, 340-397 


Chrysostom, 347-407 


Jerome, 340-420 


Augustine, 354-430 


 


Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages


by George Hodges


Benedict, 480-543 


Gregory the Great, 540-604 


Columba, 521-597 


Charlemagne, 742-814 


Hildebrand, 1020-1085 


Anselm, 1033-1109 


Bernard, 1091-1153 


Becket, 1118-1170 


Langton, 1170-1221 


Dominic, 1170-1228 


Francis, 1182-1226 


Wycliffe, 1320-1384 


 


Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages


by George Hodges


Luther, 1483-1546 


More, 1478-1535 


Loyola, 1491-1556 


Cranmer, 1489-1556 


Calvin, 1509-1564 


Knox, 1505-1572 


Coligny, 1519-1572 


William the Silent, 1533-1584 


Brewster, 1560-1644 


Laud, 1573-1645 


Cromwell, 1599-1658 


Bunyan, 1628-1688 


Fox, 1624-1691 


Wesley, 1703-1791


 


The Book of Missionary Heroes by Basil Mathews


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