TaraP Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Can anyone recommend any of The Great Courses to use with Medieval History? Thanks to the recommendations here for Ancient History we found a fantastic course that for the first time got my high schooler to engage with history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmichigan Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 We are using The Foundations of Western Civilization I and II, since they are already aligned to TOG Y2 History R. My D students are using The Teaching Company World History and Early American History for the same time period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 My kids and I loved the three medieval courses by Philip Daileader. Titled Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages... I am pretty sure. My son went on to listen to his course on the Crusades. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 We loved the 3 course series with Philip Daileader: Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. He is very engaging and fun to listen to. He also has a course on the Crusades, which we liked slightly less... it was probably just too much about one topic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) On 8/9/2015 at 1:52 PM, regentrude said: Edited September 5, 2023 by SilverMoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad S Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 I'm putting together materials for "middle ages and as far as we can get" next year and stumbled across the Daileader "Early Middle Ages" Great Course (approx AD 300-1000), which is at our library and which I'm finding to be terrific. I was happy to see that he has the two following courses (1000-1300 and 1300-1500) and that they've been "high schooler tested and approved" by WTM families. :laugh: We'll also use the GC "History of the English Language" which we also find to be excellent, although it crosses time periods. For our accompanying literature of the time period, we'll be roughly using the Norton Anthology of World Literature, shorter version, which has a nice global focus. My questions are: Has anyone found good complementary material for covering more of the globe from the years 300-1800, not necessarily Great Courses; and Does anyone have some good writing prompts for history (or literature) for that time period that don't require extensive reading outside the course materials? Thanks!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbridgeacademy Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 (edited) The Daileader series is great, I also liked the one by Dorsey Armstrong and listened to a good portion of the Jennifer Paxton one even though I have trouble with just audio courses. Edited April 23, 2016 by foxbridgeacademy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 I like both Daileader and Dorsey Armstrong. For my dd, who doesn't love history, I think Armstrong will be better. Not quite as in-depth, lots of high interest/daily life stuff, and she covers some lit as well. The last ~12 lectures of The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World cover the Medieval period. We have only listened to the first few lectures so far, but we like them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 (edited) We loved Phillip Daileader's three course series on the Middle Ages ETA: oops, sorry, didn't realize this was a zombie thread in which I had already replied... last year Edited April 23, 2016 by regentrude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad S Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 (edited) Sorry, regentrude, to have you reply twice...not sure what's more efficient on the boards, but since this thread already seemed to answer part of my question (that the courses don't sound just good to me but work for a high school student too), I thought I'd just try to get ideas on complementary materials for Daileader's lectures. ETA: Thanks, Rose (in the post below). I started a new thread here. (I updated this post rather than replying so as not to resurrect the thread again.) Edited April 27, 2016 by Brad S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Ahh, I see. Brad, I definitely start a new thread to ask about your complementary sources and writing prompt questions. I know that I referred back to the OP in my response and didn't catch that you were adding new questions. You'll probably get more responses on a new thread, and I'll be listening in! :D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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