Connecting with History Volume Three

Daily Lesson Plans Book List

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CORE BOOKS

BEGINNER Grades K-3

GRAMMAR Grades 4-6

LOGIC Grades 7-9

RHETORIC Grades 10-12

Light to the Nations, Book 1

Catholic Schools Textbook Project series [Grades 8+]

The History of the Church

Complete Edition Didache series [Grades 10+]

OR

The World’s Story O’Neill

[Grades 6+]

OR

Light to the Nations, Book 1

Catholic Schools Textbook Project series

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Haaren

Treasury of Catholic Wisdom

Hardon

57 Stories of Saints Heffernan Butler’s Lives of the

Saints

Columbus and Cortez: Conquerors

for Christ Eidsmore

Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know

Moczar

Founders of Freedom Land of Our Lady series

[Grades 3-5]

OR

The World’s Story O’Neill

[Grades 6+]

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Haaren

57 Stories of Saints Heffernan

Twelve Bright Trumpets

Mann

Columbus and Cortez: Conquerors for Christ

Eidsmore

The Great Heresies Belloc

Founders of Freedom Land of Our Lady series

[Grades 3-5]

How Our Nation Began Furlong

Famous Figures of Medieval Times

Diez-Luckie

Once Upon a Time Saints Pochocki

More Once Upon a Time Saints

Pochocki

Turn of the Century Jackson

Time Traveler Usborne

Hindley

Copernicus, Galileo and the Catholic Sponsorship of

Science Meyerhofer

New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History

McEvedy

Islam at the Gates Moczar

Seven Lies About Catholic History

Moczar

Map Trek Outline Maps of World History CDROM (Complete Edition)

Used in Volumes 1,2, 3 & 4 – All Ages

Volume Three Lesson Plans

Reading Plan Options

The following books are assigned in the Daily Lesson Plans.

Core books are required reading for the year.

The Reading Plan Options are mainly literature and historical fiction. Use as many or as few as you wish.

The Daily Lesson Plans do not include all of the books listed in the Syllabus.

Books included in the Volume Three Literature Guide are indicated.

UNIT 1: 1070 - 1200

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Adventures of Robin Hood Classic StartsBurroughs, Pyle

El Cid, God’s Own Champion

Fitzhenry

A Story of St. Margaret of Scotland

Footsteps of the Saints

If All the Swords in England

Willard

Adventures of Robin Hood

Green Literature Guide available

Hide the Children: Story of St. Bernard

of Clairvaux Footsteps of the Saints

Crusader KingA Novel of Baldwin IV

and the CrusadesPeek

UNIT 2: 1201 - 1300

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Saint Fernando III Fitzhenry

Life in Ancient China Challen

St. Thomas Aquinas for Children

Maritain

Francis, the Good Man of Assisi

Joplin

Great Wall of China Fisher

Big John’s Secret Jewett

Marco Polo Overland to China

Zelenvi

Children of the Red King

Polland

Life in Ancient China Challen

UNIT 3: 1301 - 1400

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Castle Macaulay

Family Read-aloud

Castle Diary St. Catherine of Siena Forbes

St. Catherine of Siena Forbes

A Story of St. Rita Footsteps of the Saints

Door to the North Coatsworth

Platt

Cathedral Macaulay

Face in the Flames Saint Bridget of Sweden

Footsteps of the Saints

In Freedom’s Cause Henty

OR

Knights of ArtStories of the Italian

Painters Steedman

UNIT 4: 1401 - 1500

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Saint Joan Girl Soldier

De Wohl

Joan of Arc Belloc

Henry VShakespeare

Leonardo Da Vinci The Genius Who Defined

the Renaissance Phillips

Leonardo Da Vinci The Genius Who Defined

the Renaissance Phillips

Family Read-aloud

Columbus D'Aulaire

A Story of Michelangelo

Footsteps of the Saints

A Story of Saint Joan of Arc

Footsteps of the Saints

UNIT 5: 1501 - 1600

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Family Listening Shakespeare for

Children CD Weiss

Crossbows and Crucifixes

Garnett

Shakespeare: His Work & His World

Rosen

Shakespeare: His Work & His World

Rosen

Merchant of Venice Shakespeare

Family Read-aloud

William Shakespeare and the Globe

Aliki

Blood Red Crescent Garnett

St. Thomas More of London

Ince

A Story of St. Germaine

Footsteps of the Saints

A Story of St. Stanislaus Kostka Footsteps of the Saints

Edmund Campion, Hero of God's Underground

Gardiner

UNIT 6: 1501 - 1600

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Ship's Boy with Magellan

The Samurai's Tale Haugard

Lepanto Chesterton

St. Ignatius Loyola Forbes

St. Teresa of Avila Forbes

A Story of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Footsteps of the Saints

Life in Old Japan Coloring Book

Dover

A Story of St. Francis Xavier

Footsteps of the Saints

Lomask

St. Francis

of the Seven Seas

Nevins

Life in Old Japan Coloring Book

Dover

Life in Ancient Japan Richardson

Life in Ancient JapanRichardson

Literature Guide available

Literature Guide available

UNIT 7: Part One 1601 - 1700

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

A Story of the Infant of Prague

Footsteps of the Saints

St. Vincent de Paul Saint of Charity

Hubbard

St. Vincent de Paul Forbes

I, Juan de Pareja Trevino

Isaac Newton: The Scientist Who

Changed Everything Steele

A Story of St. Louise de Marillac

Footsteps of the Saints

Isaac Newton: The Scientist Who

Changed Everything Steele

UNIT 7: Part Two 1601 - 1700

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Lovasik

Cross Among the

Tomahawks Lomask

Padre on Horseback A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J.

Apostle to the Pimas Bolton

A Story of St. Isaac Jogues Footsteps of the Saints

Nacar, The White Deer

De Trevino

Madeleine Takes Command

Brill

Literature Guide available Literature Guide available