Connecting with History Volume Two

Daily Lesson Plans Book List

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CORE TEXTS

BEGINNER Grades K-3

GRAMMAR Grades 4-6

LOGIC Grades 7-9

RHETORIC Grades 10-12

Founders of Freedom Land of Our Lady series

[Grades 2-5]

Also used in Volumes 1 & 3

Founders of Freedom Land of Our Lady series

[Grades 2-5]

Also used in Volumes 1 & 3

Light to the Nations, Book 1

Catholic Schools Textbook Project series [Grades 8+]

Also used in Volume 3

The History of the Church – Complete

Edition Didache series

Also used in Volume 3

OR

The World’s Story O’Neill

[Grades 5+]

Also used in Volumes 1 & 3

OR

The World’s Story O’Neill

[Grades 5+]

Also used in Volumes 1 & 3

OR

Light to the Nations, Book 1

Catholic Schools Textbook Project series

Also used in Volume 3

AND

New Penguin HIstorical Atlas of

Ancient Rome Scarre

AND

Penguin Atlas of Medieval History

McEvedy

Also used in Volume 3

Map Trek Outline Maps of World History CDROM (Complete Edition) Used in Volumes 1,2, 3 & 4 – All Ages

LIVES OF SAINTS ANTHOLOGIES

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Once Upon a Time Saints Pochoki

Also used in Volumes 3 & 4

57 Stories of Saints Heffernan

Also used in Volumes 3 & 4

57 Stories of Saints Heffernan

Also used in Volumes 3 & 4

Lives of the Saints Butler

Also used in Volumes 3 & 4

More Once Upon a Time Saints

Pochoki

Also used in Volumes 3 & 4

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CORE BOOKS

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Famous Figures of Medieval Times

Diez-Luckie

Also used in Volume 3

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Haaren

Also used in Volume 3

Famous Men of the Middle Ages

Haaren

Also used in Volume 3

Treasury of Catholic Wisdom

Hardon

Also used in Volumes 3 & 4

Spend the Day in Ancient Rome

Honan

Augustus Caesar’s World Foster

The Great Heresies Belloc

Also used in Volume 3

A Life of Our Lordfor Children

Pochoki

A Life of Our Lordfor Children

Pochoki

A Graphic Life of Jesus Christ

Shamon

A Graphic Life of Jesus Christ

Shamon

The First Christians: The Acts of the

Apostles for ChildrenPochoki

The First Christians: The Acts of the

Apostles for ChildrenPochoki

Daily Life at the Time of Jesus

Vamosh

Daily Life at the Time of Jesus

Vamosh

Roman Britain Brocklehurst

Roman Britain Brocklehurst

Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know

Moczar

Also used in Volume 3

Twelve BrightTrumpets

Mann Also used in Volume 3

Continued from Volume One:

Time Traveler-Usborne Hindley

Also used in V

olume 3

Famous Men of Rome Haaren

Famous Men of Rome Haaren

Penguin Atlas of Ancient Civilizations

Haywood

Famous Figures of Ancient Times

Diez-Luckie

Ancient World Chandler

Encyclopedia of the Ancient World

Bingham

Lives from Plutarch McFarland

Lives from Plutarch McFarland

Mythology Hamilton

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CORE BOOKS

BEGINNER GRAMMAR LOGIC RHETORIC

Celebrating 2000 Years of Christian

History Thomas

Also used in Volume 3

Celebrating 2000 Years of Christian

History Thomas

Also used in Volume 3

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Reading Plan Options

This books on the following lists are assigned under the Reading Plan Options column for each unit and

age level. They do not include every book that is in the Volume Two Syllabus.

Each unit in these lesson plans includes a check list of these books to help in planning individual units.

The optional Volume Two Discussion Guide includes study guides for the following books:

Beginner Level St. Valentine

Grammar Level Cleopatra

City of the Golden House The White Stag

Logic Level The Bronze Bow

Ides of April The White Isle

Eagle of the Ninth Fingal’s Quest

Son of Charlemagne

The Discussion Guide is sold separately.

UNIT 1: 63 B.C. – A.D. 1

Family Read-Aloud Choices

☐ City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction (Macaulay)

Reading Plan Choices for Beginner Level

☐ Cleopatra (Stanley) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

Reading Plan Choices for Grammar Level

☐ Cleopatra (Stanley) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

☐ City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction (Macaulay) (if not used as a read-aloud)

Reading Plan Choices for Logic Level

No reading plan selections for this unit. There many reading assignments in the regular assignments for this unit.

Reading Plan Choices for Rhetoric Level

☐ Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)

UNIT 2: A.D. 1 – 33 A.D.

Family Read-Aloud Choices

☐ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis) (if you are only teaching Beginner Level students, we suggestthat you use books from the Beginner Level Reading Plan for read-alouds instead of this title)

Reading Plan Choices for Beginner Level

☐ Mary My Mother (Lovasik)

☐ A Story of St. Joseph (Footsteps of the Saints series) (may substitute Good Saint Joseph from Grammar Level)

☐ Miracles of Jesus (de Paola)

Reading Plan Choices for Grammar Level

☐ Mary My Mother (Lovasik)

☐ Good Saint Joseph (Lovasik)

☐ Ben Hur audio CD (Focus on the Family audio drama)

☐ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (if not used as family read-aloud)

Reading Plan Choices for Logic Level

☐ The Bronze Bow (Speare) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

☐ Ben Hur audio CD (Focus on the Family audio drama)

Reading Plan Choices for Rhetoric Level

☐ Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Wallace)

UNIT 3: 33 – 99 A.D.

Family Read-Aloud Choices

These are Core Books that are used as read-alouds in this unit and the next

☐ A Life of Our Lord for Children (Hunt) Re-telling of the Gospel events in story form.

☐ The First Christians (Hunt) Re-telling of the Acts of the Apostles in story form.

Reading Plan Choices for Beginner Level

☐ Saint Paul the Apostle (Lovasik) (can also be read by Grammar level)

☐ A Story of St. Stephen (Footsteps of the Saints series)

☐ A Story of St. Peter (Footsteps of the Saints series)

☐ Andrew the Apostle (Footsteps of the Saints series)

☐ Pompeii, Buried Alive (Kunhardt)

Reading Plan Choices for Grammar Level

☐ City of the Golden House (Polland) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

☐ Apostles of Jesus (Lovasik)

☐ Saint Peter the Apostle (Lovasik) (can also be read to Beginner Level)

☐ Pompeii, Buried Alive (Kunhardt)

Reading Plan Choices for Logic Level

☐ Ides of April (Ray) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

☐ Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem (Church) retelling of primary source by Josephus

Reading Plan Choices for Rhetoric Level

☐ Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem

☐ Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero (Sienkiewicz)

UNIT 4: 100 – 306 A.D.

Family Read-Aloud Choices

☐ Galen and the Gateway to Medicine (Bendick)

Reading Plan Choices for Beginner Level

☐ St. Valentine (Sabuda) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

(Optional) Choose any of the following from the Footsteps of the Saints series:

☐ Story of St. Agatha

☐ Story of St. Cecilia

☐ Story of St. Cyprian

☐ Story of St. Sebastian

☐ Story of St. Lawrence

☐ Story of St. Catherine of Alexandria

☐ Story of St. Christopher

☐ Story of St. Lucy

Reading Plan Choices for Grammar Level

☐ No Tears for the Bride: St. Perpetua (Footsteps of the Saints series)

☐ Galen and the Gateway to Medicine (Bendick) (if not used as read-aloud)

☐ Roman Colosseum (Mann)

☐ Gladiator (Watkins)

Reading Plan Choices for Logic Level

☐ The White Isle (Snedeker) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

☐ Eagle of the Ninth (Sutcliff) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

Reading Plan Choices for Rhetoric Level

☐Word to Caesar (Trease)

UNIT 5: 306 – 499 A.D.

Family Read-Aloud Choices

☐ Saint George and the Dragon (Hodges) (poetic adaptation from Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”)

☐ The Saint Who Fought the Dragon (Bilinski) (includes both facts and legends about St. George)

Reading Plan Choices for Beginner Level

☐ The Queen and the Cross: Story of St. Helen (Bilinski)

☐ Story of St. Patrick (Footsteps of the Saints series)

☐ Story of St. Blaise (Footsteps of the Saints series)

☐ Story of St. Bridget (Footsteps of the Saints series)

Reading Plan Choices for Grammar Level

☐ The White Stag (Seredy) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

☐ Saint Helena and the True Cross (de Wohl)

☐ Beowulf (Morpurgo)

Reading Plan Choices for Logic Level

☐ St. Athanasius (Forbes)

☐ St. Monica (Forbes)

☐ The King’s Thane (Brady) (the story of Beowulf in the form of a novel)

☐ Beowulf the Warrior (Serraillier) (a short version of the epic poem which preserves the poetic language)

Reading Plan Choices for Rhetoric Level

☐ St. Athanasius (Forbes)

☐ St. Monica (Forbes)

☐ Beowulf: Illustrated Edition (Heaney)

☐ Beowulf the Warrior (Serraillier)

UNIT 6: 500 – 799 A.D.

Family Read-Aloud Choices

☐ Augustine Came to Kent (Willard)

☐ Celtic Treasures CD (Weiss)

☐ King Arthur and His Knights CD (Weiss)

Reading Plan Choices for Beginner Level

☐ Sword in the Tree (Bulla)

☐ St. Brendan and the Voyage Before Columbus (McGrew)

☐ A Story of St. Benedict (Footsteps of the Saints series)

☐ Caedmon’s Song (Ashby)

Reading Plan Choices for Grammar Level

☐ St. Benedict, Hero of the Hills (Windeat)

☐ Augustine Came to Kent (Willard) (if not used as a read-aloud)

☐ Life in Celtic Times Coloring Book

☐ The Silk Route: 5000 Miles of History (Major)

☐ Bring Me an Ax: A Story of St. Boniface of Germany (Footsteps of the Saints series)

☐ The Archer Saint: St. Hubert (Footsteps of the Saints series)

Reading Plan Choices for Logic Level

☐ Fingal’s Quest (Polland) (Discussion Guide available)

Reading Plan Choices for Rhetoric Level

☐ The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Pyle)

UNIT 7: 800 – 1066 A.D.

Family Read-Aloud Choices

☐ D’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths (D’Aulaire)

Reading Plan Choices for Beginner Level

☐ A Story of St. Wenceslaus (Footsteps of the Saints series)

☐ Leif the Lucky (D’Aulaire)

☐ A Story of St. Margaret of Scotland (Footsteps of the Saints series)

Reading Plan Choices for Grammar Level

☐ Beorn the Proud (Polland)

Reading Plan Choices for Logic Level

☐ Son of Charlemagne (Willard) (Discussion Guide available for this title)

☐ Children of Odin (Colum)

Reading Plan Choices for Rhetoric Level

☐ Hamlet (Shakespeare)

☐ Mythology (Hamilton)

☐ Ballad of the White Horse (Chesterton)