Suggestions for History Reading

For some reason I'm in planning mode right now for future readings. Here's what I'm thinking of for the rest of this academic year with S and B:

• After Archimedes, we'll read the new book on Herodutus by Bendick
• Since we've done so much reading in the Greeks: Tanglewood Tales, Black Ships Before Troy, The Wanderings of Odysseus, Percy Jackson books, currently Archimedes, next Herodotus, I feel the need to move on to the Romans
• Aeneid for Boys and Girls
• Famous Men of Rome
• Detectives in Togas
• Roman Ransom

By next fall I think we'll be up to Middle Ages. Here's what I'm thinking:

• The Early Christians by Hunt (transitional book plus the kids will learn about the early Church)
• Brendan the Navigator by Jean Fritz
• Fingal's Quest by ???? I've heard of this book so much but have never read it.
• Beorn the Proud - loved this book the first time around!
• The Hidden Treasure of Glaston - I read this to myself a couple years ago - wonderful book!
• Francis and Clare; Saints of Assisi by Homan
• Cathedral by McCauley
• Castle by McCaulay
• The Trumpeter of Krakow - one of my all time favorite books!

For J who'll be 15 and in 10th grade:

• Confessions of St. Augustine
• Augustine Came to Kent - about the other St. Augustine!
• Ballad of the White Horse - by GKC - I've never read this but really want to! - poem
  
• William the Conquerer - Hilaire Belloc - haven't read this either
  
• Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot - play
  
• St. Francis of Assisi by GKC
• St. Thomas Aquinas by GKC
• Henry V - Shakespeare - play
  
• Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

Spine for J - Didache Church History text or maybe the Catholic Textbook Projects latest book on Church History.

Supplements - Popes and Papacy Teach. Co lectures; watch movies Becket, movie on St. Francis, Henry V with Branaugh, old Joan of Arc movie. Watch Teach Co. lectures on Natural Law if we never get to it this year.


S & B: For our Modern Studies next year, I'm thinking of getting the Beautiful Feet Western Expansion unit study. I don't know how much we'll do of the actual unit study. We can pick and choose and read all the wonderful books.