Mother of Divine Grace
Sixth Grade
The Old World and America - P. Furlong
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The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt - Elizabeth Payne |
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Shadow Hawk - A. Norton |
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Mara, Daughter of the Nile - E. McGraw |
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The Golden Goblet - E. McGraw |
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The Story of the Amulet - E. Nesbit |
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Pyramid - D. Macauley |
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The Hittite Warrior - J. Williamson |
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God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah - J. Williamson |
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Egyptian Temple Sticker Picture Book - A.G. Smith |
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Growing Up in Ancient Egypt - R. David |
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Deserts (The Wonders of Our World) - N. Morris |
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Tales of Ancient Egypt - R.L. Green |
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Ancient Egypt Art: Postcards |
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Gift of the Nile - E. Meadowcroft | Not Available at This Time - Check Your Local Library |
The 22 Letters - C. King (out of print) | Not Available at This Time - Check Your Local Library |
Warriors & Seafarers (in Usborne Book of World History) |
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Ancient Egypt: Book and Treasure Chest |
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Hieroglyphics (Treasure Chests) - R. Platt |
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Seventh Grade
The Harp and Laurel Wreath - Berquist |
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Henry V - Shakespear |
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Famous Men of Greece (Greenleaf Press) |
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D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths - D’Aulaire |
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The Children’s Homer - P. Colum |
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Archimedes and the Door of Science - J. Bendick |
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Famous Men of Rome (Greenleaf Press) |
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A Triumph for Flavius - C.D. Snedeker |
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Caesar’s Gallic Wars - O. Coolidge |
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City - D. Macauley |
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Augustus Caesar’s World - G. Foster |
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The Eagle of the Ninth - R. Sutcliff |
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The Silver Branch - R. Sutcliff |
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Temple on a Hill - A.F. Rockwell |
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Ancient Greeks - R. Baker |
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Detectives in Togas - H. Winterfield |
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The Ides of April - M. Ray |
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Ancient Romans - R. Baker |
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Lives from Plutarch - J. McFarland |
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The Lantern Bearers - R. Sutcliff |
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The following materials are a few of those recommended in Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum:
Theras and His Town - C. Snedeker |
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A Lion in the Gateway - M. Renault |
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Tanglewood Tales - N. Hawthorne |
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Julius Caesar - J. Gunther |
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A Roman Soldier's Handbook - L. Sims |
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Eigth Grade
The Harp and Laurel Wreath - Berquist |
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Tales from Shakespeare - Lamb |
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Macbeth - Shakespeare |
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Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare |
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Old World and America (P. Furlong) |
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Answer Key to "Old World And America" - Maureen McDevitt |
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The Story of the Church - Johnson |
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Fingal’s Quest - M. Polland |
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Augustine Came to Kent - B. Willard |
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Son of Charlemagne - B. Willard |
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Castle - D. Macauley |
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King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table - Green |
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The Story of King Arthur and His Knights - Pyle |
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Adam of the Road - Gray |
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Francis & Claire, Saints of Assisi - Homan |
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St. Dominic & the Rosary - C. Beebe | |
The Door in the Wall - Marguerite D’Angeli |
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Cathedral - D. Macauley |
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The Black Arrow - Stevenson |
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Citadel of God: A Novel of St. Benedict - L. de Wohl | |
The King’s Thane - C. Brady |
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Man With a Sword - H. Treece |
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Swords From the North - Treece |
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William the Conqueror - T. Costain |
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The Song of Roland (trans. Harrison) |
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Idylls of the King - Tennyson |
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The Boy Knight of Reims - Lownsbury |
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Ivanhoe - Scott |
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If All the Swords in England: A Story of Thomas Becket - B. Willard |
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The Red Keep - A. French | |
The Lost Baron - A. French |
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The Hidden Treasure of Glaston - E. Jewett |
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - H. Pyle |
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St. Thomas Aquinas & the Preaching Beggars - Larnen |
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The Quiet Light: A Novel on St. Thomas Aquinas - L. de Wohl |
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Lay Siege to Heaven: A Novel of St. Catherine of Siena - L. de Woh |
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The Blue Gonfalon at the First Crusade - M. Hubbard |
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Where Valor Lies - A. & C. de Leeuw |
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The Two Trumpeters of Vienna - H. Pauli |
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St. Louis and the Last Crusade - M. Hubbard |
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He Went with Marco Polo - L.A. Kent |
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Genghis Kahn - Lamb |
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In the Days of King Hal - M. Taggert | Not Available at This Time - Please check your local library |
St. Joan: the Girl Soldier - L. de Wohl |
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The Trumpeter of Krakow - Kelly | |
Beowulf (R.K. Gordon, Dover Thrift Edition) |
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation (trans. S. Heaney) |
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Beowolf - (Free - Translation by Gummere) Not officially part of the curriculum |
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Canterbury Tales (ed. B. Cohen) |
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Canterbury Tales (Free Version) |
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Jackaroo: A Novel of the Kingdom - C. Voight |
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Set All Afire: A Novel of St. Francis Xavier - L. de Wohl |
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The Blood Red Crescent & the Battle of Lepanto - Garnett |
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The Last Crusader: A Novel about Don Juan of Austria - L. de Wohl |
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Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal - R. Reilly |
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Ninth Grade
Exploration & Colonization Period (1400-1700):
Columbus and Cortez, Conquerors for Christ - J. Eidsmoe |
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Shadows on the Rock - W. Cather |
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Mourt’s Relation |
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I, Juan de Pareja - E.B. de Trevino |
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond - E.G. Speare |
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Evangelization of the New World - J. Leek |
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American Revolution Period (1700-1800)
George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen From Both Sides -Schanzer |
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Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain - N. Bober |
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Miracle at Philadelphia - C.D. Bowen |
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
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Catholic Makers of America - S.M. Krason |  |
The American Revolutionaries - M. Meltzer |
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Johnny Tremain - Forbes | |
Iron Tears: America’s Battle for Freedom, Britain’s Quagmire: 1775-1783 |
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Westward Expansion Period (1780-1860):
Death Comes for the Archbishop - W. Cather |
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Bold Journey: West With Lewis and Clark - Lewis & Clark | |
The Oregon Trail - F. Parkman |
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Pride and Prejudice - Austen |
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Young Pioneers - R.W. Lane |
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Civil War Period (1860-1870):
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephan Crane |
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Lincoln: A Photobiography - R. Freedman |
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Voices from the Civil War - M. Meltzer |
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The Killer Angels - M. Shaura |
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Rifles for Watie - H. Keith |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - H.B. Stowe |
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Recovery Period (1870-1900):
The Virginian - O. Wister |
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Up From Slavery - B.T. Washington |
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From Slave to Priest: A Biography of the Rev. Augustine Tolton |
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A Short History of Reconstruction - E. Foner |
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The World Wars and the Period Just Before (1900-1950):
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - J. Kerr |
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Journey to America - S. Leviton |
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The Shadow of His Wings: The True Story of Fr. Gereon Goldman |
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10th Grade
History – Ancient History & Literature Syllabus:
The Founding of Christendom - W.H. Carroll |
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Bible |
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World’s Great Speeches (ed. Copeland & Lamm) |
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Atlas of Classical History (ed. R. Talbert) |
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume I |
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume II |
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Lives from Plutarch - J. McFarland |
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Antigone - Sophocles |
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The Histories - Herodotus |
Pygmalion - G.B. Shaw |
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The Rise of the Roman Empire - Polybius |
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Julius Caesar - Shakespeare |
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Antony and Cleopatra -Shakespear |
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The Harp and Laurel Wreath - ed. L. Berquist |
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History of Western Civilization: A Handbook - McNeill |
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Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World - Creasy |
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The Children’s Homer - P. Colum |
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The Iliad - Homer |
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The Odyssey - Homer |
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Metamorphoses (Ovid) Books 1-VII |
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Metamorphoses (Ovid) Books VIII-xv |
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Greek Myths - D’Aulaire |
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Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology |
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The Wonder Book - N. Hawthorne |
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The Golden Fleece - P. Colum |
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Crito - Plato |
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The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis |
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The Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis |
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The Portable Greek Historians |
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Anabasis - Xenophon |
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The Exploits of Xenophon |
Not available at this time - Check your local library |
Memorabilia - Xenophon | |
The Early History of Rome - Livy, Bks I-V of The History of Rome) |
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The War with Hannibal - Livy, Bks XXI-XXX of The History of Rome) |
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11th Grade
History - Medieval English and Spanish History & Literature Syllabus:
Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples |
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Lives of the Kings and Queens of England - A. Fraser |
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A History of Medieval Spain - J. O’Callaghan |
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation (trans. S. Heaney) |
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The Ballad of the White Horse - G.K. Chesterton |
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Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot |
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Richard the Third - P.M. Kendall |
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The Daughter of Time - J. Tey |
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Life of Sir Thomas More - W. Roper |
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Robert Southwell: A Unit Study on English History, Poetry & the Catholic Faith |
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The Harp and Laurel Wreath (ed. L. Berquist) |
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The Gunpowder Plot - H.R. Williamson |
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Isabella of Spain: The Last Crusader - W.T. Walsh |
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Characters of the Inquisition - W.T. Walsh |
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Butler’s Lives of the Saints |
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Christ the King, Lord of History - A. Carroll | |
Idylls of the King - Tennyson |
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Mary, Queen of Scots - Fraser |
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The Wives of Henry VIII - Fraser |
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Catherine of Aragon - Mattingly |
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Edmund Campion - Waugh |
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Bloody Mary - Erickson |
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Kenilworth - Scott |
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Tyborne and the Gem of Christendom - Taylor |
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Come Rack! Come Rope! - Benson |
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Phillip II - Walsh | Not Available at This Time - Check your local library |
Saint Teresa of Avila - Walsh |
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Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen- W.H. Carroll |
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The Emperor Charles V - Brandi | Not Available at This Time - Check your local library |
Tree of Hate - Powell |
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Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada - Irving |
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History (Option 2) – Medieval European History & Literature Syllabus:
Puck of Pooks' Hill - Kipling |
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Two Lives of Charlemagne - Einhard |
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The History of the English People 1000-1154 - Henry of Huntingdon |
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The Magna Charta - Daugherty |
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St. Thomas Aquinas: “The Dumb Ox” - G.K. Chesterton | |
Great Harry - Erickson |
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St. Thomas More of London - Ince |
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A Popular History of the Reformation - Hughes |
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Phillip of Spain - H. Kamen |
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The Last Crusader - L. de Wohl |
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Cromwell - Fraser |
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Twelfth Grade
Literature – British Literature Syllabus:
The Harp and Laurel Wreath - L. Berquist |
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Beowulf |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Ivanhoe - W. Scott |
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Henry V - Shakespeare |
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Shakespeare |
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Vicar of Wakefield - Goldsmith |
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David Copperfield - Dickens |
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Emma - Austen |
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Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis |
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