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WORLD HISTORY READING LIST |
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Choose at least one book for each term as additional independent reading.
1st
Year: Term 1 EGYPT
God King by Joanne Williamson The
Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson Tales
of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green
ANCIENT GREECE
Crown of Violet by Geoffrey Trease (o.o.p.) - Athens, Greek drama The Twenty Two Letters by Clive King (o.o.p)
1st Year: Term 2
ANCIENT ROME
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth
George Speare The White Isle by Caroline Dale Snedeker Between the Forest and the Hills by Ann Lawrence
ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard - conversion of England, early 7th century Dragonslayer: the Story of Beowulf by Rosemary Sutcliff Beowulf the Warrior by Ian Serraillier Wordhoard by Kevin Crossley-Holland and Jill Paton Walsh (o.o.p.) - short stories set at different times
EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE VIKINGS
1st Year: Term 3
MIDDLE AGES
The
Red Keep by Allen French A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.Konigsburg - Eleanor of Aquitaine, 12th century France and England Lost Baron by Allen French - set in Cornwall (England) in 1200 Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Grey The
Ramsay Scallop by France Temple - a young betrothed
couple are sent on pilgrimage, set in England in 1299 Ring
Out Bow Bells [US Title: The
Sign of the Green Falcon] by Cynthia Harnett -
England, early 15th century
2nd Year: Term 1
The Woolpack [US Title: The Merchant's Mark] by Cynthia Harnett - England, late 15th century Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer - story of the young Queen Mary I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino - story of a young slave owned by the painter Velazquez Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease - adventure story, England in late 16th century, Shakespeare Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal by Robert Reilly - Ireland, 16th century Children of the New Forest by Captain Maryatt - English civil war, 17th century A
Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh - plague destroys
an English village, 17th century
2nd Year: Term 2
Martin Hyde The Duke's Messenger by John Masefield - Monmouth rebellion against James II, 17th century England Bonnie Dundee by Rosemary Sutcliff - 18th century England and Scotland A Tale of Two Cities by Charles
Dickens - French Revolution
2nd Year: Term 3
Follow My Black Plume
by Geoffrey Trease (o.o.p) - Garibaldi, 19th
century Italy The Good Master by Kate Seredy -
early 20th century Hungary
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