Here is a chronological list of additional resources for studying MOH2 (c. 29 A.D. – 1456)
Check back – we will update these lists as we gather more information.
High School Suggestions: WL = World Literature; BL=British Literature
E=Elementary; M=Middle Grades (4/5th-8th); H=High School
NR=No Review; *=Enjoyed; info=information given
Year | MOH2 Topic | Focus | |
Shakespeare: Cymbeline (c. 10-14AD King of England) | |||
37-68AD | Nero | (M)/H – NR – The Ides of April by Mary Ray (62AD – Rome) | |
66-73AD | Masada | (M)/H – NR – Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray (70AD – Palestine) (Sequel to The Ides of April) | |
100BC-75AD | Dead Sea Scrolls | Field Trip: Museum of the Bible | |
79AD | The Buried City of Pompeii | M – NR – I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD79 by Lauren Tarshis | |
M – NR – Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick (born 129AD) | |||
M/H – NR – The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (Roman Britain) | |||
382-405 A.D. | Vulgate | Field Trip: Museum of the Bible | |
WL/BL | Shakespeare: King Lear (pre-Christian England) | ||
389-461 | St. Patrick | M/H – NR – Flame Over Tara by Medline Pollard (432AD – Ireland) | |
503 | King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table | M/H – *, NR – Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey M – NR – King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table by Andrew Lang | |
M/H – NR – The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff (600AD – Britain) | |||
Early 700s | The Epic of Beowulf | BL | H – NR – Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney |
768 | Charlemagne | M – NR – Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard | |
c. 800-1100 | The Vikings: Their Families, Their Homes, and Their Faith | E/M – NR – A Viking Town by Fiona MacDonald | |
871 | Alfred the Great, King of England | (M)/H – NR – King Alfred’s Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians by Marjory A Grieser | |
c. 1003 | Leif Ericsson discovers America | (M)/H – **, NR – God’s Daughter by Heather Day Gilbert | |
1040 | Macbeth, King of Scotland | Shakespeare: Macbeth | |
1040 | El Cid, a Spanish Hero | M – NR – Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska | |
1154 | Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Queen of Two Nations | M/H – NR – A Proud Taste for Scarlet & Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg | |
M – NR – The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore Myers Jewett (1171AD – England) | |||
M – *,NR – A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (12th century – Korea) | |||
M/H – NR – Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (1290AD – 14yr girl diary) | |||
M/H – *,NR – The Ramsey Scallop by Frances Temple (1299AD – pilgrimage to Santiago, Spain) | |||
M/H – *,NR – The Beduin’s Gazelle by Frances Temple (1302AD – desert among nomadic tribes) | |||
1318 | Dante Alighieri, Poet of the Middle Ages | WL | H – NR – Inferno by Dante translated by Allen Mandelbaum |
Shakespeare: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1300-1499 A.D.) | |||
Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (1348AD) | |||
(M)/H – *, NR – The Hawk and the Dove by Penelope Wilcox (14th Century – Yorkshire – monastic life) | |||
(M)/H – NR – The Wounds of God by Penelope Wilcox (sequel to The Hawk and the Dove) | |||
1348 | Black Death of Europe | Shakespeare: All’s Well that End’s Well (women isolate to escape the plague) | |
1368-1644 | Ming Dynasty | Movie Review: The Royal Tailor | |
BL | H – NR – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375-1400 – written legend about King Arthur) | ||
M/H – *,NR – Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (1377AD – England) | |||
E/M – *,NR – Marguerite Makes a Book by Bruce Robertson (1400s – Paris: Illuminating Manuscripts) | |||
1387 | Geoffrey Chaucer & The Canterbury Tales | BL | H – NR – Canterbury Tales by Chaucer edited by Jill Mann |
1431 | The Life & Death of Joan of Arc | M/H – NR – Joan of Arc: The Teenager Who Saved Her Nation by Philip Wilkinson (National Geographic) | |
1456 | Gutenberg | Field Trip: Museum of the Bible |
- Related – MOH = The Mystery of History
- Related – MOH1 – Mystery of History I
- Related – MOH3 – Mystery of History III
- Related – MOH4 – Mystery of History IV
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