MOH2 - Mystery of History II ~ Crazy JC Girl

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