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Selected Titles from Year 2
SUBJECT/Book Title
MAP TREK MAPS
(AW=Ancient World MV=Medieval World
NW=New World MD=Modern World US =US Map Trek )
• Our Island Story
HISTORY
• This Country of Ours
• A Child’s History of the World
• Story of the World
• See Table 2A (below)
• See Table 2B (below)
• See Table 2C (below)
• For Story of the World maps see (link)
• Trial and Triumph
HISTORY TALES/BIOGRAPHY
• The Little Duke (943AD)
• Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
• See Table 2D (below)
• MV = Viking Expansion; Norman Conquests
(for map of Normandy)
• MV = Hundred Years War
• Tree in the Trail
GEOGRAPHY
• Seabird
• NW = Trails of Expansion
• NW= World Map (political and landforms);
New England Colonies; California Gold Rush
• Tales from Shakespeare
LITERATURE
• Robin Hood
• See Table 2E (below)
• MV = England map
•
(Britain during Middle Ages)
• Heidi
FREE READING
• Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
• Pied Piper of Hamlin
• Abraham Lincoln
• Little House on the Prairie
• Farmer Boy
• The Story of Doctor Dolittle
• Brighty of the Grand Canyon
• Otto of the Silver Hand
• The Door in the Wall
• MD = World Map (Political: Switzerland)
• MD = World Map (Political: Various)
• MV = City Centers of Europe
• US = The American Civil War
• US = State Map : Kansas
• US = State Map : New York
• MD = World Map (political)
• US = State Map: Arizona
• MV = City Centers of Europe
• MV = City Centers of Europe
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Table 2A: Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall (Chapters 22-60)
Chapter Titles
Map Trek Maps
(MV = Medieval World)
CH 22-32: Harold – Henry Plantagenet
MV = Norman Conquests; 12th Century Europe;
The Hundred Years War
CH 33-34: Richard Couer de Lion - Blondel
MV = The Crusades; England Map w/grid
(Britain during the Middle Ages)
CH 35- 60: John Lackland – Henry VII
MV = England map w/grid
(Britain during the Middle Ages: includes England, Wales, Scotland)
Table 2B: This Country of Ours by H.E. Marshall (Chapters 1-5)
Chapter Title
Setting
Map Trek Maps
(MV = Medieval World)
1. How the Vikings of Old…
Greenland, East Coast of Canada
and USA
MV = Viking Expansion
2. The Sea of Darkness…
Italy, Portugal, Spain
MV = Early Explorers
3. How Columbus Fared Forth… Spain, San Salvadore Caribbean
MV= Christopher Columbus
4. How Columbus Returned …
Atlantic Ocean, South America
MV =Christopher Columbus
5. How America was Named
Spain, Central and South
America, Washington D.C.
MV = Early Explorers, Later
Explorers
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Table 2C: A Child’s History of the World by V.M. Hillyer (CH 45-58)
1st Edition Chapters
Revised Version Chapters
Map Trek Maps
(MV = Medieval World)
CH 45: A light in the Dark Ages
CH 47: Two Empires, Two
Emperors
MV = Empire of Charlemagne
CH 46: Getting a Start
MV = England map (Britain during the
Middle Ages)
CH 47: The End of the World
CH 49: The End of the World
MV = Viking Expansion
CH 48: Real Castles
CH 50: Real Castles
MV = City Centers of Europe
CH 49: Knights and Days of
Chivalry
CH 51: Knights and Days of
Chivalry
MV = City Centers of Europe
CH 50: A Pirate’s Great
Grandson
CH 52: A Pirate’s Great
Grandson
MV = Norman Conquests
CH 51: A Great Adventure
CH 53: A Great Adventure
MV = The Crusades
CH 52: Tit-Tat-To; Three Kings… CH 54: Tick-Tack-Toe…
MV = The Crusades
CH 55: Three Kingdoms in West
Africa
MV = African Kingdoms
CH 53: Bibles made of Stone…
CH 56: Bibles Made of Stone &
Glass
MV = City Centers of Europe
CH 54: John, Whom Nobody…
CH 57: John, Whom nobody
Loved
MV= England Map(Britain during the
Middle Ages)
CH 55: A Great Storyteller
CH 58: A Great Storyteller
MV = The Mongol Empire
CH 56: Thing-A-Ma-Jigger…
CH 59: Thing- A –Ma-Jigger
MV = Medieval China; City
Centers of Europe
CH 57: Thelon Gest Wart hate… CH 60: Thelon Gest Wart hate… MV = The Hundred Years War
CH 58: Print and Powder…
CH 61: Off with the Old…
MV = City Centers of Europe
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Table 2D: Trial And Triumph by Richard M. Hannula (Chapters 10-18)
Chapter Title
Setting
Map Trek Maps
(MV = Medieval World)
Charlemagne
Frankland: Western and Central
Europe 780 AD
MV =Empire of Charlemagne
Alfred the Great Christian King
Britain 847-899 AD
MV = Viking Expansion; City Centers
of Europe
Anselm: Theologian, Monk,
Archbishop
Italy, England 1033-1109
MV = 12th Century Europe
Bernard of Clairvaux
France 1090-1153
MV = 12th Century Europe
Peter Waldo and Waldensians
Lyons, France 1170
MV = 12th Century Europe
Francis of Assisi
Assisi, Italy 1181-1226
MV =12th Century Europe
Elizabeth of Hungary
Germany 1207-1231
MV = 12th Century Europe
John Wyclif
England 1330-1384
MV = The Reformation
John Huss
Prague, Bohemia 1412
MV = The Reformation
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Table 2E: Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb or Beautiful Stories from
Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit
Play Title
Setting
Map Trek Maps
( MD = Modern World; NW = New World)
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Verona, Italy
MD = Italy and the Balkan Peninsula
Romeo and Juliet
Verona, Italy
MD = Italy and the Balkan Peninsula
All’s Well that Ends Well
France
MD = World map (Political: France &
Italy )
Cymbeline
Britain
NW = Puritan England
Macbeth
Scotland
NW = Puritan England
Comedy of Errors
Ephesus, Turkey
MD =The Middle East
By Sandy Moore, Copyright 2010, Knowledge Quest, Inc.