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Selected Books from Year 8

Subject/ Book Title

Map Trek Map

(AW=Ancient World MV=Medieval World NW=New World

MD=Modern World US = US Map Trek)

• The New World

History

• Martin Luther’s Defense

• See Table 8A (below)

• MV= The Reformation

• A Man for all Seasons

Biographies

• Life of Sir Francis Bacon

• The Voyage of the Armada

• A History of the Plymouth Plantation

• The Life of Dr. John Donne

• A Coffin for King Charles

• Galileo’s Daughter

• Oliver Cromwell and the Rule…

• MV = City Centers of Europe (England 1529)

• MV = England(Britain during Middle Ages)

• MV =Later Explorers; Spanish Empires

• NW or US = Plymouth Colony

• NW = Puritan England

• NW = Puritan England

• NW = Renaissance Italy

• NW = Puritan England

• Christopher Columbus, Mariner

Geography

• Kon Tiki

• The Discovery of Muscovy

• The Discovery of Guiana

• MV = Christopher Columbus

• MD = World Map (political: South Pacific )

• MV = The Expansion of Russia

• MV = Central and South America

• The History of English Literature for Girls and

Boys

Literature

• Westward Ho!

• The Diary of Samuel Pepys

• I Promessi Sposi (the Betrothed)

• MV= Viking Expansion; 12th Century Europe;

the Reformation; England Map w/Grid

• MV = Later Explorers;

MD = England Industrial Revolution

• MV = The Black Death (England 1660-1669)

• MV = Renaissance Italy (Northern Italy 1629)

Selected Titles from Free Reading

• Don Quixote

• Freckles

• Lorna Doone

• To Have and to Hold

• The Compleat Angler

• The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hamelin

• MD = The Iberian Peninsula (Spain)

• US = State Map: Indiana

• NW = Puritan England (late 17th century)

• NW = James Towne

• NW = Puritan England (1653)

• NW = Prussia (1676 -1724)

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Table 8A: The New World by Winston Churchill (Volume 2 of “The History of the English

Speaking Peoples”)

Chapter Titles

(* a few excellent maps included in the text)

Map Trek Maps

(MV=Medieval World NW=New World

MD=Modern World US = US Map Trek)

CH I – II: The Round World; The Tudor Dynasty

• MV = Renaissance Italy; England (Britain

during the Middle Ages)

CH III – VII: King Henry VIII –The Protestant Struggle

• MV = Powerful Habsburgs; Reformation

CH VII: Good Queen Bess

• NW = Elizabethan London

CH IX –X: The Spanish Armada - Gloriana

• NW = Puritan England

(good map of the British Isles, including the English

Channel, North Sea, Irish Sea and channel Ports)

• MV = Later Explorers (Sir Francis Drake)

CH XI - XVIII: The United Crowns – The Axe Falls

• NW = Plymouth Colony; Original 13 Colonies;

Puritan England.

CH XIX – XXVI: The English Republic – The Revolution

1688

• NW = Puritan England;

( Also See map in book: England during the Civil War )

By Sandy Moore, Copyright 2010, Knowledge Quest, Inc.

Free reading (continued)

• Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of

English Colonial Beginnings

• The History of King Charles II of England

• NW = James Towne; The Original 13 Colonies;

Restoration Colonies; The New England

Colonies; The Middle Colonies; The Southern

Colonies

• NW = Puritan England