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Liz D
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Posted: Aug 18 2005 at 9:58pm \| IP Logged

My 15 yo will be doing European history from the Middle Ages on and I was wondering if anyone had any resources they would recommend for this study. We plan to use Christ the King, Lord of History as a spine. He's hoping to be able to make this AP Euro History and take the AP test. Anyone had any experience with this?

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I don't know the requirements for the AP tests but, off the top of my head, these are a couple of books we have liked.

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey - about Richard III. A fictional account of an historical investigation into Richard III - was he as good or bad as history says? Many historians now debate this issue.

Shakespeare's play Richard III would be good to go along with this.

We have read some of the volumes from Winston Churchill's History of the English Speaking People. Biased against Catholicism in parts but interesting and informative reads.

Napoleon's The Art of War ( writings of Napoleon Bonaparte on war, propaganda, the role of the media) is also good for first hand information.

I am sure there are many others but I am drawing a blank right now!

There is also this
website. with historical movies in chronological order.

Leonie in Sydney

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Posted: Aug 20 2005 at 8:08pm \| IP Logged

Hi!

I have no experience with AP tests, but here are some of the resources I have used with high school World/European history:

Beowulf
Catholic History Through Biography
The Ballad of the White Horse
" El Cid"
Song of Roland
1066:Year of Conquest
Henry IV
"Becket"
St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton
The Divine Comedy
The Dumb Ox
Lay Siege to Heaven
“The Agony and the Ecstasy.”
Part of The Glory of Christendom
The Canterbury Tales
Women in the Time of the Cathedrals
Richard III
The Black Arrow
St. Edmund Campion
“A Man for All Seasons”.
Merchant of Venice
A Tale of 2 Cities
Song at the Scaffold        &nbs p;         &nbs p;
Les Miserables
The Cross and the Guillotine
Pride & Prejudice
Persuasion
David Copperfield
Diary of a Young Girl
“The Scarlet and the Black.”
The Pope and the Holocaust

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Deborah

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Posted: Sept 04 2005 at 10:06pm \| IP Logged

Leonie and Deborah,

Thank you for your replies. They are very helpful.

God Bless,
Liz

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Leonie and Deborah, great suggestions. We did the "combination platter" of "Daughter of Time" and then Shakespeare's "Richard III" and it was fun. I also really like "Catholic History thru Biography"--I think Kolbe recommends this, too. Liz, you might also check out "The Well Trained Mind" for further suggestions for History. It's pretty thorough (tho slanted toward Protestant history). Also, if you are planning to tackle the AP test, I think you can get an outline of suggestions for what you should cover. I believe you can just google AP History and see what comes up. I need to do this, too, with my 15 year old history student.

Kelly in FL

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Posted: Sept 12 2005 at 6:32am \| IP Logged

Liz:

I don't know if you've seen this, but the College Board site has all their AP stuff online -- here's the link for the European History test -- tells you all the themes etc. You can download all the info too.

NOTE: College Board specifically mentions that they welcome homeschooled kids

taking the tests and how to obtain all the info. This site also does the CLEP if your students want to opt out of some required stuff for college.....

My dd wants to take the French and German tests, and when we downloaded the info, there was a list of suggested books to read to prep.

Hope this helps....

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