Story List for Kids Humanities Program

To start with, this is pretty much just a port of the post over on DarwinCatholic on "the great stories". Contribs, please feel free to just edit this post to add bullets. Think ages 6-9 for these stories.

When the main site is up, I'll move this over as a table of contents so we can start writing the stories. (Date ranges are of course also open for negotiation -- and some unit studies or special topics collections might also be in order.)

Book One: Before Christ

Ancient Times

• What is History
• Ancient Times
• paleolithic/neolithic
• development of agriculture
• the first cities
• the bronze age
• stone henge
• something about the pyramids
• the story of King Tut
• story of Isis and Osiris
• Hathor/Sekhmet and the Nile flooding
• Akhenaten
• mummies (include afterlife, Book of the Dead, Ma'at)
• Sumer/Babylon/Ur
• [more stuff on fertile crescant civilization to balance egypt]
• Sumerian/Babylonian version of Flood Story
• 
  
• Old Testament
• Noah (as contrast with pagan version)
• Abraham & Isaac
• Exodus
• Judith
  
• Saul
• Esther
• Susannah
• Tobit
• David
• Solomon
• Sampson
• Ruth
• Maccabees
• Stories from Ancient Greece
• Prometheus
• Oedipus
• Apollo & Daphne
• Orestes
• Persephone
• Pandora
• Trojan War
• wanderings of Odysseus
• Jason and the Argonauts
• The Minotaur
• Icarus
• Orpheus
• Cupid & Psyche
• Battle of Marathon
• Battle of Thermopylae
• The Peloponessian War
• a little about Plato and Aristotle
• a little about Greek drama
• conquests of Alexander the Great
• the Gordian Knot
• Archimedes
• Empedocles (he threw himself into a volcano!)
• Stories from Ancient Rome
• Aeneas
• Romulus and Remus
• Cincinnatus
• the guy in Livy who burned his hand off
• the Brothers Gracchus
• Hannibal
• Cleopatra
• Horatius on the bridge
• Julius Caesar (must include pirate story -- kidnapped by pirates is good)
• Cleopatra
• Boadicea
• Augustus
• Nero

Book Two: 33AD to 1300

• Stories from the New Testament
• birth of Christ
• major parables and miracles
• crucifixion and resurrection
• St. Paul
• St. Stephen
• other early martyrs (Perpetua & Felicity)
• More Rome
• the 'barbarian' tribes
• Roman Britain
• Constantine
• Helena
• St. Augustine
• St. Benedict
• fall of Rome
• Attila the Hun and Pope Leo;
• 'Dark Ages' through Medieval
• King Arthur
• Beowulf
• Clovis
• Byzantium
• Mohammad & Islam
• St. Patrick & St. Brigid
• Charlemagne (must include his learning to read, his elephant)
• Celtic monasteries
• vikings (raids, exploration, myths, conversion)
• Norman conquest
• crusades
• St. Thomas Becket
• Saladin
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• King Richard/King John
• Robin Hood
• St. Francis (should include wolf of Gubbio and preaching to Sultan) & St. Claire
• St. Dominic
• St. Thomas Aquinas;

Book Three: 1300 to 1776

• Joan of Ark
• Henry V & Agincourt (sp?)
• the 100 Years War
• Dante's Journey through the Afterlife
• Famous artists of the Renaissance
• Building of St. Peter's
• Martin Luther
• the Reformation
• the counter-Reformation
• St. Teresa of Avila (include childhood attempt at martyrdom)
  St. John of the Cross
  
• Baroque art
• Baroque music
• Henry VIII
• Thomas Moore
• Life of Shakespeare
• Stories from Shakespeare
• Queen Elizabeth
• Francis Drake
• Ferdinand & Isabella
• Columbus
• Pocahantas
• The Empires of Exploration (Spain, Portugal, France, England)
• the new age of trade (east indies, west indies)
• Ignatius Loyola & rise of Jesuits
• St. Edmund Campion
• Guy Fawkes (in socks, with bomb in box...)
• Lady Jane Grey
• Pilgrims
• Virginia & Jamestown
  
• Galileo
• Turkey and the Ottomans
• Siege of Vienna
• Siege of Malta
• Kepler
• Lepanto
  
• English Civil War
• Newton
• Opera
• Classical music
• Louis XVI
• the 30 Years War
• Salem Witch Trials
  
• the Peace of Westphalia
• The 'Glorius Revolution' and the Jacobites
• Russia under Peter the Great
• Dr. Samual Johnsn and the first English Dictionary
  
• Frederick the Great of Prussia
• Seven Years War/French and Indian War

Book Four: 1776 to Present

• The 13 Colonies
• Lives of the founders:
• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams
• ???
• The Declaration of Independence & Revolution
• no taxation without representation
• Boston tea party
• Paul Revere
• The shots heard round the world
• the declaration of indepence
• the revolutionary war
• a new nation
  
• the consitutional convention
• The French Revolution & Napoleon
• Louis XVI
• the 'Englightenment'
  
• The French Revolution
• The Reign of Terror
• Napoleon
• Admiral Nelson
• Duke Wellington
• the "Pax Britannica"
• Later 19th Century
• Industrial revolution
  
• Queen Victoria
• abolition in Britain
• the Irish Potato Famine
• Australia & New Zealand
• India
  
• The California gold rush
• Revolutions of 1848
• the British Empire
• Charge of the Light Brigade
• reform in Russia
• decline of the Ottoman Empire
  
• Charles Dickens
  
• The American Civil War
• slavery
• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglas
• secession
• civil war
• reconstruction
• emancipation proclamation
• Even Later 19th Century
• Meeting with the East: Trade with China and the Opening of Japan
• Trans continental railroad
• labor movement
• industrialization
• 20th Century
  
• Wright Brothers
• G.K Chesterton
• World War I
• Russian Revolution & Communism
• Laurence of Arabia and the search for Arab Freedom
  
• Irish Revolution & Independence
• the Jazz Age
• the Great Depression
• the rise of Nazism and Fascism
• Stalin
• World War II
• the Iron Curtain
• founding of the state of Israel
• communism in China
• Korean War
• anti-communism in the US
• spies in the cold war
• Vietnam War
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