English History

Grades 8-12
Taught by: Ann Bowman
Class Meets: Thursdays, 11-Noon, First Semester

This history class will focus on the stories of one group of people, the kings and queens of England. Each week students will study one of these rulers and the impact that person had on the lives of the people around them. The class will tie the actions of these powerful monarchs with the events in Europe and the world of their time, with a specific eye on how these actions influenced future events. English literature will also be included in this course.

Text: The Story of Britain: A Narrative History by Rebecca Fraser (less than $20 from Amazon).
The following list of books will also be needed (list is not complete):

• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
  or Robin Hood by Robert Leeson
  or Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• A Traveler in Time by Alison Uteley
  or Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
  or So Merciful a Queen, so Cruel a Woman by Elizabeth Harwood,
  or Utopia by Sir Thomas More
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
  or Flambards by K. M. Peyton
  or a novel by Jane Austen

.5 NARHS Credit