One Year of Virginia History

Unit Literature

- A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
- My Side of the Mountain series by Jean Craighead George
- Rascal by Sterling North
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
- Blood on the River by Elise Carbone
- Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
- Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
- Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
- Walt Whitman Civil War Poetry and Prose
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Tangier Island by Rick Parks
- Writings of John Muir, Thoreau, Wendell Berry
- Waterman’s Child by Barbara Mitchell
- A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry
- Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William Warner
- Waterman’s Boy by Susan Sharpe

- Watersheds by Clive Dobson and Gregor Beck
- A Crow Doesn’t Need a Shadow: A Guide for Writing Poetry from Nature by Lorraine Ferra

Two Years of World History

Year 1: Ancient through Medieval World (The Communal Identity)

ESV Study Bible
Great Myths of the World by Padraic Collum
The Tree of Life by Peter Sis
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliffe
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (parallel texts)
Confucius by Russell Freedman
Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel
The Lais of Marie de France
Decameron by Boccaccio
The Canterbury Tales retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L Konigsburg
Muhammad by Demi
Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam by Diane Stanley
Saint Francis of Assisi by Demi
The Feathered Serpent by Scott O’Dell

Year 2: Renaissance to the Present (The Individual Identity)

Leonardo daVinci by Diane Stanley
Michelangelo by Diane Stanley
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise by Marc Aronson
The United States Constitution
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson
Kids at Work by Russell Freedman
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary by Ruud van der Rol
Snow Falling in Spring by Moying Li