PREAP WORLD HISTORY - Georgetown ISD



PREAP WORLD HISTORY

READING LIST

Instructions:

You can choose one book per nine weeks in lieu of the test that covers the books content. You will be required to participate in a twice weekly book chat online on a sanctioned educational website. Books denoted by (2) mean that these are good for a replacement for 2 tests but will require more participation online.

Your grade will be based on:

a) you participate twice weekly for nine weeks

b) the appropriateness of your responses to online questions

Any Nine Weeks

The Religions of Man – Huston Smith (2)

A History of Christianity – Paul Johnson – (2)

Plagues and Peoples – William Mcneill - (2)

The Discoverers – Daniel Boorstin (2)

Rise and Fall of the Great Powers – Paul Kennedy (2)

The Road to Serfdom – F.A. Hayek (2)

A History of the Arab Peoples – Albert Hourani (2) selections

The End of History and the Last Man -

First Nine Weeks

The Spartans – Paul Cartledge

The King Must Die – Mary Renault

Last of the Wine – Mary Renault

The Greeks - HDF Kitto

The Campaigns of Alexander – Arrian

Phillip of Macedon – Peter Green

The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman by William K. Klingaman (2)

The Gallic Wars – Julius Caesar

Desire of the Everlasting Hills: Life Before and After Jesus – Thomas Cahill

The Battle That Stopped Rome – Peter Wells

The Life of Herod – Josephus

Jesus – Michael Grant (2)

Second Nine Weeks

How the Irish saved Civilization – Thomas Cahill

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Medieval Myths – Norma Goodrich

A World Lit only By Fire – William Manchester (2)

The Devils Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe – James Chambers

The Two Lives of Charlemagne – Einhard and Notker-the Stammerer

Third Nine Weeks

Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke

Fourth Nine Weeks

Origins of the Second World War – AJP Taylor

The Assault – Harry Mulisch

The Prince of Marshes – Rory Stewart

Music and Society since 1815 – Henry Raynor

From Beirut to Jerusalem – Thomas Friedman

The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman

Dispatches – Michael Herr

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