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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