Joshua through Malachi & Ancient Greece

Summary

With these books your family will study Bible history from Joshua through Malachi and the history of Ancient Greece and its interactions with Persia—especially her kings who are mentioned in the Old Testament: Darius, Xerxes, Artaxerxes, Cyrus—along with Italy, Sicily, Macedonia, Syria, Judea and Jerusalem, Babylon, Libya, and Egypt. Geography will be covered through locating the regions read about and a modern-day look at the Middle East (since many of the events of the Old Testament are centered there). Older students will complete several studies in Proverbs and work on a six-year project of looking for doctrinal truths as they read through the Bible.

Daily lesson plans for these books are available in Joshua through Malachi and Ancient Greece.

Book List for History, Geography, Bible

Read the books listed under Family to all the students together. Add the grade-level books as individual reads for any children you have in those grades. For example, if you have students in grades 2 and 5, you will want to get the books under Family, Grades 1–3, and Grades 4–6.

[SCM]: Available from SCM
[Book Store]: Purchase from your favorite book store
[Library]: Check your library
[Public Domain]: Available free in the public domain

You can also view all the books below in the CM Bookfinder for easy scheduling in our CM Organizer.

Family

• Bible
• Book StoreThe Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber, edited by Christine Miller, Fourth edition (Nothing New Press; The Nothing New Press edition contains revised and expanded material used in the lesson plans which is not included in other editions.)
• SCMThe Stuff They Left Behind: From the Days of Ancient Greece portfolio
• Book StoreThen and Now Bible Maps from Rose Publishing
• SCMVisits to the Middle East notebook (one for each student)
• SCMHungry Planet by Peter Menzel (used with Visits to the Middle East)
• SCMMaterial World by Peter Menzel (used with Visits to the Middle East)

plus . . .
Grades 1–3

• Public DomainOur Little Athenian Cousin of Long Ago by Julia Darrow Cowles
• Public DomainOur Little Spartan Cousin of Long Ago by Julia Darrow Cowles
• Book StoreThe Big Picture Bible Time Line by Carol Eide (optional)
• Book StoreThe Child’s Story Bible by Catherine Vos (optional)
• Book StoreThe Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey by Demi (optional, used with Visits to the Middle East)
• Book StoreThe Pearl Diver by Julia Johnson (optional, used with Visits to the Middle East)
• Book StoreSaluki: Hound of the Bedouin by Julia Johnson (optional, used with Visits to the Middle East)
• Book StoreSilent Music: A Story of Baghdad by James Rumford (optional, used with Visits to the Middle East)
• Book StoreWaiting for the Owl’s Call by Gloria Whelan (optional, used with Visits to the Middle East)

Grades 4–6

• LibraryArchimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick
• LibraryHerodotus and the Road to History by Jeanne Bendick
• Public DomainOur Little Athenian Cousin of Long Ago by Julia Darrow Cowles
• Public DomainOur Little Spartan Cousin of Long Ago by Julia Darrow Cowles
• Book StoreThe Big Picture Bible Time Line by Carol Eide (optional)
• Book StoreMosque by David Macaulay (optional, used with Visits to the Middle East)

Grades 7–9

• Book StoreBlack Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
• SCMBook of Centuries (one for each student)
• SCMDiscovering Doctrine by Sonya Shafer (one for each student)
• LibraryThe Parthenon by Elizabeth Mann
• Book StoreThe Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff
• SCMWisdom for Life: A Proverbs Bible Study by Sonya Shafer (one for each student)
• Public DomainA Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great by Alfred Church
• Book StoreMosque by David Macaulay (optional, used with Visits to the Middle East)

Grades 10–12

• SCMBook of Centuries (one for each student)
• SCMDiscovering Doctrine by Sonya Shafer (one for each student)
• Public DomainThe Odyssey by Homer
• Public DomainPlutarch’s Greek Lives, biography of Alexander by Plutarch
• Public DomainThe Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato
• Public DomainA Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
• SCMWisdom for Life: A Proverbs Bible Study by Sonya Shafer (one for each student)
• Book StoreMosque by David Macaulay (optional, used with Visits to the Middle East)

Bonus Titles

Here are more great titles that you can use for substitutions or leisure reading or to create your own heritage history stream as desired. We will add to this list as we discover and review more new-to-us books.

Grades 1–3

• The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War by Emily Little
• Aesop’s Fables
• The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky

Grades 4–6

• A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Golden Fleece by Padraic Colum
• The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum

Grades 5–12

• Digging for Troy: From Homer to Hisarlik by Jill Rubalcaba and Eric H. Cline

Grades 7–12

• Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson
• Within the Palace Gates by Anna Siviter

Grades 10–12

• The Iliad by Homer
• Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis