Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Workspace for High School Lit/Religion/History Readings

high school age with our discussion group

(some books under consideration - in no particular order at the moment)

The New Testament

The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers by Mike Aquilina

Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know by Diane Moczar

Pope Fiction by Patrick Madrid

Helena by Evelyn Waugh (I'm still in the middle of reading this myself - nearly done)

St. Athanasius by F.A. Forbes

Beowulf

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Song of Roland

The Ballad of the White Horse

Something by/about St. Augustine - Confessions, Vision biography (good, but a little tough since it's out of print)?

The Confession of Saint Patrick

Fabiola

selections from Flowers of Heaven: One Thousand Years of Christian Verse

selections from The Portable Medieval Reader (though many of these are likely available online)

selections from The Treasury of Catholic Wisdom

The Gospel Story and It is Paul Who Writes by Ronald Knox

And On This Rock by Stanley Jaki

Some Louis de Wohl Books

Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot

William the Conqueror by Hilaire Belloc

Robin Hood (Roger Lancelyn Green)

King Arthur (Green or Pyle)

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods

What is the Bible by Henri Daniel-Rops

Voyages of Brendan the Navigator

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