AMBLESIDE ONLINE CURRICULUM
and MAP TREK MAPS
Selected Titles from Year One
SUBJECT/
Book Title
MAP TREK MAPS
(AW=Ancient World MV=Medieval World
NW=New World MD=Modern World US = US Map Trek )
History
• An Island Story
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold
•
Viking Tales
• Trial and Triumph (CH 1-9)
•
See Table 1A below
•
See Table 1B below
•
MV: Viking Expansion
•
MV: City centers of Europe; The Reformation.
MD: World Map (political); Boxer Rebellion in
China
•
Paddle to the Sea
GEOGRAPHY
• MD: Dominion of Canada: Great Lakes
•
Benjamin Franklin
AMERICAN HISTORY
•
George Washington
•
Buffalo Bill
•
NW: New England Colonies
•
NW: American Revolution; Early Battles of
Rev. War
•
NW: The Pony Express/Telegraph Lines;
Westward Expansion; Growth of USA(map 2)
•
The Aesop for Children
LITERATURE & TALES
•
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
•
Blue Fairy Book
•
Just so Stories
• AW: Golden Age of Greece
• NW: Elizabethan London
• MD: World Map (political : various)
•
MD: India under the Rule of the British East
India Co
.
•
King of the Golden River
Selected Titles from Free Reading
•
Red Fairy Book
•
St. George and the Dragon
•
Little House in the Big Woods
•
Pocahontas
• MD: World Map (political: Austria)
• MD: World Map (political: Various)
• MV: 12
th
Century Europe
• US: State Maps (Wisconsin)
•
NW: James Towne
AMBLESIDE ONLINE CURRICULUM and MAP TREK MAPS
Table 1A: An Island Story by H. E. Marshall (Chapters 1-21)
Chapter Titles
Map Trek Maps
CH 1-6: Albion & Brutus – The Last of the Romans
AW = The Roman Empire
CH 7-20 : St. Alban – Alfred the Great
MV = Viking Expansion
CH 21: Edward the Confessor
MV = Norman Conquests; 12
th
Century Europe
AMBLESIDE ONLINE CURRICULUM and MAP TREK MAPS
TABLE 1B: 50 Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin
Title of Story
Map Trek Maps
( AW=Ancient World; MV=Medieval World;
NW= New World; MD=Modern World)
Sword of Damocles
Damon and Pythias
The Brave 300
AW: Golden Age of Greece
Alexander and Bucephalus
Diogenes
Story of Regulus
Cornelia and Jewels
Horatius at the Bridge
AW: Roman Empire
The Story of Cincinnatus
Androclus and the Lion
King Alfred and the Beggar
MV: City centers of Europe
(Saxon England 400-1066 AD)
Bruce and the Spider
MV: City centers of Europe
(Britain 1329)
The Black Douglas
MV: City centers of Europe (
Britain 1330)
Whittington
MV: City centers of Europe
(Britain 1423)
The Story of William Tell
MV: City centers of Europe
(Switzerland 1300’s)
The Inchcape Rock
MV: City centers of Europe
(North Sea 1500’s)
Casabianca
MV: City Centers of Europe
(Mediterranean coast of Egypt
1798 Battle of the Nile)
Sir Philip Sidney
MV: The Netherlands
( Netherlands 1586)
The Ungrateful Soldier
MV: The Expansion of Sweden (
Battle between Swedes/Danes
1680)
George Washington and His Hatchet
NW
:
New England Colonies
Doctor Goldsmith
NW: England Industrial Revolution
Picciola
NW: French Revolution
( a good map of France)
How Napoleon Crossed the Alps
NW: Napoleonic Wars
(Alps 1800’s)
Maximilian and the Gooseherd
NW: Prussia
(Bavaria 1800’s)
Antonio Canova
MD: Italy and the Balkan Peninsula
(Venice Italy 1822)
Grace Darling
MD: England Industrial Revolution
(1838)
The Kingdoms
NW: Prussia
(Prussia )
By Sandy Moore, Copyright 2010, Knowledge Quest, Inc.