Exploring World History: Curriculum Pack

Grades 9 - 12

From Creation to the 21st century, Exploring World History presents ancient, medieval, and modern history from the perspective of faith in God and respect for His Word. It offers a thorough survey of Western civilization with significant coverage of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The hardcover books feature hundreds of full-color photographs and illustrations.

Completing the full course provides your child with a year's high school credit in World History, English, and Bible. Depending on how fast your child reads and how much time he spends on the unit projects, he may need an average of 2-3 hours for each daily lesson. The history credit involves reading the lessons and the original documents (and answering the questions in the optional Student Review if desired). The English credit involves completing writing assignments and reading the assigned literature. The Bible credit involves reading large portions of the Bible and completing the Bible study lesson for each unit. The unit projects offer a wide variety of activities that tie into history, English, and Bible.

The Curriculum Package includes:

• Part 1: Creation Through the Middle Ages (first semester)
• Part 2: The Renaissance to the Present (second semester)
• In Their Words: Original Documents, Speeches, Poems, and Stories from World History (assigned readings)

This package does not include any review or test material or the recommended literature, which will need to be purchased separately.

The literature used in the course:

• The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
• Here I Stand by Roland Bainton
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Bridge to the Sun by Gwen Terasaki
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis