Year Four Scope and Sequence
Curriculum Options
Integrated System (Whole Family)
Integrated Subject Sets
Individual Subjects
Individual Studies
Week Titles
Unit 1
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Week 2: The Progressive Era
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
Week 7: Postwar America
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20s & Russia’s Stalin
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
Unit 2
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
Week 15: World-Wide War
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
Unit 3
Week 19: India’s Independence
Week 20: China’s Revolution
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
Week 23: Conformity and Change
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
Unit 4
Week 28: Nixon: Detente and Watergate
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
Week 32: G.H.W Bush’s New World Order
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
Supporting Links
History
General
Great link for the whole year!
Wonderful huge site: Atlas of the 20th Century.
All ages will love this site on US Government. This site transcends unit boundaries. It’s GREAT!
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon is now online: read from the screen or print to your heart’s content.
Eyewitness History is GREAT! It has first-hand accounts, graphics, and a wonderfully user-friendly interface. Bookmark today and use it all four years! I recommend that you start by clicking on “index” and then scroll through, noting upcoming topics in your Year-Plan! Enjoy!
Timelines
- Timeline Book Instructions
- Timeline Maker
- Timeline (and much more!) of Presidents of the 20th Century. Check it out!
- Interactive Technology Timeline from PBS. GREAT!
Presidents:
- Do you want pictures only? Click here for a picture gallery.
- Another excellent site for studying the Presidents: POTUS (Presidents of the United States)
- Coloring pages of every president for your Lower Grammar kids.
- Site for inaugural addresses of the presidents.
- Presidential Powers
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
General Resources for this Unit
- A site on fashions from 1900-1910.
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- For review, you might want to look over this excellent site on the Spanish-American War.
- This link is from The Henry Ford museum site.
- Another wonderful PBS site with ideas you could use if you wanted to study this century through the eyes of the history of aviation. Here are the Wright Brothers!
- Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on Teddy Roosevelt. Includes: link to video you can buy (its script is posted on the site) and free video clips you can click to and view on your computer. Plus: excerpts from key speeches, texts of several important letters, the 1912 Progressive Party platform, a link to a full, free copy of The Rough Riders, and more links to other sites connected with TR!
- Booker T. & W.E.B. An interesting comparison of strategy for black social and economic progress. Look for a bias.
- Helen Keller biography. Scroll down to find another link to lots of pictures of Miss Keller.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Queen Victoria
- Edward VII
- Mother Jones
- J.P. Morgan
- Booker T. Washington
- George Eastman
- Max Planck
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Willis Carrier
- Henry Ford
- For your mini-report project:
A Nation Rises (1700s-1840)
- Early technological developments and a timeline of events.
- The Erie Canal
The Century of Iron (1844-1859)
- Political turmoil in 1848
- Darwinism and Social Darwinism
- A Nation Torn and Reborn (1860-1869)
- Homesteaders and sodbusters
- The age of the cowboy: click here and here
- Completion of the Atlantic Cable
Through the Golden Door (1870-1899)
- Freud explores the unconscious
- Booker T. Washington and black progress.
- American literature
- War with Spain
Significant Milestones (1900-1902)
- Technology: George Eastman
- The Boxer Rebellion
- Physics: Max Planck
- Invention of the radio.
- End of Victorian age: Victoria’s death and rise of King Edward VII.
- The Second Boer War (Anglo-Boer War): click here and here.
- Building urban America: Andrew Carnegie, Willis Carrier
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- Hawaiian history
- Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on Teddy Roosevelt. Includes: link to video you can buy (its script is posted on the site) and free video clips you can click to and view on your computer. Plus: excerpts from key speeches, texts of several important letters, the 1912 Progressive Party platform, a link to a full, free copy of The Rough Riders, and more links to other sites connected with TR!
- PBS site on Harry Houdini.
- After reading about Father Damien, listed under Church History, read about the disease of leprosy, and the ongoing missionary work among those stricken with leprosy.
- Panama Canal history, books, and pictures!
- Wonderful site for all ages on the Panama Canal. Keep following links to history and photos!
- Live camera on the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal!
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Taft
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Sigmund Freud
- Albert Einstein
- John Arthur “Jack” Johnson: biography and documentary
- Sun Yat-sen
- Anglo-Persian Oil Company
- Jane Addams
- WWI: general sites for the 4-week study, all levels:
- PBS on the Great War
- firstworldwar.com has articles and multimedia resources
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Actual pictures of a U-boat sinking a merchant marine vessel.
- General purpose site with much wonderful information on WWI.
- U-boats of WWI
- Interactive web site featuring an overview of the history and organization of the Federal Reserve, the monetary policy and regulatory functions, and the services provided to depository institutions. Site also includes interactive simulations with ways to test knowledge, such as quizzes and a virtual Bank examination
- Visit the mystical world of the Fed and talk about terms like monetary policy, discount rates, and open market operation. We’ll find out just what kinds of tasks fill Alan Greenspan’s day, and see how his and the Federal Reserve Board’s decisions affect our everyday lives
- Woodrow Wilson
- Victoriano Huerta
- Venustiano Carranza: click here and here
- Pancho Villa
- Franz Ferdinand
- Wilhelm II
- Nicholas II
- Alfred von Schlieffen
- Helmuth von Moltke
- Joseph Joffre
- Paul Von Hindenburg
- Erich Ludendorff
- Margaret Sanger
- Edward VII
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Charles Lindbergh
- Posters from the Great War
- Erich von Falkenhayn
- Joseph Joffre
- Douglas Haig
- Alexei Brusilov
- Nicholas II
- Alexandra Feodorovna
- Rasputin
- Vladimir Lenin
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin
- Manfred von Richthofen
- Edith Cavell
- Alexei Brusilov
- Marxist Socialism
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- Review Russian history up to the Russian Revolution. This page is especially good for those who are new to Tapestry in Year 4.
- Joe DiMaggio
- Woodrow Wilson
- Manfred von Richthofen
- Robert Nivelle
- Vladimir Lenin
- Alexander Kerensky
- John Pershing
- William Sims
- Sir Douglas Haig
- Nicholas II
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- Read about the Influenza epidemic during WWI that claimed more lives at home than the war did overseas
- Woodrow Wilson
- David Lloyd George
- Georges Clemenceau
- Vittorio Orlando
- Erich Ludendorff
- Ferdinand Foch
- John Pershing
- Wilhelm II
- Rupert Brooke
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Wilfred Owen
Week 7: Postwar America
- Spirit of St. Louis
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer
- Sigmund Freud
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Lucretia Mott
- Susan B. Anthony
- Lucy Stone
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Harriot Stanton Blatch
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- Vladimir Lenin
- Leon Trotsky
- Warren Harding
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Louis Armstrong
- Duke Ellington
- George Gershwin
- Langston Hughes
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- Great Depression: Riding the Rails
- Great Depression: Questions for an interview with a Senior adult
- Great web site with tons of resources on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
- Babe Ruth
- Calvin Coolidge
- Adolf Hitler
- Heinrich Himmler
- Hermann Goering
- Julius Streicher
- Ernst Roehm
- Charles Lindbergh
- William Jennings Bryan
- Clarence Darrow
- Edwin Hubble
- Charlie Chaplin
- Jack Dempsey
- John Scopes
- For the dialectic study of Mussolini: Benito Mussolini
- For the dialectic study of Mussolini: Encyclopedia Britannica on Benito Mussolini (Italian dictator)
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
General Resources for this Unit
- Detailed site on WWII
- WWII timeline
- Outstanding index of sites dealing with WWII. Heavily hyper linked text and a joy to use.
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- Excellent online biography of Adolph Hitler. Detailed and interesting!
- Outstanding site on the Hitler Youth.
- Scopes Trial
- Great web site with tons of resources on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
- The Hoover Dam
- Walt Disney, the man behind the mouse.
- Herbert Hoover
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Great Depression: Riding the Rails
- Time’s Man of the Year: Stalin! In 1942!
- Life of Joseph Stalin
- Facism (* website artwork features modern art statues that may be nudes) and How Facism Works
- Radio broadcast of the Hindenburg disaster.
- Herbert Hoover
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Beautiful, detailed site from PBS on FDR. Includes: link to video you can buy (its script is posted on the site) and free video clips you can click to and view on your computer. Plus: excerpts from key speeches, texts of several important letters, and more links to other sites connected with FDR
- Wonderful, detailed biography of FDR, with MANY MANY hyper links to subtopics associated with FDR’s life and presidency. Dialectic and up! Great if you want to follow subtopics you get interested in this week.
- Great links to further reading on FDR
- Fireside chat transcripts
- Listen to people talking about their experiences during the Depression
- For your dialectic assignment: John Maynard Keynes
- For your dialectic assignment: Learn about the Keynesian Theory
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Social Security Board (SSB)
- Federal Housing (Authority) Administration (FHA)
- Federal Communications Commission
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- Excellent online biography of Adolph Hitler. Detailed and interesting! Read Part 2: The Triumph of Hitler this week.
- Listen to Bing Crosby’s Little Drummer Boy.
- Outstanding highly hyper linked page on Neville Chamberlain. This page will give you MUCH valuable information that is not available in enrichment books recommended for this week. Please take some time to follow hyper links that interest you, or are terms/events about which you know very little. This site is highly recommended.
- This link on the policy of appeasement from the above page is HIGHLY recommended reading this week, especially the primary source quotes at the bottom. In reading them you will gain valuable insight into WHY this policy was followed.
- Outline of Hitler’s maneuvers Leading up to the Munich Crisis. Wonderful original audio clips from various world leaders including the leaders of Britain (Chamberlain), Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Germany (Hitler).
- Neville Chamberlain is often quoted (and belittled) for his famous statement that his appeasement of Hitler over Czechoslovakia at the Munich Conference had earned Europe “peace in our time.” To read the text of his ironic statement, click here
- Official Amelia Earhart site, or read about her last flight here.
- Corrie ten Boom
- For the dialectic study of Mussolini: Encyclopedia Britannica on Benito Mussolini (Italian dictator)
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany after the Nazis invade Poland. Audio clip and text.
- More on Blitzkreig strategies and weaponry.
- Many details on the Panzer Tanks used in WWII, especially in the Blitzkreig phase of the war.
- Wonderful page detailing the Nazi-Soviet pact that took the world by surprise on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Poland.
- Good overview of Churchill’s life, with many hyper links to key events and concepts in understanding this great man’s times and actions.
- Winston Churchill
- Battle of Britain home page.
- Compilation of original WWII documents, including the Atlantic Charter.
- Corrie ten Boom
- For the dialectic study of Mussolini: New World Encyclopedia on Benito Mussolini
- For the dialectic study of Mussolini: Encyclopedia Britannica on Benito Mussolini (Italian dictator)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Week 15: World-Wide War
- Holocaust timeline. Many pictures. Many linked histories. Pulls no punches; parental supervision suggested.
- Memory of the Camps: this documentary on the liberation of the German concentration camps in 1945 was assembled in London that year, but never shown until FRONTLINE first broadcast it – 40 years later – in May of 1985.
- Three women who refused to remain passive in the face of the Holocaust. PBS.
- Learn about the role of the Swiss during WWII as the Nazi’s bankers. PBS site called Nazi Gold.
- Fascinating site about race relations between Jews and Blacks: From Swastika to Jim Crow.
- Corrie ten Boom
- World War II Propaganda Posters
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Rosie the Riveter
- The Lend-Lease Act: details and primary source documents, if you scroll down.
- The United States and the Holocaust
- PBS site on treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. For another great site on this subject, also by PBS, click here.
- Detailed NOVA site on Albert Einstein. Outstanding!
- Copy of Albert Einstein’s letter to President Roosevelt recommending the development of the atomic bomb.
- For the dialectic study of Mussolini: Encyclopedia Britannica Benito Mussolini
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- Cold War
- Another Cold War site
- Learn about the little-known powerbroker of the 1900’s — Jesse H. Jones.
- Harry S. Truman
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- Outstanding web site: Maps to use in Geography assignments this week.
- Selection of documents relevant to all sides of the Middle East conflict. They go back before our time period, and forward well beyond it.
- Another great site for your Grammar level students to aide in learning more about Israel.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- India site for kids
- Indian Recipes
- In case you can’t get recommended books this week, learn all about Gandhi from this site. Has text, pictures, hyperlinks for in-depth research.
- This site claims to be the “official” Gandhi site, and is notable for its many quotes from him, and fine pictures. Probably better for Dialectic and up.
- Gandhi and salt. Here’s an article on the effects of the British salt taxation policies.
- Excellent explanation of why Gandhi is seen in so many pictures spinning thread.
- Another time line of Gandhi’s life.
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- China for Kids – you have to scroll a little to get to the information.
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.
- Mao-Tse-tung
- A good Mao-Tse-tung site.
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Korea – The Forgotten War – This site has LOTS of information, pictures, video, etc…
- In depth summary of the Korean War.
- Harry S. Truman
- Harry S. Truman – Library and Museum
- How the Atomic Bomb was built and how it works.
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Timeline of Martin Luther King’s life.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Chart to fill in on Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Origins of the Vietnam War: links here.
- A YouTube video summary: China’s “Great Leap Forward” under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung.
- Timeline of events and interesting information from each year in the 1950s.
- History of McDonalds
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- To answer questions in your Student Activity Pages: Wikipedia on the Pan-African Congress, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
- PBS on the history of the Black Press.
- Text of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
- Martin Luther King, Jr site for kids. It has information, quizzes and resources.
- Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
- Timeline of events and interesting information from each year in the 1950s.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
- PBS site on Vietnam: many links. Outstanding.
- Almost everything you could want on JFK: the JFK Library and Museum. His biography, his speeches, lot’s on Jacqueline, etc.
- John F. Kennedy
- Freedom Rides
- Timeline of events in the 1960s
- Yuri Gagarin: First man in space.
- Alan Shepard:First American in space.
- Alan Shepard and Yuri Gagarin
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- To answer questions in your Student Activity Pages: Organization of African Unity
- Civil Rights Events
- Video: James Meredith’s attempt to register at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
- Website: Montgomery, AL Civil Rights Marches
- Photo: Montgomery, AL Civil Rights Marches
- Photo: Montgomery, AL Civil Rights Marches
- Photo: Montgomery, AL Civil Rights Marches
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Webpage: March on Washington
- Video: March on Washington
- Audio and Text: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Civil Rights Speech
- Speech before the Berlin Wall
- Video: Kennedy’s assassination
- Newspaper: Kennedy’s assassination
- Photo Gallery: Kennedy’s assassination and the aftermath.
- The Space Race: Lots of information, a timeline, and American and international space programs.
- Studying the space race? Check out this great site all about the moon.
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- The “Great Society Speech”, by Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 (written)
- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a nutshell.
- PBS site on Vietnam: many links. Outstanding.
- The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Wall Page
- Sparknotes History Guide on Vietnam
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Malcolm X
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- PBS site on Vietnam: many links. Outstanding.
- Sparknotes History Guide on Vietnam
- Cold War
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Watergate Scandal
- The Vietnam War
- The Story of Agent Orange
- Man takes first steps on the moon
- Neil Armstrong
- Buzz Aldrin
- The Yom Kippur War
- Read about the overthrow of President Salvador Allende of Chile.
- Read more about Mao Zedong.
- Table Tennis and Ping Pong Diplomacy
- Yasir Arafat
- 1972 Olympics in Munich
- Read here about Israel.
- Read here about Lebanon.
- Richard M. Nixon
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- Gerald Ford
- Stagflation in the 1970’s
- History of the computer
- Overview of the Persian Gulf War
- “Cold War” between Saudi Arabia and Iran
- Great link on the Persian Gulf War
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Wozniak
- White Revolution
- Death of Mao
- The Fall of Saigon
- Civil War in Lebanon
- Shah of Iran
- Read here about Jordan.
- Read here about Syria.
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Jimmy Carter
- Overview of the Persian Gulf War
- “Cold War” between Saudi Arabia and Iran
- Camp David Peace Accords
- Karen Ann Quinlan
- Short biography about Jack Kevorkian
- James Warren Jones
- Nelson Mandela
- Anwar al-Sadat
- Menachem Begin
- Saddam Hussein
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Shah of Iran
- Deng Xiaoping
- Chinese History: Four Modernizations
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- The Iranian Revolution
- Iranian Revolution in pictures
- Read here about Egypt.
- Read here about Iran.
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- Ronald Reagan
- Time line of Personal Computer
- Reaganomics
- “The Long Ordeal of James Brady”
- History of HIV and AIDS: parents you may want to preview this site! There is tons of good information here on the disease, but also information on sex and sexuality.
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Steven Wozniak
- Read about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster here.
- Watch the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on YouTube. Parents may want to preview before students see this.
- Mikhail Gorbachev: biography and video
- Saddam Hussein
- The Iran-Iraq War
- Read here about Iraq.
- Read here about Oman.
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- George H.W. Bush
- The Persian Gulf War
- History of the World Wide Web
- Read some interesting facts about Operation Desert Storm.
- General Norman Schwarzkopf
- Freedom for Nelson Mandela: be sure and play the video to watch the celebration of his release.
- Manuel Noriega
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Boris Yeltsin
- Saddam Hussein
- Read here about Saudi Arabia.
- Read here about Kuwait.
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- Frontline presentation on The Gulf War.
- To answer questions in your Student Activity Pages: Scroll down at to “Post-colonial politics 1960-1990” and “Types of African governments 1960-1990” while you explore Africa
- Bill Clinton
- Outstanding PBS-linked site on The Clinton Years.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Read about the 2000 election.
- Bill Gates
- The trial of O.J. Simpson
- Princess Diana
- Civil War in Rwanda
- Yugoslav Wars
- Read a “Dissident Voice,” which tells about the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
- Slobodan Milosevic
- Yasser Arafat
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Read here about Bahrain.
- Read here about Cyprus.
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- Rwanda Genocide: click here or here.
- George W. Bush
- Laura Bush
- Read about alternative energy.
- Learn about steroids at kidshealth.org.
- What is social networking?
- Watch an interactive graphic about Hurricane Katrina. (It is slow to load, but is worth the wait!)
- Department of Homeland Security
- Read the chronology of events that took place on 9/11.
- Watch the tragic events of September 11, 2001 on YouTube.
- Forbes has a chart that tells about corporate scandals that you may find helpful.
- Alberto Gonzales
- Highlights of the Patriot Act
- Osama bin Laden
- Saddam Hussein
- Read here about Qatar.
- Read here about Turkey.
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- To answer questions in your Student Activity Pages: African Union
- Barack Obama
- The legacy of Mao Zedong
- Read here or here about United Arab Emirates.
- Read here or here about Yemen.
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
Geography
We suggest that you use a good world history atlas so that your students can have practice at the skill of using maps and legends. Click the link below for our recommendation. The next choice is to use the supporting links that you find here. Please only let your student look at the teacher map in Map Aids as a last resort.
General
Online Maps, Map Vendors, and More!
- Euratlas
- Outstanding interactive map quizzes, puzzles and downloads!
- HyperHistory: Main page for links to resource maps, online time lines, much much more! Easy to use. Great online resource!
- Maps.com: Buy some, print some: all the maps you ever wanted in one place.
- National Geographic: All the modern source maps you could want. Black & White: print at will for private use!
- Map of Colonial Africa in 1930.
- From Susan in Florida: This should be of help to those wanting to printout their maps online. US 50 States, Counties of the US
- Knowledgequestmaps.com: black outline maps to purchase.
- MegaMaps: print up maps from the size of a single page to 7 feet across!
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Great site: includes helpful text and maps.
- A helpful site for geography terms.
- Blank outline map of the United States.
- Simple map showing the British Empire.
- Map of Europe in 1900: This map will be key to your review this week.
- African Imperialism
- Map and information about Eastern Africa
- Map and information about Central Africa
- Map of Africa, Imperial boundaries, 1914
- European Colonies in Africa and Asia
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- Map of the Baltics
- This is a really neat animated atlas that you can use many more times while studying the rest of this year-plan. Don’t miss it!
- Country size comparison: Russia Compared to Japan
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Detailed map of Europe before 1914
- Blank map of Europe
- Allied and Central Powers
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Excellent! All the maps you’ll need for teaching about WWI.
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- Outline map of Russia
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- Map of Europe after WWI
- Europe: Before and after WWI
- Blank map of Europe
Week 7: Postwar America
- No objectives for this week.
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- No links for this week.
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- No Link Available
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
General Resources for this Unit
- Outstanding site has many maps and other geographic information on WWII.
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Dust Bowl
- This map should help you discover the location of totalitarian governments.
- Map of Interwar Europe
- Blank map of Europe
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- No objectives for this week.
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- Earhart’s Around the World Flight: Interactive map. Scroll down to go from her starting point to her final destination.
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- WWII Blitzkrieg! 1939-1940 maps
- Blank map of Europe.
- Maps of key WWII battles: click here and here.
Week 15: World-Wide War
- These interactive maps should help show the spread of WWII.
- One more set of maps that you will find helpful this week.
- A helpful link for learning more about the Balkans.
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- No objectives for this week.
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- No Link Available
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- Outline map of the Middle East
- Another choice for an outline map of the Middle East
- Find every label in the Student Activity Pages here.
- Predominant religions and ethnicity of the Middle-east here
- Operation World: click country lists. Click on Asia to find individual middle-east countries. National pages have information regarding people, languages, and religions of a particular area.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Salt March of India and map
- How to make a Salt Map.
- A salt dought map example.
- Outline map of India
- Map of India
- Monsoons: information and pictures.
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- How to make a Salt Map.
- A salt dough map example.
- Animated map of Mao’s Long March.
- All the outline maps, geographical information, and map labels you’ll need for a study of China.
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- No Link Available
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Outline map of Cuba
- Information on Cuba
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- Outline map of the Southern states
- South and Central America
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- Outline map of Vietnam from EnchantedLearning.com
- Details about Vietnam from WorldAtlas.com
- Blank outline map of Vietnam
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- No links for this week.
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Map of United States and capitals (pdf file)
- List of world capitals
- Capitals of the World game
- Outline map of the Middle East (pdf file)
- Map of Middle East and capitals
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- List of world capitals
- Map of Middle East and capitals
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- List of world capitals
- Map of Middle East and capitals
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- List of world capitals
- Map of Middle East and capitals
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- List of world capitals
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- Interactive map showing the fall of Communism
- Ex-USSR and Iron Curtain Countries
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- List of world capitals
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- Interactive map showing the fall of Communism
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- Map of Afghanistan (Note that the Hari River is also called “The Harirud River”)
- Outline map of Afghanistan
- Map of Iraq
- Outline map of Iraq
- Map showing the Zagros Mountains in Iraq
- George Walker Bush
- Guantanamo Bay
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Map of Middle East and capitals
- List of world capitals
- Read about Mao Zedong’s legacy in China
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- Find the continents game
- A fun map game labeling the countries of the Middle East.
- More Games to review the Middle East
- List of world capitals
Worldview
General
- Does your denomination send out missionaries to various areas of the world? Do a Google search for your own mission’s site and bookmark it. Then, each week, you can return to that site and pray for specific missionaries!
- The “Ism” Book: an online book for basic definitions that will help you in your worldview studies.
- YWAM: missionary puzzles and coloring pages
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Do you understand these terms and remember these key people? If not, take some time to click and review!
Take some time to look up names with which you are not familiar. See if you can spot their position with regard to the terms listed above:
There have been outstanding people and events worldwide that must also be remembered in any quick review of the history of the Church to the beginning of the 20th Century:
- John Bunyan
- Wilberforce
- William Carey
- Hudson Taylor
- David Livingstone
- Mary Slessor
- John Newton
- George Muller
- Charles H. Spurgeon
- Amy Carmichael
Week 2: The Progressive Era
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Fanny Crosby: scroll down to find a list of songs she wrote. Listen to them online!
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- Billy Sunday – focus on background, methods, and message
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- No links for this week.
Week 7: Postwar America
- The Screwtape Letters – discussion questions
- Eric Liddell
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- The Screwtape Letters – discussion questions
- Eric Liddell
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- The Screwtape Letters – discussion questions
- Eric Liddell
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
Week 15: World-Wide War
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Richard Wurmbrand – see a video of him and read his biography
- Voice of Martyrs
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- Richard Wurmbrand – see a video of him and read his biography
- Voice of Martyrs
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- Richard Wurmbrand – see a video of him and read his biography
- Voice of Martyrs
- Israeli’s Independence Day
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Ida Scudder – Reluctant Missionary
- Jacob DeShazer’s personal testimony.
- Jacob DeShazer interview on YouTube.
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- Ida Scudder – Reluctant Missionary
- Jacob DeShazer’s personal testimony
- Jacob DeShazer interview on YouTube.
- A study guide to “The Normal Christian Life” by Watchman Nee.
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Ida Scudder – Reluctant Missionary
- Jacob DeShazer’s personal testimony.
- Jacob DeShazer interview on YouTube.
- A study guide to “The Normal Christian Life” by Watchman Nee.
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
- Nate Saint – Site where you can receive a free book on his biography. Search “Nate Saint”
- Nate Saint
- Jim Elliot
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Nate Saint – Site where you can receive a free book on his biography. Search “Nate Saint”
- Nate Saint
- Jim Elliot
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
- Nate Saint – Site where you can receive a free book on his biography. Search “Nate Saint”
- Nate Saint
- Jim Elliot
- Billy Graham Quotes
- Billy Graham
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- Mother Teresa – Official Site
- Brother Andrew’s sermons
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Mother Teresa – Official Site
- Brother Andrew’s sermons
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- No Links Available
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- No links for this week.
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- No links for this week.
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
Literature
General
- FreeBooknotes.com presents Cliff’s Notes-like help for many works.
- You won’t believe this site. You can look up any word, you can even make your own glossary. You type in a list of vocabulary words, decide what you would like included and push send. You then get a professional paged glossary of all your words. AND IT IS FREE! (You do have to register first.)
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- No Link Available
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- No Link Available
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Read The Tales of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery
- The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov
- Spark Notes: The Cherry Orchard
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams
- Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery
- Spark Notes: All Quiet on the Western Front
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
- Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery
- Spark Notes: All Quiet on the Western Front
Week 7: Postwar America
- Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery
- T.S. Eliot
- Alliteration, Allusion
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- Spark Notes: Animal Farm
- How to identify literary satire
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
- The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
- Spark Notes: The Metamorphosis
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- Spark Notes for Our Town
- Spark Notes for The Great Gatsby
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins literature guide
- Spark Notes for The Red Pony
- Spark Notes for The Pearl
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- Spark Notes for The Glass Menagerie
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- Biography of Paul Gallico, author of The Snow Goose
- Snow Goose
- The Hundred Dresses activity pages from Scholastic.
- Understanding Poetry
- The Hundred Dresses: Lapbook
Week 15: World-Wide War
- Spark Notes for The Lord of the Flies
- Spark Notes for The Old Man and the Sea
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Glencoe study guide for The Chosen (.pdf file)
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- No links for this week.
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- The Little Prince book
- Spark Notes for The Little Prince
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Activities for One Grain of Rice
- The House of Sixty Fathers – Study Guide. This has overview, themes, questions and more.
- Homeless Bird – Study Guide
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- The House of Sixty Fathers – Study Guide. This has overview, themes, questions and more.
- Homeless Bird – Study Guide
- To Live movie
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Spark Notes for The Crucible
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Two-page pdf file that will give you more helps for teaching Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
- Flannery O’ Connor Site
- Spark Notes – “Everything that Rises Must Converge”, by Flannery O’Connor
- Spark Notes – “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, by Flannery O’Connor
- A Good Man is Hard To Find
- Everything That Rises Must Converge
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
- Where the Wild Things Are – Games and Activities
- The Snowy Day
- Preschool Activities for Winter
- The Phantom Tollbooth Activity Page
- Fahrenheit 451 – Spark Notes
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- James and the Giant Peach – Activities
- Spark Notes for To Kill a Mockingbird
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- Dragon Page Activities
- Dragon Coloring Pages
- Water Buffalo Days – Activities
- Review of The Lilies of the Field
- Spark Notes for To Kill a Mockingbird
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- Water Buffalo Days – Activities
- Review of The Lilies of the Field
- Spark Notes for To Kill a Mockingbird
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- I, Robot – Study Guide
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- Listen to You Are Special, by Max Lucado, on YouTube.
- Citizen of the Galaxy study guide
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Miss Nelson is Missing read-aloud on YouTube.
- Berenstain Bears
- The Breadwinner study guide
- Citizen of the Galaxy study guide
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- The Breadwinner study guide
- The Hobbit Sparknotes
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- Study guide for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (pdf file)
- Another study guide for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
- The Hobbit Sparknotes
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- Study guide for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (pdf file)
- Another study guide for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
- The Hobbit Sparknotes
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- Raising Dragons is one of the books in the Dragons in Our Midst series. Check out their website!
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Raising Dragons is one of the books in the Dragons in Our Midst series. Check out their website!
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
Raising Dragons is one of the books in the Dragons in Our Midst series. Check out their website!
Writing
General
- Here’s a great site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs and questions. What is a Graphic Organizer?
- This site can be used as you are teaching or reviewing the parts of speech. You’ll find matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
- Interactive Graphic Organizers
- Or, click here for another grammar game.
- Make online crossword puzzles here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
- Daily Grammar. Excellent site!
SAT Preparation:
- SAT online question of the day
- Go to this site to answer almost any question you may have about taking the SAT, PSAT, and more.
- Test Prep Review: Great site for test preparation.
- SAT Prep Plan: Take a practice test, which generates a free test report, then create your own SAT study plan. All for FREE!
- SAT Vocabulary Words
- 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions
Writing College Admissions Essays
- 5 Ways College Application Essays and High School Essays Are Different
- College Admissions Essay Prompts
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Level 1: Click here for some neat online activities as you are teaching nouns. Use next week too!
- Level 2: Parts of grammar
- Levels 3-7: For reviewing the steps in the writing process, click here.
- Levels 8-11: More advanced explanation of steps in the writing process.
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- No Links Available.
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Level 11: Taking lecture notes
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Levels 4-6: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
- Levels 4-12: If you are beginning to learn or review prepositions this week in grammar, click here for a crossword puzzle here that will reinforce this knowledge.
- Levels 4-12: Preposition Wordsearch
- Levels 5-8: Descriptive Writing
- Levels 10-11: More advanced cluster diagram for oldest students.
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- EZ School: grammar tutorials, worksheets, and games.
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
Week 7: Postwar America
- Level 1: Click here for instructions on making a game for learning prepositions. Looks like fun!
- Level 2: Daily Grammar
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Levels 4-5: 5 W’s Chart (pdf file)
- Level 11: Christian Internet Code of Ethics: definitely worth reading!
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- Level 2: For further help with learning the steps of the writing process, click here.
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Level 11: Go to these sites for helps and practice college application essays:
- Princeton Review has loads of helpful information, and we found this very interesting page there.
- Interested in Business schools? Princeton Review has this article on writing essays for admission to them.
- AdmissionsEssays.com: Free step by step analysis, structure, and writing guide.
- College Application Essays: helpful hints. Written from a secular perspective, but with some helpful hints.
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- No Links Available.
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- Level 10: Instructions for building your own website.
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Level 1: Need extra worksheets for working on capitalization? Click here.
- Level 3: Parts of Speech: Schoolhouse Rock songs!
- Level 7: How to write a report.
- Level 10: Instructions for building your own website.
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Level 3: Basic information about descriptive writing.
- Levels 4-5: Online thesaurus
- Levels 4-5: Using a Thesaurus
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- Level 1: Need more practice on capitalization or punctuation? Click here for more worksheets.
- Level 6: Venn diagram
- Level 9: Writing a Research Paper
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- Level 5: Biography Maker
- Level 6: Venn diagram
Week 15: World-Wide War
- Level 1: WWII Coloring Pages
- Level 3: Venn diagram
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Level 3: Compare and Contrast! Diagram a story.
- Level 12: Great site for learning to build your own website.
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- Level 3: Venn diagram
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- No Links Available.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Level 3: Narrative Writing Tutorial
- Level 9: How to Write an Analytical Essay
- Level 10: Narrative Essays
- Level 11: Argumentative Essay
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
- Level 6: Persuasive Writing
- Level 7: Book Reports
- Level 8: Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 9: How to Write an Analytical Essay
- Level 11: Argumentative Essay
- Level 12: Historical Fiction
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
- Level 3: Story Writing
- Level 4: Journal Writing
- Levels 6, 10: Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 9: Narrative Essays
- Level 11: Argumentative Essay
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
- Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
- Level 3: Story Writing
- Level 4: Journal Writing
- Levels 6, 10: Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 8: Narrative Essays
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
- Level 3: Story Writing
- Level 4: Journal Writing
- Level 6: Narrative Essays
- Levels 7, 9: Persuasive Essays
- Level 8: Story Writing
- Level 10: Argumentative Essay
- Level 11: Analytical Essays
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
- Level 2: Expository Writing
- Level 3: Photo Essay – you have to scroll a little way down
- Levels 4, 7, 9: Speech Writing
- Level 6: Reports
- Level 8: Story Writing
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- Level 2: Some graphic organizers to print to help with informative writing or directions
- Level 3: Photo Essay – you have to scroll a little way down
- Level 6: Reports
- Levels 7, 9: Speech Writing
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- Level 2: Descriptive Writing
- Level 3: Photo Essay – you have to scroll a little way down
- Levels 4, 7, 9: Speech Writing
- Level 6: Reports
- Level 8: Story Writing
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- Level 2: Descriptive Writing
- Level 3: Photo Essay – you have to scroll a little way down
- Levels 4, 7, 9: Speech Writing
- Level 6: Reports
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Level 1: Writing a Friendly Letter
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper Writing
- Level 5: How to write a report
- Level 6: How to write a fiction story
- Levels 8-10: Literary Analysis
- Level 11: The Process Essay
- Level 12: How to write a Parable
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- Level 1: Writing a Friendly Letter
- Level 5: How to write a report
- Level 6: How to write a fiction story
- Levels 8-10: Literary Analysis
- Level 11: The Process Essay
- Level 12: How to write a Parable
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Levels 2, 4: Writing a Newspaper
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
- Level 5: How to write a report
- Level 6: How to write a fiction story
- Level 7: Writing a Newspaper
- Levels 8-10: Literary Analysis
- Level 11: Response to Literature
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- Level 2: Writing a Newspaper
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
- Levels 4, 7: Writing a Newspaper
- Level 5: How to write a report
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Writing a Newspaper
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
- Level 5: Writing a Personal Narrative
- Level 9: Writing an Interview Report
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
Government
General
- Another massive site: teachers use, probably, initially, although you’ll use it to find sites for your children. If they want to read the originals, here they are!
- All ages will love this site on US Government. This site transcends unit boundaries. It’s GREAT!
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Week 2: The Progressive Era
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- No links for this week
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- No links for this week
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
Week 7: Postwar America
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- Prohibition *content is good and relevant, but noticed that pop up ads exist
- 18th Amendment
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- No links for this week.
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Read original documents about the New Deal
- Fireside Chats of FDR
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- No links for this week.
Week 15: World-Wide War
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- No links for this week.
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- No links for this week.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- Mao Zedong’s Government
- President Truman’s Statement on US Policy Toward China. From the New York Times, December 15, 1945
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- No links for this week.
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- No helpful links this week.
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
- No links for this week.
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- No links for this week.
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- No links for this week.
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- No links for this week.
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- Employment Division v. Smith
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- US v. Lopez
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- Bush v. Gore
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- No links needed this week.
Arts & Activities
General
- A user recommends watching “Fly me to the Moon”, an animated feature about three young flies that catch a ride on Apollo 13. Can be rented or found on Netflix.
- This art history project book can be used in all four year-plans, as it goes through the 1980’s. There are 80 projects in this book entitled Great Studio Projects in Art History, and is written by William Reid. ISBN 0825138523
- Here’s real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
- Lowe’s and Home Depot stores have kid’s workshops on selected Saturdays each month! They give the child a complete kit with all the materials needed to build a project. They set up worktables with hammers, wood glue, screw drivers, etc. They also give aprons and pins for completing the project. Call your local store for details!
- Puzzlemaker: input a list of words and this site will generate crosswords, word searches, codes, etc.
- Cookie Dough Recipe: A great alternative to salt dough maps
- 2 c. smooth peanut butter
- 2 1/2 c. powdered milk
- 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
- 2 c. white corn syrup
- Blue icing – lakes and oceans
- Green sprinkles – plains
- Clear sprinkles – deserts
- Chocolate chips – mountains
- Red candy strips – rivers
- M&Ms – capitals
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
General Resources for this Unit
- This site lists online biographies to all the “greats” of Jazz!
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Pictures of Teddy Roosevelt (photographs, cartoons, and more from Wikimedia Commons).
- The Model T
- A site on fashions from 1900-1910.
- Make paper airplanes
- How to make a mobile.
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- Red Cross
- Outline maps of the different states
- Cut away of the Titanic
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- This site contains photographs of eight different real submarines, six model submarines and a large number of plans of old and modern boats. Submarine video clips and two virtual submarine tours are also presented.
- Nova online: submarines
- Submarine Warfare in WWI
- Paper airplanes: Scroll through to find easy, medium difficulty, and hard to make varieties.
- Periscope project: extended directions to supplement those given in the Student Activity Pages.
- World War I cartoons
- Frederick Delius and his music
- Cubism Art
- Pablo Picasso
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Zeppelins
- Using a compass. Scroll to the bottom to get to the lessons.
- Planes from WWI
- Lusitania
- George Braque
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- Actual pictures of a U-boat sinking a merchant marine vessel.
- French Army in the War
- American Recruiting Posters from WWI
- Igor Stravinsky
- Schools of Art before and after Russian Revolution
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
Week 7: Postwar America
- How to make your own paper dolls – generic site for all paper dolls
- Paperdoll Heaven: play paper dolls online
- George Gershwin site
- Click here for your “newscaster” project.
- Vintage radio script library.
- Jean Sibelius
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- The Harlem Renaissance: video
- Joplin tunes and Ragtime pieces that can be downloaded.
- Jazz for kids
- Ken Burns Jazz on PBS
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- Charlie Chaplin movies to watch!
- Charles Ives
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- How to create a flip book- video
- Creating a flip book
- Steamboat Willie information
- Stock Market Information from Nasdaq
- Al Capone
- Development of the Polio Vaccine
- Polio Vaccine today
- George Gershwin
- Bauhaus School: 1919-1933
- Dadaism
- Edward Hopper: Cape Cod Evening
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Stock Market Information from Nasdaq
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Great site on the 1930’s. It covers prices of things during this time period for the LG activity.
- Another good site on prices in the 1930’s.
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Regionalism
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- You Tube video- Bing Crosby singing “Old Man River”
- Winston Churchill
- World War II Overview
- Adolf Hitler
- Francisco Franco
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Fascist Architecture
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- History of air craft carriers. All U.S. ships ever built listed by name with personal histories from those who sailed them linked. Fascinating REAL history!
- Modern British aircraft carriers.
- From Anna in LA: We recently stumbled on a wonderful book suitable for mature D-level on up through adults. If your D or R-level student is studying or will be studying WWII history and loves fashion, design and dolls this is a “must read”. This book retails for $30 but you can purchase it at Amazon for about $21. Théâtre de la Mode: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture (Revised second edition)
- Printable Battleship Game
- How to Blow an Egg
- For Your WWII assignment: Underground Resistance, Women on the Front Line, Rationing, Bombs and Bombers
- Aircraft Carrier to help with the making of your model
- Bela Bartok
- Norman Rockwell
Week 15: World-Wide War
- Bob Hope during WWII
- YouTube: Bob Hope “Thanks for the Memories”
- Giorgio Morandi
- Alberto Giacometti
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Rosie the Riveter
- Jigsaw Puzzle Maker
- Make a periscope.
- Ammunition from WWII
- WWII Uniforms
- The Anderson Shelter and a picture of the shelter.
- Manhattan Project
- V-E Day
- Military Insignias – This site has all the different branches of service.
- Arnold Schoenberg
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- Dewey Vs Truman: Election of 1948
- Information for the Dialectic United Nations Project: Flags for all the countries
- Manuel de Falla
- Abstract Expressionism
- William de Kooning
- Jackson Pollock
- Mark Rothko
- Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Making salt
- Making salt – a YouTube video
- Making salt sculptures
- Coloring pages about India
- Recipes from India – for kids
- A History of Indian clothing
- Frances Poulenc’s music and biography
- Make a distaff to spin wool into yarn
- Franz Kline
- Hans Hoffman
- Richard Diebenkorn
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- Chinese propaganda posters. Fascinating jump-off discussion starters, especially after our in-depth study of propaganda in World War II. Compare/contrast, enjoy!
- Coloring pages about China
- The Great Leap Forward: video and text.
- Anton Webern
- Chinese Art
- Pictures of Mao Zedong for your art project
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- General Douglas MacArthur
- Unforgettable: The Korean War. A PBS film.
- Coloring pages about Korea
- Jean Dubuffet – French avant-garde painter.
- M.C. Escher
- Encyclopedia Britannica Pagoda
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
- Fashion of the 1950s
- 1950s Fashion
- Frank Stella artwork: Earlier paintings Harran II, and an example of his later relief sculpture
- Josef Albers artwork: from the Hirshhorn Museum (scroll down and also go to page 2 for more images), from the National Gallery, Washington, DC.
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Living conditions of Black and White Americans in the 1950s
- Vietnam: climate and natural resources
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- View many of the works of Robert Rauschenburg, especially Canyon that is referenced in the Teacher’s Notes.
- Selected Works from a Jasper Johns Retrospective at MoMA, 1996
- Rock Music
- Sputnik: Images for your project
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- Pop Art on Artlex, or Archive
- Interesting Warhol article in Christianity Today’s Periodical Books and Culture
- Coloring pages of Andy Warhol’s artwork
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Cuban Recipes
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- Musical Terms – some with good audio examples
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Solar System Model
- Make your own astronaut suit!
- Make a solar system mobile
- Meeting Basic Needs in Space
- Instructions for making a papel picado.
- Information for your clay models for a baby’s size at each month after conception.
- Make a booklet about the seven continents.
- Crafts for your overview of North America: Canada, United States, Mexico
- Conceptual Art site with artists’ biographies and works (scroll through the page to see the links)
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- For your picture of a computer: 1970s computer displays.
- Play Pong online.
- For your mini-poster: Nadia Comaneci and Muhammad Ali.
- Continue your booklet about the seven continents
- Performance Art
- Make a Rain Stick craft.
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Parts of a Peanut Plant
- How to Grow Peanuts
- Peanut Recipes
- Diagram of a nuclear plant
- Lessons about Nuclear Reactors (scroll to some very helpful pdf files)
- Earth Art
- Installation Art
- Read about Andy Goldsworth here.
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- Continue your booklet about the seven continents
- For your mini-poster: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Steve Wozniak
- Strategic Defense Initiative
- Architecture Review of 80s Design
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- For your mini poster: Nelson Mandela
- For your Upper Grammar web project: service provider, web browser, search engine, hypertext.
- For your Dialectic web project: http and https, html (click on links in left toolbar), web browsers
- For your mini-poster: Norman Schwarzkopf
- Green movement
- Sandra Bowden
- Dan Callis
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- For your mini-poster: Bill Gates
- For your mobile: Nelson Mandela
- Image showing progression of cell phones
- Time line of cell phones
- For your digital collage: Tiger Woods, Cal Ripken, Mark McGwire, John Elway
- For your mini-poster: Ron Brown, Henry Cisneros, Janet Reno, Donna Shalala, Jocelyn Elders, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Madeleine Albright
- Continue your booklet about the seven continents
- Princess Diana’s charity work
- Mary McCleary
- John Silvis
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- For your mini-poster: George W. Bush
- Crafts for your overview of Asia: Japan
- Read about Edward Knippers here or here. (Beware of nudity in some artwork.)
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Crafts for your overview of Africa
- Architecture and urban degradation
- Albert Pedulla
- Tim Rollins
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- Have fun playing games in which you put the Presidents in order: here or here.
- Joel Sheesley
- Makoto Fujimura
- CIVA – Christians in the Visual Arts. Check out the kinds of exhibitions that this group sponsors, the artist directory for perspective art collectors
Field Trips
On this page, we hope to post field trip ideas from YOUR state that dovetail with Tapestry subjects as organized in our week-plans. Please submit your ideas via email, and please try to include the following information:
- Your email address (for our sake, in case we have questions, but you can tell us if you’re willing to have your email linked as a contact person for more info about your recommendation).
- The name of the attraction.
- ANY online links to explain, give information, about the attraction.
- A short paragraph explaining why the attraction would serve homeschoolers.
THANKS for your help! We will post states as their submissions come in, and under the weeks as listed below:
**IMAX often has great films that are an excellent addition to your academic studies. Find out what is playing, and where, to schedule this activity for your family.
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Museum on the building of the Atomic Bomb!.
- Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
- Wright Brothers memorial in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- Sagamore Hill, the Home of Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, New York.
- Teddy Roosevelt National Historic Site in New York, New York.
- Roosevelt’s Little White House Historic Site in Warm Springs, Georgia.
- The Morgan Library and Museum – The collections of JP Morgan, New York, New York.
- George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
- Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in Texas. Studying Albert Einstein we will use the museum’s hands on exhibits to perform our own experiments.
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- National Parks – find one in your state.
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Dr. Pepper museum in Waco, Texas.
- Titanic Museum
- Woodrow Wilson house in Washington, DC.
- Submarine museum in Groton, Connecticut.
- Robert Frost Stone House Museum in South Shaftsbury, Vermont.
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
- National Air and Space Museum near the Dulles airport in Chantilly, Virginia.
- Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas. One of the literature books covered this week is the Railway Children. A railroad museum just seemed very appropriate.
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- Hillwood Museum – One of the premier art collector’s museums in the US. The museum features the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia – Washington, DC.
- Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in Texas. The museum has an exhibit on air.
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- If you didn’t make the trip while studying Year 3, consider it now: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s home in Rocky Ridge: Mansfield, Missouri.
- Warren Harding home in Marion, Ohio
- Heard Museum – McKinney, Texas. Finishing up Anne of Green Gables this week and Wind in the Willows we thought it would be nice to see of some of the outdoors up close and personal.
Week 7: Postwar America
- Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts or Rutland, Vermont
- There are several radio museums around the country. One is in Huntington, West Virginia.
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- Check out your local museums for displays about the Great Depression.
- Amelia Earhart Birthplace and Museum in Atchison, Kansas.
- Courthouse tour: Old Red Museum in Dallas, Texas.
- Outstanding, incredibly detailed and rich site on WWII
- WWII timeline
- Outstanding index of sites dealing with WWII. Heavily hyper linked text and a joy to use.
- Outstanding site has many maps and other geographic information on WWII.
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- Franklin D. Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, New York.
- FDR Memorial in Washington, DC.
- FDR’s Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.
- Alcatraz in the San Francisco bay area of California.
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Von Trapp Family Museum and Lodge in Stowe, Vermont.
- Visit the courtroom of “To Kill a Mockingbird” (Gregory Peck film) Recreated for the film in great detail!!! This link submitted by Erin.
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- No links for this week.
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- No links for this week.
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
Week 15: World-Wide War
- Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
- The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
- Holocaust Museum in Dallas, Texas.
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
- American airlines C.R. Smith Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. With reading and discussion this week on the atomic bomb and Rosie the Riveter, we thought a field trip to learn more about airplanes would be beneficial.
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- No links for this week.
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- No links for this week.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- No links for this week.
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- If there is a “China Town” in your city, you could visit there.
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Harry S. Truman Library and Museum -Independence, MO
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
- A Civil Rights “List of Sites” for each state.
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum – Washington, DC
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
- JFK Presidential Library and Museum – Boston, MA
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama
- Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York, New York
- Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton, Virginia
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site – Atlanta, GA
- National Civil Rights Museum – Memphis, TN
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- Virtual Tour of Andy Warhol art museum
- Harry S. Truman Library and Museum – Independence, MO
- Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site – Atlanta, GA
- National Civil Rights Museum – Memphis, TN
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site – Atlanta, GA
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Supplement 13: Rhetoric Church History Options for Unit 4
- Option 3: Church Denominations Project
- Option 4: World Missions Project
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- No links for this week.
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- No links for this week.
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia
- Jimmy Carter National Historic site in Plains, Georgia
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- No links for this week.
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- No links for this week.
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- No links for this week.
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- No links for this week.
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- No links for this week.
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- No links for this week.
Living book lists
Living Books are not included with your purchase. In addition to the curriculum and supplements, you will need to purchase at least some living books. The cost of these varies with your selections and library usage. Please note that some of our supplements (Weft History Audio and The Warp Reader) can reduce the number of living books needed to complete the Tapestry of Grace program.
Not Applicable to Lower Grammar
Not Applicable to Upper Grammar
Not Applicable to Dialectic
Not Applicable to Lower Grammar
Not Applicable to Upper Grammar
Not Applicable to Dialectic