Level: Form III (7th–9th grades), Form IV (10th–12th grades)
Subject(s): Citizenship, Geography, History
Description:
New in 2022-2023: Combined Modern History & Geography!
Modern History studies will involve both reading a text written in an engaging, narrative style, and also building a keepsake timeline book with illustrated timeline figures which students can color and personalize. There will be occasional short research/writing assignments, and students who want to round out their history study for a full year of high school credit can tackle further suggested research and writing assignments.
Bluebonnet Scholars offers history on a rotating three-year cycle with studies synchronized across Forms 1 through 4 (grades K through 12th) so that all students are studying the same time period together:
- Cycle Year 1: Ancient through Early Medieval History
- Cycle Year 2: Medieval through Early Modern History
- Cycle Year 3: Modern History (with emphasis on U.S. History)
In the Geography portion of the class, students will read, narrate, and discuss portions from living geography books in a rotating three-year cycle:
- Cycle Year 1 (2020-2021): Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About The World (half) and living geography read-aloud books
- Cycle Year 2 (2021-2022): Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About The World (half) and living geography read-aloud books
- Cycle Year 3 (2022-2023): The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories
In addition, each week students will spend some time working on maps. Students may have an opportunity to research and present on one country in a year-end World Fair.
Materials:
Families purchase the following required supplies:
- Primary Sources: (Required for all students; ISBN must match.)
- Of Plymouth Plantation (fall semester, ISBN: 0486452603)
- A Son of the Forest” and Other Writings (spring semester, ISBN: 1558491074, used copies recommended)
- History spine depends on Form level: (Chose Form 3 books or the Form 4 book for your student, not both sets. ISBNs must match.)
- Form 3 (middle school): George Washington’s World (fall semester, ISBN: 096438034X) + Abraham Lincoln’s World (spring semester, ISBN: 1893103161)
- Form 4 (high school): The American Pageant: A History of the American People, AP Edition, 15th Edition (ISBN: 1111831068)
- Geography spine: (Student copy recommended but not required) The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories.
- Backmore Translucent Vellum Paper, 8.5×11″ Tracing Pad, 56 LB
- Record of Time Timeline Notebook with blank timeline pages—Note: This item has been discontinued except as digital download; BHSC has purchased printing rights and printed timelines in binders are available for purchase from BHSC for $30. Returning students will use the same binder as in previous terms.
- Printable Suggested Timeline Placement Guide
- Composition book
- Scissors
- Three-ring binder with lined paper, pencils, colored pencils, and erasers in a pencil pouch.
