History & Geography, Forms 3-4

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 short research/writing assignments each month, 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)

For 2022-2023, this course will alternate every other week with Geography.

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): TBD

In addition, each week students will spend some time working on maps. Students will have opportunity to research and present on one country in a year-end World Fair.