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 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.
Materials:
Families purchase the following required supplies:
- History spine is TBD.
- Geography spine is TBD.
- Backmore Translucent Vellum Paper, 8.5×11″ Tracing Pad, 56 LB
- Record of Time Timeline Notebook
- Composition book
- Scissors
- Three-ring binder with lined paper, pencils, colored pencils, and erasers in a pencil pouch.
Other books & supplies needed TBD.