• Develops literacy, vocabulary!
• Introduces & explores key civilizations & historical events!
• Fun, hands-on activities!
• Develops critical thinking skills!
• Works well for any-aged student developing literacy!
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My son and I just completed History III lesson 12, Understanding Life- Biology, Darwin, Theophrastus, Linnaes, and Vavilov. What struck me during the time my son and I read and understood the lesson was, the number of children being educated these days that study subjects, that seem to exist by themselves and that have little relevance to each other. It is no wonder why history, math or science is boring to most children. What my son and I just experienced was a vocabulary, geography, history and science lesson with a lab, all rolled into one! We learned what biology is, but we learned it in terms of the first scientists, and so we now know something about the passion they had for their subjects. Imagine being a scientist and guarding a seed vault from starving people in St Petersberg during a 900 day siege during WWII or as the Russian's call it, the great patriotic war. That is history and science coming alive! My son concluded his lesson by going outdoors, into the world to catalog and record the life he found around the house. He didn't leave anything out. A is getting a REAL education, thanks to your insight and effort to produce the best curriculum available today.  Thanks    R.P/, "Father of A."
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The last history course in semester 3, for Step 2 students, ages 7-8, or for students of any age who are developing literacy.

Picking up where History 8 left off, the student explores the history of four great countries - Germany, England, Russia and the United States.  This completes the study of 12 civilizations that made our current world the way it is.  

The student studies the history, politics and art of these countries, and is asked to think through many questions about these countries and people in them.  A course intended to require some real thought from young students who are starting to stretch toward more difficult studies. 17 big lesson plans, 6-7 weeks of study.

Concepts covered in this course include:

• The land of Germany
• Ancient German history
• Ancient Germans vs Rome
• The unification of Germany in the 1800s
• Bismarck
• Hitler
• The Third Reich
• The Holocaust
• Germany today
• German Art and Ideas
• Luther and Protestantism
• Great German Classical Composers
• Great German writers and philosophers
• The land of England
• England's ancient Roman history
• Robin Hood
• King John and the Magna Carta
• Henry VIII
• The birth of the Anglican Church
• Elizabeth I and the English Renaissance
• Shakespeare
• Queen Victoria and the British Empire
• Great British writers Dickens, Kipling and Shaw
• England today
• The land of Russia
• The Great Czars of Russia
• The modernization of Russia under Peter
• Lenin and the Russian Communist Revolution
• Stalin and Russia
• Russian Artists and Writers such as Chekhov, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.
• Russian composers Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky
• Pushkin
• Stanislavsky
• Choreographer George Balanchine
• Great Russian scientist Vavilov
• Yuri Gagarin, the first man into space
• Russia today
• The land of the United States
• The American revolution and founding fathers
• The American Constitution
• American inventions and inventors, Edison
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Civil War
• The Wright Brothers and flight
• The Space Program and men on the moon
• American writers Twain, Poe and Whitman
• American composers Copland, Ellington, Gershwin
• The fight for equality in America
• Jackie Robinson
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.