Year 1

From Creation to
the Fall of Rome

Unit 1

• Creation
• Egypt
• Israel

Unit 2

• Indus Valley Civilization
• Ancient Mesopotamia
• Ancient Americas
• Ancient China

Unit 3

• Israel after King David
• Assyria, Bablyon, & Persia
• The Rise of Greece

Unit 4

• Rome
• Life of Christ
• Fall of Rome
• Dark Ages

Year 2

From Byzantium to
the U.S. Constitution

Unit 1

• Middle Ages
• Age of Vikings
• Rise of Islam
• Feudalism

Unit 2

• Age of Exploration
• Renaissance
• Reformation

Unit 3

• Religious Wars
• Rise of Absolutism
• Colonial America
• Puritan Civil War

Unit 4

• American Revolution
• French Revolution

Year 3

From Napoleon to
Teddy Roosevelt

Unit 1

• Napoleon
• Simon Bolivar
• War of 1812

Unit 2

• Rise of the British Empire
• Jackson & Victoria
• Manifest Destiny

Unit 3

• The Civil War
• Mexican-American War
• Unification of Germany
• Unification of Italy

Unit 4

• The Gilded Age
• Immigration
• Imperialism

Year 4

From World War I to
the Present Day

Unit 1

• Age of Innocence
• World War I
• Russian Revolution
• Roaring Twenties

Unit 2

• Great Depression
• World War II

Unit 3

• Cold War
• Space Race
• Civil Rights movement
• Vietnam War

Unit 4

• Information Age
• Middle East Turmoil
• Globalism
• War on Terror

Lower Grammar

• Non-fluent reader
• Approximately grades K-3
• Enjoys learning basic facts

Upper Grammar

• Independent reader
• Approximately grades 3-6
• Enjoys memorizing concrete, sequential facts

Dialectic

• Reads to learn
• Approximately grades 6-9
• Enjoys making connections and learning to debate

Rhetoric

• Reads the Great Books
• Approximately grades 9-12
• Enjoys analyzing and synthesizing ideas and arguments