Secondary Complete Program

Epi Kardia Literature-based Unit Study Curriculum

for 9th-12th Grades
Description and Sample

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Epi Kardia's literature based, unit study curriculum for home school and private school students using Charlotte Mason methods, our Secondary Complete Program is designed to be used from 9th through 12th grades, following either the one year suggested schedule  and moving through the units Creation to Modern annually, the two year schedule offered in the manual, or the schedule of your choosing---depending upon the depth and length of the books chosen and the way teachers decide to plan for their high school students.

Planning and Recording High School Credits

Some plan by course, and some continue to work through history chronologically and build courses as they go. 

For example, if planning by course is more comfortable, simply:

1. choose 6-8 books from the possible course credits indication, such as American History.
2. Then choose assignments and activities from the unit booklets to round out your course.

If you prefer to read through history as it happened (integrating American and World History), then simply:

1.  follow the units chronologically
2. choose books with different possible course credit designations
3. record them and the assignments completed under different 'courses'

As your student reads books that deal primarily with American History and completes assignments pertaining to that topic, record those under your 'American History' course. As your student reads books and completes assignments that relate more to World History, record them under your 'World History' course. You may elect to give partial credit per year or wait to award history credit when a full credit is earned. (Approximately 150 hours of study.)

Because of the abundance of material, we often suggest that history be divided into two to four courses:

• American History I (Colonial through Civil War)
• American History II (Immigration through Modern)
• World History I (Ancients through Renaissance)
• World History II (Colonial through Modern) 

Alternatively, if your student is fascinated with Modern history, there is enough material in this curriculum that you could easily create a high school course on Modern History, just using the last unit.

Besides students' higher interest level using whole books, as opposed to textbooks, unit study curriculum more easily allows for creativity in planning and design so that teachers may plan courses to fit individual students!

Each unit booklet provides:

• an Historical book list [including the author, ISBN, library call number (if available) 
• the difficulty of the book (more challenging, challenging, or less challenging) 
• suggested Time Line, Map Skills, Writing, Narration, and Fine Arts assignments 
• Unit Scripture/Bible Study assignments  
• Time Management/Organization assignments 
• possible Multi-level Projects that could be completed by siblings.  
• a page of History Research Topics is provided per unit, including important people, places and events for every time period. 
• See sample of Westward Expansion Unit here.

For the teacher's benefit, there are multi-page summaries of each time period following the book lists, to aid you in reviewing the most important events of the period. At the middle and high school level , the historical overviews provide in each unit may be read by the students, as well as teachers, to gain an overall picture of each time period.

The 100+ page 6th through 12th Grade Manual   that comes with the Secondary Complete Program covers how to teach and evaluate history, science, language arts (grammar, composition, literature study, poetry, etc.) and fine arts, all using books that are available in your local libraries or on-line. (Note: books are not included in the purchased program.)  This manual also includes an extensive section on high school writing which parents of middle schoolers find helpful as they prepare their students for the next level. 

 

Features of this level include the following:

   

	Possible course credits indicated for all books, enabling creation of high school courses including World History, American History, British/American/World Literature, Modern Missions, Geography, etc.
	Book list includes books at various levels indicated by more challenging, challenging and less challenging designations to aid teachers in planning courses.
	Designation of materials based on learning styles including varied material modes such as video, audio, etc.
	Multitude of writing assignments to select from incorporating various essay styles and research topics, organizational and time management recommendations (written to the student), Bible study lessons, multi-level hands on activities, fine arts and geography skills projects.
	Lists of people, places and topics for further research in every unit.
	Sample Unit Booklet*   NOTE: All Complete Programs include the nine unit booklets and one across-the-units Resource booklet, historical overviews of each time period, 100 page spiral bound teaching manual, Tools CD, and historical bookmarks. Printed in black and white on heavy duty cardstock, each component is shipped pre-punched and packaged in a 1" white three-ringed binder. Price for Secondary Complete Program: $95        If you prefer having courses already pre-planned, see our High School Courses!   *Note that you need Adobe Reader in order to view the samples. You can download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader athttp://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html