Secondary Complete Program

for 9th through 12th Grades

Where Can You Get 4 Years of Homeschool Curriculum for less than $24/year?

Epi Kardia's 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 YOU decide to plan for your 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 per semester in the subject/class you are teaching, such as American History.
2. Choose assignments and activities from the unit booklets to round out your course. One-two assignments per book is usually sufficient.

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, such as "American History," "British Literature," "World History," etc. 
3. Record the books and the assignments that pertain to them under different 'courses.' 

For example, 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 Period 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, living books, as opposed to textbooks, unit study curriculum more easily allows for creativity in planning and design so that you may plan courses to fit YOUR individual students!

See sample of Westward Expansion Unit here.

 Each unit provides...

1. Historical book list [including the author, ISBN, library call number (if available)
2. the difficulty of the book noted (more challenging, challenging, or less challenging)
3. Multi-page summaries of each time period following the book lists, to aid you and/or your high school student in reviewing the most important events of the period
4. Suggested Time Line, Map Skills, Writing, Narration, and Fine Arts assignments
5. Unit Scripture/Bible Study assignments
6. Time Management/Organization assignments
7. Multi-level Projects that could be completed as a group with siblings :-)
8. History Research Topics is provided per unit, including important people, places and events for every time period

• See sample of Westward Expansion Unit here.

Benefits of our homeschool high school curriculum  include the following:

   

	You will be able to easily choose books and plan classes, as possible course credits are indicated for all books, enabling creation of high school courses including World History, American History, British/American/World Literature, Modern Missions, Geography, etc.
	The books you choose may be tailored to your student's reading level, as books at various levels are included.  They are designated as more challenging, challenging and less challenging.
	You are aided in choosing books that will appeal to your student's learning style. We designate materials that come in varied modes such as video, audio, etc.
	You have a multitude of suggested writing assignments and projects 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.
	You are provided with 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 Homeschool 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