• Human origins
• River valley civilizations
• Movement of people and ideas
• Age of first empires
• Classical Greece
• Ancient Rome
• First empires of India and China

Year 2 - Early Modern World History

• African civilizations
• The Americas
• Byzantines, Russians and Turks
• Empires of East Asia
• European middle ages
• Societies and empires of Africa
• People and empires in the Americas

Year 3 - American History

• Encounters and colonies
• The American Revolution
• The expanding nation
• Civil war and reconstruction
• New frontiers
• World War I
• World War II

Approaches to Learning

• High-level reading
• Primary sources
• Cornell note-taking
• Annotating texts
• APPARTS method of document analysis
• Seminar notes and discussions (Socratic tradition)
• Student created iMovie or video presentations
• Student created dioramas
• Student created songs
• Student created dramatic performance
• Connections project with kindergarten class
• History fair (integrated with language arts class)
• 8th grade research project and presentation (integrated with language arts class)