History I

Grades 5/6

This course is derived from Year 1 of the Tapestry of Grace curriculum and will cover the time period from about 5000 B.C. – A.D. 400 (Ancients). Reading and writing assigments as well as quizzes will be given throughout each trimester, and lively class discussion will help pupils learn and remember both the facts or “grammar” of history, as well as begin to place the people and events in the larger story of mankind and in light of God’s redemptive history for his people.

Sample readers (in no particular order):

Famous Men of Greece by Cynthia Shearer

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Spear

Exodus by Moses

The Sumerians by Elaine Landau

Hittite Warrior by Jack Williamson

Gilgamesh the King by Ludmila Zeman

Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History by Richard Hannula

Augustus Ceasar’s World by Genevieve Foster

Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff