World History/World Literature - High School
Teacher: Lori Einfalt
Grades: 9 - 12
Meets: Monday 12:45 - 2:45
Class Description: Meeting for two hours once a week, this course counts as both a high school history and English credit. Using Bob Jones History of the World as a back drop, this course seeks to look at significant time periods and events in world history (Ancient East and Egypt, Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, Exploration, Invention, Modern). Emphasizing strategic events and people will give students “hooks” on which to hang their world history knowledge. The goal of the course is to enable students to “think their way through” some of the basic events of world history. Other curriculum will be pulled in, including Veritas Press cards, Hillier’s History of the Word, and different source texts. Students will also be encouraged to see the history of the world through the lens of God’s Word. After all, it is His story.
Also counting as an English credit, this course includes classical literature which will further illuminate understanding of various cultures and times in history. Reading selected writings from each time period (most are source texts), we will seek to appreciate the world of the writer. Students will be encouraged to synthesize, analyze, and think critically about these historic works of literature. Various assignments will be given to enhance writing and thinking skills.
Prerequisites: None
Maximum number of students: 10
Homework: heavy reading required, 3-4 hours per week
Cost: $65 per month, $20 one time supply fee for copies
Supplies that the students should bring to class:
3 binder notebook with paper
set of 3-5 index cards
Bob Jones History of the World, 3rd edition, 10th grade ISBN: 191664322
Titles to be purchased or borrowed from the library:
Codes of Hammurabi and Moses by W.W. Davies (Ancient East and Egypt)
The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum ISBN 0-02-042520-1 (Classical Greece)
Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare (suggest the Everyman edition ISBN 0-460-87396-2) (Imperial Rome)
Beowulf (suggest translation by Seamus Heaney) (Middle Ages)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on line translation
Here I Stand: A Life of Martain Luther by Roland H. Bainton (Reformation)
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford (Exploration)
Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin ISBN:0451528107 (Invention)
In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon (Early Modern)
Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (Modern)
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