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 key 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 (many 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: 12

Homework: heavy reading required, 3-4 hours per week (Meeting only two hours per week, the success of this class heavily rests upon the student’s diligence to complete all assigned homework.)

Cost:  $65 per month, $20 one time supply fee for handouts

Supplies students are expected to always bring to class: 

Literature titles to be purchased or borrowed from the library:

Note:  It is strongly advised that all titles be purchased before class begins.  “I don’t have the book yet,” will not be an accepted excuse for late homework, resulting in a lower grade. Not having a particular title when needed, also greatly hampers the students as we seek to discuss the book in class.  Books will be used in this order:

Codes of Hammurabi and Moses by W.W. Davies (Ancient East and Egypt)

ISBN 0-7661-3124-6

The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum (Classical Greece)

ISBN 0-02-042520-1

Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare (Imperial Rome)

(NO modern translations please - suggest the Everyman edition ISBN 0-460-87396-2) 

Beowulf (Middle Ages)

(translation by Seamus Heaney, a little more expensive, but well worth it ISBN 978-0-393-33010-6 ) 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on line translation (Renaissance)

Thunderstorm in Church by Louise A Vernon  (Reformation)

ISBN 1-882514-08-4

Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims of Plymouth edited by Dwight B. Heath (Exploration)

ISBN 0-918222-84-2

Benjamin Franklin:  Live Wire  by Janet & Geoff Benge YWAM series (Invention)

ISBN 1-932096-14-0

In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon (Industrial Revolution)

Any edition

William Carey:  Obliged to Go by Janet & Geoff Benge YWAM series (Early Missions)

ISBN 1-57658-147-0

Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (Modern)

Any edition

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