World History/World Literature - High School

Teacher:  Lori Einfalt

Grades: 9 - 12

Meets:  Monday

Class Description: Meeting two hours a week, this course counts as both a high school history and English credit. Using Bob Jones World History 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.  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. Other curriculum will be pulled in, including Veritas Press cards, Hillier’s History of the Word, and different source texts. 

This course also includes classical literature which will further illuminate understanding of various time periods and people. Reading selected writings from each time period, we will seek to appreciate the world of the writer and the time period he/she is writing from. Using portions of historic literature (Gilgamesh), or entire titles (In His Steps), students will be encouraged to synthesize, analyze, and think critically about literature.

Prerequisites: None

Maximum number of students: 12

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 ring notebook with paper

Bob Jones History of the World, 3rd edition, 10^th 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 (suggest translation by C.S. Lewis) (Renaissance)

                   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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