Christian Educators Resource Center
World History & Literature
Trust in the Lord
with all your heart,
and lean not on
your own
understanding.  In
ALL your ways,
acknowledge HIM,
and HE will make
your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5,6

World History and Literature                                                                Cynthia Anway

This course will seek to look at the significant time periods and events in world
history (Ancient East and Egypt, Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, Dark Ages,
Renaissance, Reformation, Exploration, Modern). Emphasizing strategic events and
people will give students "hooks" to hang their world history knowledge on. We will
also use Veritas Press, Hilliers "History of the World", as well as different source
texts. This course also includes classical literature that will further illuminate
understanding of various time periods and people.

Reading many different authors, we will seek to appreciate the world of the writer
and his/her time period. This course will count as a high school World History credit,
as well as high school English literature credit. Meeting for 2 hours once a week,
heavy reading will be required.

The goal of the course is to enable students 'to think through' some of the basic
events of world history. Students will be encouraged to see the history of the world
through the lens of God's Word. After all, it is His story.

    Ms. Anway's Update:
    Students will compile their own timeline of significant occurances within those periods
    over the course of the school year. Students will have weekly writing assignments to
    reinforce what they have read, studied, and discussed. In addition to the textbook,
    students will read original source material including (but not limited to) exerpts in the
    In Their Words text (including the Code of Hammurabi for example) that pertain to the
    period being studied. They will also look at translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the
    oldest epic to survive (outside the Word of God). All information will be viewed
    critically in light of scripture.

    In the lit course, we will read classical novels as well as source texts in order to better
    understand the time period being studied in history. The literature selections will bring
    history alive! There will be questions and written assignments in addition to the reading
    so that this course will count as a high school English literature credit.

    We will learn to think critically as we study what has come before us... learning from
    past glories and mistakes of world history. All of the reading and discussions will be
    evaluated through the lens of the Word of God.


Materials Needed: 3 ring binder with 7 sections, paper, pens/pencils;
BJU Press History of the World, 3rd edition ISBN 191664322;
In Their Words, Original Documents, Poetry, Stories, and Hymns, by
Charlene Ray and John Notgrass;
Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis;
The Cat of Bubastes, by H.A. Henty;
Julius Ceasar by WIlliam Shakespeare (suggest the Everyman edition)ISBN
0460873962;
Beowulf (suggest translation by Seamus Heaney) ISBN 0393320979;
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens;
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe;
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom;
Animal Farm by George Orwell


Tuition: $60
Materials Fee: $20

Age Level: 14+
Grade Level: 9+

Hours of Homework: 2-3