History

Honors American History

Tenth grade 1.00 high school credit Core curriculum

Description

This honors-level course is one of two high school American History course options offered at Nautilus Homeschool. It is intended for strong readers and writers who are comfortable reading primary sources and classic literature.

We use as a framework the excellent and comprehensive course The History of the United States, from Great Courses. This course includes 84 lectures and should take a full academic year to complete at the rate of two lectures per week.

Alongside the lecture series, students study key primary sources including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and autobiographies representing colonial leaders, civil rights activists, Native Americans and modern immigrants. Classic works of literature and a graphic novel memoir of a civil rights leader are also included.

As does World History, this course includes several excellent movies that elucidate key periods in American history.

The course includes a research paper at the end of the second semester, on a topic in American History of your choice.

Course components

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