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High School History (Grades 9-12)
For graduation, Hewitt requires one year of world history, one year of U.S. history, one year of government and economics, and half a year of state history. Usually, students take state history in grade 9, world history in grade 10, U.S. history in grade 11, and govt/econ in grade 12, but there is no requirement to follow this schedule. World history clases are listed first; click here to jump down to the other history classes.
World History Classes
Hewitt offers a variety of options to satisfy the requirement for one unit of world history. All classes listed below are one year long and worth one unit. The first class (World History) is our standard world history class, a survey from ancient to modern times. The Beautiful Feet classes cover a narrower time period in more depth. These classes require more reading than the standard class. The Honors classes cover an even narrower time period in greater depth than the Beautiful Feet classes. They require much more reading, writing, and independent research than any of our other World History options. World geography consists of a lot of map drawing and eight research papers are written over the course of the year. This class requires the least amount of reading of all our world history classes.
An overview of cultures and civilizations from ancient to modern times. Requirements include maps, time lines, papers, and projects. This (or World Geography) is probably the best class for the student who has not had any world history previously, or who is not a strong history student. This syllabus is the only world history syllabus we carry that contains a daily schedule.
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Beautiful Feet Ancient World History
Covers Sumeria, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Using literature as primary texts, students will become acquainted with the great figures and fascinating history of these periods through interesting and challenging books. This course includes biblical history and geography, ancient mythology, cartography, vocabulary, and wonderful reading from the great minds of antiquity as well as classic authors. Requirements include maps, time lines, papers, book reports, and projects. This course is recommended for strong readers.
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Beautiful Feet Medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance History
This course begins with the dramatic events surrounding the era of the Magna Charta in 1215, progresses through the Reformation and Renaissance, and concludes with Elizabethan England in the early 1660s. Using literature as primary texts, students will become acquainted with the great figures and fascinating history of these periods through interesting and challenging books. Requirements include maps, time lines, papers, book reports, and projects. This course is recommended for strong readers.
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Beautiful Feet Modern U.S. & World History
Featuring choice literature from the 1860s through the 1970s and beyond, this program introduces students to political figures, inventions, technological advances, social climates and movements. This course has been designed by Beautiful Feet as a two-year course. To take it for only one year, either complete only the first half of the course (with the Part I Pack), only the second half of the course (with the Part II pack, available from Beautiful Feet), or call and speak with someone in our high school department about covering the entire time period but thinning out the course. If you wish, you may complete the entire course over two years, using the second credit as an elective credit. This course may not be used to fulfill our U.S. History credit. Requirements include maps, time lines, papers, book reports, and projects. This course is recommended for strong readers.
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This course covers the Fertile Crescent and Egypt through the Roman Empire and Early Church Fathers. Each quarter the student will work on book reports, projects, maps, a time line, vocabulary, and an essay exam. All honors classes require much more reading, writing, and independent research than any of our other world history options. Recommended for students with strong academic abilities and interest in history. Grades are worth one point more than standard (e.g., A=5.0, B=4.0, etc.).
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Honors Medieval World History
This course covers from the Fall of Rome through the late Middle Ages. Each quarter the student will work on book reports, projects, maps, a time line, vocabulary, and an essay exam. All honors classes require much more reading, writing, and independent research than any of our other world history options. Recommended for students with strong academic abilities and interest in history. Grades are worth one point more than standard (e.g., A=5.0, B=4.0, etc.).
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Honors Renaissance/Reformation World History
This course covers from the Renaissance through the American Revolution. Each quarter the student will work on book reports, projects, maps, a time line, vocabulary, and an essay exam. All honors classes require much more reading, writing, and independent research than any of our other world history options. Recommended for students with strong academic abilities and interest in history. Grades are worth one point more than standard (e.g., A=5.0, B=4.0, etc.).
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Honors Modern World History
This course covers from the Democratic Revolutions through the Cold War. Each quarter the student will work on book reports, projects, maps, a time line, vocabulary, and an essay exam. All honors classes require much more reading, writing, and independent research than any of our other world history options. Recommended for students with strong academic abilities and interest in history. Grades are worth one point more than standard (e.g., A=5.0, B=4.0, etc.).
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Students complete a program that teaches them to draw a world map from memory. This program is very hands-on and requires independent research effort on the students' part. Students complete many maps and do research on seven countries and one Canadian province of their choice, as well as other hands-on projects.
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This is a two-quarter course. Students use the library, Internet, and other resources to learn about their state. Maps and reports are required and a list of possible projects is included, such as preparing a current events notebook around a specific theme or reporting on how a bill becomes a law in one's own state. This course is an excellent first high school history course for teaching students research skills, information gathering, and the sharing of that information in maps, projects, and papers.
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Covers the discovery of America to present day. Requirements include maps, time lines, papers, projects, and tests. This is the only US history syllabus we carry that includes a daily schedule.
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Amsco United States History
An alternate US history class for those who do not wish to use Bob Jones US History. The text requires less reading than the Bob Jones, but still touches on all major points. Requirements are similar.
A new class with an exciting text that emphasizes primary sources. Requirements include reports, projects, and essay exams.
Covers colonization through current events. Each quarter students will work on a map, chapter questions, a time line, projects, papers, a book report, and essay exams. This class has much more reading than the standard U.S. History class, listed above.
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American Government & Economics
The first half of this course is an overview of American government covering its constitutional foundations, the role of the parties, and the powers of the various branches of the government. The second half of the course deals with the basic principles of economics, including the macroeconomics of government and business and the microeconomics of the home.
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