7th-12th

literature not included 

History Odyssey Modern Times (“Modern Times”) is a year-long homeschool history curriculum for seventh to tenth grade students accustomed to learning independently. The course incorporates history with language arts and world geography to facilitate true multi-disciplinary learning. Mapwork, timeline work, reading, and writing assignments create an academically rigorous homeschool history curriculum focused on modern history.

Modern Times is a secular homeschool curriculum, meaning it does not present religious beliefs or texts as historically factual accounts. Rather, it references them as another source or perspective to be considered.

Modern Times is the fourth of a four-part series of history guides. While each course can be completed without having done the others, the writing, time management, and critical thinking skills required become more advanced with each time period.

This resource is a student-independent and investigative history guide program. It includes 99 lessons spanning the course of your academic year. Each lesson will typically be 2 hours, 3-4 times a week and may need to be accomplished in multiple sittings each day. Modern studies pick up at 1850 CE to late 2000’s. Era’s of study are nicely broken into units. Student’s will be studying the decline of the Ottoman Empire, pre- and post-World War dynamics around the world, the Middle East conflicts, and more. Students will source their information initially from the Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. As they develop their researching skills, they will utilize mostly primary sources. There is required literature that can be purchased or sourced from your local library. Skills developed are critical thinking, reading, writing, geography, and timeline work.