Four-Year Cycle Homeschooling

Mar 25, 2020 | 4-Year Cycle

If you follow a four-year cycle, such as that used with TAN Books’ Story of Civilization, you can use recorded, independent-learning courses with Homeschool Connections for your 3rd through 12th grade curriculum.

Here is a list of recorded courses through our Unlimited Access program that are available to you …

GRADE SCHOOL
Ancient History Unit

• Grade School Unit Study Program for 3rd through 6th grade students.

NOTE: The Medieval History unit for grade school is being taught live in 2020/2021. The recorded version will be available February 15, 2021. We will follow with Making of the Modern World in 2021/2022 and US History in 2022/2023.

MIDDLE SCHOOL
Ancient History Unit

• Language: variety of Latin courses with Emily Henry (12 weeks each)
• Language: Biblical Greek, Parts One and Two with Dan Egan (14 weeks each)
• Literature: Greek Mythology with Emily Henry (10 weeks)
• Literature/History: The Golden Goblet: Living History Through Literature (Ancient Era 1) with Jackie deLaveaga (6 weeks).
• Literature/History: Black Ships Before Troy: Living History Through Literature (Ancient Era 2) with Jackie deLaveaga (6 weeks).
• Literature/History: Victory on the Walls: Living History Through Literature (Ancient Era 3) with Jackie deLaveaga (6 weeks).
• Literature/History: The Bronze Bow: Living History Through Literature (Ancient Era 4) with Jackie deLaveaga (6 weeks).
• History: The Ancient World, Parts One and Two with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks each).
• History: Dawn of History: Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Persia with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: The Glory of Ancient Greece with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: Res Publica Romana with Alison Stanley (10 weeks)

MIDDLE SCHOOL
Medieval History Unit

• Literature/History: Living History Through Literature: Medieval History 1: Big John’s Secret with Jackie de Laveaga (6 weeks)
• Literature/History: Living History Through Literature: Medieval History 2: The Door in the Wall with Jackie de Laveaga (6 weeks)
• Literature/History: Living History Through Literature: Medieval History 3 Saint Joan, The Girl Soldier with Jackie de Laveaga (6 weeks) (available 7/15/19)
• Literature/History: Living History Through Literature: Medieval History 4: Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal with Jackie de Laveaga (6 weeks) (available 7/15/19)
• History: The Crusades: On A Quest for Christendom with Alison Stanley (10 weeks)

MIDDLE SCHOOL
Making of the Modern World Unit

• Literature: Anne of Green Gables, Part One with Emily Henry (12 weeks)
• Literature: Anne of Green Gables, Part Two with Emily Henry (12 weeks)
• Literature: Anne of Avonlea with Emily Henry (12 weeks)
• Literature: Anne of Windy Poplars with Emily Henry (10 weeks)
• Literature/History: Father Damien and the Bells: Living History Through Literature (Modern Era 1) (6 weeks)
• Literature/History: Padre Pro Mexican Hero: Living History Through Literature (Modern Era 2) (6 weeks)
• Literature/History: Polly Kent Rides West: Living History Through Literature (Modern Era 3) (6 weeks)
• Literature/History: Enemy Brothers: Living History Through Literature (Modern Era 4) (6 weeks)
• History: The French Revolution: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death” with Alison Stanley (10 weeks)
• History: The Life and Legacy of St. John Paul II with Kevin O’Brien (6 weeks)

MIDDLE SCHOOL
U.S. History Unit

• Science: To the Moon: Apollo Missions and the Future with MacBeth Derham (13 weeks)
• Literature/History: Living History Through Literature: Kat Finds a Friend with Jackie de Laveaga (American History 1) (6 weeks)
• Literature/History: Living History Through Literature: Thomas Finds a Treasure, a Saint John Neumann Story with Jackie de Laveaga (American History 2) (6 weeks)
• Literature/History: Living History Through Literature: The Orphans Find a Home, A St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Story with Jackie de Laveaga (American History 3) (6 weeks)
• Literature/History: Living History Through Literature: Willy Finds Victory, A Blessed Francis Seelos Story with Jackie de Laveaga (American History 4) (6 weeks)
• Government: Middle School Civics, Parts One and Two with Alison Stanley (11 weeks each)
• History: The American Revolution; Liberty! with Alison Stanley (10 weeks)
• History: History: The Civil War with Alison Stanley (10 weeks)
• History: World War I; What Price Glory with Alison Stanley (9 weeks)
• History: World War II; Allies vs. Axis with Alison Stanley (10 weeks)
• History: U.S. History: The Age of Exploration to Modernity, Parts One and Two with Christopher Martin (14 weeks each)
• History: Middle School U.S. History: Part 1 (1492-1847) with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: Middle School U.S. History Part 2 (1847-1990) with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: The Rise and Fall of the Missions of Alta California, Parts One and Two with Christopher Zehnder (12 weeks each)

HIGH SCHOOL
Ancient Unit

• Philosophy: Early Greek Philosophy with Julian Ahlquist (15 weeks).
• Philosophy: Virtue and Vice: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Catholics with Sam Nicholson (12 weeks).
• Language: wide variety of Latin courses with Emily Henry (12 to 14 weeks each)
• Language: Biblical Greek, Parts One and Two with Dan Egan (14 weeks each)
• Literature: Iliad: The Glory and the Will of God with by Henry Russell (13 weeks)
• Literature: Odyssey: The World Without Fathers with Henry Russell (12 weeks)
• Literature: The Iliad by Homer with Joseph Pearce (6 weeks)
• Literature: The Odyssey by Homer with Joseph Pearce (6 weeks)
• Literature: The Theban Plays of Sophocles with Joseph Pearce (6 weeks)
• Literature: Sophocles and Tragedy with Henry Russell (6 weeks)
• Literature: Virgil’s Aeneid; The Founding of Nations in the Will of God with Henry Russell (7 weeks)
• Literature: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra with by Joseph Pearce (6 weeks)
• History: Dawn of History: Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Persia with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: The Glory of Ancient Greece with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: The Life and Times of the Ancient Romans with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: Ancient Rome: Republic, Empire and Collapse with Christopher Martin (14 weeks)
• History/Archaeology: Archaeology of the Ancient World with Phillip Campbell (13 weeks)
• History/Archaeology: An Archaeological Survey of the Old and New Testaments with Phillip Campbell (10 weeks)
• History: The Dawn of History: The Ancient World with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: Christ and Caesar: The Ancient World and the Founding of Christendom with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)

HIGH SCHOOL
Medieval Unit

• Philosophy: An Introduction to The Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas, Parts One and Two with Dave Palmer (12 weeks each)
• Philosophy: St. Thomas on the Human Person with Jean Rioux (12 weeks)
• Literature: Anglo-Saxon England: Bede and Beowulf with Joseph Pearce (6 weeks)
• Literature: Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer; Trust God and Tradition with Henry Russell (4 weeks)
• Literature: Medieval Literature for Modern Catholics with Henry Russell (12 weeks)
• Literature: St. Francis, Asceticism and Mysticism with G.K. Chesterton with Dale Ahlquist (6 weeks)
• Literature: Dante’s Inferno; Purgatorio; and Paradiso with Henry Russell (11-12 weeks each)
• Literature: G. K. Chesterton’s St. Thomas Aquinas with Dale Ahlquist (6 weeks)
• Literature: G. K. Chesterton’s Ballad of the White Horse with Gregory Pyne (6 weeks)
• History: The Crusades: Defending Christendom with Alison Stanley (12 weeks)
• History: Catholic Middle Ages with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: The Rending of Christendom (1415-1648) with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• Music: Early Sacred Music with Carol Reynolds (12 weeks)

HIGH SCHOOL
Making of the Modern World Unit

• Philosophy: Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy with Jean Rioux (12 weeks)
• Philosophy: Revolution: The Progress of Liberalism with Phillip Campbell (14 weeks)
• Psychology: Modern Psychology with Julian Ahlquist (12 weeks)
• Literature: A wide variety of Shakespeare courses
• Literature: Dracula by Bram Stoker with Eleanor Nicholson (6 weeks)
• Literature: The Victorian Detective with Eleanor Nicholson (12 weeks)
• Literature: Frankenstein: Misunderstood Monster with Joseph Pearce (6 weeks)
• Literature: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte with Eleanor Nicholson (6 weeks)
• Literature: The Nineteenth-Century Novel with Eleanor Nicholson (12 weeks)
• Literature: The Picture of Dorian Gray with Joseph Pearce (6 weeks)
• Literature: A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations with Anthony Esolen (6 weeks)
• Literature: The Golden Age of Mystery Fiction with Eleanor Nicholson (12 weeks)
• Literature: Middlemarch with Eleanor Nicholson (6 weeks)
• History/Government: A History of Government in Europe and America, Parts One and Two with Christopher Zehnder (11 and 12 weeks)
• History: Early Modern Europe: 1648-1789 with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: Modern European History; 1789-1991 with Phillip Campbell (14 weeks)
• History: Imperial Russia with Carol Reynolds (12 weeks)
• History: Understanding the Second Vatican Council with Phillip Campbell (4 weeks)
• History: The History of Latin America with Phillip Campbell (13 weeks)
• History: Totalitarianism in the 20th Century: Nazis and Soviets with Christopher Martin (14 weeks)

HIGH SCHOOL
U.S. History Unit

• Literature: Scarlet Letter with Henry Russell (7 weeks)
• Literature: Death Comes for the Archbishop with Henry Russell (6 weeks)
• Literature: American Literature, Part One: Age of Exploration through Reconstruction with Jackie de Laveaga (12 weeks)
• Literature: American Literature, Part Two: Reconstruction through Present Day with Jackie de Laveaga (12 weeks)
• Government: American Elections: Democracy in Action with Ed Rivet (6 weeks)
• Government: Government, Democracy, and Citizenship with Ed Rivet (9 weeks)
• Government: American Democracy and Government with Ed Rivet (12 weeks)
• Government: The Federalist Papers with Alison Stanley (12 weeks)
• Government: Advanced American Government with Ed Rivet (9 weeks)
• Government: U.S. Citizenship and Civics with Jason Negri (12 weeks)
• Government: U.S. Government and Politics, Parts One and Two with Alison Stanley (12 weeks each)
• History: Early American History (1492 to 1763); Discovery to the Dawn of Revolution with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: US History: Revolution, Republic, and Union (1763-1865) with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: Modern U.S. History; 1865 – 2000 with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks) (with optional Honors)
• History: Contemporary U.S. History (1988-2016) with Phillip Campbell (12 weeks)
• History: The Great Depression with Phillip Campbell (4 weeks)
• History: U.S. History: The Age of Exploration to Modernity, Part One with Christopher Martin (14 weeks)
• History: U.S. History: The Age of Exploration to Modernity, Part Two with Christopher Martin (14 weeks)
• History: The American South: “To Live and Die in Dixie” with Christopher Martin (14 weeks)
• History: A Nation Made by Conflict: America’s Wars with Christopher Martin (14 weeks)
• History: Civil Rights in America, 1863-1968: Setbacks, Struggles, and Shockwaves with Christopher Martin (14 weeks)
• History: American History: Lands of Hope and Promise, Part One with Christopher Zehnder (12 weeks)
• History: American History: Lands of Hope and Promise, Part Two with Christopher Zehnder (12 weeks)
• History: American History, Part One: Age of Exploration through the Civil War and Reconstruction with John C. “Chuck” Chalberg (12 weeks)
• History: American History, Part Two: Reconstruction through Present Day with John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. (12 weeks)

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