(Stream) Quibinar #8 - Yearly Social Studies Theme [The Homeschooling Series]
Education Grounded in the Social Sciences
All the subjects are introduced to the students using the Holistic approach. Lessons in the Arts and Sciences are structured around the Quadrivium and Trivium Liberal Arts.
The Communication Arts and Physical Sciences are grounded in the Social Sciences that answer the basic questions in life:
• Geography - Where
• History - When
• Politics - How
• Economics – What
• Social – Who
Life answers the question “Why”
• Pre-K-K – About Me Self Exploration
• Grade 1 – My Family
• Grade 2 – My Community
• Grade 3 – Communities Around the World
• Grade 4 – US History through Local History from an African Perspective
• Grade 5 – The American Hemisphere from an African Perspective
• Grade 6 – World Geography/Geology
• Grade 7 – World History from an African Perspective-Origin of Humanity-525BCE
• Grade 8 – World History from an African Perspective-525BCE-1492
• Grade 9 – Hemispheric from an African Perspective-Pre 1492-Oct 1492
• Grade 10 – Hemispheric from an African Perspective-Oct 1492-1870
• Grade 11 - US History from an African Perspective - 1870 -1945 Immigration - End of WW 2
• Grade 12 - Part 1 - US History from an African Perspective 1945-1965
Post WW2 – Civil Rights Movement – Voting Rights Bill
Part 2 - US History from an African Perspective 1965
Present – Civil Rights Movement – 2008 (President Obama)