Get ready for an adventure through modern times with LPL’s plans consisting of: weekly timeline activities, review questions, outlines, encyclopedia readings, map and globe work, corresponding literature, and exciting projects! These activities will bring history to life for your student!

History and geography are the backbone to Lesson Plan Ladies’ classical curriculum. We plan our subjects, such as read-aloud, art, and recitation to align with what is being taught in history. This enhances students’ learning by making it more connected and engaging. We also reason that history should be taught chronologically. It is exciting to know what is happening in The United States and Russia during the same time period. In addition, this chronological method of teaching allows your child to understand that the world is much bigger than what he sees and experiences.

LPL have carefully crafted 36 weeks of lesson plans from the books: The Story of the World Volume 4: The Modern Age, using The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age, The Usborne Book of World History, and The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia.

The Story of the World Volume 4: The Modern Age authored by Susan Wise Bauer is an engaging and thorough history text written in story form for children to easily understand and enjoy. It covers major historical events in the years 1850-2000. The Story of the World weaves through world history taking you on a trip from the Middle East and China to Africa and the Americas!

The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age is a companion book to The Story of the World Volume 4: The Modern Age. It contains great review questions, reproducible maps, reproducible activities, corresponding literature, projects and so much more! No more searching the Internet for history activities!

The Usborne Book of World History is a chronological reference encyclopedia. It is written with young children in mind. The illustrations bring history to life while helping your child picture what each place and time period was like. This is a valuable book.

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia is a chronological reference encyclopedia written with older students in mind. You may desire to purchase this book for the beautiful illustrations alone! It contains additional information about the topics studied in The Story of the World (volumes 1-4) and will be appropriate for years to come.

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