Description

This 167 page mentor guide includes plans, ideas, and
materials to conduct an engaging weekly class for 15 weeks. This includes
over 50 pages of lecture notes, simulation scripts, and classroom ideas in the
Weekly Preparation Hints and Helps portion. Each class period is outlined and
resources are provided for simulations, class activities, debates,
presentations, writing guidance, book and primary source discussions, lectures,
and more. The material will have your scholars looking forward to class
time each week. Thorough descriptions and aides are included through each
step of the curriculum.

The accompanying scholar binder complements the mentor
binder and helps the scholar to become self-reliant in their studies. It
contains the class requirements list, weekly scholar challenges,
explanations of the assignments, timeline, vocabulary, book dossiers,
primary source study pages, multiple worksheets, maps, and more.

Scholars will work to complete the following class
requirements:

Books and Book Dossiers

–Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

–Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

–Abraham Lincoln by Wilbur F. Gordy

–Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

–To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Primary Source Studies

-“Gettysburg Address”

-Frederick Douglas quote

-“To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth” by
Phillis Wheatley

-Lincoln/Douglas speech excerpts

-Dred Scott Decision

-Secession letters

-Emancipation Proclamation

-Thirteenth Amendment

-Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

-“O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman

-Fourteenth Amendment

-Fifteenth Amendment

–Persuasive Essay

-Memorize the “Gettysburg Address”

-Memorize three selected quotes

-Complete six journal entries

-Watch and complete worksheet for the movie Gettysburg

–Watch an additional Civil War movie (Gone with the
Wind, The Red Badge
of Courage, Gods and Generals, or Shenandoah)

-Prepare and give three Devotional/Hero Insights and/or
battles

-Memorize one version of “The Battle Cry of
Freedom”/participate in a sing-off

-Complete Civil War Timeline

-Complete battle rundowns

-Complete and present a Personal Heroes Profile

They will also participate in a Lincoln-Douglas style
debate, court simulation, class discussions, and multiple class simulations.
(All explained and laid out in the mentor binder.)