• Unit 4: Modern Middle East Mac's History Drive
• Unit 4: Modern Middle East Mac's History Of Events

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Levine's World History Page! Here you will find resources for both standard and honors levels of classes - including general and unit information. As we journey through each unit over the course of this year, information, documents and power points from, and relating to, class will be added here for you to use.

Tapestry of Grace™ Year 4 is your guide from 1900 to the present day.

Explore the 20th Century, from the turn of the Century to today. Tapestry of Grace™ is the award-winning homeschool curriculum that uses the history of the world to guide your whole family through an amazing humanities education. Want to know more? Explore Tapestry with video introductions and free samples!

• Human history, also known as world history, is the description of humanity's past.It is informed by archaeology, anthropology, genetics, linguistics, and other disciplines; and, for periods since the invention of writing, by recorded history and by secondary sources and studies.
• Early Middle Eastern civilization developed great cities, and cities continue to play an important role in the life of the region. The largest city of the Middle East is Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Founded by Arab conquerors in the A.D. 900's, it has a population of about 6 million in the city proper and some 14 million in its metropolitan area.

Unit 4: Modern Middle East Mac's History Drive

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Unit 4: Modern Middle East Mac's History Of Events

What does Tapestry cover? Quite a lot! Take a look at this Scope & Sequence Chart for a broad overview of topics covered in Year 4 of Tapestry... and remember, each topic is taught to your child at the learning-level appropriate for them!

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• Year 4 Credits and Course Descriptions

Rhetoric Level Studies						Grammar/DIALECTIC
History	Literature		Government	Philosophy	Church History	Beyond History
	Titles	Analysis
Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge Age of Innocence Progressivism World War I Russian Revolution & Red Scare The Roaring 20's and Ballyhoo Rise of Stalin and Hitler Prohibition & Speculation	Major Poets and Short Story Writers: Regionalists, Realists, Imagists, Yeats, WWI poets, Frost, Eliot The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov) All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) Animal Farm (Orwell) Metamorphosis (Kafka)	The following literary concepts and tools for studying them are taught and used in many different weeks throughout the year-plan for story analysis, drama analysis, and poetry analysis: Literary vocabulary Modes Topics Themes Genres Devices Techniques Texture Characters Artistry Plots Settings Style Worldviews (Modernism and Postmodernism) and worldview analysis Historical literary movements Authors' lives	Supreme Court v. state legislatures The income tax Wartime statism Leninism Free speech in wartime Women's suffrage Volstead Act KKK v. private schools	Einstein Dewey Fundamentalism Yeats & the Zeitgeist Freud Wittgenstein Barth	Revivalism: Samuel P. Jones, Benjamin Mills Protestant liberalism and the Social Gospel movement Fundamentalism Billy Sunday The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)	Hands-on activities reinforce history topics Geography threads include maps and activities tied to history Historical fiction and picture books reinforce all studies Vocabulary words given weekly for grammar students reinforce history and literature studies Follow-up worksheets are given for books read as literature most weeks The history of artistic styles is woven into history lessons Weekly writing assignments are keyed to history topics Many grammar students enjoy Lampstand Press lapbook products which parallel and reinforce weekly History topics Dialectic students may choose to reinforce their work using time lines. Some topics in church history vary with the learning level. In Year 4, younger students study lighter topics of the century, while older ones face tougher issues head on.
Presidents Hoover, FDR and Truman The Great Depression Hitler, Stalin, and totalitarianism Expansionism and appeasement World War II Just War theory The Communist Bloc and the start of the Cold War Birth of Israel Survey of the Middle East	The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) The Pearl (Steinbeck) The Glass Menagerie (Williams) Major Poets and Short Story Writers: Modernist poets, the Lost Generation, Cummings, Faulkner The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway) The Chosen (Potok)		Consequences of Prohibition Hoover's vain call for limited government Expanding federal power Legality of Japanese internment during war Compulsory pledge of allegiance	Barth Wittgenstein Humanist Manifesto Heidegger Bonhoeffer	Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom) Overview of revivalism, Pentecostalism, and neo-orthodoxy Optional: Israeli Independence Day
Gandhi and Indian Independence Mao's China Presidents Eisenhower, JFK, and LBJ Korean War King & civil rights in America 1950's culture of conformity Technological advances & the Space Race Events of the Cold War 1960's American culture Vietnam War & protest Hippie & women's movements	Siddhartha (Hesse) To Live (Chinese film) Waiting for Godot (Beckett) Major Poets and Short Story Writers: the Beats, the Black Mountain Poets, Flannery O'Connor Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee) The Crucible (Miller)		Quotations from Mao Limits of Executive power McCarthyism and due process Brown v. Board of Education Reinterpretations of religious liberty Student war protest as 'free speech'	Gandhi Popper Sartre Quine Kuhn	The Normal Christian Life (Watchman Nee) Billy Graham and revivalism God's Smuggler (Brother Andrew)
Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Obama Rise of modern Middle East & Islamic terrorism Cultural and demographic changes in U.S. society 9/11 and the Iraq War Summing up human history	I, Robot* (Asimov) Citizen of the Galaxy (Heinlein) The Hobbit (Tolkien)		Roe v. Wade Campaign finance reform and its loopholes Affirmative action Flag-burning Religious liberty Enemy combatant cases Bush v. Gore	Qutb Feyerabend Derrida Deconstruction Conclusion of the Pageant	Choice of three tracks: Light Force (Brother Andrew) Study of your own denomination Study of a foreign region with a view toward a short-term missions trip

*Indicates that students read selections from this work.

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Module One	Exploring the Diversity of Africa
Module Two	Learning about Africa
Module Three	Examining Africa’s Diversity
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Module Five	Looking Back

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Module Six	African Geography
Module Seven	A. African History until 1500
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Module Eight	Culture and Society in Africa
Module Nine	African Economies
Module Ten	African Politics and Government

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Module Eleven	African Literatures
Module Twelve	African Art
Module Thirteen	African Music
Module Fourteen	Religion in Africa
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Module Sixteen	North Africa
Module Seventeen	West Africa
Module Eighteen	Central Africa
Module Nineteen	East Africa
Module Twenty	Southern Africa

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Module Twenty One	Egypt
Module Twenty Two	Ethiopia
Module Twenty Three	Senegal
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