Modern Times (1850 to present)

This Module is designed to cover American History two days per week and World History two days per week. If you are not from America, you can easily substitute your country’s history on those days. Click on any title to see that book’s details in our CM Bookfinder. Daily lesson plans for this module are available in Modern Times, Epistles & Revelation: A Family Study Handbook.

Grade History Geography Bible
Family

American History: Stories of America, Volume 2; The Story of Thomas A. Edison; The Brooklyn Bridge; Empire State Building; The Hoover Dam; Billy Graham: God’s Ambassador OR Billy Graham: Just Get Up Out of Your Seat; Our Country’s Presidents (reference)

World History: Stories of the Nations, Volume 2; George Mueller; Gandhi: The Young Protestor Who Founded a Nation; Mandela: The Rebel Who Led His Nation to Freedom

The Tree in the Trail; Minn of the Mississippi; Paddle to the Sea; OR (for those who do not want to focus on United States geography) WorldTrek

Leisure Reading: Material World; Hungry Planet; What I Eat

Map Drill: North America, Canadian provinces, United States; Uncle Josh’s Outline Map Book

GOAL study of 1, 2 Peter; Jude; 1, 2, 3 John

Revelation study
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Books listed for Family, plus

American History: Abraham Lincoln; Buffalo Bill; Sarah: Plain and Tall; (opt.) George Washington Carver; Rebekkah’s Journey: A World War II Refugee Story; A Boy Named FDR; Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World; Lily’s Victory Garden; The Unbreakable Code; I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King; Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11

World History: Only a Dog: A Story of the Great War; Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II; The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II; The Journey That Saved Curious George
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Books listed for Family, plus

American History: Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House; Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell; The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation; I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King; Team Moon; Our Country’s Presidents (reference)

World History: Louis Pasteur: Founder of Modern Medicine; The Singing Tree; Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion; Snow Treasure; Brother Andrew: God’s Secret Agent
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Books listed for Family, plus

American History: Lincoln: A Photobiography; Across Five Aprils; (opt.) Up From Slavery; (opt.) The Story of My Life; Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt; The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane; The Yanks Are Coming; Victory in the Pacific; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Ronald Reagan: Destiny at His Side

World History: Louis Pasteur: Founder of Modern Medicine; Rescue and Redeem; Across America on an Emigrant Train; World War I: From the Lusitania to Versailles; The Endless Steppe; Animal Farm; Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics

Book of Centuries

We are pleased that Greenleaf Press is working to bring its Famous Men series up to Modern Times. We hope to incorporate those books as they become available.

Books listed for Family, plus

Continue Doctrine notebook OR Finish Doctrine notebook and write personal doctrine statement essays
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Books listed for Family, plus

American History: (selections from) American Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays, Hymns, Poems, and Short Stories from American History; Lincoln: A Photobiography; The Red Badge of Courage; (opt.) Up From Slavery; (opt.) The Story of My Life; Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt; The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane; America, The Last Best Hope, Volume 2 and Volume 3; The Yanks Are Coming; Victory in the Pacific; Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Exploring Government (American Government course)

World History: Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave OR How Should We Then Live?; Rescue and Redeem; The War to End All Wars; Hitler; (opt.)The Hiding Place; Stalin: Russia’s Man of Steel

Book of Centuries

We are pleased that Greenleaf Press is working to bring its Famous Men series up to Modern Times. We hope to incorporate those books as they become available.
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