Using Tapestry: Year 3

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Tapestry of Grace™ Year 3 is your guide through the Nineteenth Century.

Explore the Nineteenth Century, from Napoleon to Teddy Roosevelt. 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!

Flip through a week-plan.

Want to see what a week of Tapestry looks like? Take a peek right now! You can turn the pages to get a good look at what Tapestry really looks like. Then, for a more in-depth trial, check out Go to Egypt, the free, 3-week sample that introduces and explains each section with annotations added by the author for moms exploring Tapestry for the first time!

Tapestry works for your whole family.

K–3rd graders get opportunities for lots of hands-on projects, storybooks, and read-alouds. 4th–6th graders get more independent work and interesting chapter books. 6th–9th graders get in more challenging assignments that help them make vital learning connections. 10th–12th graders get worldview discussions that will help them to succeed in life. Dad gets a family that is all on the same page, so he can lead them in a single educational conversation, and you get confidence and help to take your family on the adventure of the homeschoooling journey.

Scope & Sequence

What does Tapestry cover? Quite a lot! Take a look at this Scope & Sequence Chart for a broad overview of topics covered in Year 3 of Tapestry... and remember, each topic is taught to your child at the learning-level appropriate for them!

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Rhetoric Level Studies						Grammar/DIALECTIC
History	Literature		Government	Philosophy	Church History	Beyond History
History	Titles	Analysis	Government	Philosophy	Church History	Beyond History
Presidents J. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe The career of Napoleon Bonaparte The War of 1812 The Congress of Vienna Simon Bolivar and the South American independence movements: 1800-1825	Major Romantic Poets: Burns, Scott, Chateaubriand, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats American and Russian short stories: Irving, Poe, and Pushkin The Sorrows of Young Werther, or Faust* (Goethe) Poets and short story writers: Poe, D.G. Rossetti, Longfellow	The following literary concepts and tools for studying them are taught and used in many different weeks throughout the year-plan for story analyis, drama analysis, and poetry analysis: Literary vocabulary Structures Modes Topics Themes Genres Devices Techniques Meters Characters Artistry Plots Settings Style Worldview analysis Historical literary movements Authors' lives	Declaration of Independence & Bill of Rights Declaration of the Rights of Man Democracy in America* (Tocqueville) Code of Napoleon Alien & Sedition Acts The Marshall Court	Kant Schleiermacher Hegel	William Carey William Wilberforce Adoniram Judson The Roman Catholic Church and the French Revolution New challenges to Christianity in the Age of Progress	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.
Presidents J.Q. Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, and Taylor Victorian England & British Empire The settlement of Australia Manifest Destiny: American pioneers Mexican-American War CA gold rush & telegraph Clashes of nationalism: 1830's and 1848 Marx and Communism	Les Miserables (Hugo) The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) Billy Budd (Melville) Poets: Dickinson, Hopkins, Whitman		Democracy in America* (Tocqueville) Thoreau and Civil Disobedience Communist Manifesto	James Mill Schopenhauer Emerson Thoreau Darwin Newman Marx	Second Great Awakening: revivalism and Charles Finney Clapham and Oxford movements in England Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and the Mormons
Presidents Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, A. Johnson, and Grant Crimean War China, Japan, and Opium Wars Underground Railroad American Civil War Reconstruction Unification of Italy & of Germany	Huckleberry Finn (Twain) Great Expectations (Dickens) Major Poets and Short Story Writers: Flaubert, the Brownings, C. Rosetti, Arnold, Tennyson, Whittier Beijing Opera and Chinese poetry		Fugitive Slave law Kansas-Nebraska Act Dred Scott Secession arguments Emancipation Proclamation Civil War Amendments Slaughterhouse Cases	Kierkegaard John Stuart Mill Marx Darwin	Hudson Taylor The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (Noll) David Livingstone
Presidents Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and McKinley Edison and Bell Imperialism Immigration Captains of Industry Populists and "Muckrakers" Problems of urbanization Spanish-American War	Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) A Doll's House (Ibsen) Heart of Darkness (Conrad) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Tolstoy) An Ideal Husband (Wilde) Patience (Gilbert & Sullivan)		Labor issues Trust busters Nativism Progressivism Plessy v. Ferguson Women's suffrage movement Temperance movement	Newman Vatican Canons Nietzsche William James	Mary Slessor Dwight L. Moody Charles Spurgeon