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
4 of Tapestry...
and remember, each topic is taught to your child at the learning-level appropriate for them!
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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
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- Supreme Court v. state legislatures
- The income tax
- Wartime statism
- Leninism
- Free speech in wartime
- Women's suffrage
- Volstead Act
- KKK v. private schools
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- Einstein
- Dewey
- Fundamentalism
- Yeats & the Zeitgeist
- Freud
- Wittgenstein
- Barth
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- Revivalism: Samuel P. Jones, Benjamin Mills
- Protestant liberalism and the Social Gospel movement
- Fundamentalism
- Billy Sunday
- The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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)
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- Consequences of Prohibition
- Hoover's vain call for limited government
- Expanding federal power
- Legality of Japanese internment during war
- Compulsory pledge of allegiance
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- Barth
- Wittgenstein
- Humanist Manifesto
- Heidegger
- Bonhoeffer
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- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom)
- Overview of revivalism, Pentecostalism, and neo-orthodoxy
- Optional: Israeli Independence Day
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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"
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- Gandhi
- Popper
- Sartre
- Quine
- Kuhn
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- The Normal Christian Life (Watchman Nee)
- Billy Graham and revivalism
- God's Smuggler (Brother Andrew)
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- 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
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- I, Robot* (Asimov)
- Citizen of the Galaxy (Heinlein)
- The Hobbit (Tolkien)
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- Roe v. Wade
- Campaign finance reform and its loopholes
- Affirmative action
- Flag-burning
- Religious liberty
- Enemy combatant cases
- Bush v. Gore
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- Qutb
- Feyerabend
- Derrida
- Deconstruction
- Conclusion of the Pageant
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- 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
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*Indicates that students read selections from this work.