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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- Presidents 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
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- Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
- Major Romantic Poets: Scott,
Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Keats,
Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth,
Chateaubriand, Irving, and
Pushkin
- Faust* (Goethe)
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- Tools for studying these topics are taught and used throughout the year-plan for story, drama, and poetry analysis:
- Literary vocabulary
- Structures
- Modes
- Topics
- Themes
- Genres
- Devices
- Techniques
- Meters
- Characters
- Artistry
- Plots
- Settings
- Style
- Worldview analysis
- Historical literary movements
- Author's lives
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- 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
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- Kant
- Schleiermacher
- Hegel
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- William Carey
- William Wilberforce
- Adoniram Judson
- The Roman Catholic
Church and the
French Revolution
- New challenges to
Christianity in the
Age of Progress
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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 History
Portfolios and time line products (sold on Bookshelf Central)
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- 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
- Marx and Communism
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- Les Miserables (Hugo)
- Poets and Short Story Writers:
Poe, D.G. Rosetti, and Longfellow
- The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
- Billy Budd (Melville)
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- Democracy in America*
(Tocqueville)
- Limits of eminent
domain
- Thoreau and Civil
Disobedience
- Communist Manifesto
- Fugitive Slave Act
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- James Mill
- Schopenhauer
- Emerson
- Thoreau
- Darwin
- Newman
- Marx
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- Second Great Awakening:
revivalism
and Charles Finney
- Clapham and Oxford
movements in
England
- Joseph Smith,
Brigham Young, and
the Mormons
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- 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
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- Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
- Great Expectations (Dickens)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin* (Stowe,
read in History)
- Major Poets and Short Story
Writers: Flaubert, the Brownings,
C. Rosetti, Arnold, Tennyson,
Dickinson, Whittier, Whitman
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- Fugitive Slave law
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Dred Scott
- Secession arguments
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Civil War Amendments
- Slaugherhouse Cases
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- Kierkegaard
- John Stuart Mill
- Marx
- Darwin
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- Hudson Taylor
- The Civil War as a
Theological Crisis
(Noll)
- David Livingstone
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- 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
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- 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)
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- Labor issues
- Trust busters
- Nativism
- Progressivism
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Women's suffrage
movement
- Temperance movement
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- Newman
- Vatican Canons
- Nietzsche
- William James
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- Mary Slessor
- Dwight L. Moody
- Charles Spurgeon
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*Indicates that students read selections from this work.