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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!

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 4 of Tapestry... and remember, each topic is taught to your child at the learning-level appropriate for them!

Want more info? Check out our week-plan titles and printable Scope & Sequence PDF.

Rhetoric Level Studies						Grammar/DIALECTIC
History	Literature		Government	Philosophy	Church History	Beyond History
History	Titles	Analysis	Government	Philosophy	Church History	Beyond History
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)	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 Worldviews (Modernism, and Postmodernism) and worldview analysis Historical literary movements Author's 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 History portfolios and time line products (sold on the Bookshelf Central) 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)		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