History Compass: A Guide to Historical Thinking, Research, and Writing

About this curriculum

History Compass: A Guide to Historical Thinking, Research, and Writing (eBook) Grade level: 9th- 12th Pages:  185 Course type:  eBook (PDF). Includes a free Teacher Guidance PDF Author: Samantha Cook What is History Compass? History Compass is a semester-long history course that instructs ninth to twelfth grade students to methodically yet creatively think, research, and write like historians. Coursework is designed to help students locate and appropriately examine sources, then use the evidence they find to make their own well-supported claims about people and events of the past. History Compass was written to accompany the History Odyssey series and serves as a prerequisite to any of the History Odyssey curriculum for high school students. It frontloads—or teaches ahead of time—the skills required for assignments and projects in History Odyssey, preparing students so they can focus on and savor the content of the history course itself. History Compass is a secular homeschool curriculum, meaning it does not present religious beliefs or texts as historically factual accounts. Rather, it references them as additional sources or perspectives to be considered.…