West Brooke Curriculum

High School World History

World History, English, Physical Science, and Math

A manual written for the teenagers of Jehovah’s Witnesses By Jennifer Westbrook

This High School Manual can be used for any grade in the

9-12 range if your student needs to cover World History,

English, Physical Science, and Math.

Meeting Prep. And Service- This schedule is to keep up with meeting preparation for the

weekly night Meeting. The Watchtower lesson the student is responsible to get it done before

meeting. Our service day is on Wednesday but it can be any weekday. (just date that column the

date you go out in service)- the student should record the hours they went out in service, this will

be good to include in his/her permanent record and can count toward speech (English), or

community service.

Read the text together and a few pages out of the yearbook. All of this can count towards

your English credit. Including talks/demonstrations given at our weekly night meeting.

According to the school we have used to track credits you can’t use just this for an English credit

because then it would give you one credit in Bible not in English. So I always included literature

and book reports, and essays.

2016 updated to new workbook layout.

1 Credit Bible (or towards your English Credit)

Math- Teaching Textbooks Algebra I

1 Credit Math

World History

A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition by E.H. Gombrich

Yale University Press Educator’s Guide to E.H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World (see

link below, I will also send PDF of this to you with manual.) Gombrich Educator’s guide

Insight on the Scriptures

“See The Good Land” Brochure

Bound Volumes or WT cd-rom

1 Credit in World History

World Geography

Some map activities are included related to A Little History of the World, and you will study

“See the Good Land” Brochure. If you would like to count an additional ½ to 1 credit in World

Geography this year consider adding the book World History Map Activities by Walch

http://walch.com/World-History-Map-Activities.html

You might also like to incorporate this free Geography course: (thank you Amy)

http://www.knowledgequestmaps.com/Globalmania.html

1/2 to 1 Credit in World Geography

English – Grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and hours from Bible lessons if you do the

minimum from the reading list. If your student is an avid reader and reads at least 12 books for

the school year with sufficient writing/book reports then you can count one credit in English and

one credit in Bible. You can require your student to practice Note-taking for the Public Talk and

Assemblies. Spelling optional this year, only if needed; Sequential Spelling level 7 or Adult or

here is a list:

http://www.spelling-words-well.com/9th-grade-spelling-words.html

http://www.spelling-words-well.com/spelling-help.html

Note: if your student is an avid reader, writes well and enough you may not need grammar or

vocabulary for grades 10-12.

Wordly Wise 3000 Book 9, 10, 11, or 12

Answer Key

Easy Grammar Ultimate Grade 9, 10, 11, or 12 http://www.easygrammar.com/dtl9.html

Teacher Edition contains reproducible student pages and answers

Student book just contains student pages

Optional Resource: Wordsmith Craftsman by Janie Cheaney (for 10th grade and up) the student

learns to branch out, using writing skills for communication, organization and reasoning. It covers letters,

outlines, research reports, all types of essays. This book can be used all throughout High School. Answer

key included.

Reading from literature list provided; some have lit guide links

1 Credit English (I, II, III, or IV)

Reading List to choose from (minimum of 6 books)

Note: Historical fiction may contain violence and or discussions of gods/beliefs.

Ides of April by Mary Ray

Mara Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare

Caesar Augustus’ World by Foster

City by Macaulay

Pyramid by Macaulay

Leonardo da Vinci by Emily Hahn

The Beduins’ Gazelle by Frances Temple

Codes and Ciphers by Peter Way

The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell http://thekingsfifth.weebly.com/plot-summary.html

Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse (we haven’t read this yet)

Facing the Lion by Simone Liebster http://www.facingthelion.com/

The Endless Steppe Esther Hautzig

http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/novelwise_hs/find/bytitlepdf/endlesssteppe_pdfs/endlesssteppe_stud

entintro.pdf

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Parcel of Patterns by Walsh

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle

Mary Bloody Mary Carolyn Meyer

Young Royals series

And More….

Videos

Egypt: Engineering an Empire History Channel

Castle by Macauley

Roman City by Macauley

History’s Mysteries: Knights of Camelot

Science

Apologia Physical Science- college prep course

Student should be taking at least Pre-Algebra to understand the formulas in this class

(5 days per week)

1 Credit Physical Science

Electives- Your choice; fill in assignments.

West Brooke Curriculum

Written by: Jennifer Westbrook

Updated: April 1, 2013

©2013

2016 edition updated Feb. 2016

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Week 1 Date: Grade

Meeting

Prep./

Service

□ Treasures from God’s Word

□ Apply Yourself to the Field Ministry

□ Living as Christians

□ 3-6 pages from current Yearbook

□ 4-8 pages from Jehovah’s Witnesses Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom

□ reading or listening to current magazines or online content from jw.org

Math

TT Alg. 1

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5

Wordly

Wise 3000

Book

Lesson 1 → → →

Easy

Grammar

Ultimate

Grade

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Writing Journal Making An

Outline

Literature

(see writing

ideas in

notes)

Literature

A Little

History of

the World

Notes* and

begin

timeline,

research

History Begins

Notes* & map

activity

Read Ch. 3

from A Little

History The

Land by the

Nile

Educator’s

Guide for

A Little

History

Ch.3

questions

1, 3-7, 9

Ch. 3

Questions

10-13, 15-17

World

History

Map

Activities

by Walch

Complete

lesson 1 this

week

Audio Drama

Jehovah’s

Judgment

against Law-

Defying

People

Science Module I

Read pages 1-

7

Experiment 1.1 Read page 7-

11

Read 11-17 Experiment

1.2

Elective:

Reading

Selection

Week 1 Notes:

Note: not every week will have notes, only when needed.

Reading- choose books from the list or other related Egypt books, or any High School level

novel to read. Fill in the title and author under Reading Selection section of your grid.

Literature Writing Ideas for the two Historical Fictions: Mara, Daughter of the Nile, and The

Golden Goblet: Book report. Chart character study pick two characters in a story to compare and

contrast. Find the Climax of the story and write a page. Write a page on the Setting of the story.

Reading List for Ancient Egypt:

Mara Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw HF

The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw HF

Pyramid by Macaulay

And More…

Day 1

Journal- you can write about anything you want to, dreams, poetry, goals, thoughts. Or work

with your literature books

History Notes*- This year you will be studying World History- which is a lot to cover in one year, I will

give suggestions on books we supplemented with, choose as many as you like.

Use a notetaking method of study for World History you can use a ordinary notebook to write lists,

timelines, notes, reports, etc. in. or you can use notebooking pages many can be found online or you can

use History Scribe. http://www.historyscribe.com/

You may remember studying this in 6th grade but, let’s review:

It did always seem difficult to match up secular dates with Biblical therefore you should refer to

the timeline at the bottom of the brochure The Bible What is its Message? for an accurate Biblical

Timeline. This is especially true for secular timelines referring to Ancient Egypt.

Look up information on this difference in volume one of the Insight on the Scriptures volume 1

book under the topic Chronology: Egyptian Chronology and Problems of Egyptian Chronology on page

450.*

Before we begin let’s look at the time frame we are in, if you will turn to page 252 of your Revelation Its

Grand Climax at Hand! book you will see a diagram of The Succession of Seven World Powers. Please

make a photo copy of this (if you can) and glue it into your notebook, if not at least write it as a list. See

also the chart on pages 12-13 of 6/15/2012 Watchtower. See also Questions from Readers pg 19 of the 6-

15-12 Watchtower answering the question: When did the Anglo-American World Power become the

seventh world Power of Bible Prophecy?

Egypt

Assyria

Babylon

Medo-Persia

Greece

Rome

Anglo-America

Timelines can be fun to do, I would like for you to keep a timeline this year that you add to as you go

along, you can break it up into the different world powers. This can be as simple as you like or as

complex as you like. Research some different ways to keep a time line or a Centuries Book. Begin laying

out what you plan to use for your time line so that you can easily add to it throughout the year.

You can use the reference The Usborne Internet-linked Encyclopedia of World History or Usborne

Encyclopedia of the Ancient World Internet-Linked (Skip all of the section “Prehistoric World”)

Day 2

Writing- Making An Outline

Read pages 39-42 of Benefit From Theocratic Ministry School Education

Copy the notes from the box How To Prepare An Outline into your notebook. You will need this

information for completing an assignment next week and several times this year.

History Begins Notes*- We will be skipping the first 2 chapters of A Little History of the World

by EH Gombrich because we know that history really begins with what Jehovah has taught us

through the pages of the Bible. You already know the story of creation and many, many Bible

Stories.

Today read through pages 321-336 of Insight on the Scriptures Volume 1 It starts with How We

Got the Bible – Graphic Features of the Promised Land.

Using a Blank printed out map from http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/ copy the map you see

on page 329 and how the decedents of Noah spread. Discuss with parent how all nations of men

descended from these 3 men.

Day 4

(answers are included with the download)

History Educator’s Guide Questions:

1. What were kings of Egypt called?

3. What is the type of writing that the Egyptians created?

4. Which Pharaoh built the Great Pyramid?

5. How did the Egyptians build the temples and the pyramids?

6. Describe one or two Egyptian gods.

7. What is an obelisk? Are there any Obelisks still standing today? Any located near

you? Where?

9. Why is the Sphinx in the shape of a cat?

Day 5

History Educator’s Guide Questions:

10. Explain the Egyptian’s burial rites.

11. Where can you see mummies and Egyptian art?

12. How do we know so much about Egyptian life?

13. What is the Rosetta Stone?

15. What is papyrus?

16. Which Empire lasted the longest? Egyptian or Roman?

17. What is the Pharaoh Akhenaton known for?

Week 2 Date: Grade

Meeting

Prep./

Service

□ Treasures from God’s Word

□ Apply Yourself to the Field Ministry

□ Living as Christians

□ 3-6 pages from current Yearbook

□ 4-8 pages from Jehovah’s Witnesses Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom

□ reading or listening to current magazines or online content from jw.org

Math

TT Alg. 1

Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10

Wordly

Wise 3000

Book

Finish lesson

1

→ Lesson 2 →

Easy

Grammar

Ultimate

Grade

Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10

Writing (see

educator’s

guide)

Outline Egypt

Awake article

Literature Character

study and

conflict

Ancient

Egypt

continued

A Book you

Can Trust

Part 1Egypt in

Bible History

11/2010

Awake!

Pg 15-18

Map Ancient

Egypt

Color with

colored

pencils

Story of

Joseph- read

Genesis

37:1-36 or

audio

Drama*

Educator’s

Guide for

A Little

History

Ch. 3

Research

questions:

2,8,14*

World

History

Map

Activities

by Walch

Complete

lesson 2 this

week

Science Read page

17- end of

module

Experiment 1.3 On Your

Own

questions

Study Test

Elective:

Reading

Selection

Week 2 notes:

Day 1

History Research- Hint, use your Watchtower library CD to do some of the research. For

example if you look up Rosetta Stone, then click on publications index, then click on index

1986-2012, then click on Rosetta Stone you will see several references. Here is part of what you

will see: key to unlocking hieroglyphics: g89 10/22 18; it-1 688; g88 6/8 31 This tells you that there are

two Awake (g) articles one from 1989 and one from 1988 on the Rosetta Stone. You also see that

there is a reference to the Insight book volume 1 page 688 (it-1 688).

Write your research answers in your notebook or use History Scribe pages to take notes.

Research questions from Educator’s Guide: 2. Find Egypt on a map. Locate the River Nile and trace its route. Today there is a manmade dam on

the River Nile. What is it called? Research the dam and how it changed Egypt. 8. Challenge: Research the recent controversies surrounding ancient art that is ‘stolen’ from one

country and put on display in other country’s museum. Did this happen with Egyptian art? 14. Challenge: Research the Rosetta Stone. Who found it, and where? How did it end up in the

British Museum? How long did it take for scholars to decipher it?

Day 2

Writing- Outline article

After reading the article from the Awake about

Egypt, write an outline in your notebook for this

article. Your title is the title of the outline. Your

subheadings are your main points, choose sub

points to include under each main point. Use this

method each time you are assigned an outline.

Day 4

Literature- work with some of the ideas for writing

with your literature suggested last week.

Map Ancient Egypt- Draw or find a blank map of

the area of Egypt. Label these geographic features:

The Nile and the Delta, the Mediterranean Sea, and

the Red Sea. Label Upper Egypt, (the southern half)

and Lower Egypt (the northern half), Giza,

Memphis, Karnak, Thebes, Luxor, and the Valley of

the Kings (and Queens). Color your map with

colored pencils.

wikipedia map

Day 5

History- Read Genesis Account of Joseph or listen to the audio drama: Preserving Life in the

Time of Famine

Writing- Character study and conflict

Study the Characters involved in the story of Joseph. Write a list of characters and their character

traits.

Conflict- There are several areas of conflict in this story, see if you can pick out what they are.

Make a list of these main conflicts, and under each one list as many as you can.

Man against Man

Man against Society

Man against Self

Man against nature

For example, under Man against Man you could list:

Man against Man

Joseph vs. jealous brothers

Jacob vs. disobedient sons

(I can think of at least 2 more for this one, can you?)

Sample of A Little History of the World chapter 3: