Homeschool History Women Through History

Welcome to Our Women Through History homeschool Course

What role have women played in history? Women Through History investigates how women, whether powerful or peasant, have impacted the world since ancient times. For twenty-nine weeks, middle and high school students use historical art, maps, recipes, and writings from women to discover what life was like for women of the past.

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Women Through History

Length: 29 weeks
Content type: Text based
Grades: 8–12

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Getting Started with Our Women Through History Homeschool Course

This homeschool course covers women’s history from ancient times through modern history and allows middle school and high school students to see the important role women have played throughout history. Weekly lessons look at the lives of both famous women and ordinary citizens and examines the records they left behind.

Overview

  • 29 weeks
  • Includes reading assignments, links to maps and additional reading, and research and writing assignments
  • Grades: 8–12

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com, corresponding video links on Schoolhouse Teachers.com, and a 3-ring binder for writing assignments, notetaking, and research.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and lessons. Start with Lesson 1 and mark off activities on the lesson plan as they are completed.

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Course Sample for Our Women in History Homeschool Course

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Women Through History
By Kaitlyn Sexton

Why Study Women’s History

Studying women’s history is a way to give a voice to women in the past. Until the last few decades, those who studied history were mainly concerned with the big events in the past, with the leaders, the wars, and how forms of government evolved. What were mostly overlooked were the everyday things in life. How did people live their everyday lives and what made the home that they were fighting for in all those wars so important to them? Over the last few decades, historians have been filling in those gaps and looking for sources that had been mostly ignored before this. In the past, historians generally considered diaries and letters from women important only if they contained information about a famous person or important event. Now their journals and letters are being read because of the information they contain about the everyday lives of people in the past.

Studying women’s history can lead to the discovery of many little-known parts of the past. Many people have at least some knowledge about the Civil War, but did you know that women fought in the Civil War? Many people have heard of the Viking Sagas that tell about their settlement in the new world, but did you know that a woman was part of the Viking settlement at Vinland?

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Course Outline for Our Women in History Homeschool Course

Twenty-nine homeschool history lessons for middle school through high school examine the changing roles of women in world history.

  • Week 1: Why Study Women’s History
  • Week 2: Women of the Far East in Ancient Societies
  • Week 3: Women of Ancient China
  • Week 4: Women of the Ancient East in Their Own Words
  • Week 5: Women in Ancient Africa
  • Week 6: Etruscan Women
  • Week 7: Women in the Epics and Myths of Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Week 8: The Women of Ancient Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria
  • Week 9: Getting to Know Assyrian Women Through Their Letters
  • Week 10: Egyptian Royal Women
  • Week 11: Women in Ancient Egypt
  • Week 12: Images of Egyptian Women
  • Week 13: Women of the Bible
  • Week 14: Viking Women in Medieval Times
  • Week 15: Women in England in Medieval Times
  • Week 16: Native American Women
  • Week 17: Women During the American Revolution
  • Week 18: Women on the Prairie
  • Week 19: Women Moving West
  • Week 20: Women During World War I and II
  • Week 21: Women in the Middle East Past and Present
  • Week 22: Women Today in the Far East
  • Week 23: Women in Science
  • Week 24: Women Authors
  • Week 25: Women Missionaries
  • Week 26: Changes in Raising Children and Education
  • Week 27: Changes in Meal Preparation
  • Week 28: Changes in Health, Nutrition, and Medical Care
  • Week 29: Changes in Caring for a Home

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More About Our Women in History Homeschool Course

This homeschool course covers women’s history from ancient times through modern history. Until recently, women were not allowed to play a role in public life in many cultures, so their history has been less visible. This course allows students to see the important role women have played throughout history, both as powerful people and as peasants. The course also covers aspects of women’s history such as women’s work — whether in tasks in their households, or as rulers, authors, midwives, and many other professions. Through the use of historical art, maps, recipes, and writing from women, students discover what women’s lives were like in the past.

*Please note: At the end of select lessons is suggested further reading. These are completely optional, and inclusion of these titles should not be seen as an endorsement of them or their contents. These books explore culture and worldview from various points of view, and parents should only use the ones they feel are appropriate for their families.

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Quick Start

1.  Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.

2. Click “View Lesson Plan” and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format). 

3.  Gather necessary resources as listed in the lesson plan.

4.  Click “Go to Class Lessons” and get started.

5.  Enjoy the course!

6.  Utilize Applecore or your own record keeping system throughout the course.

7.  Print a certificate of completion.

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