Quest for Royals & Revolution

What Will We Study?

Students will study events beginning in the pivotal year of 1453, and moving forward to the mid-1850’s.

Routes:  The Age of Exploration

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS:  An Expanding World & New Opportunities
• The Year 1453
• First Voyages & First Maps
• Great Spanish Conquest

Rulers:  Royals with Style & Power

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS: Governing New, True Nations
• A Religious Hotbed in Europe
• The Tudors in England
• Elizabeth I Takes the Throne
• The Holy Roman Empire & France
• A First Trip to Asia

Revolution:  Scientific

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS:  The Scientific Method & Empirical Knowledge
• The Scientific Method & New Ways of Looking at Knowledge
• Scientific Revolution Changes the World

Realms:  Building Empires

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS:  Capitalism, New Markets & Atlantic Trade
• Growth of Atlantic Trade
• Colonial Development in America
• England’s Glorious Revolution
• Rise of the Absolute Ruler
• Beginnings of the British Empire
• Russia Moves to Modernize

Revolution:  Intellectual

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS:  The Enlightenment & Reason
• The Philosophes & Other New Thinkers
• Enlightenment & Common Sense

Revolution:  Political

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS:  Liberty and Justice for All
• The Spirit of Democracy
• The American Revolution
• The World Turned Upside Down
• The French Revolution
• Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolution:  Industrial

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS:  Machines, Mass Production & Steam Power
• The Birth of Industrialization in Britain
• New Energy Sources & Railroads
• Life in the Industrial City
• Children in Industrialized Cities

Reform:  Humanitarian

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS:  Care for the Downtrodden
• Labor & Reform
• Taking Social Action

Rivals:  Modern Nations

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS:  Modern Nations, Divergent Cultures & a New Global World
• Her Majesty, Queen Victoria
• The Victorian Age
• The Young United States
• A Second Trip to Asia
• 1848:  The Year of Revolution
• Europe at the Close of the 1800’s

YOU’LL ALSO ENJOY the “Music, Art & Writing Focus”
Radicals:  Art in Motion

• NEW IDEAS FOCUS:  Romanticism, Baroque, Social Conscience, Impressionism & Victorian Culture
• Weeks 1-12:  Shakespeare’s Marvelous Plays
• Weeks 13-25:  Charles Dickens, Writing for Reform
• Weeks 26-36:  The Impressionists

What’s in the Guide?

Your Royals and Revolution guide will help you maneuver a new world of challenging ideas in the early modern era!  The guide is designed to be easy to follow, with each week’s assignments laid out on just one page!  The introduction to the guide offers you oodles of teaching helps that may feel like Charlotte Mason just “friended” you — like advice she’d give you on how to grade student work!  It’s all here!

The guide itself, unlike other WP guides, is laid out so that students can use it independently, if they’d prefer.

• A 36-week, 4-day schedule is laid out clearly in a grid-style on just one page
• Introductory material helps you mentor and “learn together” with your student
• Supply lists and other helps make planning quick and painless
• Narration ideas in the front of the guide help you prompt your student through the year
• Weekly schedule page reduces your paperwork and is easy to follow, with clear notes
• Resources offer a focus on activities that are “Open & Go!”
• Ratings systems for activities help you find the ones you want!
• Independent study schedules for older students eliminate writing out homework lists
• 100 Timeline Cards and games provide fun drill to retain key events
• Website and DVD suggestions give you a “front row seat” for sweeping change
• Above all, WP offers a practical, “Can-Do-and-Want-To-Do!” approach

What Materials are Included?

This program is designed for students from 9th to 12th grades.  The resources should provide a well-rounded experience for senior high students.  It has fewer activities with a more focused approach that works well with the busy schedule of a high schooler.  The guide itself, unlike other WP guides, is laid out so that students can use it independently, if they’d prefer.

WinterPromise Exclusives You’ll Love

• Royals and Revolution Guide
• Monarchy, Empire & Change History Resource
• Make-Your-Own Revolutionary Times Notebook
• Exhibiting the World’s Fair Activity Book
• Christ:  The Royal Revolutionary Bible Study

Main Texts

• Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
• Guide to European History
• To Rule the Waves:  How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World

Routes & Rulers

• Around the World in a Hundred Years
• Elizabeth I
• Russian Greats:  Peter & Catherine
• Louis XIV
• The Adventurous Life of Myles Standish

Revolution:  Scientific

• Isaac Newton:  Inventor, Scientist

Revolution:  Political

• The Real Revolution:  The Global Story of American Independence
• Napoleon

Revolution:  Industrial

• Industrial Britain:  Workshop of the World
• Black Potatoes
• The Industrial Revolutionaries
• Growing Up in the Industrial Revolution
• Thomas Edison for Kids

Culture Study

• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
• Cowboys, Coffin-Makers & 100 Other Nineteenth-Century Jobs You Might Have Feared or Fancied

Optional Music, Art & Writing Focus

• NPR Listener’s Encyclopedia of Classical Music
• Shakespeare for Kids:  His Life & Times
• Dickens:  His Work and World
• Monet and the Impressionists for Kids

Optional Projects

• Fashion & Costume Project Supplies
• Great Characters from Shakespeare

Can I ‘Go Inside’ Key Resources?

A History Study That Traces Key World Changes in “Monarchy, Empire & Change”

The key to understanding the movement of world history from medieval times to modern times is understanding the many changes that took place in the wake of the Renaissance.  It is vital to following the flow of world history!   This program is the perfect third entry in our world history cycle that follows both Quest for the Ancient World and Quest for the Middle Ages.

That’s why you’ll want your student immersing in our exclusive history text, “Monarchy, Empire & Change.”  This wonderful book takes complicated topics and traces them from their beginnings to their blossoming and eventual outcomes, and makes this program and makes them easy to understand and absorb.  This differentiates this title from other books that cover this time period.  You won’t get bogged down in the Enlightenment, for example, but will rise to take a look at it with a long view, one that allows you to see its basic tenets and undeniable impacts.  Your student will come out of this study truly understanding the great movements of this time that changed everything about our world!

In this program you’ll discover answers to questions about this era that are essential to understanding how the world transitioned from the world known to medieval people to the post-Renaissance era and beyond, changes that were large and sweeping!  You’ll uncover the truth about questions like these:

• Why is the pivotal year of 1453 usually considered the beginning of the modern era?
• How did the Mongols help usher in the modern era?
• What countries made up the major power players in the early modern era and why?
• How did one lone man hermited away in a seaside cottage change the world of commerce?
• What controversy created both deep divides between European nations and nationalistic identities?
• What factors influenced the shift from medieval realms to dynastic states in the early modern era?
• Which ruling families in Europe truly changed the world?
• What scientific advances led to changes in philosophies that undergirded scientific developments?
• What man changed forever how diseases would be diagnosed and treated?
• What shifted the world’s geopolitical focus from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic?
• What commercial theory made colonialism and capitalism inevitable?
• Which empire built in this period was larger than any other empire in history?
• How did idealism and economics combine to ignite revolution?
• What deep changes swept through Europe because of the Napoleonic Wars?
• Why did the Industrial Revolution so unarguably begin in Britain?
• What industrial developments were put to use in factories that would demand new forms of power?
• How did the Industrial Revolution change the world, including introducing transportation, communication, manufacturing, technology and even time itself?

The revealing answers to these questions will help your student gain a true understanding of how the world transformed after the Middle Ages.

What Signature WP Experiences Await Us?

WinterPromise considers itself a curriculum that embraces the “Experience Approach,” offering Charlotte-Mason style learning opportunities with up-to-date materials that make the most of technology, too.   In each WP program, you’ll encounter a lot of our signature “Experiences.”  Some of them come in key resources like our exclusive “Exhibiting the Era of Revolution & Change” book, while others are in the guide or hidden in other resources.

Here are just a sampling of the experiences your student can choose to make a part of their year:

• Put Together a Tudor Cast of Characters
• Film a Spanish Armada Newscast
• Make Asian Wall Histories
• Produce a Scene from Shakespeare
• Layout a Display on the Fire of London
• Investigate & Recreate Part of Louis XV’s Palace
• Create a British Empire Risk Game
• Put Together Peter the Great’s “Pretender” Storyline
• Live a Charles Dickens’ Life
• Become an Impressionist Painter
• Build a Telegraph Set

Consider Adding the Music, Art & Writing Focus

The Music, Art & Writing Focus for Royals allows students to discover some of the great artistic achievements of the early modern period.  They’ll start by learning about the wealth of classical music written during this era, and the composers whose genius flourished at this time.  The “NPR Listener’s Encyclopedia of Classical Music” will allow students to not only learn about composers and their most famous works, but listen to fine examples of it online in links to over 500 musical selections!  The book includes the link to the online site, and will take your student inside this world of music.

Your student will also discover the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, and Monet, and discover more about the times in which each of these talented men lived.  You’ll find out what motivated their writing or painting, and learn about the other artists and writers in their circles, and the movements and reactions their works inspired.

How Do I Use Ebook Versions?

While many of our families do enjoy books, most of our ebooks would better be considered resources, rather than the types of books that families typically desire to enjoy as “books.” With all this in mind, not only might our ebooks sets be right for your family, you might just discover that they really offer you a better way to do school!  And remember – most of our programs include bonus ebook resources you can’t get any other way!  Take a look at the ways you could utilize our ebook resources:

• Consumable materials can be printed out looseleaf, and you are able to print as many copies as you want!
• Some resources are designed to function as easily flippable “Tablet Books” that look great on a tablet screen, and are in beautiful full color. They are easy to cuddle around, just like books. NOTE! These books function on any device, not just a tablet!
• Some resources just offer more functionality, as they jump you to websites and more!
• Ebook resources are most often in full color, and look unbelievable on your device!
• Almost all resources allow you to customize your experience, whether filling in assignments or printing just the right number.

Take a look at the “Royals” resources below. Discover how they function as ebooks, and the advantages to making them a part of your library, and then decide!

The Royals Guide in Ebook Format
This guide brings you a wealth of functionality not present in a print guide.  Take a look:

• Recommended websites link directly to the web on devices that have web access
• Separate “Independent Study Schedules” files allow you to actually add some student assignments in the grid format!
• Guide pages are viewable in full color
• You can customize your experience: select and print any pages you’d like from the guide and view others
• Each week’s guide acts as its own “Independent Study Schedule,” so students can complete the program on their own, if they wish

“Make-Your-Own” Revolutionary Times Book
This resource is easy to print looseleaf, and can be printed as many times as you like for multiple students, offering you a great savings.  By having access to this file, you can customize and print only those pages you’ll use, which is especially handy if you have younger students, or student who would rather focus on other aspects of the program.  Either way, your students are using it the same way in print or ebook.  This is a resource that is in color, but it can be printed in black and white if you preferred.

Monarchy, Empire & Change Book
You’ve probably already discovered a lot about this book.  This book is handy to have in ebook format, since you can transfer it to devices each of your students use.  They will be referencing this book a lot during their year, and using it to independently to verify facts for other assignments.  They’ll enjoy having their own copy on their device, and you’ll appreciate not having to share one copy among several students.  Plus, students will enjoy seeing many of the illustrations in color.  We recommend you view it, but it can be printed, if you prefer.

Christ:  The Royal Revolutionary
This devotional simply needs to be read, and as such, is perfect for students to view and use on any device they choose.  It is lengthy, and you probably would prefer not to print it, though, of course, you can print it if you’d like to.

Exhibiting the World’s Fair
This non-consumable activity book is another that students can use on any device without printing it.  The information needed to carry out its ideas can be read and utilized easily from a phone, tablet, or laptop.

Additional Ebook Resources – Available Only as Part of a Ebook or Mixed Bundle

E-Reader Book Set
These books are formatted to allow you to read them on your tablet, laptop, or other device. Easy-to-read typeface.  You’ll want to view these books; they are too lengthy to print.  There are enough books that your student can build their own reading list for this year, and not purchase other Adventure Readers.  The books included are:  The Scarlet Pimpernel, Oliver Twist, Four Feathers, Sherlock Holmes, Last of the Mohicans, Common Sense, The Crisis, In the Days of Queen Victoria, The Hidden Hand, and Through Russian Snows.  All of this books are top-notch choices for high school students to read.

What Items are Related to Royals?

Below you’ll find information on products related to Quest for Royals and Revolution, including the consumables in the program, language arts programs you might want to consider, and what else to add to complete the learning.

Start by Deciding if You Need Extra of These Consumables in Print:

• “Make-Your-Own” Revolutionary Times Book

Next, Consider if You Want to Purchase a Coordinating Language Arts Program:
Royals and Revolution best coordinates with our High School 3 Language and Literature.  This high school LA      program travels through periods in British Literature.  These periods mirror the growth and spread of the British Empire in the world history that is covered in Royals and Revolution.  It really is a perfect fit.  Your student will go in-depth into British literature of all types by reading, learning about techniques to analyze literature, plays and poetry, and discover the culture of the times that influenced what people thought and wrote.  There’s also a good study of Shakespeare, and the opportunity to read two of his timeless plays.  Your student could use one of our other high school language arts programs, but they do not have a reading list that coordinates with this time period.  If you really want to use HS1 or HS2, though, you could assemble your own literature list and use only the LA resources themselves.

Add a “Timelines in History” Book for Each Student if You Haven’t Purchased One
Add Timeline Figures for This Study – See Notebooking Section for Royals & Revolution Figures
Make Sure You Have a Good Historical Atlas for Mapping
Add a Science Program
Add a Math Program

And, If You Want Adventure Reading to Coordinate with Royals and Revolution . . .
WinterPromise has always included family reading with their themed programs, but as we’ve watched prices on these books go up, we feel it is better to offer parents the option to choose whether or not to purchase these books as part of their program. This way parents have the choice to collect new or used books, borrow them, or take advantage of the advent of personal reading devices and use ebooks on their devices. To give parents more choices, we are no longer including reading books in our themed programs, but listed below is detail about the adventure reading books scheduled for you in your guide.  You can still purchase this set from WP as a special order item online.

• The King’s Fifth
• The Shakespeare Stealer
• Midnight is a Place
• In Search of Honor
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Out of Darkness:  The Story of Louis Braille
• Oliver Twist

When you’ve learned enough about Royals resources, continue on to our store to order your set, following the steps one by one!

Royals FAQ’s

Can You Tell Me Why You Don’t Recommend This Program for Middle Grade Students?
We have not recommended this program for purchase for younger students primarily because of the topics covered in this installment of world history.  The concepts are very abstract. Rather than exploring mummification in ancient studies, or castles in medieval times, this period of history is marked by abstract movements such as the scientific revolution, the rise of the absolute monarchy, separation of church and state, colonization and empire, industrialization, and the Enlightenment.  Most four-year history cycles spend a lot of their time in this period visiting American history, but we have deliberately chosen to keep American content low and focus on European issues, as we have other thorough American study programs.  For parents who wish to do a third-year cycle of history with middle grade students, you CAN use this program with younger learners, but we don’t feel they would be as interested in this study as they would be in one of the studies we’ve designed for fourth through sixth grade students.  Instead, you might consider using American Crossing I for middle-grade students as it covers virtually the same time period. These students will then have the opportunity to return to this period and focus on European affairs when they cycle back through in their high school years, and will be able to fully appreciate the topics and the times.

What Kinds of Activities Are My Students Offered This Year?
A variety! The WP Exclusive “Exhibiting the World’s Fair” includes all types of activities — art, building, research, demonstrations, web and design.  The student can choose which they would prefer to complete.  They have control over what they do, and can go “all out” on what they choose.  They are all designed so the student can “exhibit” them at the end of the year.  For instance, they can create a Columbus comic strip, a cutaway drawing of a Tudor shop, or a German flag.  They might put together Asian Wall Histories or a funny scene from Shakespeare.  They can demonstrate Newton’s laws, research the fire of London, design a room for the Palace of Versailles, or create a British Empire Risk Game.  There are many more.  The “Art & Writing Focus” resources include still more variety, as students explore music, art and literature of the time.  In addition, there are activity ideas and suggestions in books such as “Shakespeare for Kids,” “Thomas Edison for Kids” and “Monet and the Impressionists for Kids.”

Can My Student Complete This Program Independently?
Yes, in fact, this guide does not include independent study schedules, as most students at this age prefer to work on their own.

Can I Be a Part of My Student’s Study with This Program?
Yes. It would be easy to complete the adventure reading together, or the Bible study.  You could work on the projects with your student, as well.  If you choose to do LA High School 3, you could read some of the selections aloud, since it would benefit the student to have someone with whom to discuss the literature.

If I Want to Use This Program with a Junior High Student, What Options Do I Have if I Think the LA HS 3 Program Might Be Too Difficult for Them?
You have a couple of options.  Your first option is to use our LA 7 or 8 program resources, without purchasing a literature set, and build your own world history literature set to coordinate with the years 1450 to 1850.  The E-Reader Set we provide would be perfect for that.  As a second option, you could have your student use LA 7 or LA 8 with our American history literature set.  The first half of this literature set coordinates with this same time period of roughly 1450 to 1850.  The American literature set is designed for two years, so they’d only be reading the first half this year, but you could use the remaining books for the following year, if you like.  It will help to know that both these language arts guides schedule the American history set 3 ways:  they schedule the first half of the reading list (the early American history) in a one-year schedule;  they schedule the second half of the reading list (the later American history) in a one-year schedule; and they schedule the entire book list in just one year, so you are reading all the books in a year, rather than 2 years.

I’ve already got a few of the items in the package. Can I still get the package price and leave them out? We love to offer our package prices to our parents to help them purchase a great program with a great discount. We do, however, have to sell all the items in the package in order to honor the discount. Usually the discount outweighs the value of the resources you might already have.

Which of the resources in Royals and Revolution are WinterPromise Exclusives?
These resources are WP Exclusives in Royals:

• Quest for Royals & Revolution Guide
• “Make-Your-Own” Revolutionary Times Book
• Monarchy, Empire & Change
• Exhibiting the World’s Fair
• Christ, the Royal Revolutionary

Which of the resources in Royals and Revolution are used for more than four weeks, other than WP Exclusives?

• Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
• Guide to European History
• Industrial Britain:  Workshop of the World
• What Jane Austen Ate & Charles Dickens Knew
• Cowboys, Coffin-Makers & 100 Other Nineteenth Century Jobs
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Oliver Twist
• To Rule the Waves
• Thomas Edison for Kids
• Common Sense, the Rights of Man & Other Essential Writings of T. Paine
• Optional:  NPR Listener’s Encyclopedia of Classical Music
• Optional:  Shakespeare for Kids
• Optional:  Monet and the Impressionists for Kids

How Do I Assign High School Credit for This Program?
Some parents are unsure what high school credits are encompassed by our themed programs.  They cover all the humanities: history, culture, geography, literature, religion, art, and social sciences. A student who conscientiously completes Royals & Revolution can be assigned these credits:

• Early Modern World History – 1 credit
• Culture & Societal Change of Elizabethan & Industrial Europe – 1 credit
• World Geography – 1/4 credit
• Life of Christ Biblical Study – 1 credit
• Early Modern Art, Literature & Music – 1/2 credit (With completion of Music, Art & Writing Focus)
• Dickens Literature – 1/4 credit (If student completes book on Dickens and reads “Oliver Twist.” This
  credit can be added to language arts credit.)

For a year, that totals about 3 1/4 to 4 credits, or about half their yearly requirement.  If you add another 3/4 credit for language arts (for grammar and creative writing), 1 credit for science, and 1 credit for math, that leaves 1 credit left for an elective of your student’s choice, such as music, drama, journalism, home economics, volunteerism, or trades like wood shop and so on.  Remember, those ¼ and ½ credits add up during the four year high school program.  If a student receives a ¼ credit in geography per year, that would be equivalent to taking 2 half-credit courses during high school.