Guest Hollow's Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum
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Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum

Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum is PACKED full of great books, videos, recipes (for cooking on a budget), and more to make government, economics, and personal finance topics come alive for students! This is NOT the typical boring high school government and economics curriculum. Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum is designed to engage and inform in a way to help students retain and enjoy what they are learning. It’s not just for students! Adults can enjoy and learn from it, too!

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Prerequisites: None
Approximate Daily Time Commitment:
About 1 hour depending on activities that are chosen

$47.00

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Grade Level / Age

Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum is suggested for:
● Grades 9-12
● Approximate ages
13-18











What You Get

Government, Economics, and Personal Finance comes with:
✔ A printable PDF schedule
✔ An editable schedule in Microsoft Word format
✔ Access to an online version of the schedule*
✔ A FREE online textbook with embedded videos.
✔ A workbook with answer key
✔ A printable PDF schedule
✔ Printable vocabulary flashcards

*Access to the online version of Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum schedule is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to various potential circumstances.

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Click here to see the required books and resources for Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum.

Why choose Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics,
and Personal Finance Curriculum?

Throw out that boring old government textbook and those dusty books about economics! Guest Hollow covers these important topics plus personal finance in a way that’s engaging and potentially life changing. We feel these topics are critical for students to understand and have put together a curriculum that breaks the mold. Learn about government, economics, and personal finance the Guest Hollow way!

In this curriculum, students will learn about:

  • Economic principles and theories (the Austrian School perspective is promoted, but other theories are discussed)
    ✦ Microeconomics
    ✦ Macroeconomics
  • Economic history including some of the U.S. government’s economic policies and their effects
  • American Government and Civics
    ✦ How the U.S. government is structured and how it works
    The Constitution and American federalism
    Civil liberties and rights
    The politics of public opinion
    Voting and elections
    The media
    Political parties (and their economic approaches)
    Interest groups and lobbying
    ❖ Congress and the presidency
    ❖ The courts
    ✧   Multiple Supreme Court decisions are discussed with historical context for some of them
    ❖ Local governments and bureaucracy
    ❖ Domestic and foreign policy
  • Personal finance topics
    ✦ Managing money, saving, budgeting, entrepreneurship, investing
    ✦ Basic concepts like writing checks, paying bills, comparison shopping, etc.
    ✦ Cooking on a budget – Students will cook a variety of budget-friendly recipes!
  • Fallacies and critical thinking
  • Students will also read a variety of dystopian literature. The dystopian novels chosen for this year clearly illustrate what life would be like without the current system of rights the U.S. Constitution affords and why it’s so important to be educated about and involved in civics.




We believe government, economics, and personal finance are critical for students to understand. These topics will help students make decisions as adults that have the potential to affect their lives, the trajectory of their future families, and even the United States.
This triad of topics impacts nearly every aspect of our lives! Students need to learn how to stay informed, get involved, and make good decisions. Our curriculum is designed to give them the tools they need to be proactive citizens, to understand their rights afforded by the U.S. Constitution, and how to work toward a secure financial future.

Learn how to make a difference!

In the 21st century, so many students and adults are ignorant about basic civics, how the U.S. government functions, how to get involved in making decisions for the country’s future, how the economy works, and how to properly handle their own finances. Our kids NEED to know this material to understand so many of the things going on in our country that directly affect us as U.S. citizens and how to make choices for financial stability and security.

We’ve hand-picked books your students will love.

Our curriculum schedules in fiction and non-fiction books that will ignite your student’s interest in the topics. Dystopian literature shows why students need to be involved in civics and shows what could happen if rights afforded by the U.S. Constitution were ignored or removed.

Videos add a visual and sometimes musical component.

We scour YouTube to find the best educational videos to make government and economics something to actually see & hear and not just read about.

We work hard to engage ALL types of learners.

You’ll find a buffet of activities you can pick-and-choose from like recipes for learning how to cook inexpensive meals, games, and more!

Students and parents love Guest Hollow!

Our customers have shared over and over how Guest Hollow curricula has changed their homeschool and sparked a love for learning!

Guest Hollow's FREE online American government textbook
Families have shared that their students LOVE our online books, even when they usually prefer print resources.

We offer a FREE online textbook for the government portion of our curriculum. You can access it here. The online textbook is used as a *spine book for government. *A spine book is used as a launching point (or backbone) for your studies.

We’ve worked very hard to present information about U.S. government and civics along with hand-picked videos, illustrations, and photos in our online book to make U.S. government understandable and interesting, even for reluctant learners.

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books?
No, you need to purchase the other scheduled books separately. Learn more.
However, you do get access to a FREE online textbook with embedded videos! You also get a set of printable vocabulary cards for the online textbook.

a printable book list?
Yes. We provide a book list with a handy checklist to help you plan what you want to buy or borrow and in what format. We also let you know when each book is scheduled in, so you can arrange to check out books from the library before you need them!


a schedule?
Yes. You get the same weekly schedule in 3 different formats: PDF, Microsoft Word, and online*. Just open it up and you are ready to learn!
*Access to the online version of the curriculum schedule is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to various potential circumstances on our end and yours including but not limited to various computer, device, and internet configurations.


a supply list?
Yes. Recipe ingredients and more are listed at the beginning of your schedule week-by-week.


a teacher’s manual?
No. The schedule is all you need!


tests?
No. There are no tests with this curriculum.


a workbook?
Yes. You get a printable 130-page full-color workbook with the purchase of this curriculum as well as a separate answer key. The workbook includes study questions for the online government textbook as well as some of the other scheduled books for economics. You also get a set of printable vocabulary cards for the online textbook.

Click here for a sample of the workbook pages:

Guest Hollow homeschool curriculum sample

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Take a look at a sample week from the online version of the schedule here

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Want to know how to use the Guest Hollow PDF Schedule or the editable Microsoft version of our schedule? Go here! (This page gives lots of insight as to how our schedules work!)

Have a question about printing your Guest Hollow schedule and materials? We cover that, too!

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F.A.Q. for our Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum

We prefer to wait until high school to do an in-depth study of government and economics, but we understand that some of you may want to adapt this curriculum for a middle schooler for various reasons. If you use this with a middle schooler, we recommend you look over the books and videos carefully to judge if they are appropriate.

We don’t suggest middle school adaptations and substitutions for this curriculum as we do for others, because there are too many books we consider “advanced” for that age group and probably not appropriate maturity-wise (in our opinion).

We strongly suggest that you view every item linked or used in this curriculum to make sure it meets with your approval.

There are 36 weeks in this curriculum.

You can keep your files forever, if you save your initial download!

Once you’ve downloaded the schedule to your computer or device, you are licensed to use the downloaded copy forever. Make sure you download, save, and back up your items immediately after your purchase! You can click directly on the links in the schedule from a computer or other device and can use your materials with younger students years later.

2 Years to Access Additional Downloads & the Online Schedule*

Additional downloads (after your initial purchase) and access to the online version of the schedule are provided as a courtesy and are not guaranteed due to various potential technical and business (and life!) circumstances. It is our intention to continue to provide access for a period of 2 years from the date of purchase. After the 2-year period, you will have the opportunity to repurchase your access at a substantial discount.

Please note, if you have problems, we have a liberal policy of providing extra, free access for unusual circumstances (at our discretion). Just contact us: guesthollow@memorableplaces.com.

*Access to the online version of the curriculum schedules and additional downloads is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to potential various circumstances on our end and yours including but not limited to various computer, device, and internet configurations.

Yes, on a case-by-case basis depending on the amount of paperwork they require and the bureaucracy that needs to be navigated. 😉

No, you may NOT resell, share, or distribute any of Guest Hollow’s digital products (or printed out copies of our digital products) which includes but is not limited to schedules, workbooks, printables, and other materials.

Our materials are licensed for a single family’s use only. You may print out as many copies as you reasonably need for siblings or others living in your home.

Please contact us if you wish to use our materials in a co-op or school: guesthollow@memorableplaces.com.

Yes. Every family in a co-op needs to purchase a copy of our materials (one item per family). We offer a co-op discount. Contact us for information about the discount.

Schools need to contact us for school pricing and payment options.

Contact us at: guesthollow@memorableplaces.com.

No. We only offer a digital version at this time. You can print out your materials at home or have them printed via a printing service.

You’ll have to check with your local educational authorities or in some other way determine if Guest Hollow meets requirements since states and colleges have different expectations.

When we were teaching our kids, we usually had what we thought of as a “core” curriculum (science, geography, or history). Because these programs were so literature-rich, we didn’t do a separate literature course. This enhanced our children’s retention and enjoyment of the material they were learning, since their reading assignments complimented their studies. Of course, our kids also did plenty of reading in their free time as well! Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum is set up in a similar fashion.

In a typical high school, government and economics are usually split into a semester each. We’ve woven these topics together throughout the year and included personal finance topics and projects as well. We’ve also included a variety of dystopian literature and included links to a multitude of guides for these books (most of them are free) that include literature and language arts assignments.

It will be up to you to determine how to assign credits. You may want to visit our Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Facebook group to discuss this with other parents and see how they are assigning credits:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/guesthollow.government.and.economics/

Don’t forget to research your local requirements and consult the local experts in your area!

We offer a FREE online textbook for our government, economics, and personal finance curriculum. You can access it here. The online textbook is used as a “spine” book for the curriculum. A spine book is used as a launching point (or backbone) for your studies.

Families have shared that their students LOVE our online books (even those who didn’t want to use an online textbook in the beginning).

We’ve worked very hard to present information about government and civics along with hand-picked videos, illustrations, and photos in our online book to make government understandable and interesting, even for reluctant learners.

We do not offer a printable version of the book.

We are Christians, but Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum is not intended to be a “Christian resource”. However, there may be infrequent (or what we consider to be) minor references or links to resources that mention Christian ideas, values, or sectarian topics even in our secular/non-religious/neutral curriculums.

If we schedule in a Christian book, we try to give you notice of such in the books and resources page.

Christians and non-Christians should preview the scheduled books and all other resources such as videos, etc. to make sure they are compatible with your beliefs, philosophies, and values.

As for being politically biased – we have our own personal bias, but we’ve tried to present everything in a way that is based on facts. What does the U.S. Constitution say? What do the Supreme Court decisions say? What rights do U.S. citizens have? How can you work to change something if you don’t like or agree with it? There will be material presented that people on both sides of the aisle may not agree with at one time or the other, but we ask everyone to keep an objective mindset and look at the FACTS, not the feelings, about issues.

After purchasing a curriculum, you’ll see that the item you just bought shows that it is discounted 50% in our store. The reason you are seeing this is because we give you the opportunity to repurchase the schedule and your downloads at a substantial discount before they expire (2 years from date of purchase).

Please note: You do NOT need to repurchase your schedule in order to use the files you originally purchased and downloaded. You can use your downloaded schedule forever and can click on the links just as you can the online version of the schedule. You just won’t have access to any updates after your online access expires.

Why does access expire? Every year we go through all our curriculum schedules and update broken links and/or replace books that have gone out of print. This is a very time-intensive process that keeps our curricula up-to-date. Your repurchase helps fund this process and provides you with a schedule that has all the new additions or changes.

You need to repurchase your access BEFORE it expires in order to get the 50% discount due to the way our “membership” software works. If for some reason you miss the deadline, let us know why. We may give you a coupon code for the 50% off at our discretion.

*It is our intention to provide access for a period of 2 years, however, access to the online version of the curriculum schedules and additional downloads is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to potential various circumstances on our end and yours including but not limited to various computer, device, and internet configurations.

We are happy to answer your questions!!! Just email us at: guesthollow@memorableplaces.com

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