Guest Hollow’s Modern American History Bundle – Save 15%!
All three levels of Guest Hollow’s amazing American history curriculums for one low price…
Imagine your entire family learning about the same subject together. The little ones are snuggled on the couch listening to a story, the older ones are curled up reading books filled with adventure, and everyone gets together to cook a recipe, make crafts and projects, or watch a video. With Guest Hollow, all your kids can learn about modern American history family-style with this multi-level bundle!
We offer three levels of curriculum that track together, so all your children can study the same topics at the same time. From kindergarten through 12th grade, everyone can stay on the same page while creating family memories that last a lifetime!
Guest Hollow’s Modern American History curriculum combines all three levels of these engaging curriculums into one frugally priced package!
With our Modern American History Bundle, you get all the following items:
Click on each item below to read detailed information about each of these materials and to view our free samples!
 Little Kids’ Modern American History Curriculum with Integrated Science (grades K-3) |  Jr. Modern American History Curriculum (grades 4-8) |  High School Modern American History Curriculum (grades 9-12) |
 Beowulf’s Modern American History Adventure and Activity Book (PDF with an option to buy a physical copy) |  Beowulf’s Marvelous Book of Modern American History (PDF with an option to buy a physical copy) |  A 50% off coupon code for Guest Hollow’s Big Bad Beautiful Booklist -History Edition |
With this bundle, you’ll get all of the above, AND you’ll save 15%!
Prerequisites: None
Approximate Daily Time Commitment:
45 min. – 1.5 hours depending on the grade level, activities that are chosen,
and reading speed
$122.00
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Grade Level / Age
Guest Hollow’s Modern School American History Curriculum Bundle is suggested for:
● Grades K-12
● Approximate ages 5-18
What You Get
The Modern American History Bundle comes with:
✔ 3 printable PDF schedules
(1 for each level)
✔ 3 editable schedules in Microsoft Word format (1 for each level)
✔ Access to the online version of the schedules*
✔ Beowulf’s Modern American History Adventure and Activity Book (PDF)
✔ Beowulf’s Marvelous Book of Modern American History (PDF)
✔ For the High School level: A FREE printable workbooks with maps, study & discussion questions, and assignments!
✔ A coupon code to get Guest Hollow’s Big Bad Beautiful Booklist -History Edition for 50% off!
*Access to the online version of each Modern American History Curriculum schedules is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to various potential circumstances.
Why choose Guest Hollow’s Modern American History Curriculum?
Homeschooling with Guest Hollow’s Modern American History gets students enthusiastic about history!
We’ve pulled together terrific resources for all ages to keep students engaged and learning.
We have timeless stories for your little ones and books that keep your older students coming back for more. There are crafts, projects, videos, music, recipes and more all tailored for different ages, learning styles, and abilities to help make history come to life. The K-3 level has optional, integrated science, too!
We also created two lavishly illustrated books to go along with your history studies and a colorful workbook for the high school level.
Our customizable schedules makes it so you can plan with your student’s needs in mind. You aren’t stuck with just one way of learning history. You and your student will love the choices and the ability to focus on what is most appealing and/or important to your family.
History students actually care about!
Guest Hollow’s Modern American History Curriculums
bring history to life.
F.A.Q. for our Modern American History Curriculums
All 3 levels track together, so everyone will learn about the same (or similar) topics each week. Each level has its own books, videos, projects, and recipes that are age-appropriate. Here are some ideas on how to use the levels family-style:
- You may wish to read a book out loud to all your students. Older students may read easier books to some of the younger ones.
- Everyone may wish to come together to watch some of the videos (preview for the younger students) and cook recipes together.
- The whole family can work on crafts and projects together. Little ones can make crafts more suited to their abilities while the older kids work on ones more at their level.
- You may want to have kids read books from across the book lists. Some of the kids on the “fringe” grades may benefit from a hybrid of two levels.
- Everyone can take part in the assignments at their own level. For instance, when studying a topic like World War II, a younger child might make a craft, practice simple copywork after learning about ships, and try a sink-and-float experiment after hearing a story about Pearl Harbor. A fifth grader could cook a recipe, build a model of a World War II plane, and create a Pearl Harbor lapbook (or pieces from it notebooking style). A high school student might dig deeper by analyzing how propaganda was used during the war and by watching primary source videos.
We don’t have a scope and sequence written up, but you can get an idea of many of the topics covered by looking at the booklists for each level and the charts below.
- Little Kids’ Modern American History Book and Resource List
- Jr. Modern American History Book and Resource List
- High School Modern American History Book and Resources List
The chart below roughly lists the main topics for each week. Please note that every single topic, event, and person is NOT listed. These are just VERY general topics for each week (that barely scratch the surface). These are very rich curriculums, and it would be difficult to list all the people and events that are covered. When it comes to the Jr. and High School levels (especially the High School level), if you don’t see something that is commonly taught in U.S. history mentioned in the chart, it’s still likely covered.
Some topics span across multiple weeks and that is not reflected in this chart.
Note: There are a few sections in the high school level that don’t match the other two levels perfectly due to timing differences in the spine books. The 3 levels still track as far as the main time period when this occurs.
Science topics in the Little Kids’ and Jr. levels are not listed here. See the individual curriculum product page FAQs for those topics.
Note: There are a cases where the 3 levels don’t match the others perfectly due to timing differences in the spine books. The 3 levels still track as far as the main time period when this occurs.
Also, if you use Beowulf’s Marvelous Modern American History Book for high school, then the high school topics will track more with the middle column. The high school column below reflects the topics in A Patriot’s History (the 2nd spine option for high schoolers).
Science topics in the Little Kids’ and Jr. levels are not listed here. See the individual curriculum product page FAQs for those topics.
 Little Kids’ Modern American History Curriculum (grades K-3) |  Jr. Modern American History Curriculum (grades 4-8) |  High School Modern American History Curriculum (grades 9-12) | |
| Week 1 | Life in the early 1900s, tenement buildings, immigrants and Ellis Island, the invention of crayons | Americans at the turn of the century, immigration, tycoons and monopolies, life in the big city tenements, muckrackers, the Progressive Era | Americans at the turn of the century, McKinley, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, immigration, muckrakers, the Progressive Era |
| Week 2 | Theodore Roosevelt, how the teddy bear got its name, John Muir and the creation of the national parks, Harry Houdini | Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and the National Parks, the Panama Canal | Theodore Roosevelt, National Parks, Houdini, John Muir, The Panama Canal, more about the Progressive Era |
| Week 3 | The Wright Brothers | The First Cross-Country Road Trip, San Fransisco earthquake, Pure Food and Drug and the Meat Inspection Acts, Model T, Taft, Triangle Shirtwaist fire, child labor, Wright Brothers | Booker T. Washington, blacks settling in Harlem, Jim Crow laws, Taft, Henry Ford, Wright Brothers |
| Week 4 | Henry Ford and the Model T, World War I, Stubby the dog soldier, Woodrow Wilson | Wilson, Great Molasses Flood, 16th amendment, WW1, sinking of the Lusitania, The Zimmerman Telegram, the Panama Canal is finished | 1918 flu, Wilson, the Monopoly game, WW1, 16th amendment |
| Week 5 | World War I, Cher Ami (a WW1 messenger pigeon) | WW1, 1918 flu, 19th amendment, Treaty of Versailles, sufferage | WW1, Prohibition |
| Week 6 | Life in the 1920s, women won the right to vote, Louis Armstrong, Warren G. Harding, the true story of the puppeteer of Macy’s Parade | Tulsa Race Massacre (in a child friendly book), the 1920s, Prohibition, The Election of 1920, Harding | Suffrage, women’s voting rights, the 1920s, Scopes Monkey Trial, Harding |
| Week 7 | Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic, Balto, the invention of the popsicle and Band-Aids, Coolidge | the 1920s, Harlem Renaissance, Teapot Dome Scandal, Coolidge, Scopes Monkey Trial, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, The Jazz Singer | Coolidge, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, radio, motion pictures, crime and prohibition, bull market |
| Week 8 | The stock market and the Wall Street crash, Hoover, FDR, the Civilian Conservation Corps | Hoover, stockmarket crash, Great Depression, the kidnapping of baby Lindbergh, Prohibition ends | Stock market crash and the Depression, Hoover, FDR |
| Week 9 | The Great Depression, Hoover, FDR and the New Deal, the Dust Bowl | Dust bowl, Oakis, FDR and the New Deal, leaving the gold standard, deflation, New deal programs | Dust bowl, FDR, the New Deal and New Deal programs, labor unions, leaving the gold standard, other various topics that apply to the time period |
| Week 10 | WPA and the packhorse librarians, more about life during the Great Depression, the invention of the chocolate chip cookie | Dust bowl & Depression continued, New deal programs continued, some world history to set the stage for WW2 | Dust bowl continued, social changes, motion picture industry, radio shows, some world history to set the stage for WW2 |
| Week 11 | Saving money during the Great Depression, how people coped during hard times | FDR wanted to pack the court, isolationism, motion picture industry and radio shows, more world history to set the stage for WW2 | FDR continued, isolationism, more world history to set the stage for WW2 |
| Week 12 | World War 2 (what was happening in Europe and Asia), Pearl Harbor | WW2, Pearl Harbor, the U.S. in the Philippines | WW2, Pearl Harbor |
| Week 13 | World War 2 homefront efforts and rationing, Japanese American incarceration camps, the invention of day-glo colors | Japanese interment, Bataan, Battle of Midway, Operation Torch, Battle of Guadalcanal, Spam, American homefront (life in the 40s) | Manhattan Project, Doolittle Raid, Bataan, Battle of Midway, SPAM |
| Week 14 | D-Day, Harry Truman’s childhood, Gertie (a duck during WW2) | D-Day, Mendez et al v. Westminster School District, Battle of the Bulge | D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, fighting in Europe and Africa, defeat of Germany, life in the 40s |
| Week 15 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki (in a gentle child-appropriate way), the end of World War 2, more about Truman’s life | Truman, Yalta Conference, the O.S.S. partners with Vietnam, Truman, defeat of Germany, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Holocaust and American Jews, fighting the Japanese in the Pacific, Atomic Bomb. Israel formed |
| Week 16 | The Cold War, finishing learning about Truman, Jackie Robinson | Korean War, the Cold War begins, Stalin and related topics, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade and the Candy Bombers, McCarthyism and the red scare, Arms Race | Truman, the Cold War begins, Korean War, Marshall Plan |
| Week 17 | The Korean War, Sgt. Reckless the Horse | Korean war, Brown v. Board of Education (part 1), Atomic age, Eisenhower, Sgt. Reckless, Jackie Robinson | Soviet espionage in America, Eisenhower, Atomic age, McCarthyism |
| Week 18 | Life in the 1950s, President Eisenhower, the Baby Boom, fast food (McDonalds), Brown vs. Board of Education, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges | Life in postwar America, Brown vs. Board of Education (part 2), Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Montgomery Bus Boycott, McDonalds, Sputnik, Alaska joined the Union | Life in postwar America, Brown vs. Board of Education, Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Movement |
| Week 19 | JFK, Cuban Missile Crisis, John Glenn | 1960s, JFK, Bay of Pigs, Alan Shepherd, Cubin Missile Crisis | 1960s, JFK, Civil Rights Movement continued, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, space race heats up |
| Week 20 | The Children’s Crusade (civil rights), Martin Luther King Jr., Rachel Carson | Children’s Crusade of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., Kennedy’s assassination, LBJ, civil rights continued, Alaska earthquake | Kennedy assassination, origins of Vietnam, LBJ, Domino Theory, Apollo, cold war in Asia |
| Week 21 | The Domino Theory, Vietnam War, LBJ | Vietnam War, protest, Summer of Love (no s*xual content), MLKJ’s assassination | Sit ins , Freedom Riders , Malcom X, MLKJ, 1964 Civil Rights Act, Tet Offensive |
| Week 22 | Apollo 11, Katherine Johnson | Nikon, Operation Menu, Apollo 11, Detente, Nixon | Student protest movement, 1960s culture, Robert F. Kennedy assassination, Nixon |
| Week 23 | Nixon, Watergate, Temple Grandin, Gerald Ford | 1970s, U.S. involvement in Cambodia, Kent State shootings, Pentagon Papers, Energy crisis, Watergate, Operation Babylift, Vietnam War ends, Ford | Keynesian economics, Kent State shootings, Watergate, 1970s culture, Vietnam War ends |
| Week 24 | Jimmy Carter, Jim Henson | Carter, economic crisis, Jim Henson, Equal Rights Amendment | Carter, economic crisis |
| Week 25 | Life in the 1970s, computers and early video games, 1970s gas shortage, Mt. St. Helens eruption | End of Détente, NYC blackout of 1977, Carter continued, Iran Hostage Crisis, Mt. St. Helens | Feminist movement, Roe vs Wade, Carter, Chappaquiddick |
| Week 26 | Ronald Reagan, life in the 1980s | 1980s, Reagan, IBM’s launch, rise of the graphical interface, Challenger disaster, Iran-Contra Affair, Star Wars missiles, Cold War ends | 1980s Reagan, Iran Hostage Crisis, microprocessors and Apple computers, Star Wars missiles, Chicago Housing Project |
| Week 27 | George H. W. Bush, taxes, early video games | George H. Bush, Berlin Wall fell, computers | George H. Bush, Cold War ends, Iran-Contra Affair, 1989 San Francisco earthquake, video games, Berlin Wall fell |
| Week 28 | Operation Desert Storm, birth of the internet, Bill Gates, life in the 90s, computers | 1990s, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War) World Wide Web went public, LA riots, Ruby Ridge | Gulf War, LA riots, Ruby Ridge |
| Week 29 | Bill Clinton, Google | Clinton, 1993 World Trade Center Attack, Waco siege, Oklahoma City bombing, Internet expands across America | Clinton, 1990s culture, 1993 World Trade Center Attack, Waco siege, Oklahoma City bombing, Whitewater scandal, O.J. Simpson, browser wars |
| Week 30 | 9/11, search and rescue robots and dogs | Clinton’s impeachment, Google, Steve Jobs | Brady bill, Clinton’s impeachment, Bin Laden, Columbine |
| Week 31 | 9/11 continued, 2000s | George W. Bush, 2000-2010, 2000 election, Y2K bug, 9/11, Afghanistan War begins | George W. Bush, 2000 election, Y2K bug, 9/11 |
| Week 32 | George W. Bush and the 2000 election, life in the early 2000s | U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Hurrican Katrina | Iraq War |
| Week 33 | Hurricane Katrina | Housing bubble, Obama, the iPad debuts | Housing bubble, Hurricane Katrina, Obama |
| Week 34 | Hurricane Katrina continued, Obama | Obamacare, Snowden, Flint Michigan water, Joplin Tornado | Obamacare, Snowden, celebrity culture, Flint Michigan water |
| Week 35 | Trump’s first election, COVID, CA wildfires of 2018 | Trump, COVID, Abraham Accords | Osama bin Ladin mission, Trump |
| Week 36 | Joe Biden, Trump’s reelection and early 2nd presidency | Biden, 2020 election and aftermath, withdrawal from Afghanistan | Finishing up a book from a previous week. |
There are 36 weeks in each level of curriculum.
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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.
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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.
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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.
There is an option to buy a physical copy of the spine books for the Little Kids’ and Jr. levels. See your downloads after purchase for a link to the books at Lulu.com.
Please see the F.A.Q. on each book and resource page:
- Little Kids’ Modern American History Book and Resource List
- Jr. Modern American History Book and Resource List
- High School Modern American History Book and Resources List
We are Christians, but Guest Hollow’s Modern American History Curriculums are not intended to be a “Christian resource”. However, there may be infrequent (or what we consider to be) minor references, notes, or links to resources that mention Christian ideas, values, or sectarian topics even in our secular/non-religious/neutral curriculums.
All the books scheduled in Guest Hollow’s Modern American History Curriculums are secular. If you want some Christian books to sub in or add, you can always check out the Big Bad Beautiful Booklist -History Edition for ideas!
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.
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.
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