Exploring World History
With rich readings, structured lessons, and a biblical lens, Exploring World History lets teens take the lead—earning 3 full credits while building college-ready skills and worldview clarity.
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2026 Twelfth-Grade Curriculum Kit
Exploring World History (3rd Edition)
Finding a high school course that covers history, literature, and Bible without feeling scattered can be a challenge. Exploring World History brings all three together in a cohesive, Christian homeschool curriculum that awards one credit each in World History, Literature, and Bible when completed in full.
Designed for high school students, this year-long course guides teens through world history from Creation to the present day while helping them understand how historical events, cultures, literature, and faith intersect. The curriculum follows a chronological approach, allowing students to see how civilizations developed, interacted, and influenced one another across time.
The course is built around 150 daily lessons divided between two full-color textbooks: Creation Through the Middle Ages and The Renaissance to the Present. Each weekly unit includes readings, Bible study, memory work, literature assignments, writing activities, and optional projects, giving students multiple ways to engage with the material.
One of the program's greatest strengths is its integration. Rather than studying history, literature, and Bible as separate subjects, students encounter them together. Historical events provide context for literature. Literature provides insight into cultures and worldviews. Scripture helps students evaluate ideas and events through a Biblical lens.
The included reader, In Their Words, adds depth through speeches, letters, historical documents, poetry, and other primary-source selections. These firsthand accounts help students hear directly from the people who shaped history rather than simply reading summaries about them.
This is a substantial course. Most students spend two to three hours per lesson, depending on reading speed, writing assignments, and project choices. Yet many families find the workload worthwhile because it replaces multiple separate courses while building strong reading, writing, analytical, and research skills.
The optional Student Review Pack provides quizzes, exams, literary analysis, lesson reviews, and grading support for families who want additional structure and assessment tools.
Whether your teen is preparing for college, pursuing a rigorous homeschool transcript, or simply seeking a deeper understanding of world history through a Biblical worldview, Exploring World History offers a rich and comprehensive learning experience. It's the kind of course that helps students move beyond memorizing historical facts and begin understanding the ideas, beliefs, and events that have shaped the world they live in today.
How to Use Exploring World History
- Plan on completing five lessons each week to finish the course in one school year. The pace is steady, but so is the reward: up to three full high school credits in World History, Literature, and Bible.
- At the beginning of each week, review the unit overview together. You'll find the week's readings, Bible memory work, writing assignments, literature selections, and any optional projects all laid out in one place.
- Each day, your teen will work through the assigned history readings along with any literature and primary-source documents. This is a rigorous high school course, so expect most students to spend two to three hours per day, depending on reading speed, writing assignments, and how deeply they engage with the material.
- The three credits work together. The history credit comes from the daily lessons and historical readings. The literature credit is earned through the assigned books and writing activities. The Bible credit includes Scripture reading, Bible study, and weekly memory work. Because the subjects are integrated, students often see connections between them that would be easy to miss in separate courses.
- Need a lighter workload? Many families choose to focus on the history and Bible portions while reducing or eliminating the literature component. The course remains substantial and meaningful even with those adjustments.
- The optional Student Review Pack includes quizzes, exams, literary analysis, and lesson reviews for families seeking additional accountability or grading support.
By the end of the year, your teen won't just have accumulated credits. He'll have worked through primary sources, wrestled with big ideas, encountered influential literature, and followed the story of world history from Creation to the present. That's a lot of ground to cover in a single school year—and exactly what makes this course so rewarding.
In the 2026 kits this course earns high school credit under more than one heading:
1 credit of Bible
Bible · 12th grade · Classic kits
1 credit of World History Survey
History & Social Studies · 12th grade · Classic kits
1 credit of Literature
Language Arts · 12th grade · Classic kits
- Exploring World History Part 1: Creation Through the Middle Ages
- Exploring World History Part 2: The Renaissance to the Present
- In Their Words: Original Documents, Speeches, Poems, and Stories from World History
- Student Review book
- Quiz and Exam Book
- Guide for Parents and Answer Key book
- Exploring World History Part 1: Creation Through the Middle Ages
- Exploring World History Part 2: The Renaissance to the Present
- In Their Words: Original Documents, Speeches, Poems, and Stories from World History
- Student Review book
- Quiz and Exam Book
- Guide for Parents and Answer Key book
Publisher: Notgrass
Author: Notgrass
Faith-Based: Yes
Copyright: 2014
Edition: 3rd Edition
Exploring World History Part 1: Creation Through the Middle Ages
Consumable: No
Pages: 434
ISBN: 9781609990619
Lessons: 75
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrations: Color
Exploring World History Part 2: The Renaissance to the Present
Consumable: No
Pages: 439
ISBN: 9781609990626
Lessons: 75
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrations: Color
In Their Words: Original Documents, Speeches, Poems, and Stories from World History
Consumable: No
Pages: 383
ISBN: 9781609990633
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrations: Color
Student Review
Consumable: Yes
ISBN: 9781609999957
Binding: Softcover
Quiz and Exam Book
Consumable: Yes
ISBN: 9781609990725
Binding: Softcover
Guide for Parents and Answer Key
Consumable: No
ISBN: 9781609990732
Binding: Softcover
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
Notgrass curriculum generally quotes from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) translation. The publishers feel it provides a good balance between giving a sense of the original languages and using modern English. For the activities and assignments in Notgrass curriculum, you are welcome to use the translation of your choice, whether that is the KJV, ESV, NIV, or something else.
- August 11, 2015
From what I have already
Anthony N.
From what I have already read, I think this is a wonderful history course. We will not be using it exactly as the publisher suggests, but that is the beauty of homeschooling!
