European History Scope and Sequence

We are excited to have two European History resources!

Our original resource, The Kind Kingdom Volume 1 includes an overview of the Middle Ages through the Cold War with monthly themes and the beautiful series, The Chronicles of Narnia. 

Our newest resource, The Kind Kingdom Volume 2 is perfect for families who have already completed The Kind Kingdom, or who want a resource for older elementary and junior high students to use independently. It includes heart warming literature, readings from Our Island Story, a Botany study, and several new art and poetry pieces to study.

The themes overlap so you could use Kind Kingdom Volume 1 in your morning time, and let your older child do the Volume 2 readings on their own, or you could use it as the year long resource for your whole family. Volume 2 has several new poems, art pieces and recipes, new literature, and new science activities. You can find the full book lists for both resources here;

Kind Kingdom Volume 1 Booklist

Kind Kingdom Volume 2 Booklist

Kind Kingdom Volume 1

Month 1

The Magician’s Nephew, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Kings and Queens of England, Early Middle Ages, Seeds, bees, gardens, weather, Tennyson poetry, English School art

Month 2

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, more Kings and Queens of England, the Magna Carta, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Castles, cathedrals, seasons, Dickinson poetry, Bayeux Tapestry

Month 3

The Horse and His Boy, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, The Renaissance, DaVinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Stars, planets, gravity, Rosetti poetry, Davinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh art

Month 4

Prince Caspian, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Gutenberg, Martin Luther, Christian saints,

Winter nature, animals of Europe, the printing press, Wordsworth poetry, Rembrandt, Bruegel art

Month 5

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Shakespeare, Shackleton, explorers,

Ships, seas, world geography, survival, Longfellow poetry, Monet, Turner art

Month 6

The Silver Chair, Shakespeare, Revolutions, World War I, Flight,

nurses, turtles, snakes, Coleridge poetry, Simpson, Nash art

Month 7

The Last Battle, Shakespeare, Holocaust, World War II,

Invention, industry, victory garden, generosity, W.B. Yeats poetry, Renoir, Monet, de Hooch art

Month 8

Winnie the Pooh, Communism and its effects,

tadpoles, spring, flowers, Browning poetry, Constable art

Kind Kingdom Volume 2

Month 1

Augustine Came to Kent, Kings and Queens of England, King Arthur, early middle ages, Andersen’s Fairy Tales, taxonomy, seeds, gardens, King and Queen rhyme, Wyeth art.

Month 2

The Magna Charta, more Kings and Queens of England, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Andersen’s Fairy Tales, castles, cathedrals, seasons, roots, Dickinson poetry, King and Queen art.

Month 3

Month 4 

Treasures of the Snow, Gutenberg, Martin Luther, church history, Andersen’s Fairy Tales, the printing press, nature journaling, Hopkins poetry, Bruegel the Elder art.

Month 5

The Endurance,Shakespeare, explorers, ships, seas, world geography, birds, Tennyson poetry, Carmichael art.

Month 6

The Good Master, Shakespeare, revolutions, World War I, flight, nurses, birds, small mammals, Shakespeare poetry, Millet art.

Month 7

The Hiding Place, Shakespeare, holocaust, World War II, invention, industry, victory garden, W.B. Yeats poetry, Pissarro art.

Month 8

Animal Farm, Charlotte Mason, communism and its effects, phenology wheel, spring,flowers, Rilke poetry, Popova art