Pharos
Terminal

Nothing to gather. Open Pharos Terminal and teach: every Nexus Point has the event, the sources and the questions already pulled together. Each lesson packet is open-and-go: download it, print it, teach it. Novel-based history courses need only the book.

Homeschool families with students in grades 7–12, with high school paths first. It’s self-paced, on the web, and sold and delivered only at zacnorthup.com.

$499 for two semesters for your first student and $399 for each additional student. The first 100 families to subscribe get $100 off each additional student’s first-year price, applied to your payment and shown on your receipt. Renewals, and students added after the first subscription year, are $399. One subscription covers the complete solution: timely Nexus Points, every lesson packet aligned to WVDE academic standards in English language arts, science and social studies, every course (Reality Writes!, Pitch to Profit, Through the Fading Darkness, Beyond the Fading Darkness, Winter’s Ghosts, the World War II history course and The Science Fiction Series (in development)), new courses as they’re released, assigning to each student, and the parent tracker that records each lesson you log, with the standards it’s aligned to, and builds your year-end portfolio, all included with an active Pharos Terminal subscription. Lesson packets are also sold on their own for $49 each. On their own, Reality Writes! is $495 and Through the Fading Darkness is $249. Pitch to Profit, Beyond the Fading Darkness and Winter’s Ghosts are included with an active Pharos Terminal subscription and will also be sold on their own to families without a subscription. Two semesters is one year of access, billed once a year.

Included courses close with the subscription; your tracker records and portfolio exports stay yours. A course bought on its own includes its PDFs, which stay yours; its online lessons open while you have an active Pharos Terminal subscription.

Zac Northup’s research desk follows the news and events shaping the world. When a story is worth teaching, it becomes a Nexus Point: what happened, why it matters, the sources, and a lesson that fits your student.

Each one gets a Teaching Value score from 0 to 100 for your student. It weighs four things: grade fit, subjects still needed, how close to home, and how solid the facts are. Subscribers can open any Nexus Point’s source note, Why this lesson?, to see the published reporting that prompted it.

Yes. Every lesson packet is aligned to WVDE academic standards in English language arts, science and social studies for planning and record-keeping. Pharos Terminal is not endorsed by the WVDE or the West Virginia Board of Education. You remain responsible for your own homeschool notice and annual assessment.

Yes. After you add a student, you can give them their own sign-in: a username and password you choose, with no email needed. They sign in at zacnorthup.com/terminal/student/ and see only their own lessons, Nexus Points, worksheets and progress, never billing or your settings. Everything they finish shows up in your parent tracker. Younger students who need more help can work alongside you from your sign-in.

In private, per-family storage on Amazon Web Services, separate from this website. Each family’s records sit in their own private folder; nothing is shared or mixed between families. Students can sign in with the username and password you set up for them, and we keep only a first name or nickname and a grade for each one, stored privately on AWS. You can export your portfolio and download your records whenever you need them. Read the student data privacy policy.