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Through the Fading Darkness

18-Week Colonial History Course

Map of the Ohio River from Fort Pitt. Montrésor, John, 1736-1799. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons

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A novel and the record

Every lesson pairs chapters of the novel with primary sources, then asks the same question in a new way: what in the story is real, what is invented, and how do we know?

Course introduction

Lord Dunmore’s War, 1774, in a novel and in the record. Your student reads or listens to the novel, then tests it against the record: letters, ledgers, laws, newspapers and memoirs. What in the story is real, what is invented, and how do we know?

18 lessons in seven units over 18 weeks, then a capstone. Grades 7–12, about 3–4 hours a week. Read or listen: the novel is on Amazon in print and Kindle, and on Audible.

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This course is included with an active Pharos Terminal subscription, along with every other course, new courses as they’re released, a new Nexus Point every day and the parent tracker. Lessons are aligned to West Virginia Department of Education academic standards.