Pharos Terminal
New lessons every day. Everything included. Open it and teach.
New lessons daily in nine subjects, every course included, and a parent tracker that builds your year-end portfolio for every student in your family. Grades 7–12.
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Pharos Terminal · History course
World War II
Depression, War and the Peace That Followed
From the Crash of 1929 to the start of the Cold War, in the record. Units 1–9 are open now; more units follow as they’re finished.
Grades 9–12 · 18 weeks
Courses included
Every course is included
Every course is included with an active Pharos Terminal subscription, plus new courses as they’re released. Each course runs for weeks, not days: history taught through Zac Northup’s novels and straight from the primary-source record, a writing course that ends with your student’s own published book, and an entrepreneurship course from first idea to first sale.
Pharos Terminal · History course
World War II
From the Crash of 1929 to the start of the Cold War, in the record. Units 1–9 are open now; more units follow as they’re finished.
Grades 9–12 · 18 weeks
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Pharos Terminal · Writing course
Reality Writes!
Your student writes a real book. You sign off every step.
Grades 11–12, and advanced students from grade 8 · 17 modules
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Pharos Terminal · History course
Through the Fading Darkness
The 1774 frontier, in a novel and in the record.
Grades 7–12 · 18 weeks · Lord Dunmore’s War, 1774
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Pharos Terminal · History course
Beyond the Fading Darkness
Virginia in 1775, from protest to war, in a novel and in the record.
Grades 7–12 · 12 weeks · Virginia, 1775
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Pharos Terminal · History course
Winter’s Ghosts
1776 on the Virginia frontier, in a novel and in the record.
Grades 9–12 · 12 weeks · the Virginia frontier, 1776
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Pharos Terminal · Business course
Pitch to Profit
Find a real problem. Build the fix. Make a first real sale.
Grades 7–12 · 18 weeks · Entrepreneurship for the AI Age
Coming soon
Pharos Terminal · Literature course
Steinbeck Country
Cannery Row to East of Eden.
Grades 10–12
In development
Pharos Terminal · Science course
The Science Fiction Series
The real science behind major works of science fiction: what the stories get right, what they get wrong and what that tells us about our own world.
In development
Today’s Nexus Point
Two Dan Sullivans on one ballot. Who decides when a candidate’s name is too confusing?
MembersPolitics & ElectionsCivics & Government
Advisory: this is an analytical risk assessment that weighs evidence and makes judgment calls, not a prediction or statement of fact; students should test its reasoning against the sources. Alaska’s Senate ballot lists two men…
Inside: 5 discussion questions · a writing assignment
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Pharos Terminal shows the same score for every family; it’s how this lesson scores for a typical West Virginia student in grades 7–12.
- Grades
- 7–12
- Standards
- Aligned to WVDE academic standards
- Teaching time
- About 45 minutes
Its lesson packetWho Runs the Election? Federalism on the Eve of a Vote
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Lesson packets
Ready-to-teach lesson packets
Each packet is a set of sessions you can teach in a week or two, with a parent guide. Every packet is included with an active Pharos Terminal subscription. Most packets are also sold on their own for $49 each.
- The darkest December
- Words as weapons
- Timeline at the river
- +2 more
- Where meteors come from
- Light pollution and the data sheet
- Field night
- +2 more
- Where power comes from
- The right to petition
- Who decides?
- +2 more
- Read the data
- Pay versus growth
- The tempting answer
- +2 more
- The price of everything
- The 4% that hides the 54%
- Gas up, coal down
- +2 more
- The pay bridge
- Short run, long run
- The way in
- +2 more
- Read the ballot language
- Map your districts
- Read the results, from election night to the canvass
- +1 more
- The dream and the poem (Day 1)
- Candy and what a worker is worth (Day 2)
- Outsiders (Day 3)
- +7 more
- The mission by the numbers
- How a solar cell works
- Lab: Tilt the Array
- +1 more
- The style and the wounding
- The medal
- The abstract words
- +2 more
- Before the trip: the Letter and the map
- Rivers: Point Pleasant and Prickett’s Fort (Stops 1–2)
- Ridges: Seneca Rocks and Blackwater Falls (Stops 3–4)
- +1 more
- “The Enemy coming on so suddenly” (Days 1–2)
- One battle, two letters (Days 3–5)
- “It is difficult for me to understand” (Days 1–2)
- Two juries and two histories (Days 3–5)
- “More easy and convenient to the people” (Days 1–2)
- “Shall have a vote” (Days 3–5)
- “Recognizes, respects, and guarantees” (Days 1–2)
- “Sources told CSW” (Day 3)
- “Was it not thine own?” (Days 4–5)
- Building a basket (Days 1–2)
- Where the money went (Day 3)
- Graphing the day (Day 4)
- +1 more
- “Congress shall make no law” (Day 1)
- Where is the line? (Day 2)
- Reading the essay (Day 3)
- +1 more
- Reading the sea from space (Days 1–2)
- Chances and numbers (Days 3–5)
- Reflection and choice (Days 1–2)
- Arguing in public (Days 3–5)
- The raid, the verdict and the speech (Days 1–2)
- Testing the claims and comparing the printings (Days 3–5)
- “A specific study plan, called a protocol” (Days 1–2)
- “Unlikely to meet the primary efficacy endpoint” (Days 3–5)
- “Who was counted, and when?” (Days 1–2)
- “He that is first in his own cause” (Day 3)
- “Thou shalt not raise a false report” (Days 4–5)
- “Persuasion with a name on it” (Days 1–2)
- “Operations in the dark” (Day 3)
- “Checking the checkers” (Days 4–5)
- Who counts? (Days 1–2)
- What moved the rate? (Days 3–5)
- The cutting and the man (Days 1–2)
- Three appearances (Day 3)
- Danger, take care (Days 4–5)
- Sure can’t beat the measles? (Days 1–2)
- Did attitudes follow the risk? (Days 3–5)
- What the constitution promised (Days 1–2)
- What the state did, and what protects rights (Days 3–5)
- What happened in Mata v. Avianca (Days 1–2)
- Why AI tools make things up, and how to check (Days 3–5)
- Who sets the rules for an election? (Day 1)
- How close to an election should a court step in? (Day 2)
For parents
Parent tracker and automatic portfolio
Tracker
Each session you mark done is logged with its hours, and each Nexus Point you log is recorded with its hours. The Tracker shows progress in the subjects you track and exports a year-end portfolio.
Assigning lessons
Lessons you’ve assigned, with due dates and your notes. When the work is logged, by you or your student, it shows as done in your list and in the Tracker, so nothing gets marked twice.
Aligned to WVDE academic standards
The parent tracker logs lessons, hours and work samples as you go, keeps a record of each lesson aligned to WVDE academic standards, then builds your year-end portfolio.
Year-end portfolio
Download your records and portfolio whenever you need them. Your family’s records stay yours.
Everything included
Open it and teach.
- New Nexus Points every day in nine subjects, with sources and questions
- Every lesson packet, each with a parent guide
- Every course, including Reality Writes!, Pitch to Profit and the Pharos History Through Fiction series
- A parent tracker that builds each student’s year-end portfolio
- New courses as they’re released
for your first student
$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.
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