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Parent Digest
A one-page summary of every week — what your child is learning across all four subjects, the words they need to know, and questions you can ask at the dinner table. Print-friendly.
Quarter 1
Week 1
Why early cities formed where they did — river valleys, climate, and surplus.
Week 2
Ur, Uruk, cuneiform, ziggurats; the world's first writing.
Week 3
From city-state to empire; one of the world's first written legal codes.
Week 4
Geography of the Nile; pharaohs and the architecture of eternity.
Week 5
Ma'at, the gods, and beliefs about the afterlife.
Week 6
Hatshepsut, Tut, daily life along the Nile.
Week 7
Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro: the planned cities of South Asia.
Week 8
Bronze, oracle bones, and the roots of Chinese civilization.
Week 9
Compare the four river-valley civilizations across themes.
Quarter 2
Week 10
Bronze-age Crete and mainland Greece; the Trojan War context.
Week 11
Phoenicians and the alphabet; how the city-state emerged.
Week 12
Two opposing models of citizenship and society.
Week 13
Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes; Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis.
Week 14
Pericles, the Parthenon, and the world's first democracy.
Week 15
The ideas that still shape Western thought.
Week 16
Tragedy, comedy, and the games.
Week 17
From Macedonia to the Indus; cultural blending across three continents.
Week 18
Founding of Rome; the early Republic. Mid-year synthesis week.
Quarter 3
Week 19
Punic Wars and Roman expansion.
Week 20
The fall of the Republic and the rise of one-man rule.
Week 21
Augustus and the long Roman peace.
Week 22
Roads, aqueducts, the arch, and life in the empire.
Week 23
Confucian governance and a contemporary of Rome.
Week 24
Trade routes that linked Rome, Kushan, and Han China.
Week 25
From India along the Silk Road to East Asia.
Week 26
From Judea to the empire.
Week 27
Why empires fall; Q3 culminating project.
Quarter 4
Week 28
Constantinople, Justinian, and Hagia Sophia.
Week 29
The Five Pillars and the rapid spread of a new faith.
Week 30
Algebra, astronomy, and the House of Wisdom.
Week 31
After Rome: kingdoms, monasteries, and longships.
Week 32
Lords, vassals, and the gothic cathedral.
Week 33
Paper, gunpowder, the compass, movable type.
Week 34
Gold, salt, and the trans-Saharan trade.
Week 35
How globalization in 1300 changed everything.
Week 36
The capstone project; looking ahead to Grade 7.