Early Modern History Main Guide — Open-and-Go Homeschool History Curriculum (K-6)

Description

Homeschool history curricula can create a lot of mental fatigue — not because the content is hard, but because of everything it takes to organize and implement it. This Early Modern History Main Guide does that work for you.

Every week is already planned: curated book picks, audiobooks, pre-screened YouTube videos, and a Friday movie — one click away from purchasing, watching, or listening. Everything is organized by week for easy day-to-day access, and master lists up front (before the week-to-week content) pull every resource together in one place so you can batch-prep the whole year at once.

It also saves time by consolidating work that would otherwise take hours to piece together yourself, flexes across multiple age groups, and covers many Language Arts skills along the way (narration, discussion, literary analysis) — another way this guide lightens the load.

It’s more than a companion — families can use it as their full spine for Early Modern History, or layer it alongside another curriculum. It’s Charlotte-Mason-aligned, multisensory, and built with neurodivergent and struggling learners in mind from the start, not as an afterthought.

Originally created as a companion to BiblioPlan’s Early Modern History curriculum, this guide also stands on its own as a full spine for any family studying this era. This guide was independently created by Growing Together: Neurodiversity at Home and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or made in partnership with BiblioPlan.

What’s Included:

• Main Guide PDF (Fillable) — 41 pages, 34 weeks + reflection week, digital checkboxes you can fill right in Adobe or your browser
• Weekly + Master Book, Audiobook & Movie Lists — physical books, audiobooks, movies & one-click Amazon links organized week by week, plus a master list up front so you can batch-prep the whole year at once
• Weekly + Master YouTube Video Playlists — hyperlinked, pre-screened videos each week, plus a master list up front
• Going Deeper Discussion Toolkit — literary-element questions you can use with any book or movie
• Open-and-Go by Design — everything organized and hyperlinked so you just click and go, plus a how-to-use walkthrough so you always know what’s next
• Scaling Up for Middle School — guidance for stretching the guide for older students

Format: Digital download, one fillable PDF, 41 pages.

Grade Range: K-6 (with notes for scaling up to middle school).

License: For personal and single-classroom/family use. Please don’t resell, share, or redistribute this file — see the guide’s front matter for full details.