Heritage Study Guides

Heritage History provides pre-printed Study Guides to accompany each of its Classical Curriculum CD's. Each Study Guide includes historical maps, outline maps, timelines, era summaries, character lists, battle dictionaries, recommending reading lists and other study aids. The Study Guides were designed to provide reference materials that complement the reading program and to assure instructors that their students remember the basic facts associated with each historical era.

Each study Guide is provided in both a pre-printed, and a downloadable PDF version. However, the PDF version of the Study Guide is included on the curriculum CD, so families who have purchased the curriculum CD do not need to purchase a separate Study Guide. However, as a convenience to families who don't have access to low-cost color printers, we provide ready-to-use, pre-printed Study Guides. The pre-printed guides are ready to be placed in any standard three ring binder and include front and back covers.

The downloadable Study Guide is identical to the Study Guide provided on the Curriculum CD. It can be used by families who would prefer to purchase individual books for their reading program, or who choose to read recommended books directly from the Heritage History webpage.

More information about the contents of the Study Guide is provided here. The following Study Guides are currently available:

More Info	Ancient Greece The Ancient Greece Study Guide includes reading recommendations and study aids for eight divisions of Greek history, ranging from the Heroic Age of myth and legends to Greek contributions to science and culture during the Greco-Roman era. It also includes review material and accountabilty records intended for students following the Ancient Greece Classical Curriculum. Color Print: $24.99 Download: $12.99
More Info	Ancient Rome The Ancient Rome Study Guide includes reading recommendations and study aids for eight divisions of Roman history, ranging from the legendary Kingdom of Rome to the era of the Byzantine Empire in the east, following the collapse of the west. The guide also includes review material and accountabilty records intended for students following the Ancient Rome Classical Curriculum. Color Print: $24.99 Download: $12.99
More Info	British Middle Ages The British Study Guide includes reading recommendations and study aids for seven divisions of both British and European history, ranging from collaps of the Roman Empire to the end of the 17th century. All the major themes of the Middle Ages and Reformation era are address, but special attention is given to the histories of England and Scotland. The guide also includes review material and accountabilty records intended for students following the British Middle Ages Classical Curriculum. Color Print: $24.99 Download: $12.99
More Info	British Empire The British Study Guide covers the rise of British colonies in the 18th century through the First World War. During this period Britain was at the height of her power. Two divisions in the study guide provide a broad overview of domestic developments in Britain, including the scientific and industrial revolutions. The other six provide an in depth look at British colonies and British influence on world civilization. Regional histories include Ireland, Australia, Canada, British Africa, British India, and other developments in Asia. The guide also includes review material and accountabilty records intended for students following the British Empire Classical Curriculum. Color Print: $24.99 Download: $12.99
More Info	Young Readers The Young Readers Teacher's Guide is configured differently from the others, since it includes history stories from much of world history rather than focusing primarily on a single civilization. Its study aids, therefore, provide a broad overview of major historical divisions rather than detailed summaries of civilization-specific eras. Instead of historical maps, the Teacher's Guide contains information directed to parents and instructors of young history students. Color Print: $20.99 Download: $8.99

Whether one buys a printed Study Guide, or prints portions of it from the Curriculum CD, we recommend that all students who are using the Heritage Classical Curriculum keep a history notebook on hand for tracking progress and reviewing lessons. Even if most reading is done electronically, keeping a Study Guide on hand, with its instructive collection of reference material, is likely to reinforce a students understanding of the material he reads, and help him see the events he reads about in their historical perspective. We encourage students to customize their history notebooks and add additional information, but the material contained in the pre-printed Study Guides provide an excellent start.

Each Study Guide packet offered by as part of the Heritage Classical Curriculum is comprised of four divisions. The first section, includes recommending reading lists for beginner, intermediate, and advanced readers, as well as short descriptions of the core reading assignments. The second section is organized by historical era and includes timelines, character lists, era summeries, and topic specific reading lists. The section includes historical maps, outline maps, and geography terms, and the final section is composed of reproducible "accountability" records, for keeping track of each student's reading progress. The Ancient Greece Table of Contents provides an overview of its subject matter.

The largest portion of the Study Guide is the Historical Eras section, where information related to a specific time period or region is grouped together so that students will associate famous events and personages that they read about with a particular era. We have found that encouraging students to identify a particular time period with characters and events helps them remember dozens of historical anecdotes in their proper context. For example, the historical incidents of Ancient Greece are divided into the following divisions:

Since the manner in which the Study Guides are organized are best illustrated by example, all of the sample pages listed in the section below refer to the pages in the Ancient Greece Study Guide:

From the Historical Eras section:

• Athenian Empire—Timeline
• Persian War—Character List
• Decline of Greece—Era Summary
• Eastern Kingdoms—Historical Map
• Herioc Age—Recommended Reading

From the Historical and Outline Maps section:

• Mainland Greece—Historical Map
• Ancient Greece—Outline Map
• Eastern Empires—Geography Terms

From the Recommended Reading section:

• Reading Recommendations—Intermediate Core Selections