Dave Raymond's Antiquity

The curriculum extensively uses primary source documents from classical antiquity, providing students direct access to historical texts. Students read excerpts from works like Aristotle's Metaphysics, Plutarch's Lives, and ancient inscriptions.

Students read primary sources including 'Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar,' Aristotle's Metaphysics, Plutarch's Lives, Epic of Gilgamesh, and other classical texts

The curriculum features substantial direct instruction through 20-minute video lectures covering key people, places, events, and ideas. Students are expected to take extensive notes from these substantive presentations.

Each lesson includes five 20-minute video lectures by Dave Raymond covering historical content, with students required to take 'copious notes'

The curriculum includes regular testing but lacks cumulative review elements that would strengthen long-term retention. Each exam covers only single lesson content without building on previous material.

Students take exams every five lessons, but 'each exam covers material from only that lesson; there are no cumulative exams'

The curriculum includes a comprehensive Teacher's Guide with sample answers, rubrics, and guidance for evaluation. However, the review doesn't indicate professional development or training components.

122-page Teacher's Guide includes sample answers for questions and exams, plus rubrics for evaluating student work

The curriculum likely builds academic vocabulary through extensive reading of classical texts and historical content, though explicit vocabulary instruction is not mentioned.

Students encounter sophisticated vocabulary through primary source readings and academic lectures, but no specific vocabulary instruction detailed

Geographic knowledge appears integrated through the study of ancient civilizations, but specific geographic instruction is not detailed in the review.

Course covers ancient world civilizations and portfolio includes maps as visual elements, but no explicit geographic instruction described

The curriculum appears to build systematic knowledge of ancient civilizations, though the review doesn't specify the chronological framework used across the 26 lessons.

Course covers ancient world civilizations with structured 26-lesson format, but chronological sequencing not explicitly detailed in review