This is the last week of Trimester 1 at IFAHS. We are finishing up our unit on the French Revolution & Napoleon. We won’t have time to take the unit test on Module 19, but it will be on the comprehensive final.

During this trimester we studied, religions of the world: Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism and followed that up with Module 8 on The Muslim World, Module 9: Empires in East Asia. Module 10/11: European Middle Ages/Power of the Church, Module 11: Church & Society in Western Europe, Module 12: Societies & Empires of Africa, Module 14/15: The Renaissance & Reformation and Module 19: The French Revolution & Napoleon.

We have a couple Micro Lessons to finish up and then students will have time to work on their Trimester test study guides. The final will be given on Thursday and Friday. The final is rather large and no matter how students have done, they can pass the class with a D if they can pass this assessment-so students always have a chance to pass. Even though its quite large the success rate for students that are failing is very high. Students are also guaranteed to pass the class even if you fail the final and were passing going into it.

Modern World History is taken by Juniors, which is our toughest year of high school. We have an emphasis on rigor but we also make it reasonable to pass with a C if you put in the effort.