History and social studies, K-12

Is there a secular homeschool history and social studies curriculum for every grade?

Yes: Clareza Academy has 14 secular social studies courses covering every grade, from family, maps and community in kindergarten to Grade 2, through the ancient and medieval world and United States history, to Government and Economics in Grade 12, with no religious framing and no providential history.

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Kindergarten to Grade 5

My World, for K-2: my family, my street, rules and maps, done as small expeditions with you. Grade 3 is Communities Near and Far. Grade 4 is Regions of the United States: Land, People, and Government. Grade 5 is The American Story Begins: Peoples, Contact, and a New Nation.

Grades 6 to 8

Grade 6 is The Ancient World, from the first cities to empires. Grade 7 is World Geography and the Medieval World, 500-1500 CE. Grade 8 is United States History to Reconstruction, with Civics and the founding documents.

High school

World Geography in Grade 9, a world history survey from about 1200 to the present and Seeing and Meaning, an art history course, in Grade 10, United States History since 1877 and Psychology in Grade 11, and Economics and Foundations of American Government and Civic Life in Grade 12.

How religion and hard history are handled

Religion is taught where it is the subject, as history: what people believed and did, not what is true. Early American history is taught truthfully at ten-year-old depth, with colonization, slavery and displacement presented through evidence and primary voices rather than skipped.

What this is not

  • It is not a classical or chronological "four-year cycle" history program. It follows a grade-by-grade social studies sequence.
  • There is no religious-studies or comparative-religion elective.
  • It is not a literature-based program built around historical novels.

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We collect only what it takes to teach your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers and progress, and their chat with Clara (written by Anthropic's AI, read aloud by OpenAI). Nobody trains AI on it or sells it, and you can see or delete it any time. You create your child's account yourself. Paying by card is how you give consent.

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Your consent is needed before we collect anything from your child, and we collect nothing without it. You create your child's account yourself; they never sign up alone.

  • What we collect from your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers, time on lessons and progress, and their chat with Clara. Used to run the lessons, build their transcript and show you how they are doing.
  • Who else handles it: Anthropic (an AI company) receives the chat text and the lesson, with your child's first name but no last name or account details, to write Clara's replies. That is how Clara works, so it is part of the service. If you switch on answering out loud for a child, their voice is turned into text on our own server and then discarded; it is never sent to another company. OpenAI turns lesson text and Clara's replies (which can include your child's first name) into the read-aloud voice. Our email provider sends you reports about your child. Nobody trains AI on your child's data, and nobody sells it.
  • Your rights: see everything collected from your child, have it deleted, or stop further collection at any time, from your account or by emailingour support address. If you refuse the AI sharing above, Clara cannot teach, so the service cannot run. Chats are deleted after 30 days.
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Questions parents ask

Is the history curriculum secular?

Yes. There is no religious framing and no providential history. Religion is covered as history, as what people believed and did.

Does Clareza include US history and government?

Yes: US history to Reconstruction with civics in Grade 8, US history since 1877 in Grade 11, and Government and Economics in Grade 12.

Can I see the history units before I buy?

Yes. Every unit of every course is readable in full on the site with no account and no card.

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