Travel the globe in a single school year. Students read Jules Verne’s classic Around the World in Eighty Days chapter by chapter, following Phileas Fogg and his loyal servant Passepartout from London through Suez, India, Hong Kong, Japan, across America and home again, and every subject connects back to the journey. The Pacific crossing opens a study of the ocean floor and the deep-sea Challenger expedition. The bridge at Medicine Bow leads into lessons on tension, compression and engineering. When Fogg burns his ship’s woodwork for fuel, students explore combustion and conservation of mass, and the novel’s famous twist ending becomes a hands-on lesson in time zones and the International Date Line. Along the way, students explore themes of loyalty, courage, honor, perseverance and friendship, and discover what Fogg truly gained from his trip.
 
English Language Arts is built around close reading of the novel in George Makepeace Towle’s 1873 translation, which is free online with a free audio version. Students write narratives, dialogue, poetry and a full literary analysis essay built step by step, then write and deliver a speech. They also read classic poems by Whitman, Dickinson, Rossetti and Longfellow, and compare Verne’s fiction with Nellie Bly’s real record-breaking race around the world in 1889. Weekly grammar lessons and “Passport Words” vocabulary are included.
 
Mathematics has three separate tracks for Grades 6, 7 and 8, so students at different levels can learn side by side. Grade 8 builds pre-algebra into functions, systems of equations and quadratics. Each lesson has clear explanations, practice problems and free video links, and every week ends with a “Puzzle of the Week” drawn from the journey, such as whether Fogg’s ship can reach Liverpool in time. The year closes with a project planning and budgeting a modern trip around the world.
 
Science is hands-on throughout the year: oceans, density, heat, bridges, electricity and the telegraph, the human body, friction, waves and sound, chemical reactions, seasons, energy, genetics and timekeeping. Labs use simple household materials, such as a marble-ramp energy lab, a coin-flip genetics lab and a homemade sundial, and the year ends with a science-fair project.
 
Social Studies offers three pathways: World History, U.S. History and Civics, each with strong Florida connections. Students study primary sources every week, including real court documents, historic maps, campaign posters and photographs. Projects include a mock election, a civic action project and proposing a constitutional amendment.
Every week also includes “Look Closely” pages, full-page public-domain artworks, maps and photographs with questions to discuss, from Turner and Monet to the Apollo 11 launch.
 
Art, Health, and a Game Lab elective run all year. Art: Sketchbook Around the World meets three days a week, with projects inspired by the places Fogg visits and the masterpieces students study, plus a portfolio showcase each quarter and a year-end exhibition. Health: The Healthy Traveler meets two days a week, covering fitness, nutrition, sleep, first aid, stress and mental well-being, healthy relationships, peer pressure, screen time and goal setting. In the Game Lab elective, also two days a week, students design, playtest and publish their own race-around-the-world board game, ending with a game-night showcase and a designer’s certificate. 
 
Each week comes in a student packet with Track A, B and C tasks for Grades 6, 7 and 8, and each quarter has a matching Parent and Instructor Guide with answer keys for every lesson, quiz and test. Each quarter ends with a review week and tests. The year finishes with capstone projects, an art exhibition, a game-night showcase and final exams.