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Tina P.
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Posted: June 14 2012 at 3:21pm \| IP Logged

If you had a history series that was ordered more geographically than chronologically, would you:

a.) Assign readings from volume to volume so that you are moving through history chronologically? This method seems the most logical to me, but the back-and-forth of books is a little mind-numbing.

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b.) read straight through starting at volume 1 and then going back in time in volume 2 and catching up and moving a bit ahead and then going back again in volume 3 and so on? With this method, you could keep track of what's happening when on a timeline, but it seems so one-step-forward-two-steps-back.

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Posted: June 14 2012 at 3:35pm \| IP Logged

How often are you doing assignments for history? Daily, a few times a week, or weekly?

I might have the books read at the same time on different days of the week. No worrying about going exactly in chronological order, but study them concurrently so you are roughly in order.

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Posted: June 14 2012 at 3:57pm \| IP Logged

I was thinking the same thing. We kind of do this anyway with two "tracks" in history -- old world and new world -- though they aren't chronologically concurrent, obviously.

Ambleside Online, if memory serves me, even does alternating weeks of readings, so that you can get more in. You could theoretically have four or six volumes going at once, on different days in alternating weeks. We did something like that last year, and it worked really well for history (old-world history on odd weeks, new-world history on even weeks), though I couldn't juggle quite as many books as I'd scheduled. Still, it was a nice kind of schedule to have. Something like that might work for you, so that you'd have more books going at once, but be moving through all of them slowly.

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Posted: June 15 2012 at 6:13pm \| IP Logged

We do a lot of what looks like your choice B in our home. We have our Montessori timelines, with which I present what is required to know as well as establish the framework of history. Then my son studies areas of interest. He will go back and forth, but he can always find it on the timeline, so he is naturally building connections of what goes where.

I equate it to Narnia. I personally do not think The Magician's Nephew should be read first - ever - before reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe --- there are discoveries to be made and "AHA!" moments that are totally lost when you read them sequentially the first time through.

(Besides, how would The Horse and His Boy fit in if you read them chronologically).

Back to the main topic - studying history all over the place CAN be the best way. It's not like your children will study something once and be done; they will come back in later years and make new connections. So there will always be back and forth of some sort :)

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