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If you follow a chronological cycle for the study of history, how often do you cyle through it (or plan to)? Every 4 years or every 6 or some other number? My husband and I are trying to decide on an overall goal for history cycles (and if they need to be chronological or just cover all major time periods within a certain number of years while our daughter is young and then again with more depth when she is older) and I am wondering how others approach it and what you enjoy about the choice you've made. (I can see pros and cons to any way of doing it, but would really enjoy hearing from others with experience.)
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Kim
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The programs I've seen seem to run in 4 year cycles.. so that's what I've planned to do.. whether that's what we actually do or not.. I don't think it matters that much. I do like the idea that with a 4 year cycle we'd hit all of history with each child in the high school level.. a longer cycle means some of it will be done that much younger for the "last time" at home.
But at this point we're going at it from a literature perspective.. and using a time line to follow for picking out our reading aloud.
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We do every four years, but I am not sure we approach it the same as others. I group it with all ancients the first year, middle ages and early American exploration the second, colonial to Spanish/American war the third year, and after Spanish/American war to present the fourth.
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The one thing I always feel we miss covering when we follow these cycles is that once we get to Colonial America, we don't typically do anything that happened in Europe until WWI and WWII. I keep thinking we should cover at least England or Europe beyond the Middle Ages. It just seems that that would contribute to understanding all sorts of things, such as the background that lead to the World Wars or even the context of "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
Does anyone do this or have suggestions about materials?
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Nancy
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hylabrook1 wrote:
The one thing I always feel we miss covering when we follow these cycles is that once we get to Colonial America, we don't typically do anything that happened in Europe until WWI and WWII. I keep thinking we should cover at least England or Europe beyond the Middle Ages. It just seems that that would contribute to understanding all sorts of things, such as the background that lead to the World Wars or even the context of "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
Does anyone do this or have suggestions about materials?
Thanks.
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Hi Nancy,
my plan is to incorporate "the rest of the world"  in the next two years, starting in August. Alot of sources I had looked at gave a shorter time to cover 1600's to present time, so that is why I did all ancients last year and the middle ages up to colonial times this year.
I am still pulling materials together, but once I do, I will get back to you with what I have planned (may take me a few weeks  .)
God Bless,
Stacy in MI
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Nancy,
I'd start with the Genevieve Foster books, Captain Smith's World, George Washington's World, Abraham Lincoln's World. She discusses what was going on in the rest of the world during key times in American history. These are really good!
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We do history chronologically. I started out thinking that we would do it in 4 yrs, but we got carried away with the Medieval and Rennaisance Age. So now I don't put a time frame on it. Just that we are doing history chronologically is what is important to me, not how long it takes us. This way we can take our time on the eras that ignite sparks and quickly pass over the ones that we find dull.
I can't really give you an educated answer as to why we do history chronologically. For me, it just makes sense to learn it the way it happened.
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I don't see how you can only do history chronologically anyway.. it comes up so often.. at least it seems to around here..
sing the song "The Ballad of the Alamo" and you end up pulling out a map to see where the Alamo is and why no one came to relieve them..
watch "the Sound of Music" or "the Prince of Egypt" or "Davy Crockett" or "The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band"
read the The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe.. or any of hte American Girl historical books.. or Old Yeller or ...
you can't escape it  so following a time line part of the time only helps to get everything in it's place.. and gives you direction when you don't have a particular interest going
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JodieLyn wrote:
I don't see how you can only do history chronologically anyway.. it comes up so often.. at least it seems to around here..
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I did forget to mention, when we come across something that doesn't fall into the area we are covering (for instance, in our science or geography studies,) and read about something neat that happened way later than where we are, time wise, we do a narration page and/or illustration, and file it into our centuries notebook, under the correct time period tab.
God Bless,
Stacy in MI
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