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and I've just been living under a rock for the past 6 years of homeschooling  ! But just in case you've been under a similar rock  , I found out about a great book called The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun and it's great. It lists everything that is happening for a given time period. This will be a tremendous help in planning Unit Studies! 
It includes the headings of:
History/Politics
Literature/Theater
Religion/Philosophy/Learning
Visual Arts
Music
Science/Technology/Growth
Daily Life
It was only $20 at Barnes and Noble with my teacher discount.
Hope this helps someone!
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Lisa it is great and the best organized book timeline I've seen - but every once in a while has a bias in phrasing (not often enough to make me dislike the book and certainly it could easily be fixed with some white out and black marker to reword something if it really bothered you) but there is also plenty of white space to pencil in special Catholic events/people(and there are some things already included) saints, etc.
We use this one a lot even though I am not a unit study person. We use it as a reference to get dates for something we are reading about or to look up other things going on at the same time as something we are studying - and when something we are reading seems a bit shakey on sequence of events. We used it a lot when reading saints lives to place saints in cultural and historical context.
I was under the rocks about Elizabeth's homeschooling book and this site - but did find this book many years ago. Isn't it great how this site helps share this kind of information.
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I knew it was a great book the first time I saw it, too........at a thrift store.............got it for only $2!!
$20 is a great price, too! I had been drooling over it in the Greenleaf catalog years ago......
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It's one of the first books my husband bought after we got married and were building up our home library. I think my 18yo has been hoarding it in his room since I haven't seen it for a while.
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Thanks! I hadn't heard of it.
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Great reference book! I bought ours years ago even before we started homeschooling, to fulfill a book club requirement. Every now and then we'll take it out to look up stuff and round out our studies as we go through the centuries. My only complaint: TOO many ideas for rabbit trails!!
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Well, I've been under said rock. I just one-clicked and took care of that though! Thanks for the tip.
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I've been living undr a rock, too. Thank you!!!!!
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stefoodie wrote:
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YEP
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I think living under the rock is a crowded space!
Thanks for the info!
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