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Lisa R
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Do you study history in a chronological fashion? Do you think it's necessary?
I used Five In A Row for the first 4 years of homeschool and we loved it. I've always wanted to do Beyond Five In A Row as well. Of course, neither of these follow history in order.
So do you think it's necessary before high school?
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I definitely don't think it's necessary to go chronologically. I do think it's important to present the "big picture" in some way, e.g., through permanently displayed timelines. Locate and mark the period you've chosen to study; over time the child's vision of the big picture gets more and more detailed.
I've got a string stretched across our school room on which we clothespin our timelines. (Got the idea from Pottery Barn Kids, so it's very shi-shi.)
You could also do a chronological study that focuses on a particular "basic need" through the ages: clothes or shelter or transportation or defense or religion or art. Balance that with studies of all the basic needs within a particular period.
So many possibilities, so little time.
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I don't think it's necessary to do a chronological study. We do skip around, but as Celeste said, having a visual of the big picture really helps.
We have a big timeline up on the wall, and whenever we study something or someone, read historical fiction, etc., the person/event goes up on the timeline. Sometimes we just write on the timeline, other times we post a picture from the internet.
Even Caddie Woodlawn just went up on the timeline. Our read-alouds add a wonderful dimension to it, and help the kids to identify with certain time periods and keep them straight.
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I used to think chronological history was the way to go, but now I feel differently. Mainly because my ds has issues with maintaining attention for a long time, he would much prefer to skip around and follow his heart for history, and that is OK by me. We have a timeline notebook that we use alot like Karen has said she uses her wall timeline, adding things as we come across them. This really helps keep thing in perspective. But we also have begun to use it in another way. For example, ds decided he wanted to learn about about Pompeii this week (he picks a new topic each week)and as he adds it to his timeline (79AD) he then does some research and fills up the two page spread of his timeline surrounding that date with whatever else he can find out happened then, in order to get historical perspective on the event. It was incredible to find out all the cool stuff he could add around that date- the building of the colosseum, the writing of the 4 gospels, the opening of the silk road, the introduction of Buddism to China, the burning of Rome,...all these things and more happened on one page of his timeline!
Ok, I've gone off topic a bit so I'll end here (and blog about it tomorrow!) but just to say that there are benefits to doing history out of order, especially if you have dc who like variety.
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We also do history out of order. I'm wondering if we follow a non-chronological approach to history because of the living books used in place of the textbooks. Is it one thing to turn the page from Dust Bowl to WWII and another to return the 30 books on the Dust Bowl and Depression, everything from American Girl Kit to movies and CDs and check out twice as many things on WWII?
I have always wanted an entire room time line that spirals out from the center of the ceiling rather astronomically, but we confine our creativity to a folder-style time line currently. I like the time line as I can see in a glance areas that we haven't studied very much yet (ancient times here)
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Celeste wrote:
I've got a string stretched across our school room on which we clothespin our timelines. (Got the idea from Pottery Barn Kids, so it's very shi-shi.)
So many possibilities, so little time.
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I love this, I saw it too in PBKids, and am planning on doing this for our rental. I think it will be easy to adapt if an area of time is being studied in detail, lots can be added, then placed in a BOC afterward, then move on to another time period all the while having the basic timeline up!!
Oh, and we just finished American Hist thru the Rev War and we'll be backtracking to Ancient History to start Mater Amabilis levels 1A & 2 combined. Certainly not in order here 
Thanks for this thread, so little time is right!!
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We do "history out of order."
And you know what - the kids make their own connections as they grow. They read something and say - "Oh, thats when Laura would have been a girl "( Laura Ingalls Widler). They see the ebb and flow.
Last year, my sixteen year old did read Christ the King Lord of Histoy as bedtime reading, to see how one book pout all the dates etc together.
We don't even do timelines but the reading and dates slip into place over time. And high school is plenty of time to read through chronologically, if need be, imo. 
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We do history in chronological order but I don't think it is necessary. I do it that way because I like to have a spine for history and I like to coordinate literature, music, art and reading (sometimes) with our history. I like it that way and my kids seem to like it also. I don't think that you HAVE to do it that way. I think having a timeline and/or a book of centuries will be enough for the kids to get an idea of the flow of history.
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