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Posted: Jan 19 2007 at 11:29am | IP Logged Quote Jenny
Can two time periods be studied together? We are doing history w/RC History which starts from the beginning, but my daughters are showing in interest in American History/OK History. Can these be studied together? Maybe the RC History would be Bible History and the American History/OK History would be "history" or geography? Or would this be too confusing b/c we are also reading our way through Little House?

Would a visual time line help keep them separate?
Is this too much?

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Posted: Jan 19 2007 at 1:11pm | IP Logged Quote Jenny
Hold on, let me re-think/re-phrase this...

Keeping a timeline as we read whatever = History?

Any rabbit trails, field trips, read alouds, independent reading all included in this timeline. So we can go all over the map so to speak and yet still put things in their proper chronological order?

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Posted: Jan 19 2007 at 1:15pm | IP Logged Quote Karen E.
4mothermary wrote:

So we can go all over the map so to speak and yet still put things in their proper chronological order?


Yes!

At least, that's what we do. The visual is always there (keeping us company at dinner, as it's in the dining room) and we can visually place any event we're reading about, talking about, etc. This has worked really well for us.



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Posted: Jan 19 2007 at 1:17pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
I say "yes," too. Karen and I sound like we do history in a very similar manner.

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Posted: Jan 19 2007 at 1:54pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
Yep! We do history pretty much randomly, but our timeline book helps us keep it all in perspective. I am looking at wall versions to add to our collection as well for even more help keeping it organized.

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Posted: Jan 19 2007 at 3:07pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
and it can be real handy.. we found just recently when needing to explain racism from the 1950's era.. that being able to compare it to ancient Egypt worked rather well.. they knew from the stories of Joseph and Moses that people were forced to be slaves and such.. and that others thought that was right.. even though we knew it wasn't.

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Posted: Jan 19 2007 at 8:35pm | IP Logged Quote Jenny
Karen E. wrote:
At least, that's what we do. The visual is always there (keeping us company at dinner, as it's in the dining room) and we can visually place any event we're reading about, talking about, etc. This has worked really well for us.



Thanks! Ours will be in the dinning room as well, next to the Act of Contrition & 10 Commandments(1st Communion prep), our multiplication tables, latin/greek root words, maps of the country, world and ancient Holy Land map

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Posted: Jan 19 2007 at 11:43pm | IP Logged Quote Erin
Jenny,

I plan on two terms of history, ancient or modern and then a term of national history. Could this work for you?

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Posted: Jan 20 2007 at 10:26pm | IP Logged Quote Leonie
Yep - we do. The kids build their own mental frameworks over time. This term, we are reading the My Story books for Australian history but in weekly homeschool Group Learning we are studying the Middle Ages. I know it can work, from past experience.

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