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I love history (and so does DH) so this is a biggie for us. I have been looking around at a lot of programs and I am just not really sure what I want. I have K figured out. I am going to do kids of the world geography and history. We are going to use a few books as spines and just pick countries, find it on maps, color maps and flags, cook food, check out books from the library, etc. If this is a lot of fun, I will continue it in 1st grade. I have seen a lot of programs that go through all of history in 4 years, but I know a lot of them are Protestant and have a negative view of the Catholic church. I don't mind skipping sections and supplementing though.
Anyway, can you tell me what your progression of history is? I would like to do a year or two of American History in elementary and definitely ancients.
Has anyone used Beautiful Feet? I love the CM approach to history with lots of living books. I just feel like I need some sort of overall plan. I would love to hear what you have used over the years!!!!!!
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I like their approach and layout of materials also. They suffer from the situation you mentioned though - Protestant worldview, so have some inaccuracies about Catholic Church, some more negative than others. Really depends on the unit.
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A thought/comment/suggestion. Many programs, including ones you put together on your own, follow the chronology of Ancient History, Medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, and then move on to U.S. History. IMHO, it would be a good idea to look also at the history of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and to include European history after the Renaissance. Many times in studying history it seems like once the Explorers discover the Western Hemisphere and colonization begins, we leave the rest of the world behind - even Europe, which generally had been the focus of everything from the Romans onward.
Just saying, if you're going to be developing a scope and sequence for your history studies, you might want to think about this. Your library might have some materials that would help. Also, I have found a number of books in the Rainbow Resource catalogue, such as: The Silk Route; A Glorious Age in Africa; a David Macaulay book similar to Castle and Cathedral, called Mosque. I'm sure there is a whole world of choices out there...
Have fun exploring and planning!
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hylabrook1 wrote:
A thought/comment/suggestion. Many programs, including ones you put together on your own, follow the chronology of Ancient History, Medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, and then move on to U.S. History. IMHO, it would be a good idea to look also at the history of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and to include European history after the Renaissance. Many times in studying history it seems like once the Explorers discover the Western Hemisphere and colonization begins, we leave the rest of the world behind - even Europe, which generally had been the focus of everything from the Romans onward.
Just saying, if you're going to be developing a scope and sequence for your history studies, you might want to think about this. Your library might have some materials that would help. Also, I have found a number of books in the Rainbow Resource catalogue, such as: The Silk Route; A Glorious Age in Africa; a David Macaulay book similar to Castle and Cathedral, called Mosque. I'm sure there is a whole world of choices out there...
Have fun exploring and planning!
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This is exactly what I am thinking. I think these quick 4 year overview cycles leave A LOT of stuff out. I want to study Incas, Mayans, Aztecs, Australia, India, etc. I just don't think I want to do the same stuff on a 4 year cycle. What do you do for history? Do you just pick a region or time period and work on it? I kind of wanted to have a basic plan in mind to get everything covered. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. You seem to have similar thinking to me!
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Kristin Anne, what I did was look for a timeline, I ended up with Catholic World History Timeline and Guide. That gives me a framework to hang my history on. Then I can fit books into their appropriate locations. And find other resources that would teach the events.. but I have something to help me keep track of the events and what else was happening at the same time in other parts of the world.
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kristinannie wrote:
This is exactly what I am thinking. I think these quick 4 year overview cycles leave A LOT of stuff out. I want to study Incas, Mayans, Aztecs, Australia, India, etc. I just don't think I want to do the same stuff on a 4 year cycle. What do you do for history? Do you just pick a region or time period and work on it? I kind of wanted to have a basic plan in mind to get everything covered. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. You seem to have similar thinking to me! |
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I'm one of those who do four year cycles (sort of) BUT I'm not welded to it. If we spend a bit more time in one area or backtrack somewhere else that's fine. I spent the first cycle focusing fairly closely on Classical History, English and then Canadian history but we've widened our focus quite a bit this second cycle (We've spent a fair amount of time on Chinese history).
Something that I found very important to remember is that there is NO possible way to cover the history of civilization in 12 years of elementary and secondary school without it being an overview. There is simply too much history, too much written down over the millenia.
My goal is that my children will know enough world history to know it exists and to have a decent idea of what they don't know. I want them to have a reasonable idea of the history that's behind Western civilization (and Christianity), and to know that other parts of the world have equally long and eventful histories. Most importantly I want them to know where and how to find out more if they want.
As for a basic plan, one thing I have found very useful for keeping track of what we've studied and not studied) is a Book of Centuries. We have a very simple one which I mostly keep up for the younger children while my oldest daughter has her own and I've found that the one I keep up works just as well as notes to myself about what we've studied as it does for my children.
BTW I've found that boxing the notes and pictures with colors that correspond to a particular civilization or geographical area makes it much easier to keep things straight and to notice any area which has been neglected.
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My plan (for now) is to do the four year rotation, but add in another history thread each year. This year we did a continent introduction plus basic US history up to pre-Revolutionary War times. In the Fall (2nd grade) we are doing Ancients plus US history (2nd year per MA). Maybe you could do the four year overviews and then add in another more in depth study of each continent or certain countries?
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ekbell wrote:
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BTW I've found that boxing the notes and pictures with colors that correspond to a particular civilization or geographical area makes it much easier to keep things straight and to notice any area which has been neglected.
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That is such a great idea!!!
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