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Maggie
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Posted: Jan 14 2012 at 8:29am | IP Logged Quote Maggie
Hi Moms~

I don't know why I have not investigated MA more before now. Up to this point, I have been pulling my own resources (which I enjoy), but I wanted to compare my curriculum to MA.

My dd is somewhere between grade 1A and 1B, according to the MA curriculum...

I felt a bit bad noticing that I really have not incorporated any history at all into our studies...which is interesting because I was a History major.

I think I have been reluctant to follow a book or something formal because I have a severe aversion towards history texts...they seem to suck the marrow out of the "life" of history.

The books recommended...can anyone tell me more about them?

I have a HUGE fear of revisionist history as well...I cringe thinking of what I was taught in high school and college...and then only after college, did I really understand the lens through which I was taught history most of my life.

So...how does one...

1). Teach history without it being so dry detached (can you teach from source documents/monographs to very young children?)
2). How do you avoid liberal, revisionist history?
3). I am very intrigued by the affect the Catholic Church has had on world history (ie: Pope John XXIII and his involvement with the U.S. and Russia during the Bay of Pigs debacle--only recently did my dh and I have any understanding of this--and only after we watched a film about it!). Are there sources incorporating our Catholic Faith and worldview into history for 1-2nd graders?

Thank you so much! I look forward to reading your posts!

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Posted: Jan 14 2012 at 12:23pm | IP Logged Quote ekbell
I use the RChistory guides rather then MA

1)It depends on the source material/ translation I normally use children's adaptations for that age group but some items (such as the Bayeux Tapestry) can be appreciated directly and shorts excerpts can be read from many other items (such as the bible).

2)the simplest way to avoid the modern bias is to look for older books, another way to handle this is to use a variety of books from a variety of viewpoints with plenty of discussion (btw when your children are a bit older the ending chapter of Gombrich's _A Little History of the World_ provides a good starting point for a discussion on bias as the author looks back on what he wrote as a young man, the mistakes he made through inadvertent bias as well as the history he has since lived through).

3)The best guides that I've found for incorporating a Catholic viewpoint into history have been the RChistory guides. The simplest non-textbook method for young children is simply to add stories from the historical books of the bible and the lives of the Saints to your studies as appropriate. If you can find a copy of the full sized version of _2000 Years of Christianity_ by Gloria Thomas and. Warren H. Carroll the narrative paintings provide a good starting point for telling the history of the Church to young folk (and the articles are a good starting point for older ones).

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