This is a four year history lesson outline to be used by the whole family. For now I will be posting the first year of lessons. This can be used as a stand alone guide, but for the recommended supplemental material for this year you will need the first volume and the first activity book of The Story of the World, and you will need Part 1 of From Adam to Us, along with the Map Book and Student Activity Book that go with it.

Begin with lesson 1A.

Once you finish the four years of lessons, start over. Every student should completely finish the curriculum at least twice in their school years, with activities adapted to their age and understanding. The yearly lessons are labeled by lesson number and year letter (1A is lesson one in the first year outline). This outline focuses on concurrent historical events and on the order of events rather than memorizing a bunch of dates. You can use it as a stand alone guide, but I highly recommend using it to correlate the two curriculums mentioned above. I also add LDS-Christian commentary to the lessons.

And please feel free to add your own suggested books or other learning materials to the comments section of the pertinent date.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Creating your library and the Ten Memory Dates

There are only ten dates we really encourage you to memorize, not because they are the most important dates, but they are easier to memorize and are useful anchors to help remember when other things happened in history. There are additional dates in each lesson, expose your family or students to these dates but they aren't expected to memorize them. Most of all, promote a lot of historical reading, including historical fiction.

No person can learn all there is to learn about history in one lifetime, but with Lifelong History, a foundation is built during the school years and reading continues on through adulthood.

If you have room in your house for two or three bookshelves, I recommend using shelf labels with the dates to organize your books in chronological order, rather than by author or other method. This gives a visual to support your family's growing familiarity with history.

You can include date-specific games, videos, and audiobooks in your library.

The Ten Memory Dates are:

1.   Abt. 1184BC   Troy destroyed by the Greeks (Sea People)

2.   323 BC           Death of Alexander the Great, kingdom splits

3.   70 AD             Jerusalem temple destroyed 

4.   453 AD           Death of Atilla the Hun

5.   800                 Charlemagne crowned emperor

6.   1453               Gutenberg’s Press

7.   1547               Ivan the Terrible Tsar of all Russia, Henry VIII dies

8.   1863               US Civil War

9.   1939               WWII

10.  2001             Terrorist attack on Twin Towers


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