Homeschooling For Dummies by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119740841
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2020-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

History

History hits me right in the pocketbook. A quick survey of our homeschool library shows that history books far outrank any other subject at our house. We don’t browse through the bookstore looking for extra math books to read before bed, but a new history title always catches our attention and usually ends up in the bag (after the required visit to the checkout clerk).

The best way to learn about history is to actually live it. Short of spending your entire summer as a docent guide at Williamsburg, reading about it is a close — and less expensive — second. To explore a time period, use reprints from books written at the time you’re studying, biographies of men and women who made a difference in their societies, and descriptive volumes that show a glimpse of the age.

You can approach teaching history in one of two ways:

Timeline: Parents who choose the timeline approach begin at the beginning. Then, as they move up the timeline (or down, depending on your perspective), they add in various civilizations where they fit. Teaching your child the history of civilizations as they come along offers one distinct advantage. Your child doesn’t wonder which came first, the Aztecs or the Egyptians. If you teach each civilization in turn as it arises, your child knows which culture appeared before the other.

In much the same way, when you get to the history of the United States, your learner has a framework that she can hang all her new information on. She doesn’t wonder what came before 1492; she knows.

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