Do you ever do history out of order?

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  • January 22, 2013 at 10:42 pm
    pecangrove
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    I know one CM suggests doing history in order, but if your child is much more interested in, for example, Medieval history, would you be willing to do that before ancient history?

    My son (10) is very much interested in American history, particularly the wars and such. Would it would really be a bad thing to do American history next year instead of Middle Ages? To me, it seems he really isn’t enjoying much of the older history, although we are doing activities and such to make it more fun. But everyday he asks about different wars and battles in America. I just wonder if it would be nicer for him to study on something he is more interested in.

    January 22, 2013 at 10:43 pm
    Tristan
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    We’ve done things out of order! As a matter of fact, despite having a main time period each year my kids always end up requesting a unit at some point in the year on some event or group not in our time period. We go with it because if they are interested they’ll retain more!

    January 22, 2013 at 11:31 pm
    pecangrove
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    That is what I am thinking. For whatever reason he isn’t interested in ancient history, but seems to want to know all about American, at least as far as politics/wars are concerned.

    January 22, 2013 at 11:58 pm
    Michaela
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    I would definitely take advantage of something he is interested in. I think as long as you get a chronological study of history in at some point (even if it’s just a year overview), the learning will stick so much better if that’s what they are interested in.

    January 23, 2013 at 12:23 am
    sheraz
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    If you are keeping a timeline or Book of Centuries, he’ll make his own connections naturally anyway.  Pretty simple. We do it all the time as adults. Wink  I’d go for it.

    January 23, 2013 at 12:29 am
    pecangrove
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    We just started a Book of Centuries. 🙂

    Thanks everyone! I think we will start next week on American History, after we finish up this section on Rome.

     

    January 23, 2013 at 1:22 am
    pecangrove
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    Now… any suggestions for American history? LOL

    January 23, 2013 at 4:07 am
    TailorMade
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    We do both chronological and interest driven history studies. We pulled out of order to study medieval history due to interest. 🙂 It’s much easier to dive into and interest area. It offers really good opportunities to build language arts skills (research and writing.)

    IEW United States tbwl’s are great. I’ll have to pull out the list of things we did a while back for specific titles we read. Might take me a while. This week is swamped.

    Becca<><

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