Our two youngest are finishing up a year with CC. The hand motions do help with the memorization. But, the goal is to eventually drop the motions and just have the timeline memorized.
The purpose of memorizing the timeline is so that literature and history texts (even conversations) can be quickly placed in time. It’s really cool how it works. I have a friend whose daughter memorized the timeline a while back and said that the main reason she was able to pass portions of her history CLEP test was because her mother had timeline memorization as a family requirement for Homeschool graduation. :0)
We did not master timeline this year, but it will be part of our day until we do. Not sure it’s very CM. It’s just something that our family wants to do. Because we’ve gone through the timeline this year, (btw, it is certainly not as exhaustive as making a Book of the Centuries) it will be quite easy as just a short review time each day until we master it. During CC, it takes 20 weeks to get through 160 cards (8/wk). We will do the entire timeline each week by reviewing it in sections of 40 cards per day M-Th and all on F. You must understand that we are very familiar with it and can say it quite quickly.
I hope that makes sense. We have enjoyed the cards as a world history spine. When I read over the TOC of the middle ages spine, it was so familiar because of our timeline memory work. Module 4 will “flesh out” that section of the timeline for us. It’s already there, just needs more exciting details added in at a deeper level. The timeline cards actually act as a sort of internal world history calendar of sorts.
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