Begin history with whichever year you please. Use whichever resources are age-appropriate, and continue forward chronologically from that point. See Chap 7 and 16 for more detail. Note both girls can do the same history at the same time.

Subject: History and geography
Time required: 3 hour of intensive study, 90 minutes per day, 2 days a week, PLUS as much additional time as possible to be spent in free reading and investigation

Subject: Medieval to Early Renaissance 400- 1600AD
Text Suggestion:

• Simplest resource. 5th, The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History.
• Strong reading 7th or 8th, National Geographic Almanac of World History

Basic Pattern of doing History by the student:

1. Read a section from the core text, The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History, and list important facts
2. Mark all dates on the time line
3. Find the region under study on the globe, on the wall map and in the atlas
4. Do additional reading from the library or from the resource list
5. Prepare summaries of information on one or more of the above topics and file them in the history notebook
6. Practice outlining 1-4 pages of text, once per week.

How to do it (Things to get together):

1. create a time line (on a wall using color pencils, birth and death in red, political events in green, scientific discoveries in purple and so forth)
2. outlining (at least once a week)
3. using and evaluating primary sources
4. organizing this information using the history notebook. What is a history notebook? The fat three-ring binder full of notebook paper. Label this notebook with period under study and divide it into ten sections.
   1. Facts
   2. Great Men and Women
   3. Wars, Conflicts, and Politics
   4. Inventions and Technology
   5. Religion
   6. Daily Life
   7. Cities and Settlements
   8. Primary Sources
   9. The Arts and Great Books
   10. Outlines

List of Great Men and Women

• Saint Augustine (writing c. 411)
• Attila the Hun (c 433-453)
• King Arthur
• Gregory of Tours
• Mohammed
• The Venerable Bede
• Charles Martel
• Charlemagne
• Alfred the Great
• Leif Ericsson
• Omar Khayyam
• Edward the Confessor
• Chretien de Troyes
• Genghis Khan
• Thomas Aquinas
• Dante Alighieri
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Thomas a Kempis
• Jan van Eyck
• Johannes Gutenberg
• Sandro Botticelli
• Christopher Columbus
• Leonard da Vinci
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Erasmus
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Michelangelo
• Titian
• Thomas More
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Martin Luther
• Raphael
• Ignatius Loyola
• Correggio
• Giovanni Angelo de Medici
• Thomas Wyatt
• Nostradamus
• John Knox
• John Calvin
• Hernando Cortes
• Pieter Brueghel
• Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluidi da
• Tycho Brahe
• Philip Sidney
• Walter Raleigh
• Wiliam Shakespeare
• Galileo Galilei
• Jan Brueghel
• John Donne
• Inigo Jones
• Rene Descartes

Primary Sources: In Kindle Edition, Well Trained Mind, See location 6277 of 14413

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Jackdaw Portfolios, Amawalk, NY. http://www.jackdaw.com
• Lewis, Jon. The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments from 2700 BC to AD 2005. Rev. and updated. Philadelphia, Pa.: Running Press, 2006. (Bauer, Susan Wise; Wise, Jessie (2009-04-14). The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Third Edition) (Kindle Locations 6297-6298). Norton. Kindle Edition.)

General Resource are in location 6292 of 14413