Episode 12: The Chronology of History

A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

Nicole Williams

Homeschoolpodcast, Charlottemasoneducation, Education, Cmmethod, Studyguide

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🗓️ 11 January 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In Mason's day, the subject of history was covered differently from our common approaches to that subject today. How do the records show she managed the study of ancient through modern history in all the age levels? More important, how can we follow her principles and keep history study relevant to our day? Emily, Nicole, and Liz attempt to distill these truths in an orderly conversation that will reveal a rich feast of history for a child.

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"The early history of a nation is far better fitted than its later records for the study of children, because the story moves on a few broad, simple lines.” (Vol. 1, pg. 281)

“We are not content that they should learn the history of their own country alone; some living idea of contemporaneous [meaning existing or occurring in the same period of time] European history, anyway, we try to get in; that the history we teach may be the more living, we work in, pari passu [meaning side by side; at the same pace], some of the literature of the period and some of the best historical novels and poems that treat of the period; and so on with other subjects.” (Vol. 3, pg. 67)

History Rotation Diagrams we at A Delectable Education have put together to clarify the rotations and "streams" of history study through the school forms

Charlotte Mason Digital Collection

Sample "Forms" Schedule from the P.N.E.U.

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0:00.0	The Oh, Thanks for a a day.
0:24.0	The
0:25.0	the
0:27.0	Thanks for joining us
0:31.0	Thanks for joining us once again for a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method.
0:38.0	Today we're continuing our discussion on history.
0:41.0	Last week we talked about why history is so important, why Mason put it as the
0:47.1	pivot of her curriculum, and a little bit about some things to think about as we present history as a
0:54.0	delectable subject for our children. But today we're going to get more into
0:59.0	what to cover and when to cover it and how to do that.
1:03.0	You know Emily as we have taught seminars about how to teach history of the Charlotte
1:08.1	Mason way over the years we've done a lot of research we've plowed through her
1:12.1	six volumes picking up hints and ideas
1:15.8	and bold things that she says and tried to make a picture of those for other people.
1:22.4	And we have make a picture of those for other people.
1:23.0	And we have gone back to the archives.
1:28.0	Some people have gone to England and dug out boxes and boxes and reams and reams of paperwork and spent hours of their lives,
1:37.4	weeks, years even, making a digital collection that you can access online. We've also read through parents review
1:44.8	articles gleaning anything we can and that has brought us to a lot of ideas
1:51.0	about the way she actually implemented the teaching of history in her time,
1:57.0	but we're still discovering things, right?
1:59.0	Because we all end up with ideas over the years that we really can't substantiate with
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