History Streams in the Simply Charlotte Mason History Curriculum
Simply Charlotte Mason Homeschooling
Sonya Shafer
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🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. We've received several questions |
| 0:06.6 | recently about history streams in our curriculum. So we wanted to give you a behind-the-scenes |
| 0:12.5 | look at our streams and why we chose them. Now, for those of you who may not be familiar |
| 0:18.1 | with that term, streams, in an educational context, it's how |
| 0:23.1 | we describe the practice of offering more than one focus in a particular school subject |
| 0:29.5 | during the school year. Charlotte Mason often had her students learning about more than one |
| 0:35.6 | country's history during the year. For example, she |
| 0:39.7 | might have them read and narrate English history a couple of days per week and French |
| 0:45.6 | history another couple of days in the week. So it's helpful to picture them as two history |
| 0:51.6 | streams flowing throughout the school year. |
| 0:56.1 | Now, when it came time to determine our history streams, we knew that they would not look |
| 1:00.6 | exactly like Charlott's. |
| 1:02.9 | Her programs were designed for students who lived in England a hundred years ago, many |
| 1:08.4 | of whom studied in classroom settings. We wanted our program to be designed |
| 1:13.5 | for Christian homeschooling families who live in America in the 21st century. But we definitely |
| 1:20.5 | wanted to stay true to her methods and principles. So we took a look at our goals and at Charlotte's |
| 1:26.7 | guidelines for teaching History in order |
| 1:29.2 | to come up with history streams for our curriculum. |
| 1:34.3 | One thing that was very important to us was helping our children place Bible history in |
| 1:39.8 | the context of what was happening in the world at the time. When we were growing up, we learned |
| 1:46.2 | Bible stories in isolation. They were simply stories that we read on Sunday or in Bible lessons. |
| 1:53.5 | It never occurred to us that those were actual historical events that happened side by side |
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