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resources for teaching history and
literature chronologically.
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WHY should I teach history to my children? We started Greenleaf Press to help prevent the disconnect
between biblical history and secular history experienced by Hilyer
HOW should I teach history to my children? and thousands of other students.
In organizing a course of study for children, we chose to break
We started Greenleaf Press in 1989 because we could not find with the tradition that attempts to condense the study of world
any history program for our children that satisfied us. We did find history into a one year course. We decided to spread the material
some wonderful out-of-print books which were not full of out over the elementary school years and proceed at a leisurely
“twaddle,” but instead told interesting stories about real people. We pace that would allow the child to “live with” the material for a
discovered that our kids loved history when it was presented to period of months. By the time the child has completed the seventh
them in the form of an interesting story about a real person. We grade he should have covered the full span of Western and
started Greenleaf with the publication of Famous Men of Greece American history and thus be ready to begin again in greater depth
and Famous Men of Rome. a study of History and the Humanities at the high school level.
Then we discovered that not all the good books were out of This course of study is adaptable if you’re starting history with
print, so we began carrying our "best picks" from books by other an older student or want to cover the material in fewer years. If
publishers. Finally, so many people who liked the books wanted to you’re starting with an older child, you can either move a little
know how we used them, so we decided to publish Study Guides faster, or supplement their study with high school level literature
showing how to integrate biographies, activities, and reference that corresponds the the historical period they are studying.
material and to help parents out with questions to discuss with You will find sections in the catalog and on the website covering
their children. each major historical period in order, with a variety of biographies,
reference books, and historical
We think there are two important principles involved in
fiction. For Israel, Egypt,
teaching history to children: biography and chronology.
Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages,
Biographies are the way the Bible teaches history. There are
the Renaissance, and the
lessons to be learned from the good kings (virtues to imitate) and Reformation, there are
the wicked kings (sins to avoid). The history of the Old Testament Greenleaf Study Guides and
is not a long dry procession of dates to memorize and unfamiliar Greenleaf Study Packages.
names to fill in blanks, but the life stories of people whose stories We hope you and your
are fascinating. children will enjoy these books
The Old Testament stories are what fathers are instructed to and the stories in them as
teach their children, “talking about them when you sit at home much as we have.
and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when — Rob & Cyndy Shearer
you get up.” (Deut. 11:19)
At the center of every story is the question, “What does God
think about this action, person, behavior?” By starting with this Suggested Scope and Sequence for History
question, the study of history (even the study of very pagan Seven Year Plan
nations) takes place in a way in which the God of History is ever
Year 1 — Old Testament (History of Israel)
present. The study of history is not merely the study of nations,
Year 2 — Ancient Egypt and Israel
but a moral training ground where the wise and the unwise are
Year 3 — Greece and Rome
observed, and the consequences of wisdom and folly may be
Year 4 — Middle Ages, Renaissance & Reformation
dissected under a teacher who charges less than Experience.
Year 5 — Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
The second important principle in teaching history is
chronology. This is the area in which the majority of history Year 6 — 1715 to 1865 (American and French Revolutions)
curricula disappoint us. Most elementary grade curricula spend Year 7 — 1865 to Present (Reconstruction, WWI, and WWII)
four, five, or even six of the seven years studying exclusively Six Year Plan
American history. Year 1 — Old Testament and Egypt
It seems to us very odd to spend three years studying 200 years Year 2 — Greece and Rome
of history and one year cramming down the other four thousand. Year 3 — Middle Ages, Renaissance & Reformation
V.M. Hillyer, late headmaster of the Calvert School, describes the Year 4 — Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
unfortunate consequences of too much American history in his Year 5 — 1715 to 1865 (American and French Revolutions)
introduction to A Child’s History of the World: Year 6 — 1865 to Present (Reconstruction, WWI, and WWII)
“In common with all children of my age, I was brought up
on American History and given no other history but Five Year Plan
American, year in and year out, year after year for eight Year 1 — Old Testament, Egypt, Greece & Rome
or more years. So far as I knew 1492 was the beginning of Year 2 — Middle Ages, Renaissance & Reformation
the world. Any events or characters before that time, Year 3 — Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
reference to which I encountered by any chance, were put Year 4 — 1715 to 1865 (American and French Revolutions)
down in my mind in the same category with fairy-tales. Year 5 — 1865 to Present (Reconstruction, WWI, and WWII)
Christ and His times, of which I heard only in Sunday-
school, were to me mere fiction without reality. They were Four Year Plan
not mentioned in any history that I knew and therefore, Year 1 — Old Testament, Egypt, Greece & Rome
so I thought, must belong not to a realm in time and Year 2 — Middle Ages, Renaissance & Reformation
space, but to a spiritual realm.” Year 3 — 1560 to 1865 (Explorers, Colonists, American Revolution)
Year 4 — 1865 to Present (Reconstruction, WWI, and WWII)
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The to Pyramid. Part one tells the story of how and
to Ancient Egypt why a boat was built for Cheops. Part two
by Cyndy Shearer describes how the boat was found and
painstakingly re-assembled by a modern
Ever wonder how Biblical history and
Ev Egyptian archeologist, Ahmed Youssef Moustafa.
Ancient
An Egypt fit together? Why was God
Part one is illustrated in a flat, two-dimensional
so angry with Pharaoh, anyway? Start
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