Well, things are moving right along with the free curriculum project! This seems like great time to share what I’m up to right now, and to give a couple more details about what the lesson plans will include:

I’ve finished updating and revising two versions of the curriculum that incorporate Story of the World and A Little History of the World, respectively. They also schedule the use of many other books of history, literature, and poetry, and they even recommend an (entirely optional, of course) book containing key stories from most of the world’s major religions. The main poetry book is used for memory work, and many of the literature selections reinforce topics that are covered in the history components.

I’ve further edited each of those main versions into versions that incorporate prehistory/evolution units, and those that omit the prehistory units. (Some people say you can’t please everyone, and that is certainly true. Golly, though, I do want to try to please as many as possible!)

Speaking of pleasing everyone, I have plans to divide all the main versions into individual unit studies, so that you folks can pick and choose which topics you want to use, if you don’t want to do the whole year’s curriculum day by day. We’ll see if I can get the units done by the end of the year, but I’ll at least have the main curriculum ready to go!

Right now I’m working on designing an introduction to timelines to go along with the other lesson plans. I’m planning to include several activities to introduce timelines to youngsters in ways that they can understand (hopefully!). I know some of these activities have been quite helpful for my children so far.

I’m thinking that if I can make good progress with this timeline unit I might just release it early, as a sneak peak, while I finish up editing the rest of the curriculum. If it works out that I can do it, I’ll definitely let you know!

Oh, and I have a special favor I wanted to ask of you. I’m going to put info about that in a separate post.

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