We hope you enjoy the following slides that correspond with Cycle 2’s History memory work.

Remember the main goals are for the students to become familiar with the vocabulary, while memorizing historical people, dates, and events. This will create history confidence in students, since the names, events, and dates will be familiar to them.

These history sentences are a great complement to the VERITAS Press Timeline that we commit to memory each year.

Remember the two primary academic goals of the Foundations Program for students …

Learn the skills of memorization and reciting information (recitation).

Store great grammar content as pegs for each subject to enable students to embrace each subject with confidence.

Learning to train the brain to retain

How did CC choose their history sentences to commit to memory?
While schooling her older boys in high school, Leigh Bortins saw the need for historical grammar PEGS in the minds of her boys. She quickly went to work to create a core group of history sentences. These sentences were refined over the years by other committed CC home school parents, to bring families the current core list contained within the CC Foundations Guide.

CC’s history sentences were designed with the following constraints in mind: elementary-age simplicity as well as historical empires, nations, people, events, and dates.

Parents appreciate the “work” already being done, the beauty of the content covered over the three cycles, and the simplicity and vocabulary of CC’s memory work.
In striving for simplicity, some historical details and nuances may be omitted. Parents may delve into the details and complexity of historical events and periods at home.