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Introduction
Overview
Reviews
Volume One
Introduction
Resources:
Teachers
Levels:
Beginners
Grammar
Logic
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Extras:
Notebooks
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Volume Two
Resources
Units
Extras:
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Timelines
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CWH Q& A
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Connecting with History
Overview of Historical Periods
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Connecting with
History is
planned as a four-year cycle of volumes spanning all of history from creation
through modern times.
The advantages of using a cyclic approach
are many:
history can be studying chronologically by
the family together
younger children can join in at any point
in the cycle, knowing that the family will cycle back through time periods they
may have missed
after completing a cycle of history the
family repeats the cycle: repetition reinforces learning and understanding
each time the family begins a new cycle
the students will be older and able to study in more depth than the previous
cycle
We want this curriculum to reflect a
deeply Catholic view of history, to help us see beyond the cultural stereotypes and misconceptions
that we're so used to hearing that we no longer think about what they mean.
In Connecting with History we aim to dig more deeply into
the riches of history, to see them with new eyes - the eyes of the Faith.
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John Henry Cardinal Newman once said,
"To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant."
In other words, to be deep in history
is to begin to be Catholic!
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The Connecting with History Four
Year Cycle:
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Currently Available:
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Year One: Preparation
for the Kingdom
Ancient History/Old Testament: Creation to 63 B.C.
focuses on the Biblical history of the Israelites as the "chosen
people" sent to
prepare the world for the coming of the Messiah, includes the surrounding
cultures
of the Mediterranean world: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome
More information about Volume One...
Year Two: The Arrival
of the King and His Kingdom
63 B.C. to A.D. 496 to
1066
An in-depth study of the New Testament and Early Church history, this volume emphasizes the life and death of Christ as the central
point of history and goes on to show the birth and spread of the
Church as the Body of Christ, and its perseverance and growth through persecutions.
The Church moves forward into the medieval period of history, spreading
to new nations and replacing the Roman Empire with the Holy Roman
Empire.
More information about Volume Two...
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"In connection with the Crusades, it
was anti-Catholic propaganda
that invented the name, just as it invented the term Middle Ages,
chosen by `enlightened' historiography to describe the parenthesis
of darkness and fanaticism between the splendors of Antiquity and
the Renaissance."
- Vittorio Messori (author of Crossing the
Threshold of Hope, an interview with Pope John Paul II)
from an
article you can read here:
The Crusades: Truth and Black Legend
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0012.html
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Coming in 2009
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Year Three:
The Kingdom as the Body of Christ
Part One: A.D. 1054-1517
during this time period we see
the rise of many new religious orders,
the crusades and ongoing
fight against the Turkish Muslim aggressions against Christendom,
the highs of the 1300's and the lows of the 1400's, the beginning of
the Renaissance and finally the Wycliffe/Luther/Zwingli/Calvin/Hus
et.al. declaration of war against the unity and authority of the
Church, the separation of England from the Church
Part Two: A.D. 1517-1750 Early Modern History
the so-called Reformation, the
Catholic Counter-Reformation (the true reforming of the Church),
Council of Trent, the missionary focus on the New World, Africa,
China and Japan
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Coming in 2010
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Year Four: Deaths
and Resurrections of the Kingdom in Modern Times
Modern History
From the French and American Revolutions to the War of 1812 and the European Catholic Revival in the
19th century through the great and terrible
20th century of martyrdoms, social upheaval, Solidarity and
Solzhenitsyn, and crossing the "Threshold
of Hope" into the new millenium.... We will provide two tracks in
this volume - World History and American History
Click here for an American History program
that you can use right away! |
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For more information you may
consider joining our
Connecting with History discussion group.
Go to:
Introduction to Volume
One
or
Go to:
Introduction to
Volume Two
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