Piney Woods Homeschool

Here are some books about Texas history we have enjoyed, most of which we picked up here and there for little money: The Story of Texas by George Sessions Perry Texas: The Land of the Tejas by Siddie Joe Johnson Sketches from the Five States of Texas by A. C. Greene Johnny Texas by Carol Hoff Johnny Texas on the San Antonio Road by Carol Hoff Remember the Alamo by Robert Penn Warren The Boy in the Alamo by Margaret Cousins Call of the Southwest: Stories for Young Texans by J. A. Rickard

This is not a timeline for purists.  It's a timeline that fits in a binder.  Perhaps timeline isn't even really the right name for it!  This is a way to keep track of people and events as they fit into various historical periods rather than listing them along a strict line of dates.  It allows each child to have a separate journal and to add his or her own words and pictures to it.  This requires very little parent help.  Although this is not as visual as a true timeline, I've found it to be invaluable for helping my kids place people and events in history and remember them. The website I found this on appears to no longer be available, so I'm posting this so the instructions will still be available online. For this timeline, you will need looseleaf paper (I use unlined printer paper), a hole punch (if the paper doesn't already have holes), and a three-ring binder of some kind (so additional pages can be added later as needed). On the front of each sh...