The Whole Point

The end of week three musings. Check this web site and then read on. http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/default.htm>
I gave E a scroll--10 meters long, put the big bang on one end and today on the other and divided the length into a 10 logrithmic epochs. We are organizing our homeschooling based upon these ten units of time. At the end of each unit, Elise has to draw, diagram, label, or narrate "a meter of parchment' integrating all the events we've learned about in that epoch. (she loves Harry Potter). Naturally, we are still on the 1st meter. I like the themes and questions provided by SDSU website but wasn't sure where they were headed at the end. That, of course, is the BIG question, that we have to co-construct as a human race. That's where our children will take over for us. They need to be prepared by their parents and their society to ask the questions and identify the themes of what we have learned so far.