Timeline Characters: Lindberg & The Great Depression

We are still adding characters to our timeline.  These are a couple of the newer onese we have added.  I have quit making them draw the pictures for the time being.  It has just been so time consuming to do both the writing and drawing.  I may have them draw occasionally when we aren't up to our eyeballs in projects!

Lindberg & The Great Depression

Time-line Character: Henry Ford's Model T

I was thankful to find a clipart website to help with our time-line.  Sometimes it is fun to draw the characters, and other times we are pinched for time.  The clip-art helps on these days.  Jonathan wrote and drew his own cute cartoon at the bottom.

Time-line Characters: Ellis Island, Booker T. Washington, Thomas Edison, & The American Railroads

Here are the latest time-line additions.  They are completely backwards, because I couldn't remember how the pictures would upload.  They are clickable.

The Civil War - timeline characters

We are learning about the  Civil War. Here are the newest time-line characters.

Drawn by Jonathan--- Writing by Justin--- Gluing by Ryan ;-)

We watched this interesting film about Civil war guns.  There are five parts, so if you watch this...when you finish this look for part two....


The Gettysburg Address:

Time-line Characters: The California Gold Rush & The Pony Express

Jonathan drew the little man panning for gold.

Justin used tracing paper and traced the Pony Express rider

Time-line Character: The Battle of Tippecanoe

  Written by Justin. Drawn by Jonathan.

New Time-line Characters

These are some time-line characters the boys have drawn.

Jonathan's George Washington and soldier It says "Washington winters at Valley Forge"

Justin's musket. It says "April 1775 Fighting between British soldiers and Patriots breaks out at Lexington and Concord."

Jonathan drew the little man and Justin wrote: " Sir Walter Raleigh returns to find the colonists of Roanoke have vanished."

History Time-line

Because I want the boys to have a visual idea of times in history, we are using a time-line for the wall. Pre-made time-lines are out there, but they are pretty expensive. Therefore we will use our American chronological history book as a guide, and we will to create our own! The internet, especially Wikipedia, abounds with pictures and information.

I found this website where I printed a time-line graph for free (and it also has a fabulous looking free curriculum on their home-page that I may look into when I have some extra time [insert laughter here].. just kidding!).

Below is my main time-line character. I chose this one out of all the bloody images of Him on the cross. All of history revolves around HIM:

Jesus
c. 6 BC - c. A.D. 30

Below are our first three American history time-line characters. I copied them in Word, and after printing, we will cut and paste onto the time-line graph.

??? 6, 000 B.C. plus++++?

According to the still-debated New World migration model, a migration of humans from Eurasia to the Americas took place via Beringia, a land bridge which formerly connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait. The minimum time depth by which this migration had taken place thousands of years ago, with the upper bound (or earliest period) remaining a matter of some unresolved contention (after the fall of the Tower of Babel).


Leif Ericson ^[1] (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a Norse^[2] explorer who was probably the first European to land in North America (excluding Greenland).


Christopher Columbus (1451^[1] – May 20, 1506) was a navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Afro-Eurasia — preceded some five hundred years by Leif Ericson, and perhaps by others — Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans.