"I'm heading off to college for the first time and can't help but feel a little jealous of my siblings, because they'll be doing Sonlight again this year," writes Kailey H of Marshfield, WI. "My family has loved learning so much since we started using Sonlight. History became my favorite subject, and I consumed all the books in each Core. I'm grateful for the in-depth Student Guides that forced me to think critically and caused me to formulate my own values. I feel well-prepared, and the thought of writing a college-level essay doesn't frighten me. I know I have the tools to be successful. Pictured are siblings Luke (15, Core 200), Abigail (13, Core H), Hope (10, Core G), and Mark (8, Core D).
"I was so excited when I browsed my first Sonlight catalog and saw they included Handwriting Without Tears," writes Melissa N of Chittenango, NY. "I was already working with Handwriting Without Tears when our first Sonlight materials arrived and found integrating the Sonlight Language Arts for Grade K Readers program into what we were already doing an easy transition. Thank you Sonlight for recognizing that every child is different and for giving parents a variety of options to choose from!" Here, Sawyer (5) and Coen (3) work with the Handwriting Without Tears manipulatives in their second year of Sonlight.
"The kids always look forward to Box Day, but as a Sonlight mom, I'm most excited for Catalog Day!" writes Michelle S of College Station, TX. "We originally decided to homeschool to strengthen the bonds between our kids. After 5 years, we are so grateful to have kids who enjoy learning together. We are so glad we chose Sonlight to foster that closeness!" Pictured, Michelle researches what next year with Sonlight will bring.
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Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario become the Dominion of Canada, a "Confederation" (1867)
France moves through monarchies, empires, and republics, but settles as a republic (1792-1870)
Bismarck (1815–1898) influences Prussian ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm, to unify German states into one country (1871)
Meiji Restoration "restores" power to Japanese Emperor; daimyos embraces western ideas (1866-1869)
Russia attacks Ottoman Empire; wins land; Ottoman Empire is weakened (1877-1878)
Suez Canal opens (1869)
Australia joins British Commonwealth (1901)
Scramble for Africa (1877-1914)
Irish Potato Famine (1845-1850)
English refuse Irish Home Rule; leads to years of violence in Ireland (1886-present)
British claim Cape Town and prohibit slavery; Boers leave and move north (1814-1840)
Britsh-Boer War (1899–1902)
Ottoman Ruler Abdulhamid II (1842-1914) orders Turkish soldiers to put an end to the Armenian Revolt by killing Armenians wherever they are found. 100,000-300,000 are killed (1894-1897)
China and Japan fight over Korea in the ongoing Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
Japan occupies and rules Korea (1910-1945)
U.S. battleship USS Maine explodes; U.S. declares war on Spain (1898)
The Spanish-American War (1898)
Teddy Roosevelt (1858-1919) leads Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in Cuba (1898)
Filipino soldiers fight U.S. troops for freedom; they lose; Philippines becomes a U.S. Protectorate (1898-1946)
At the Battle of Little Bighorn, General George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) fights Crazy Horse and loses (1876)
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) works hard, builds a steel company, and gives away millions
The Boxer Rebellion in China protests western rule and Christianity (1900)
Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi (1835-1908) supports the Boxers (1900)
Russia, Japan, the U.S., Britain, and France send troops to China and successfully quell the Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Russia builds railroad through Manchuria and China to Port Arthur (1897-1901)
Japan attacks Russia; Japan wins; Russia gives Port Arthur to Japan (1904-1905)
Shah Mozaffar al-Din (1853-1907) of Persia sells permission to seek oil to an Englishman (1901)
A Serb kills heir to Austrian throne and triggers First World War (1914)
Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) establishes Nationalist Party and forms the Chinese Republic
The sinkinking of the RMS Lusitania by German submarines plays a role in U.S. involvment in World War I (1915)
The Great War or World War I (1914-1918)
Russian Czar Nicholas (1868-1918) abdicates; a Provisional government remains in World War I (1917)
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), a Bolshevik, overthrows the Russian government (1917)
In England and America, women gain the right to vote (1918, 1920)
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) preaches nonviolent noncooperation for Indian Independence (1947)
W. Wilson, G. Clemenceau, and David George write Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) inspires the creation of the League of Nations to resolve world issues (1918)
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), the man of steel, rules Russia with an iron hand (1922-1953)
Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, Il Duce (1883-1945), rules Italy as Dictator
Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) rules Japan (1926-1989)
Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976) forms Chinese Communist Party (1921)
Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) flies solo over the Atlantic Ocean (1927)
The Great Depression (1929-1930s)
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German dictator, appointed Chancellor of Germany (1933)
Civil war breaks out in Spain between Monarchists, Republicans, and independence fighters (1936-1939)
German troops gain control of Czechoslovakia and then Poland (1939)
Allies and Axis powers fight in World War II (1939-1945)
Japan attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor (1941)
On Kristallnacht, German mobs destroy homes and shops owned by Jews (1938)
The Holocaust (1935-1945)
In the Battle of Britain, British aviators protect England from German bombers (July 10, 1940-October 31, 1940)
On D-Day, Allied forces land on French beaches to push Germans back (June 6, 1944)
The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (August 6, 1945)
United Nations is formed after World War II with the purpose of world peace (1945)
India gains freedom from Britain (August 15, 1947)
Israel declares independence (May 14, 1948)
Brother Andrew (1928–Present)
Cultural Revolution (1966-1978)
Communists control the People's Republic of China with Mao as chairman (October 1, 1949)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Fascist Juan Peron (1895-1974) rules Argentina with an iron fist (1946-1955)
U.S. Soviet Cold War (1945-1991)
Soviets launch first satellite, Sputnik I, into space; the Space Race begins (1957)
Apollo 11 (1969) carries Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to the moon and back
American Cubans invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs; Castro wins (1961)
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet Union and U.S. come to the edge of war (1962)
While campaigning for a second term, popular John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) is assassinated (November 22, 1963)
Brown v. Board of Education: Supreme Court rules that racially segregated schools violate the Constitution (1954)
Vietnam War (1954-1975)
Israel wins the Six-Day War against Arab attackers; takes land from defeated foes (1967)
The Oil Embargo - OPEC stops selling oil to countries that supported Israel (1973)
Khomeini creates Iranian Islamic state (1979)
Iraq invades Iran; Iran-Iraq War; oil wells are destroyed (1980-1988)
Chernobyl power plant explodes; nuclear disaster worst in history (1986)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-present) introduces "perestroika," "glasnost," and economic restructuring
Chinese "Red Guards" purge all "intellectuals" and "imperialists" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
Tiananmen Square massacre kills students protesting for freedom (1989)
The Berlin Wall is torn down (1989)
Demise of the Soviet Union (1991)
First Persian Gulf War (1991)
Decolonization of the various African countries (1952-1975)
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) is elected as the first black president of South Africa (1994)
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"I'm heading off to college for the first time and can't help but feel a little jealous of my siblings, because they'll be doing Sonlight again this year," writes Kailey H of Marshfield, WI. "My family has loved learning so much since we started using Sonlight. History became my favorite subject, and I consumed all the books in each Core. I'm grateful for the in-depth Student Guides that forced me to think critically and caused me to formulate my own values. I feel well-prepared, and the thought of writing a college-level essay doesn't frighten me. I know I have the tools to be successful. Pictured are siblings Luke (15, Core 200), Abigail (13, Core H), Hope (10, Core G), and Mark (8, Core D).
"I was so excited when I browsed my first Sonlight catalog and saw they included Handwriting Without Tears," writes Melissa N of Chittenango, NY. "I was already working with Handwriting Without Tears when our first Sonlight materials arrived and found integrating the Sonlight Language Arts for Grade K Readers program into what we were already doing an easy transition. Thank you Sonlight for recognizing that every child is different and for giving parents a variety of options to choose from!" Here, Sawyer (5) and Coen (3) work with the Handwriting Without Tears manipulatives in their second year of Sonlight.
"The kids always look forward to Box Day, but as a Sonlight mom, I'm most excited for Catalog Day!" writes Michelle S of College Station, TX. "We originally decided to homeschool to strengthen the bonds between our kids. After 5 years, we are so grateful to have kids who enjoy learning together. We are so glad we chose Sonlight to foster that closeness!" Pictured, Michelle researches what next year with Sonlight will bring.
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