Montessori glossary · The curriculum
The Great Lessons
Five big, dramatic stories told at the start of the elementary years to frame everything else.
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They cover the coming of the universe and earth, the coming of life, the coming of human beings, the story of writing, and the story of numbers. Told with drama and impressionistic charts rather than textbooks, they are designed to provoke questions the children then spend years answering.
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