WORKSHOP: Tailoring Your History Feast (Narrowing Your Focus + Choosing Your Resources for the Year)

Does this sound familiar? You sit down to plan your history year and within twenty minutes you have three curriculum tabs open, a stack of books you might use, and a growing list of "important" topics that's somehow already too long for twelve months or maybe you have no idea how to find topics. 

The problem isn't that you don't have enough resources. It's that no one ever showed you how to narrow them down or build them in the first place. 

In this workshop I'll walk you through the exact process I use to go from an overwhelming pile of possibilities or an empty list to a focused, doable history year — one that's rooted in Charlotte Mason principles and built so you can actually finish what you start.

Here's what we'll cover:

• How to choose a spine or two — what to look for and why there's no "perfect" one
• Where to find topic ideas, even if you feel like you're starting from scratch
• How to use AI (with an accuracy-checked prompt I'll give you) to turn a messy brainstorm into an organized, balanced topic list
• The 3-bucket system for narrowing your topics: Deep Dive, Spine, and Skip for Now
• How to layer books and resources around your spine — biographies, historical fiction, primary sources, and more
• How to run a "balance check" on your plan so it doesn't stay locked into one narrow viewpoint

You'll walk away with a real, workable plan — not a list of everything you could cover, but a clear sense of what you will.

What's included:

• 🎥 Full workshop recording
• 📊 Presentation slides
• 📝 Resource planning template (Google Docs)
• 📋 Welcome guide with reflection prompts