Timeline on the Wall: Since Then and Two Years Ago

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Timeline on the Wall: Since Then and Two Years Ago

High school history classrooms frequently employ visual learning tools to help students differentiate between finished historical epochs and ongoing historical processes. In room 204 at Oakridge Academy, history teacher Mrs. Bennett created an expansive visual timeline across the back wall. She designed the display to teach twentieth-century European history while simultaneously helping students grasp the grammatical difference between finished past points and continuing periods.

On the upper track of the wall display, colourful cards mark specific closed events with exact dates. For example, one card states that the treaty was signed in 1945, while another notes that the historic wall fell in 1989. Mrs. Bennett explained that these events happened at finished points in the past, so we describe them using the past simple. Two years ago, her tenth-grade class painted