Chronology provides the mental scaffolding for organizing historical thought.
Well-crafted narratives such as these have the power to grip and hold students attention. Students should be able to analyze patterns of historical duration, demonstrated, for example, by the more than two hundred years the United States Constitution and the government it created has endured. E. Interpret data presented in time lines and create time lines by designating appropriate equidistant intervals of time and recording events according to the temporal order in which they occurred. F. Reconstruct patterns of historical succession and duration in which historical developments have unfolded, and apply them to explain historical continuity and change. G. Compare alternative models for periodization by identifying the organizing principles on which each is based.