I was encouraged to find out that other families begin the series later and take longer to finish! I had wanted to finish a volume per school year and planned on covering the remaining chapters during the summer, but we needed a break! Lined paper does work, but using pre-made notebooking pages makes notebooks look so much better! Can I say THANK YOU!!
Is there a break down of daily schedule somewhere? I’d prefer to start with book 1, rather than 3 Love this series! I can therefore potentially earn income if you click through and purchase from them. The French Revolution? In the second half of the book (the student pages), each page is blank on the back, because the students will be coloring or writing on the pages or cutting things out.Something wrong with this post? We talked about divine visions, angelic visitations and the difficulty in interpreting religious texts ( !!! I did another schedule that just included the story arcs that had books which directly related to SOTW. I know, I know…I can just cut out some chapters or double up on others, but I feel like the material is so excellent I hate to do that.
Secondly, the Muslim faith plays an important role in our modern world and this is a nice way to begin those sorts of discussions. Several of the reading/literature recommendations have been changed because the older ones had gone out of print and were hard to find.Something wrong with this post?
Sometimes our children can compartmentalize historical events, and the visual representation that a timeline provides can help them to understand that history is unfolding simultaneously all over the world. There is already so much information to digest in each chapter, when (many) additional library readings are included, that rushing to complete over 1 chapter/week would result in less retention of information. There are plenty! It follows the fictional tale of a young boy who finds himself sequestered on board with Columbus as he sails to the American islands. I’ve looked at many programs over the years (and having been homeschooled myself I have a lot of material to work with) and hands down this works best for our family.These are great resources, thank you!
Not that it would be terrible to start with whatever historical period you are most interested in though. As an activity for looking at castles, we attempted to build a castle out of cardboard boxes but that was a pretty big failure — I didn’t anticipate the cardboard being so difficult for little hands to work with. Africa, China, Europe, the Americas—find out what happened all around the world in long-ago times. Most chapters are broken into two sub-headings, and we do one for each lesson. Purchase direct from the Well-Trained Mind Press and get Free Product Support!Something wrong with this post?
I’m wondering what you use to teach the period of time since the end of the USSR (after SOTW 4). So much for 3 cycles in 12 years!Thank you for all of your work and your willingness to share. Timelines are a great way to help your students see how events in history overlap and relate to one another. This truly is the Ultimate Guide! Thanks for letting us know. It has corresponding workbook pages listed next to each week/chapter(s), and it has supplemental reading ideas.Thank you so much! This is my most popular post by far and I don’t think anyone has commented THANK YOU!! Vol 1? If you can point us in the right direction...The instructions for the Student Pages are in the front half of the Activity Book. Thank you.Something wrong with this post? If you can point us in the right direction...Yes, you may make as many copies within your own family as you need to.Something wrong with this post? I can add extras if I want and not worry that the main curriculum is being missed. If you can point us in the right direction...What year is the most recent printing date?
I've benefitted … Story of the World Vol 2: The Middle Ages Timeline Cards. Demi also has Henry VIII is covered in this chapter as well and that’s just a fascinating part of history. Then we do the map work. I put all the supplemental reading books on hold at the library a few weeks in advance and I put them into our history basket for free reading. When people think of the Middle Ages, it is the castles, the lords and ladies, the knights, the peasants that come to our mind and these are some of the memories that I hope endure from our year spent in this time period.
Are there certain chapters (esp for Vol 3) that you found were redundant and more easily skipped?Some people double up or cut out, but I don’t. If you can point us in the right direction...No, all of the pages are numbered. Here you will find practical articles, an online community, courses for you and your children, user-friendly textbooks, and much more. Thank you for any guidance you can provide.There are probably as many ways to use SOTW as there are families who use it We do History twice a week, typically covering one chapter.
If you can point us in the right direction...I purchased the PDF for the Story of the World Volume 2 (colouring pages and maps). There’s lots of books recommended for middle primary students, but these are ones that are more appropriate for students in the grammar stage of learning.We had just finished Ancient Rome last year, so we glossed right over this chapter as a refresher. Story of the World Volume 1 Notebooking Pages; Story of the World Volume 2 Notebooking Pages (coming soon!) For fun, we read My daughter loved reading an out-of-print short chapter book called “Where the Frigate Flies: Adventures with Columbus” by Jennifer Burnap. We watched a few YouTube videos of how Gutenberg’s printing press worked, and had a tinkering workshop where the kids were given loose parts in order to create an invention.