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This is the third of a four book series. I highly recommend all of them. This book covers world history events from 1600 to 1850. These books teach history in story form. The story format help students retain the facts and details. (For example:) Three years ago we studied book 1 (ancient history). Our family was recently watching a movie and a reference was made about Attilla the Hun. My ten year old (who was only seven when we read the story), says, "Hey I know him! He was the Barbarian who died from a nose bleed!" The stories are in chronological order starting with ancient history (book 1). Religion is included, but it should not be offensive to any religious group. It teaches about many important world religions (Chistian, Jewish, Buddhism, Islam, etc.)... it teaches a little about their beliefs, how they started, their role in the world and in history. The stories are short and make excellent bedtime stories. If you are just using the books for bedtime stories the reader is all you will need. If you want a complete learning experience buy the activity book to go along with it. For each chapter the activity book gives you ideas for fun and educational activities, art projects, games, coloring pages, recipes, lists of books you can check out of the library, and even a list of questions to ask (with the correct answers). It is the most comprehensive history program I have found for elementary school age children. This is a great home schooling tool. It would work great in public school as well, but some of the religious teachings may need to be left out. It's also just a fun way for families to spend time together. Stories are written in easy language, with the exception of some names and places most third graders could read them independently.Read full review
This book is a wonderful overview of world and U.S. history. We are reading it aloud as a family, using it for elementary and middle school history. You know you have a good book when you come to the end of a chapter and the children beg you to keep reading! This is a well written book by an author who clearly loves history, and wants to tell the "story" of history, not get you to memorize dates only. There is a helpful timeline in the back to look up detailed dates, but in the writing it is not like textbooks where they list out boring events and dates with not much detail about the personalities of the people. I wish I had this book when I was learning history in school! I would also highly recommend the activity books that are available with this series.
We have been homeschooling for 3+ years now, and LOVE this Story of the World series by Susan Wise Bauer. There's also a CD you can get where the child can just listen to the chapters, but my son and I prefer for me to read it aloud. We both learn, and then I use the test booklet and give the tests orally as well. This is the 3rd set we've purchased- and we will just keep using them until we finish the Story of the World. :)
I like this resource for World History. It is a helpful way to get a good overview of the whole of the subject. I must say, though, I very much wish it began with the creation of the universe, as found in Scripture, and then continued with the flood. The beginning of the course does not begin with evolution. It starts with man as nomads, or hunter/gatherers. We know that they were nomads and farmers, because Adam was told he would till the ground, as punishment for his sin, and his son Cain was a farmer, while Abel was a shepherd. After Cain murdered Abel, he became a nomad. Beyond the fact this resource does not tie in Biblical events with history, it is a good review of most of the main events. We are just now getting to "the Jewish people" so am not done with the book yet.
Perfect perfect perfect! Exactly what I needed and in great condition. Shipping was fast and easy
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