Ancient Egypt and Her Neighbors

This printed edition of this book is 5.5″ x 8.5″ so the PDF should show pretty well on just about any device.

There is a schedule on the “ancient Egypt and her neighbors” page of how and when to read it. From my understanding it is to completely replace Oxford because that book went out of print. I just went through my guide and wrote in the new scheduled book. I am using it instead of Oxford even though I have both. We are really enjoying it and I am actually learning a lot that I didn’t know.

@dripdipsplat – By reading other posts of yours, I know that you are frustrated by the switch, especially since you are new to SCM. When this module was written they used the best they had access to.  They did not know that Oxford Press was going to suddenly quit printing the Oxford book they used, nor could they anticipate the ridiculous prices people started charging for the Oxford. Nor will Oxford give them printing rights to the book.  Since a lot of us aren’t rich 😉 and were extremely frustrated about the lack of ability to aquire the Oxford (and scared to make our own book substitutions at first), SCM decided to change the spine. It has just been released, obviously, and looks wonderful.

To answer your question: As scheduled in the Module 1, you never read chapters 2-8 of the Oxford, and you do not read the entire Oxford book.  It is scheduled to be only chapters that pertain to the Ancient Egyptians in Module 1. I counted one time, and it was only like 20 pages of the Oxford for the Ancient Egyptians.  It wasn’t used at all for the family readings in Module 2 – it was scheduled to have your 7-9 graders read the chapters on the Ancient Greeks and narrate back to you.  I can’t remember off the top of my head about the Romans in Mod 3 – it is used, but I am not sure if it is as the family or as individual students.  

If you already have the Oxford, you can use the Modules as scheduled with it – they have promised to have the ebook versions of them available even after they release the new modules that use a spine still in print.

If you are still unhappy about the change, then sell your Oxford and switch to the Ancient Egypt book. After finishing Module 1 and starting Module 2, and reading the new book they are *planning* to use as their new spine, I would personally ditch the Oxford and go with the new ones.  The new books are amazing in details, and are more memorable in style.

Either way, and your children are still going to have a fabulous education! I hope that you are able to decide what will work best for your family soon and relax to enjoy the benefits of CM methods!