Any Canadian CMr's used this? opinions wanted

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  • April 28, 2010 at 7:22 pm
    Linabean
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    Modern History through Canadian Eyes: A Canadian History Guide for all Ages.  If anyone has used this, I would like to know if it is as CM friendly as it looks on the Website.  Is it going to be a lot of work?  Did you choose to supplement with other literature not scheduled or recommended in the guide?  If so how did that work?  I would like to use the Dear Canada series as well.  Do you think these are compatible? 

      I will have a 3rd and 1st grader to start teaching Canadian History to in the fall.  Eventually I would like to make a four or five year rotation of Canadian studies Modules.  Set up similarily to the SCM history modules.  I love the way they teach the history of the world using these modules I just don’t want to wait until the last modules to start teaching Canadian History ( where it says to do American history).  I would like to take a couple years to really dive deeper into Canadian history.  Chronologically of course.  Then when we reach present times I would like to take a couple more years to study government and cultures of the different peoples as well as study the geography a little more closely.  I think this study guide would be a good start to setting up something like this for our family but I really don’t want to waste time with it if someone has had experience with it and knows that it won’t work for what I want to do.  Of course on the website for this resource they only talked about how great it was.  And I could not find any sample pages or lessons or anything like that.  I would like some real reviews on this resource.

      Sorry this is so longEmbarassed

      Thanks to anyone who can help,

       -Miranda

     

    April 28, 2010 at 7:50 pm
    suzukimom
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    Wish I could help, but I’ve been having a difficult time trying to find good resources for Canadian History…  I have a son that is moving into a Year 2.

    Would love to see the answer!

    April 28, 2010 at 8:05 pm
    houseofchaos
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    Well, I can’t help you with that book, but I will tell you what we are doing – Donna Ward’s books (Canada, My Country and Courage and Conquest)  supplemented with Great Canadian Lives, for the 6 & 8 year olds.  My First History of Canada with the 10 & 12 year olds, supplemented with the Great Stories of Canada series (these are great, everyone listens to them).  Pierre Berton puts out some decent Canadian History books also, but I believe they are meant for older kids.

    Just a note with Dear Canada – our sons don’t care for them.  The ones we tried were heavy on fiction and light on history – the girls loved them.

    I hope that helps a little.

    Gaeleen 

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