CHOW with module 4?

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  • July 15, 2016 at 10:48 pm
    jenhorsfall
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    As I have flipped through and have read through a bit of the Famous Men of the Middle Ages, I am realizing that this book is too advanced for my son at 9 years old.  I can’t find anything to replace it that I’m interested in except for The Child’s History of the World by Hillyer.  Has anyone substituted this book?  How has it worked?  Do you have any suggestions?  We will be using the grades 1-3 suggestions.

    July 16, 2016 at 8:47 am
    HollyS
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    We made it half way through FM of the Middle Ages, and my DC didn’t care for it and weren’t retaining very much.  We ended up using Story of the World volume 2, which they really loved.

    We’ve never used CHOW, but I imagine it would be fine.

    July 16, 2016 at 9:43 am
    jenhorsfall
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    HollyS, I had SOTW 2 but I sold it a couple of weeks ago.  It just seems to  jump around too much and the author takes too much of a neutral tone for my taste. She says she’s a Christian but doesn’t seem to really take much of a stand within her curriculum.  Especially in the middle ages.  I really don’t think that young children need to get in to depth about specifics of Islam when she doesn’t even touch the subject matter of Jesus being resurrected (kind of an important thing that she left out about THE foundational belief of Christians).  I DO think, however, that it is important to teach the kids about other world views in depth as they get older.  For youngers, I think it needs to stay at an introduction that there are other beliefs.

    My son also wasn’t remembering much from SOTW.  I like the flow of CHOW and it also goes along with Ambleside readings so when I get bored I can hop over there and it’s still relevant to what AO is doing (I enjoy variety).  I also like that CHOW covers a good majority of history in one book as an overview.

    It would be really nice if SCM would find a way to add in a more age appropriate spine as an option/suggestion for families that only have younger children such as CHOW.

    July 17, 2016 at 12:58 pm
    KeriJ
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    We did exactly that when we did Module 4 : used CHOW as our spine. It worked out great.

    July 18, 2016 at 10:40 am
    Annie-Claud Gaignard Roy
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    Thanks for bringing up the subject jenhorsfall, I am wondering the same. I am flipping through both books right now and CHOW doesn’t seem to cover every lesson’s topic/person. KeriJ what did you do when the lesson wasn’t covered in CHOW. I also own Gombrich’s A Little History of the World in french and was planning to try and substitute every Famous Men reading for a reading in either CHOW or Gombrich’s book but it is more complicated than I expected.

    July 18, 2016 at 12:37 pm
    KeriJ
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    I decided not to make it complicated by trying to match up and cover every topic. We read through CHOW about 2 chapters a week. Then we read all of the extra books and added the Draw and Write Through History book.

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