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Recommendation for a World History Spine? Help?
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Hello All! I’m looking for a recommendation on World History. I’m looking for a sort of overview spine book that could be used for middle and highschool aged students. I’ve done Hillyer’s A Child’s History of the World this year, and it has been great, as I have a wide variety of ages. But next year we are using YWAM’s missionary biographies as a way into World History (and their American History bios too, for Am Hist – so excited), and I’ll be spreading it over the course of two years. I’m looking for a spine that comes up to near present day (at least the Vietnam War and/or First Gulf War). I own A Picturesque Tale of Progress, which has very very little past the 1700’s. I need a focus on Middle Ages onward (there will be mutiny if we do much more Ancient History). And I need a little more depth than Hillyer. I need to make it “count” for high school for my oldest. She will have plenty of other living books, plus the YWAM bios, plus she’s already done World Geography. There will be a lot of writing, projects, and narration… I just need a spine to tie it together, which my middle and elementary students might get something out of as well. Any thoughts? A tall order, I know, lol! TIA!
Look in to “The Story of the World” or “Mystery of History”. They are both classical in approach bue easily adaptible to the CM approach. MOH even mentions how to do it in the book. MOH has additional resources you can implement mentioned in the back of the book and SOW has a seperate workbook that is indispensable for narrations, geography, timelines, coloring pages, and literature suggestions.
Stories of the Nations here at SCM is very good too. And there are samples online to try on for size. That’s what I eventually decided on for our family of K-12. It is very easy for the older ones, but not beneath them either. We had lots of hard books scheduled for them already, so it was a perfect fit. I used it with SOTW for my older, but that “may”be an overkill. 😉
For the MA/Ren/Ref time period, we used Rob Shearer’s Famous Men of the Middle Ages and Famous Men of the Renaissance and Reformation per the SCM guide suggestions. They worked well for our family.
This next year, our 14yos will be using Diana Waring’s World Empires, World Missions, World Wars (WWW) as a spine (audio and text, but a CM type schedule to include research projects.) This covers Napoleon through Korea.
We are also going to add in a couple of the Bluestocking Guides and one, or more of the Politically Incorrect Guides to take us through Vietnam. I wouldn’t consider these to be necessarily “living books,” but for spines, they seem like a fit with all the living books that will be added for assigned reading, family read alouds, and audiobooks.
I’m still working on the plans for the year, but the basic plans and I’m fairly certain this will take 1 1/2-2 years of study. Here is the preliminary list of topics, but I may add more of the PIC guides as reference material.
http://topsyturvytoile.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/editing-hr-order-to-include-bluestocking/
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Becca<><
We love Story of the World for elementary school. We also have enjoyed My Father’s World books. They have a high school history/ literature series that I would like to think we will do one day.
I just love this book. It is in the spirit of Hillyer, but Gombrich’s is geared to older children. It takes you through about 1940, just after the atomic bomb. The illustrated version is so lovely. It is an amazing jumping off point for missions, as well. {As with Hillyer, you’d have to edit the first bit that is not from a Christian persepctive.}
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