Spine for Mod. 6??

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  • June 3, 2011 at 3:18 am
    my3boys
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    Anyone using a spine for Mod. 6 or does anyone have any suggestions??

    I will have a year 1, year 3, and year 7, if that helps.  I have a resource or two but I’m just not sure.

    Last school year we did not use a spine (other than listening to This Country of Ours, but that was just as we were driving, not during any specific history “lesson”).  I have CHOW and we could continue with TCOO but utilize it in a more purposeful way, which would work, but I’m still curious what you all may suggest.  TIA.

    June 3, 2011 at 6:45 am
    Sue
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    We used Story of the World a few times to fill in a couple of gaps where we didn’t have a living book available to us (as in, not in the library or the budget is used up).  We were covering module 5.

    I am thinking of using TCOO as a spine next year for module 6, but it only goes up to 1907, if I remember correctly. Goodness, if I have my dad sit and tell them life stories every couple of days, that would cover from the 1930’s to the present….oh, wait a minute–when he gets going, the stories last for an hour or so….not very CM! Wink

    June 3, 2011 at 2:41 pm
    my3boys
    Participant

    Thanks Sue.  We do have the audio book of TCOO, which is okay, but I was kind of hoping for a read aloud, well it is read aloud so maybe it will work 🙂 We’ll see.  I didn’t use a spine last school year (mod 5) except some of TCOO and I’d really like to this year.  My boys were reading their books independently so I didn’t feel like we were doing history together except me “knowing” that we were all in the same period.  Hmmmmm………

    June 9, 2011 at 3:40 am
    Kristin
    Member

    What does CHOW stand for in reference to a history spine?

    June 9, 2011 at 3:47 am
    Wings2fly
    Participant

    CHOW = Child’s History of the World by Hillyer.

    June 9, 2011 at 4:25 am
    Sue
    Participant

    @My3boys,

    Do you have a Kindle?  Or the Kindle for PC app + a laptop?  If so, you could use TCOO as a read-aloud.  I downloaded it to my laptop (no Kindle yet…..*sigh*), from Project Gutenberg.  You can access it here.

    Just thought I’d mention it….

    Sue

    June 9, 2011 at 5:08 am
    my3boys
    Participant

    Yes, I have a kindle but haven’t been searching for books in awhile from Gutenberg……Thanks Sue, I’m headed over there right now!  And, I love my kindle…really I do 🙂  Yeah!  I just let my 12 yo that we’ll have a “spine” this year and he was actually pretty excited about that.

    Thanks again!

    June 9, 2011 at 5:38 am
    Sue
    Participant

    Actually, I just looked at Amazon, and they have a Kindle edition (illustrated!) for just 99 cents.  The Gutenberg download for Kindle, although free, contains no images. Cry

    June 9, 2011 at 1:26 pm
    suzukimom
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    Just wanted to mention that TCOO has a very derogitory chapter about Mormons…. please do not read it to your kids as it is not even slightly accurate, and I would classify that chapter as hate literature.

    June 9, 2011 at 3:38 pm
    my3boys
    Participant

    Thanks Sue. And it’s okay that it doesn’t have images…the audio version didn’t eitherWink.

    And, thanks Suzukimom, I will watch out for that chapter.

    Blessings, Jessica

    June 9, 2011 at 5:00 pm
    Sue
    Participant

    Suzukimom,

    Thanks for mentioning that chapter.  It has piqued my curiousity, so I will probably read it for myself and then research the truth.  We’re not Mormons, but it never helps to come away from reading something with a very erroneous impression of a people group.

    June 9, 2011 at 5:00 pm
    Sue
    Participant

    Sorry, double post!

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