We’re enjoying Module 2, but we’ve tweaked it so that we did Mod 1 history Q1, are in Mod 2 history Q2, and will do Mod 3 history in Q3 & Q4. My children LOVED ancient Egypt and now they’re totally into ancient Greece, especially my 8 1/2 year old. Maybe it’s because we study it more than once/week? We do Bible everyday using our church’s Children Desiring God materials and Fighter verses. To line the Bible up with ancient history we listen to The Mystery of History Volume 1 in the minivan.
For geography, we do that once/week, and I chose to do Voskamp’s book. I can’t say that I love it, but we have learned quite a bit about Turkey & Israel so far.
I don’t have any additional alternatives to add (except for those below though they are mostly myths)–just that we have had a successful year so far tweaking the schedule this way. Next year we will do Mod 4 as written since it goes to history 4 days/week.
As far as learning about ancient Greece, I will say that I really enjoyed listening to the following on Librivox in my own time:
- Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by Charles Kingsley
- Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Also, in iTunes University, you can listen/watch a professor from Yale lecture on Ancient Greek History. I find it fascinating, but it could just be me. 