Need help with creating a history plan

[Guest lwheeles]

Hello. I am new here and with homeschooling. I have a 9 yr dd who is two grades ahead. She also has been diagnosed with NVLD, so she has some problems socially and with writing. She get's very bored with just reading the encyclopedia and doing outlines. She loves to read, though, and soaks up all the books on the list. I thought about the Story of the World book, but I was told it is for up to 4th graders. Does anyone have any suggestions? Can I combine the activities from the SotW books and outlining? Thanks in advance.

Lisa

[chai]

History is a great subject to let your daughter study what really interests her. Your dd could read SOTW--I still find it interesting. Many of the activities in the AG would work as well. You might want to get them out of your library to check it out first. I still read aloud to my dd. Over the last year I've been reading Guerber's histories. DD could read them, but she won't. Other good books are Foster's--Augustus Caesar's World, The World of Columbus, etc. Are you doing a timeline? What about notebooking? These would be alot more fun than just outlining.

[Pata]

Story of the World with the activity guide would work great. The AG gives you activities and extra books along with comprehension questions. The only other thought I had was Sonlight, if your dd likes to read Sonlight might be a good option.

[Storm Bay]

Same advice about SOTW. I'm posting just to say that using the History Encyclopedia as a spine flopped here, too. SOTW as a spine went much more smoothly and happily, especially for my eldest who doesn't enjoy history often. There's not much to the actual activity pages (map work and colouring, for the most part), but my dd's did them for fun. Also, there are other activities and reading lists in the first part of the Activity Guide.

[Jen500]

We don't use SoTW, but my dss read a huge variety of books, including history. We get some history through Lively Latin, which usually leads us to finding more materials from the library and internet. In the Fall we're going to start Living Math through History from http://www.livingmath.net. We've also covered some history when studying famous artists and doing art projects. Just how we prefer to approach history!

[Oakblossoms]

My 11 yo Aspie does not like to write or color pictures and he reads a lot. But, he has loved the SOTW on CD. In fact, our year has been much better since we backed off the AG and me reading the book aloud. Now we listen to the CD's when we have the opportunity. That makes it so we listen to them a few times. Then we can concentrate on the areas we enjoy more. I check out books on the topics covered in one CD and provide them. He picks what he likes and we go from there.