Have you used SOTW 4 with Human Odyssey 2 and 3?

[Trilliumlady]

Not sure if this will be better here or in the logic stage forum, let me know if I should move it.

We will be doing SOTW 4 with my fifth and third graders. I plan on reading the week’s chapter together and then requiring more of my fifth grader ala WTM. I was thinking of using Human Odyssey 2 and 3 as her “spine.†(I also have her using Kingfisher History Encyclopedia this year she reads out of each week but could pass this down to DS next year.)

Does this sound like a sound plan? Basically, she would just be listening to SOTW read then using HO for her main work while DS in third will be doing his based solely off of SOTW. I have seen enough examples of SOTW being matched up to HO that it appears this is a possible combo.

Also, more importantly, does anyone have a link that shows how to combine these two books? I have seen documents combing the ancients level or the medieval level, but nothing for Modern History. Help!

 

ETA: title edited and body edited to clarify

Edited February 17, 2018 by Trilliumlady

[SparklyUnicorn]

Sounds like WAY too much.  HO in and of itself is a lot.  I started with HO and didn't care for it.  It felt way too choppy and disjointed to me.  So I switched to SOTW4 and we are liking that way better. 

 

 

[Trilliumlady]

Bump, anyone?

[Miss Tick]

We did this for SOTW 1-3. I'm in the midst of chopping up Human Odyssey to match it to SOTW 4. I'm getting bogged down because Human Odyssey 3 seems to be much more Eurocentric than SOTW, so there are big gaps where SOTW doesn't have a counterpart in Human Odyssey. I will try to fill those in with library books or internet assignments. Occasionally it is enough for my older to listen to SOTW, but that doesn't happen regularly.

 

I'm happy to share my spreadsheet with you, but it is pretty sparsely populated at the moment. I got bogged down at the lead-up to WWI. SOTW does a much better job explaining the build-up of tension there.

 

I like to keep everybody aligned for read-aloud and timeline purposes.

Edited February 18, 2018 by SusanC

[rebbyribs]

I'm using SOTW4 with dd11, dd8, and ds8 and have not felt a need to beef it up at all. There are 41 chapters, so we do not spend a full week on each. We read from the KHE and do some of the suggested books in the activity guide, oral discussion questions, mapwork, timeline, and written work (outlining for the oldest, and the tests for the younger). It's plenty for us!

 

 

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[Trilliumlady]

All very good to know. I might reconsider my ideas based on the above. Hmm.....

[ScoutTN]

HO and SOTW are both strongly narrative and don't do well chopped up, imo.

 

We are using both books. My younger uses SOTW while his sister reads HO. Each reads lit to supplement. We are all in the same general time period and our supplement books often overlap. We do one timeline and have lots of interesting discussion. I don't care if the lessons match exactly.

 

We use HO over 4 years so the cycles match.

 

Things that don't interest us, we read and move on. More intriguing topics we camp on. We don't rush and generally finish a "year" in about 14 months. We kisten to the SOTW audio in thecar during the summer.

Edited February 20, 2018 by ScoutTN