This option gets my vote! I love H.A. Guerber! We use it along with Truthquest
TQ has commentary that has provided many great jumping off places for interesting conversations.
It is easy to divide up and go at your own pace. It was very simple to get through both the Ancients & Greece guide and the Roman guide in one year. (There is only a few pages devoted to ancients, most of the guide's focus is on the Greeks.)
Besides commentary the book list are fabulous. It has suggestions for both in print and out of print books. For each section there are suggestions for several spines (SOTW, Guerber , and other spines for grades K-12) then a list of non-fiction and another list for fiction. It even has sections devoted to suggestion for books on art and tells you what pages to look at.
You can go as deeply as you want. Love it, love it, love it!
There is also a very busy yahoo group for TQ. Lots of helpful ladies there.
Oh...btw...I use CW too. There are what is called ThinkWrites through the TQ program that could be used...but it isn't really much. Not like TOG. With TOG the writing program looks so good I feel as if I HAVE to use it. Cuz, I'm a box checker. And um...CW and TOG writing...would um..be a bit much. My kids would be like ....:eek:. So, CW and TQ work well together. And if I ever get brave enough I can use Guerber models for writing.