I hate these "no right answer" things. ;) You'd think after 10 years of homeschooling, I'd have accepted that it's not just what you teach, but how you teach and what they learn. There is *so* much to learn in this life and world. We *have* to make choices. (High school is just psyching me out.) So I guess really my job is to go with my gut and make it look good on a transcript. :D

At one point, I thought, hey, let's just take a whole year for HMW and then another year for HRW. Which would have more appeal if I only had one kid, but with the younger 3, it's really nice to have everyone at least sort of in the same era. I'm surprised(?) at how often I catch my 9th grader reading "their" books! The other thing is that we brought Grandma (mother-in-law...how often does that happen?) into the discussion of Great Books. She took one for the team and slogged through Augustine's Confessions. Benefits include meaningful grandmother-granddaughter discussion time *and* a little more on-boardedness with our homeschooling. If I could do more of that, well, I think it would be worth giving up my hope for full coverage of both of Bauer's books. Scary to make these changes 3 months into the school year, but I suppose it could be worse. :) So what will your 10th grade look like? Late Renaissance to Early Modern, as in the SOTW/WTM sequence w/the sibs? Bauer doesn't have advanced books past the Renaissance, so I might have to fall back on WTM recommendations for primary texts... Just trying to get my head around the big picture before I take the leap. Many thanks again.

THANK YOU! Have you started this yet, or "intending" meaning next year? :) So far she's 32 chapters into the 85-chapter HMW. Currently she's taking notes on each chapter and choosing one map per week to trace, based on how long it has been since she last traced that area, the idea being a variety of locations circulated. Not sure how else to describe that process. Yes, the reason I chose this book and appreciate Bauer's books in general is the worldwide approach. Even my mother-in-law expressed favor on that one. ;) I can ramp her up to more reading and less note taking (kind of like the map work...like you said, have her pick based on keeping a cycle of locations) so we can get into HRW sooner than later. Another suggestion given by Peace Hill was to study HMW and then read Johnson's The Renaissance: A Short History. Seems like a pretty big gloss over, though. But, like you, I want to supplement. I think you mentioned non-literature, but I want to do the literature. This year she's in a writing class at the co-op, so I don't want to add a ton more hours of history as a "literature" class because she doesn't need the credit. If I had the guts, I'd do literature only, use HMW/HRW as supplements for her "context papers"--the papers she writes before reading to put the book into historical context, and call *that* her history class. But alas, Bauer feels a lot safer for math/science-trained momma. Plus finding world (not just Western Civ.) literature is a beast, especially for Medieval times. Sigh. I guess if I knew where we were going next, I'd have more confidence this year. WTM high school history course of action was written before HMW and HRW were published, so I'm a bit stumped. Thanks again. I might survive this. :)

This is one of the WTM books listed as recommended reading ("selections") for Medieval history. Note it says "selections" but doesn't specify. Any clues of what would be a sufficient study? We use The Well-Educated Mind for basic thought/context questions. I like Cliff Notes for study guides, but I'm out of luck on this one. Thanks all!

Are there plans for another book in the series? :)

I would *love* to hear how you condensed things. My DD is in 9th grade. I foolishly assumed that because HMW had a study guide associated with it, that it would "work" as one year in the 4-year cycle. (I totally threw in the towel of trying to coordinate with her younger siblings' SOTW 2.) Then I realized it only covers 300 to 1100 A.D....and the next book, HRW, goes to 1450. At this rate we'll never hit American History...? Wondering if anyone has plan-forward ideas in light of the current discussion. We're 3 months in, and while she's on track to finish HMW this year, I'm concerned longer term.

Yes, just utterly overwhelmed with the task.

Thanks, charlotteb! My hope was to have a basic line of study where the older students could go more into depth. I began with the high school recommendations in The Well Trained Mind, but Bauer's books go *so* deep that it takes both the History of the Medieval World *and* the History of the Renaissance World to cover the time period suggested in the 4-year cycle. What I need is a way to pick and choose chapters, versus 1600 pages of history text reading... Sigh. Any recommendations? My daughter does like her writing style, and I hate to abandon ship entirely.

Yes, I have the books. The issue is coordinating the History of the World study with the Story of the World study being done by younger sibs. Thanks!

I took a look at the samples, and the high school books are not Bauer's. Bummer!

This is our first year teaching history at the high school level, and I'd like to keep all of my students on the same history sequence. We did Ancients last year, so we're studying Medieval - Early Renaissance this year. HOWM and HORW have too much to cover together in a year, so we will have to pick and choose from the chapters. Does anyone have a chart made up to help coordinate chapters covered in The Story of the World with those addressed in the high school books?