Andybody tweaked History Odyssey 3?

[willowcreek]

I plan to use History Odyssey 3 Ancient this year, and I really do want the outlining, writing, timeline work required. I am fine with supplemental books, but I think the (spine) New History of the World is horribly dry. My son LOVES history, and I don't want to kill that motivation with a boring spine. Anybody tweaked this? Anybody with alternative spine suggestion to "plug in?" What about K12's Human Odyssey as a spine alternative?

[Michelle in AL]

I have HO 3 too and thought about doing this. I don't have the spine, and after hearing all the negative reviews I didn't want to spend the money on it. I wanted to substitute Spielvogel's Human Odyssey, but I couldn't tell which Chapter of Spielvogel went with what in HO 3. So, I've dropped HO unless I can come up with a way to use both.

[Jenny Piaaree]

I substituted SWB's History of the Ancient World for the unreadably dull Roberts. What this meant is that I had to rearrange the HO Ancients 3 assigments to match the chronological order of HAW. Bit of a pain, but much better than trying to drag through Roberts.

 

SWB's volume on medieval history is due out in Feb 2010, so I plan to use that as a spine next year (with or without HO) and then play it by ear his junior year.

[Janice H]

As you progress through time, more cultures have arisen and some of them are starting to interact with and influence one another. This causes different historians/authors to greatly diverge in the order of topics and important people, events, places etc.

 

I think there's a good chance HO Ancients could be tweaked without lots of bother. For the Middle Ages, it would be a lot more work. We're only using it sporadically when assignments cover books we're reading.