TheApprentice Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 If you use these as your spine, what do you use to embellish your studies? TIA, Catherine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 First semester we used Gombrich's A Little History as our spine. I used some Kingfisher, some Usborne, some titles from the You Wouldn't Want to Be series, and various other things. We made mini-books and whatnot. We did get through half the book. It was going fine and I would have continued, but I put my little man in CC this semester. If you want to see some more details, you can go to my blog (link in sig) and look at the homeschool week in review blogs from first semester. HTH- Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 I plan on using A Little History as our spine for a three year overview of world history (ds will be in 6th through 8th grades, dd in 4th through 6th). We'll add in reading from A Book in Time and Paula's Archives, The Story of Science, documentaries/movies, and some hands-on projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy in NJ Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Last year for Ancients, my then 7th grader used the first 18 chapters of A Little History as a spine for first semester. He read one chapter and wrote a summary of it every week. He used Augustus Ceasar's World for second semester. This year for Middle Ages, he's using History Odyssey which assigns reading from The Story of Mankind. Other than for Ancients, I don't think A Little History is complete enough to use as a spine. For whatever reason, Gombrich spent more in the Ancients than any other period. If you wanted to do a one year world history study A Little History would be a great spine, especially if you coordinated it with Kingfisher or Usborne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheApprentice Posted January 30, 2011 Author Share Posted January 30, 2011 thank you all for your suggestions. I'm going to check out the sites mentioned.:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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