History choices for mid-late elementary

[elizabeth rose]

I'm having trouble deciding on history for my upcoming 3rd and 5th grader and beyond. Right owe are using winter promise American story 1. We really like it, and I had planned on continuing with American story 2. I just wish it wasn't so darn expensive. I also don't know where that will lead us for middle school for my older and let elementary for my younger. I need to combine them for history. I do not like stow, did that many years with,y oldest one in high school now. We found the text too dry and full of details. I also did history oddyssey level 2 with her, and I think it will be way too challenging for us for a while. I dislike anything overtly Christian like moh, truth quest etc. does anyone have any ideas for me?

If I stayed with winterpromise, has anyone done children around the world or sea and sky?

I would love to study ancients, then Middle Ages and so on withthemin a typical cycle but am having trouble finding a somewhat secular preferably lit based program.

Any advice, I would really appreciate, thanks so much!

[Farrar]

I really liked the text Builders of the Old World - a little more difficult than SOTW, covers more social history, and goes from the Ancients to the Renaissance. It's an older book, but we did the sections for the middle ages and I didn't find so much of the bias issues that I associate with many older books. It does not cover non-Western history (there's a section at the end that gives a vague overview) so you would have to supplement or cover that separately. And there's no schedule for it if that's important to you, but you could combine it with the SOTW AG for supplemental book suggestions and maps if you wanted.

[elizabeth rose]

Thanks, that sounds interesting. I've never heard of that. I do like a schedule though, I like to check those boxes.

[Mrs Twain]

Builders of the Old World is a great book. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

There is always (Hilyer's) Child's History of the World. We just got finished with our second time through. That has been my favorite.

 

Both of these are world history overviews rather than a three or four year cycle approach.

[Farrar]

Builders of the Old World is a great book. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

There is always (Hilyer's) Child's History of the World. We just got finished with our second time through. That has been my favorite.

 

Both of these are world history overviews rather than a three or four year cycle approach.

 

CHOW and LHOW are more overviews, but Builders of the Old World covers a shorter period and is longer than either of them. It has a lot more detail about a lot of things than SOTW, which was part of why we started using it. However, it makes very different choices about what to cover than SOTW.