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History Odyssey Vol 2 with Usborne I-L History Encyclopedia?


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I am considering using History Odyssey but my ds is 10 and starting 5th grade. I think Ancients Vol 2 would be best for him, BUT I already own the Usborne I-L History Encyclopedia. I do not have the Kingfisher book that they recommend. Has anyone mixed these two together. I realize I could just use Vol 1 which does use UILHE, but it doesn't have the same notebooking expectations as Vol 2 has.

Has anyone already tried this or know of any schedules already available. Hate reinventing the wheel!

 

Wendy

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It shouldn't make any difference. You'll just have to align each assignment to the applicable pages in the encyclopedia you do own.

 

We gave up using the encyclopedia altogether in favor of a textbook, and we'll be doing the same this year. Combined with lots of supplementation--extra books, documentaries, projects and so on-- it should be a meaty enough year.

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I agree with this, you can adapt it to fit your needs.  We use History Odyssey and I don't like "The Story of Mankind".  I use Human Odyssey and just align it and make adjustments I need.  We do have both the Usborne and Kingfisher Encyclopedias and I do agree that Kingfisher is a bit more advanced and meatier.

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I haven't seen any schedules that align HO Level 2 Ancients with the Usborne I-L, but plenty of us have re-written the HO guides to use with other spines (the old white Kingfisher, the K-12 HO books, etc.). 

 

By the time I re-aligned everything, though, I wondered why I paid so much for the HO materials.  :huh: But they did help me figure out how to put my own plan together in future years -- complete with more books (less book writing & more book discussion) and more thinking/discussion. 

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By the time I re-aligned everything, though, I wondered why I paid so much for the HO materials.  :huh: But they did help me figure out how to put my own plan together in future years -- complete with more books (less book writing & more book discussion) and more thinking/discussion. 

 

This is exactly what I'm thinking. Why do I want to pay all that money if I basically have to re-write all the assignments? I think I'll just use their sample pages as a guide and go through and set up my own schedule. I was hoping to avoid having to do that, but I'd rather save the money than the time.

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Different sources, but I recently did this alignment with Human Odyssey 1 and the DK History-A Definitive Visual Guide (we've already used Usborne and Kingfisher previous cycles). I just opened up the DK book and for each 2-page spread figured out which chapter of Human Odyssey it would go with. Only took an hour or two.

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