Spine text for co-op 20th century world history class?

[Insertcreativenamehere]

I'm thinking through a co-op class I may be teaching next year on 20th century world history. The class will likely be made up of 5th-8th graders. Anyone have recommendations for a spine text that would be supplemented by historical literature?

Thanks!

Kara Swanson 

[2_girls_mommy]

Are you breaking it up into a particular time period or trying to cover all of world history in one year? 

[Insertcreativenamehere]

I'm aiming for just 20th century world history. 

[2_girls_mommy]

12 minutes ago, Insertcreativenamehere said:

I'm aiming for just 20th century world history. 

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In that case, you could try using SOTW 4.  I used vol. 2 one year for a co-op class.  I lectured by using certain chapter, and pulling the sections I wanted to cover the most.  Obviously, I couldn't cover all the chapters.  But we had a weekly history class and a weekly art class and a once a month special subject class and a once a month field trip around the vol.  So each week during history hour we had lecture time with review of the past timeline and peoples and introduced the highlights from the chapter.  They had assigned readings from SOTW at home to cover beforehand.  In the art period we had an art project based around a project from the A.G. and during the once a month special topic we'd cover a topic like heraldry or knights or castles and do a special project.  For the field trips we tried to find related places like visiting a medieval fair.  

If I was doing modern history I would do something similar with vol. 4. 

[ScoutTN]

We liked K12’s Human Odyssey. You could use just vol 3. Readable narrative, nice layout, great for middle school. We used it after SOTW. Hardback, cheap on Amazon or from other used book sellers.

[lmrich]

I taught the 20th century history a few years ago. We used  K12 Human's Odysseyy - volume 3. I added a ton in... 

Also check out TPT. 

[Insertcreativenamehere]

Thanks for the great ideas!