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Post by chestertonian on Jun 26, 2016 0:19:24 GMT -5
anyone have experiene with Story of the World program by Susan Wise Bauer (author of WellTrained Mind)
or Story of Civilization which is a new program put out by TAN books seems to try to be a Catholic version of SOTW
am thinking of doing it with my son over the summer when i get home as part of our homeschool program and/or supplementing the public school curriculum if we end up seding him to school in the fall
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jun 26, 2016 6:20:10 GMT -5
Public school supplements your homeschool...lets get it right...lol. |
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Post by Jayne on Jun 26, 2016 9:19:17 GMT -5
anyone have experiene with Story of the World program by Susan Wise Bauer (author of WellTrained Mind) or Story of Civilization which is a new program put out by TAN books seems to try to be a Catholic version of SOTW am thinking of doing it with my son over the summer when i get home as part of our homeschool program and/or supplementing the public school curriculum if we end up seding him to school in the fall is written from a Protestant perspective. It has been a while so I can't remember details, but there were a few objectionable comments in part one because of this. I never went on with the rest because it was approaching the time period of the Protestant heresies and I did not want to deal with Catholics being portrayed as bad guys. I was pretty sure that was coming. |
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Post by MelGibson on Jun 26, 2016 9:54:06 GMT -5
Susan Wise Bauer..Haven't read her material, but from the get-go her name sounds Jewish. At best, crypto-jew.
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Post by chestertonian on Jun 26, 2016 9:57:01 GMT -5
anyone have experiene with Story of the World program by Susan Wise Bauer (author of WellTrained Mind) or Story of Civilization which is a new program put out by TAN books seems to try to be a Catholic version of SOTW am thinking of doing it with my son over the summer when i get home as part of our homeschool program and/or supplementing the public school curriculum if we end up seding him to school in the fall is written from a Protestant perspective. It has been a while so I can't remember details, but there were a few objectionable comments in part one because of this. I never went on with the rest because it was approaching the time period of the Protestant heresies and I did not want to deal with Catholics being portrayed as bad guys. I was pretty sure that was coming. Thanks for the info is very popular with people from his classical conversations group I think it starts off with ancient civilizations Story of civilization is supposed to be q Catholic version and supposedly a new thing. How did you do SOTW with your children is it something they read with you or did you do other projects to go along with it |
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Post by chestertonian on Jun 26, 2016 9:58:52 GMT -5
Susan Wise Bauer..Haven't read her material, but from the get-go her name sounds Jewish. At best, crypto-jew. You wouldn't like my name then |
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Post by Clotilde on Jun 26, 2016 10:42:16 GMT -5
I've personally clashed with SWB but I believe that SOTW is a decent program up to a certain point. If you buy the activity books there are a lot of fun things to do. Some things you still may have to edit on the fly, almost everything involving the Middle Ages is skewed. SWB has a completely demented view of Church history, which is where she, a third party, and myself had a blowout.
I don't know much about TAN's program but I confess, I'm not really looking around for anything new at the moment.
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Post by chestertonian on Jun 26, 2016 10:52:49 GMT -5
I've personally clashed with SWB but I believe that SOTW is a decent program up to a certain point. If you buy the activity books there are a lot of fun things to do. Some things you still may have to edit on the fly, almost everything involving the Middle Ages is skewed. SWB has a completely demented view of Church history, which is where she, a third party, and myself had a blowout. I don't know much about TAN's program but I confess, I'm not really looking around for anything new at the moment. What do you currently use for history /classical humanities for the younger ages? We do the four year rotation, with US history every few years. I generally use several books, like a D&K book, or an Useborne book, I like the Internet-linked one because there are some neat websites, and then I give little lectures from memory based the time period as we read . We also take field trips related to what we study. |
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Post by Clotilde on Jun 26, 2016 11:06:48 GMT -5
I've found that my children do not retain much other than a general sense of a timeline, no matter how many coloring pages or crafts we do. I just don't do them anymore. I feel that reading together, field trips, and following rabbit trails does more for them. Other people I know differ and their children can recite the Gettysburg address or all the names of the Presidents, but that's not for us.
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Post by chestertonian on Jun 26, 2016 11:26:09 GMT -5
yeah we don't do crafts that seems to be a mom thing my son loves memory workthough although he also has mots of questions about where the facts are connected to each other so i thought something more like a narrative would help
He blows through books and seems to retain a lot but his interests do not always lead him toward history and classics
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Post by Jayne on Jun 26, 2016 11:55:14 GMT -5
How did you do SOTW with your children is it something they read with you or did you do other projects to go along with it We had a CD of it that we listened to in the car. We did not do anything else with it. There were enough hints of anti-Catholic ideas in the Ancient Civilizations section, that I did not go further, but it was not at a level that made it unusable. I have asked around Catholic friends and they confirmed that it got worse when she got further along. If you want a history overview, I expect the Tan program to be better, but I don't have any personal experience with it. |
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Post by Clotilde on Jun 26, 2016 12:27:00 GMT -5
How did you do SOTW with your children is it something they read with you or did you do other projects to go along with it We had a CD of it that we listened to in the car. We did not do anything else with it. There were enough hints of anti-Catholic ideas in the Ancient Civilizations section, that I did not go further, but it was not at a level that made it unusable. I have asked around Catholic friends and they confirmed that it got worse when she got further along. If you want a history overview, I expect the Tan program to be better, but I don't have any personal experience with it. Yep. I was pretty much re-writing the book at one point and used it as a reminder about what I wanted to say--which was the opposite of what was in the book. SWB hates the Church and is a total liberal from my personal experience. What I did like is that it covered a good number of ancient civilizations on all continents. I like the children to have a good idea of what is going on simultaneously in other parts of the world, if we are focused on one location. |
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