Who doesn't love a good plague? Or some barbarians? Monks in caves? Chinese dynasties? Charlemagne, Vikings, knights and Samurai, chivalry, Islam, popes, the Magna Carta? All covered here. Right up to Jacques Cartier and the world at the end of the sixteenth century. So much material is covered. and covered so well for the grammar school aged student, that the 409 pages doesn't seem like that much at all. Complete with a timeline and appendices there are 42 chapters covering the fall of Rome to Copernicus and the age of exploration. When used in conjunction with the Activity Book you can use this duo to cover a year's worth of history and, because it is so well written, it can be used over again as advised in the trivium method of learning.
The Activity Book for this volume was one of our absolute favorite learning tools when our children were grammar school age homeschoolers. These books serve as curriculum guides and are filled with activities to accompany each chapter. Included are maps, review cards, paper dolls, timeline, family trees, ideas for feast and festivals and clothing and crafts, and a coloring page. Each of the text book chapters is given a list of resources for additional reading in both literature and history. For instance, the accompanying activities for chapter nine, East of China, has ten review questions, a narration exercise on the Yamato Dynasty of Japan, a review of the three countries Korea, China and Japan, eleven additional history reading suggestions, 14 literature suggestions, map work a coloring page and five suggested crafts including how to design a Japanese kimono, write and illustrate a haiku and learn to play Karawase, a Chinese shell game. This was one of our all time favorite periods in our study of history and these books were our ever present companions.
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