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 The Story of the World: Activity Book One: Ancient Times, Second Edition :: 0971412952
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| This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide contains all you need to make history come alive for your child! Don't just read about history—experience it! Color a picture of a Minoan bull-jumper, make a model of the Nile River, create Roman armor and Celtic jewelry and more. Designed to turn the accompanying book The Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times into a complete history program, this Activity Book provides you with comprehension questions and answers, coloring pages, lists of additional readings in history and literature, and plenty of simple, hands-on activities—all designed for grades 1-4. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
I could not agree more with the reviewer who stated that this activity book is dumbed down to little more than a coloring book. While the accompanying text is generally engaging and valuable, the activity book has been very disappointing from two aspects:
First, it is primarily a series of coloring pages. The maps are slightly useful, but their "mapwork" typically involves something like taking a yellow crayon to follow the already dotted line. The questions are useful only if the parent is not reading along with the child to guide them in comprehension of the material.
More insidiously, the textbook treads dangerously close to being a humanistic primer in "The Kid's Guide to Choosing A Religion." There may indeed be a market for that. Additionally, it is clear that homeschoolers are not limited to fundamentalist Christians. However, this book is heavily marketed through fundamentalist Christian catalog sources and, to me, that is misleading marketing. The reviewer who requested Christians stay away from commenting about books marketed on this secular website is ill-informed about the marketing thrust of this book and publisher.
It is unfortunate that this author has chosen to emphasize political correctness, which is most actively done in the first volume of the Story of the World series. It seems inconsistent with traditional classical approaches to introduce the more philisophical thought processes in the early elementary grades. I am NOT a parent who believes that children should not be exposed to other cultures or religions. On the contrary, as a Christian parent, I think it is critical for our children of appropriate age level to understand the basic tenets of other religions, their often frightening origins, and how they are contrasted by the Biblical worldview.
Buy what you choose to buy. No one is trying to assert that all curriculum is Christian based. Christians should, however, be aware that this volume treats the introduction of our Lord Jesus Christ in the same way that it introduces Confuscius, Buddha, and other Greek gods. It does not even attempt to begin the "Story of the World" with ANY explanation of its origin, let alone giving even the option of understanding Creation. The story begins with nomadic tribes. It proceeds through an awkward attempt at melding Abraham, the Story of Gilgamesh, Greek Gods,and Confucius. Rather than an exhaustive and encompassing world approach to covering history, it has an overemphasis on the religious entities of those cultures and blurs the lines between fact and fiction.
My experience with this series has unexpectedly caused a hesistation on my part to purchase ANY material from this author.
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Author: Guest
Did people complain to Susan Wise Bauer that "this classical homeschooling is too durn HARD" or does her press believe that other parents and kids are dumber than hers? I mean, that may be the case, but there's no excuse for this activity book, especially when the text it's bouncing off of is so good.
I like the "Story of the World" text. I love having the text on cd too, so the kids can listen to it again and again. I even like the "additional reading" recommendations this activity book suggests. But this is not a great deal more than a glorified coloring book, with activity ideas, maps, busy work like "word finds" and art taken from other sources. The oddest thing about this activity book is that it falls into the mold of other "forced creativity" books for kids. Now, after reading about shadufs in "Story of the World," my children (6 and 4.5) were very interested. So they went outside and made a canal and shaduf in the sandbox. They didn't know the activity book suggested making a shaduf, and gives a thorough outline of materials needed, etc. That's what I mean by dumbed-down. Give the kids some credit. Give them time to figure things out themselves and make up their own activities.
I should also point out that the "consumable" pages in the bound book are impossible to tear out, and are also somewhat different from the looseleaf ones Peace Hill Press sends out.
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Author: Guest
Great activity book! Enhances the text and brings history to life! My 2nd grader comprehends the story text and can't wait to share "her version" of the story prior to picking the "project" for the lesson! Great variety, simple things to do to bring it alive!
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Author: Guest
I re-visited the idea of getting the activity book when my friend had all these amazing project ideas, coloring pages and activity pages--all from the activity workbook. It's tremendous, thorough, and does a lot of research and thinking for you. It's a fabulous extension of the Story of the World books.
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Author: Guest
We are 4 weeks into enjoying Story of the World Book 1 and have found the activity book to be a great complement. The suggested activities for each chapter make the text come alive. The group of coloring pages alternates between informative (but not overwhelming) maps and coloring pages appropriate to the text. I was especially pleased to coincidently (?) see a full color illustration in one of my mother-in-law's books on ancient Egypt that matched my daughter's coloring page version. We might have done the narrative retelling on our own, but having the narration guidelines helps. I like the activity book and don't know what we'd do without it!
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