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The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR

Don't just read about history—experience it! Designed to turn The Story of the World, Volume 4 into a complete history program, this activity book provides comprehension questions and answers, sample narrations, maps and geography activities, coloring pages, lists of additional history and literature readings, and many hands-on learning activities, all designed for grades 2-5.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780972860352
ISBN: 0972860355
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 450
Publication Date: 2005-12-28
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR
• The Story of the World Activity Book Three: Early Modern Times
• The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times
• The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR (4: The Modern Age) (v. 4)
• The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4 Tests: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent book for grade 4 and up
Comment: To everyone who is whining that this book is not geared for younger children: IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FOR YOUNGER KIDS! Ms. Bauer clearly spells out her philosophy that history should be taught in the order that events occur. This book offers lots of literature suggestions for the slightly older student as well as the opportunity to begin practicing outlining as a study technique. As with all the previous activity guides this includes guided response questions for comprehension assessment. For those who want a "unit studies" approach that they can use for multiple grade levels at once, please look elswewhere. This subject matter does not work well with that approach.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Just what we were looking for!
Comment: This activity book looks to be exactly right for my son who will be in fourth grade and nine -years-old. He is excited about switching from summaries to the outlines and we all love the maps. You just can't have too many maps in a book, at least in this house you can't.

I can see that if you have not been following the Well Trained Mind suggestions in having your child write detailed 6-10 sentence summaries, then the writing might be overwhelming, but I think it is the perfect next step for those of us who have. Compared to the suggested summaries for the third volume of the series, I was pleased that the emphasis for Volume Four seems to be on organization of writing rather than volume.

Customer Rating:
Summary: More tools...
Comment: I didn't think I'd be as happy with this book as I was with Vols. 2&3, but even though the reading lists aren't as extensive, I'm thrilled with the timeline cards & PRONUNCIATION GUIDE! If they were in the other volumes, I missed them. It's such a great idea to have the pronunciation guide when you read aloud! My DD9 will learn how to relate historical events so much better using the timeline cards as well. Can't WAIT to get going!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely HO HUM
Comment: OK the students are older so they need a little more writing, but that is all this work book is! Boring. I can make outlines to be written from, which is what you get in this hefty book... and maps- lots of maps. The creative factor is what I want in the work book; it's what I pay for and it isn't there in this one.

It is the fourth in Bauer's history series and I think she ran out of steam. It's too bad; her earlier work books are creative. My kids with the previous work books said, "Yay! History!" Now they say, "Is it another outline?" You could save the money and just make your students outline the entire history book.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Helpful
Comment: This book has been very helpful in planning a history curriculum. Other reviewers are correct the ditto portion you can copy is mainly maps. It is also a bit weaker than the other books in this group. However, despite those two complaints, this is a very useful book when planning curriculum for a homeschool student. There are discussion topics, craft ideas and more.

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