I am looking into doing MOH next yr with my dds. I thought I would have my dd8 begin reading SOTW beginning in January as a reader/history book.
We found them both interesting, we diid the blue books in SOTW last year and are now doing M OH the red books... I think that you cna use SOTW for older kids too but MOH is more text booky, yet very interesting because my ds has taken to reading it himself, with only occasionally asking me to read for him now and with STOW it was the othe rway around, it was story reading and he really enjoyed listening to ME read to him more so then. Now with MOH he reads and we talk about what he is reading as he hits something that facinates him.
Soc The Foreword of SOC was written by Dr. Henry Morris. I thought it was probably for high school, but I couldn't find anything in the book or online that indicated grade levels. Well, it was first published in 1976. It may have had a difficult time being accepted for public school usage back then, but it would be almost impossible now. A lot of SOTW lovers think that SOTW is written at a higher level than MOH. There have been heated discussions about this at the Well-Trained Mind board. Since your oldest child is a first grader, IMO, you shouldn't even consider SOC for quite a few years. It's far beyond first-grade level. Now, if you're thinking about getting it for yourself, that's different, but I don't think it's necessary. I only read a little of it. You should read to your child the online samples of MOH and SOTW. That'll give you a good idea of which you would prefer. Also, MOH has come out with quite a few extras since I used it. There are now lapbooks, craft pak, coloring pages, audio set, and printables CD (a lot easier than photocopying the worksheets from the thick book). Why do the letters "oc" in the title keep being turned into lower case?
Well, I stopped schooling my youngest four years ago, but we used SOS for two years before that. I guess it would have been out then, but by then I was pretty much teaching only unit studies especially for the humanities, science and history. AND, I had very little contact with homeschoolers because there had been no active group in our area for several years. It may have been out for a year or two, but I hadn't heard of it yet. Thanks for the info on the programs, Jackie! I'm going to the websites now.
AHH just when I think I have something figured out you ladies come and mess it all up. LOL I was leaning towards SOTW but I like the idea of MOH much better with a stronger christian base.
LOL!!! That was me four or five years ago! No one heard about MOH then, and EVERYONE on here was in love with SOTW! I was so sold on it! So I went to the library first and got a copy of "The Well-Trained Mind". It TOTALLY didn't sit well with me! Carl and I started reading it together, and BOTH of us got the exact same check in our spirit. Then he looked at SOTW and said he wanted history from a Christian perspective, and didn't want me using it. So it was back to the drawing board! A friend suggested MOH, and it really is a MUCH better fit for our family.
Aggie after using both, I like MOH beter myself. I love the red books we are using with the activies at several levels to use. My ds chooses between them some days and I assign the hardest ones other days. We are way behind rightnow though he pointed out to me.. but I have been a bad teacher this year! HE has been reading but we have to get on the projects SO I printed up someNotebook pages for him to get started on one of them! He gets really interested in some areas and we dig into it more in research and studies and forget the Geography parts, but that is okay because NEXT year I amfocusing totally on World Geo! So how ever you choose to do it , it works!
Interesting thread! I use SOTW and DD and I have really enjoyed it. I'm using all four volumes over three years for grades 6-8. While the text may have been written for younger students, the facts of history don't change. So, we use the texts as a jumping off point and do LOTS of inter-library loan for the suggested readings in the Activity Guides. And, of course, now that I'm reading this thread, I'm thinking of checking out MOH (like aggie01 posted, I thought I had everything figured out LOL!)
I couldn't decide between the two....so, I'm doing both MOH and SOTW together. There is a link to a website that arranges the two books, so they can be used together. I like SOTW because she adds a great book list to go with each chapter...and most of the books can be found at the library. I like the biblical approach to MOH. They are both great. You'll have to do a search for corresponding chapters in MOH & SOTW
