SOTW - is it too confusing to do by civilization, rather than chronologically?

[Michelle T]

I'm planning on using SOTW 1 and 2 as read alongs for Oak Meadow 6. But OM goes by civilization, not strictly by chronology. So I would like to read SOTW out of order, skipping around to match chapters to that week's OM lesson.

Is this confusing? I see that some of the SOTW chapters refer to previous chapters, and I'm wondering if I read them out of order, will that be a problem?

Anyone else use SOTW 1 and 2 this way?
Michelle T

[Basketmaker Amy]

We are using Biblioplan with SOTW 2 this year and it schedules by countries....we haven't found it to be confusing. We are still loving SOTW and history!

[Julie in GA]

SOTW has been used this way. Previous posts (on the "old old" board) have addressed this issue. Somewhere there's a list of all the SOTW chapters for each major civilization/geographic region. Check Paula's Archives -- it might be there.

[Alana in Canada]

I saved it. Didn't write down who did all this work, though. My bad.

We'll never ever have the time to get to it, but it sure was cool.

Once again, probably "too many characters" for the post, so I'll do my best not to lose any of it.

I was thinking of doing this with 10yo this summer. We will have just finished SOTW 4 and I thought it might be a good review to just read, without doing any maps, activites, etc. Here's my schedule. Tell me what you think. (The Roman numeral represents which volume of SOTW and the Arabic numeral is the page number.

Africa
I 87-96 Ancient Africa
II 281-290 African Kingdoms
III 74-78 Queen Nzinga of Angola
III 343-348 Troubled Africa
IV 117-121 Carving Up Africa
IV 127-133 The Boers and the British
IV 150-155 Ethiopia and Italy
IV 351-355 One Country, Two Different Worlds
IV 379-383 Freedom in the Belgian Congo
IV 469-474 Africa, Independent

Egypt
I 29-33 Egyptians Lived on the Nile River
I 35-37 The First Writing
I 39-44 The Old Kingdom of Egypt
I 99-103 The Middle Kingdom of Egypt
I 105-113 The New Kingdom of Egypt
IV 107-111 The Suez Canal
IV 257-260 The First King of Egypt
IV 339-343 The Suez Crisis

The Middle East
I 45-47 The First Sumerian Dictator
I 59-62 Hammurabi and the Babylonians
I 63-69 The Assyrians
I 123-126 The Phoenicians
I 129-134 The Return of Assyria
I 137-142 Babylon Takes Over Again
I 171-176 The Medes and the Persians
II 67-74 The Rise of Islam
II 77-88 Islam Becomes an Empire
II 177-186 The Age of the Crusades
II 203-208 The Diaspora
III 81-84 The Middle of the East
IV 191-196 Persia, Its Enemies, and Its 'Friends'
IV 332-336 The Partitioning of Palestine
IV 415-420 Trouble in the Middle East
IV 426-431 Terrorism
IV 439-443 Iran and Iraq
IV 465-468 The First Persian Gulf War

India
I 71-75 The First Cities of India
I 233-240 The Aryans of India
I 241-246 The Mauryan Empire of India
II 59-64 The Medieval Indian Empire
II 293-299 India Under the Moghuls
III 107-113 The Moghul Emperors of India
III 181-188 The English in India
IV 9-13 The Sepoy Mutiny
IV 25-29 The Great Game
IV 237-242 Indian Nationalism
IV 329-332 Muslims and Hindus in India
IV 433-437 India After Partition

China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam
I 77-85 The Far East - Ancient China
I 247-259 China - Writing and the Qin
I 261-263 Confucius
II 91-96 The Great Dynasties of China
II 99-105 East of China
II 172-175 The Samurai: Japanese Knights
II 211-216 The Mongols Devastate the East
II 219-225 Exploring the Mysterious East
III 53-59 Warlords of Japan
III 99-105 Far East of Europe
III 191-197 The Imperial East
III 267-272 China and the Rest of the World
III 361-364 China Adrift
IV 15-18 Japan Re-opens
IV 41-46 The Taiping Rebellion
IV 86-90 Japan's Meiji Restoration
IV 93-96 The Dutch East Indies
IV 157-161 The Korean Battleground
IV 179-183 The Boxer Rebellion
IV 185-189 The Czar and the Admiral
IV 203-205 The Last Emperor
IV 207-209 The Vietnamese Restoration Society
IV 269-272 Japan, China, and a Pretend Emperor
IV 273-278 The Long March
IV 323-327 The Atom Bomb
IV 355-360 Two Republics of China
IV 363-367 Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh
IV 367-370 The Korean War
IV 411-415 The Vietnam War
IV 455-458 Democracy in China?

Australia, New Zealand
II 107-113 The Bottom of the World
III 229-237 Sailing South
III 375-379 New Zealand and Her Rulers
IV 113-117 The Iron Outlaw

Rome/Italy
I 209-213 The Rise of Rome
I 215-225 The Roman Empire
I 227-230 Rome's War with Carthage
I 265-272 The Rise of Julius Caesar
I 275-284 Caesar the Hero
I 285-289 The First Roman Prince
I 295-296 The End of the Jewish Nation
I 299-306 Rome and the Christians
I 307-311 Rome Begins to Weaken
I 313-320 The Attacking Barbarians
I 321-325 The End of Rome
II 17-22 The Glory That Was Rome
II 349-354 Reformation and Counter-Reformation
II 358-361 Galileo's Strange Notions
IV 37-41 Italy's 'Resurrection'
IV 260-266 Fascism in Italy

Crete, Greece
I (18) 143-150 Life in Early Crete
I (19) 153-156 The Early Greeks
I (20) 157-168 Greece Gets Civilized Again
I (22) 177-182 Sparta and Athens
I (23) 183-185 The Greek Gods
I (24) 187-191 The Wars of the Greeks
I (25) 193-198 Alexander the Great

Ottoman Empire
II 45-57 The Byzantine Empire
II 235-244 The Ottoman Empire
III 84-88 The Ottoman Turks
III 175-178 East and West Collide
IV 18-23 The Crimean War
IV 96-101 The Sick Man of Europe
IV 139-144 Abdulhamid the Red

Scandinavia
II 133-145 The Arrival of the Norsemen

Germany, Austria, Poland, the Balkans
II 331-334 Martin Luther's New Ideas
II 339-346 The Renaissance
II 355-358 The Revolution of Copernicus
III 15-18 The Holy Roman Empire
III 25-28 The Dutch Revolt
III 91-97 The Western War
III 135-138 The Rise of Prussia
IV 75-81 The Second Reich
IV 196-201 The Balkan Mess
IV 216-221 World War I
IV 227-231 The End of World War I
IV 245-249 The Peace of Versailles
IV 286-290 Hitler's Rise to Power
IV 299-302 Rebuilding the 'Fatherland'
IV 305-309 The Three-War War
IV 309-314 The Holocaust
IV 317-322 The War that Stretched Across the World
IV 459-461 Communism Crumbles

Russia
II 227-233 The First Russians
III 165-173 Russia Looks West
III 249-257 Catherine the Great
IV 147-150 The Next-to-Last Czar of Russia
IV 223-227 The Russian Revolution
IV 251-254 The Rise of Joseph Stalin
IV 423-426 Soviet Invasion
IV 445-449 Chernobyl and Nuclear Power
IV 461-462 Communism Crumbles

France
II 115-121 The Kingdom of the Franks
II 127-131 The Great Kings of France
II 255-262 France and England at War
III 129-133 The Sun King
III 239-246 Revolution Gone Sour
III 275-281 The Rise of Bonaparte
III 309-317 The End of Napoleon
IV 71-75 Two Empires and Three Republics

Spain, Portugal
II 123-125 The Islamic Invasion
II 186-189 El Cid and the Reconquest of Spain
II 273-279 The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal
II 301-308 Exploring New Worlds
III 19-22 The Riches of Spain
IV 293-297 Red Spain, Black Spain, a King, and a General

South America
I 199-207 The People of the Americas
III 319-327 Freedom For South America
IV 59-62 Paraguay and the Triple Alliance
IV 103-107 The War of the Pacific
IV 135-139 Brazil's Republic
IV 373-377 Argentina's President and His Wife

Central America
II 311-320 The American Kingdoms
II 323-330 Spain, Portugal, and the New World
III 283-286 Freedom in the Caribbean
III 329-335 Mexican Independence
IV 211-216 The Mexican Revolution

Canada
II 391-398 Explorations in the North
III 43-50 Searching for the Northwest Passage
III 145-149 War Against the Colonies: Louis X!V Saves France
IV 63-68 The Dominion of Canada

Great Britain, Ireland
II 25-33 The Early Days of Britain
II 35-42 Christianity Comes to Britain
II 147-156 The First Kings of England
II 157-166 England After the Conquest
II 169-172 English Code of Chivalry
II 191-201 A New Kind of King
II 263-270 War for the English Throne
II 334-338 Henry VIII's Problem
II 363-370 England's Greatest Queen
II 371-379 England's Greatest Playwright
II 401-405 Empires Colide
III 29-32 The Queen Without a Country
III 35-38 James, King of Two Countries
III 115-126 Battle, Fire, and Plague in England
III 155-163 The West
III 259-262 Steam and Coal in Britain
III 289-292 A Different Kind of Rebellion
IV 5-9 Victoria's England
IV 123-127 Ireland's Troubles
IV 233-237 The Easter Uprising

United States of America
II 381-388 New Ventures to the Americas
III 38-41 King James's Town
III 61-69 New Colonies in the New World
III 71-74 The Spread of Slavery
III 141-145 War Against the Colonies: King Philip's War
III 149-153 William Penn's Holy Experiment
III 199-206 Fighting Over North America
III 209-217 Revolution!
III 219-226 The New Country
III 262-264 Cotton and Guns in America
III 292-295 The Luddites
III 297-306 The Opened West
III 337-340 The Slave Trade Ends
III 351-358 American Tragedies
III 367-373 Mexico and Her Neighbor
III 381-384 The World of Forty-Nine
IV 49-56 South Against North
IV 83-86 Rails, Zones, and Bulbs
IV 161-167 The Spanish-American War
IV 169-177 Moving West
IV 281-286 Black Tuesday and a New Deal
IV 345-349 The Marshall Plan
IV 385-389 The Space Race
IV 389-395 Thirteen Days in October
IV 397- 402 The Death of John F. Kennedy
IV 402-408 Civil Rights
IV 449-452 The End of the Cold War

[training5]

All I can say is INCREDIBLE! WOW!!!! I saved it.

[HollyinNNV]

I'm planning on using SOTW 1 and 2 as read alongs for Oak Meadow 6. But OM goes by civilization, not strictly by chronology. So I would like to read SOTW out of order, skipping around to match chapters to that week's OM lesson.

Is this confusing? I see that some of the SOTW chapters refer to previous chapters, and I'm wondering if I read them out of order, will that be a problem?

Anyone else use SOTW 1 and 2 this way?
Michelle T

I did this with SL Core 5, SOTW 1,2 and 3. It went well.
Holly

[dragons in the flower bed]

I saved it. Didn't write down who did all this work, though. My bad.


It was Megan P.

http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/sotwgeo.htm

[Ali in OR]

If you would like to study SOTW by civilization, I say go for it! For me, that was one of the attractive things about Biblioplan which we use. I thought it would be a lot more fun to really get into one culture for an extended period of time rather than "culture-hop". Biblioplan schedules SOTW and the chapters end up being in a different order. Sometimes the beginning of a chapter references one we haven't read yet and it is really no big deal to say, "that's a reference to India--we'll be studying them later." It's never anything substantive that they have to know for the current chapter--usually just a sentence SWB wrote to transition from talking about one culture to another.

[Paula in PA]

This year for Medieval, my dh wanted to do the book straight through. I liked last year better. It was so much easier to find and get books from the library, I just grabbed everything to do with whatever area we were studying. This year, with all the jumping around, it is a lot harder to keep it all straight. I have to keep checking if we did this or that book already. :001_rolleyes: I'm hoping to get him to switch back for next year.

Paula in PA