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I am trying to be efficient 
I am trying to do something with both my kids because they would rather DO than sit and read a workbook and answer questions to learn. Ds is in 9th and is pretty smart. Dd is in 4th, but struggles with some things like writing and spelling.
I was thinking I could do science or history with them together and just get a high school level book for ds to read on his own after the elementary lessons. But now he is going to take a chemistry class so science is out,
I am looking at connections in History. But it looks like a lot of work. We loved Story of the World. But I don't want to weed out the anti Catholic stuff.
So, can I do this?
Any other suggestions for world history?
Thanks in advance.
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That's a pretty wide age spread, but you could consider a "spine" text like . . . (looking at Baldwin Project here, my go-to for things like this . . . ):
M.B. Synge, On the Shores of the Great Sea or A Book of Discovery.
Then your 9th-er could read, for example, Warren Carroll's Founding of Christendom as a corresponding ancient-history text and move forward through that series, and/or read corresponding primary texts (which could also count for literature -- Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Beowulf, and so on . . . ). This would provide a very meaty course for that age level ( it's more or less what I do for 9th).
The spine, plus age-appropriate living books, would be plenty for your 4th-er.
That way you've got both children plugged into something shared, which I think is a great idea. If you use the Morning Basket concept of starting your day with some shared read-alouds (not only history, but maybe something in religion, or a living book in science, or a good, rich picture book that all can appreciate), then you can, in that time, do some integrated learning with even your wide age spread. Then each child can move on to more specifically-age-level-appropriate independent work.
Sally
PS: we focus specifically on ancient history/literature in 9th, but you can see my "foundations of Western Civ-ish" reading list here..
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This year we did history together (grades 8, 5, 3 and K) and it went well. I had additional readings from SOTW for the littles and the biggies. Of course all picture books for youngers and chapter books for older. I'm sure you could use history as a spine if you are reading aloud to both.
I would definitely combine nature study, pleutarch, shakespeare and basic art together. IMHO.
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The spread between 4th and 9th is pretty wide, but we have had good results combining similar grade spans in areas such as geography, saint biographies, scripture study and memory, catechism, and such.
For me, though, combining history studies would have been too hard to juggle. In the time it would take the ninth grader to get to the meat of an event, the 4th grader would jump a few centuries ahead on the timeline :-)
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