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So, as I am clicking around today, I started looking at Cathy Duffy's Top 100 Picks. She really likes the series The Mystery of History. I am wondering if someone can give me a comparison of that and SOTW.
Thanks!
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MOH has a very strict protestant young earth view of creation. It is explicit throughout MOH volume 1 book.
I took this out of the library because I was interested in using it for core 6 next year but my ds spent about 5 minutes with it and said no way. In lesson 4 they dwell on dinosaurs and state they were created on days 5 and 6 and therefor co-existed with man. She urges students to research evolution but suggests they use Answers in Genesis for their source.
Aside from the glaringly anti science slant, I dont admire her writing style. Yes, its a narrative approach which I like, but the vacabulary isnt particularly rich.
In the back of MOH is a section devoted to accepting Christ as your Personal Savior. It is taken from the Campus Crusade for Christ.
I love the idea. I wish someone would write a catholic MOH.
MOH II has some explicit issues for catholics on the faith versus works question. She addresses it directly from a protestant viewpoint.
I have not yet used SOTW so can't compare the two. I will have to stick with SOTW for core 5 because I can't see any way to work around the literal creation aspect of MOH.
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Here is a previous thread about it.
Are you on the SL-Cath or CatholicWP yahoo group lists? This was just recently discussed.
I have it, I have used it.
It is definitely YEC. But, that is easily skipped.
She writes in a friendly, informal fashion, to the student. It was very nice in that way.
She is definitely of a Protestant persuasion - however, especially in Vol 1 - it is up to the Resurrection. There are no "Catholics" yet. So....not really any anti-Catholicism going on.
In Vol 2 - which I have NOT used - there are more issues, of course, due to the time period.
I can say, what I have seen of volume two, she capitilizes the word Pope, which many other Prot sources don't - and she covers many, many saints - and calls them "saint" - "St Dominic" "St Francis" etc. Again, most Prot sources don't do that.
In comparing with SOTW. Well.
I had tried SOTW earlier this school year.
My biggest problem with SOTW? You can not change the KNOWN dates that things happened to make for better storytelling. If you have a degree in History or related, it is very likely SOTW will make you want to pull your hair out.
But the SOTW activity book is pretty good.
CHOW and LHOTW are both, imo, much, much better than either of these.
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Cactus mouse, what's LHOTW? I think CHOW must be A Child's History of the World? Thanks!
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LHOTW is Golmer (sp) Little History of the World which is very nice.
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