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SOTW is (annoyingly) working well for us. 
i could conceivably do books 1, 2, 3, and 4, and that will cover my ds 11 for 5, 6, 7, and 8th (beefed up with other books, a la Sonlight, etc...)
but - i have heard after book one there are some issues for Catholics.
is there a "red flag" list somewhere that points out the problem chapters?
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It's Book 2 - Middle Ages and Early Renaissance because this covers the Reformation and it is not handled as well as it could be. Anything after Chapter 34 and after, you will want to screen and decide how to handle for your family. There is actual error in it regarding Church teaching. I'm not sure what we are going to do when we get there. Right now I am reading Hillaire Belloc's How the Reformation Happened for myself so that I can be better informed. Interesting book, but I'd love it if he went deeper.
I haven't looked extensively at Book 3 yet, but we did not have any problems with Book 4 when my ds did it for 4th grade.
SOTW has been a great spine for us. We do add in lots of additional reading, but both the kids old enough to use it, enjoy it. The maps have been awesome for us, too.
Valerie (vmallot) cross-referenced SOTW 2 with some other books on her blog. http://vmalott.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/catholic-resour.html
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I've got notes and an alternative plan as a file for book two. For book 3, I believe we just skipped the first two chapters. I have to preview book 4 over Christmas break. 
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Bumping this old thread.
Mary Chris let me know that SOTW was available as a download -- I didn't know that! So I'm contemplating buying SOTW 2 download; printing the pages that are not problematic; avoiding chapters with a Protestant pov per Valerie's and Books' documents; and then supplementing on those topics.
I want to study Pentecost - 1450, so I'm avoiding most of the trouble anyway.
Just an FYI to anyone else who didn't realize SOTW came as a download. Although not that I've made any hard and fast decisions on what I'm really going to do! 
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Those prices are quite nice in comparison! Here's the link to the store.
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How perfect for your plan, Maryann!
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That's what I thought too! Thanks Lindsay! I'm seriously thinking about it.
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Maryan wrote:
Bumping this old thread.
Mary Chris let me know that SOTW was available as a download -- I didn't know that! So I'm contemplating buying SOTW 2 download; printing the pages that are not problematic; avoiding chapters with a Protestant pov per Valerie's and Books' documents; and then supplementing on those topics. |
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That is a really fantastic idea, Maryan!!! I'm going to file that one away! I did not know that you could download SOTW either! Thanks so much for sharing! 
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I've just spent yesterday re-reading through all the SOTW posts here. The last 2 terms we read and used the activity guides for Vol 4. I can't rave about this enough, being modern history it was fascinating to my boys as many events kept happening on the world scene just after we read a particular chapter ie. We read about Egypt, the boys wanted to know what happened next in Egyptian history and then Egypt burst onto the world scene.
After reading and deliberating hard yesterday I have only just ordered Vol 1 (for my dd9) and Vol 2 (for boys 16, 14 & 11) with accompanying guides.
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