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Becky Parker
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Posted: Feb 21 2012 at 11:49am \| IP Logged

I've always used Our Pioneers and Patriots and then Old World and America as our history spines. This year, for my ds starting 5th grade I switched to From Sea to Shining Sea. He is very visual and, at the beginning of the year, a reluctant reader. I felt that From Sea to Shining Sea would be a better choice for him. It has worked out fine.
Now I'm looking ahead to next year and I see that Seton has some new history books. Has anyone used these? I guess I'm looking for a comparison between the Seton history book for 6th grade and All Ye Lands, which CHC uses.

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Maryan
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Posted: Feb 21 2012 at 12:28pm \| IP Logged

I have both. I would say All Ye Lands is more visual because the pages are glossy, but the Seton book for under $20 is colorful... and went more in the order that I wanted to use for history. All Ye Lands is more of a civilization study (which is probably easier with younger kids to do!) The teacher's manual has a lot of supplement material to add to the mix. Used copies are hard to come by, so it's expensive -- albeit both are good Catholic organizations to which to give money.

The Seton text has a glossary and a little test after every chapter (with answers in the back). All the pictures are in color and they have maps throughout the text. If you are reading fun books alongside it, I think it would be a fine spine.

Full disclosure: I was too opinionated about what I wanted us to study. The Seton text didn't spend enough time on Ancient/Biblical history for my taste, so we used Mystery of History Vol I. And then I wanted to study, Christ through the Printing Press (which Seton had a lot more about -- not enough. We read some of their chapters, but I also downloaded SOTW Vol. II (editing out the chapters I didn't want) and adding other history summaries around the internet (or writing my own) to put in my kids notebooks. I haven't used the All Ye Lands at all -- other than my own reference.

I think the decision would be what style you want to study: civilization style or chronological history method. The All Ye Lands is more attractive, but the Seton book isn't that bad especially for $20.

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