Posted by vmsurbat on 23:06 Mar 9
In Reply to: Comparing TQ and MOH (warning....long) posted by vmsurbat
I don't know what happened in the above post, half of it was deleted. Here are some more answers to your questions:
You wrote: For this second cycle of history (for dd...1st cycle for son in grade three), what would the benefit be of using TQ with SOTW (or instead of SOTW)?
Ans: If you were going with a world history approach (SOTW), TQ will add some commentary from a Christian mindset appropriate for your eldest. It will also schedule in topics like architecture (Anc. Greece), army (Anc. Rome), that SOTW won't touch on.
You wrote: If you're using TQ, how are you incorporating mapwork or colouring pages into it? What are you using?
Ans: You will need outside sources. For my second grader, I *really* liked the Color and Learn History books (RR sells these). My youngest at the time used them all--they were great with do-able pictures and appropriately informative text. There are titles like Anc. Egypt, Anc. Rome, Anc. China, and more.
I used MOH and it gave me all the mapwork I needed (geared toward upper elementaries and higher, though).
You wrote: TOG compared to TQ...does TQ give as much biblical perspective? How does it lack? Why would one choose TQ for high school years over TOG?
Ans: TQ's biblical perspective is actually rather narrow: it focuses on the 2 Big Questions: 1. Who is God, and 2. Who, then, is Man? Mrs. Miller applies these two questions repeatedly to history/events/people. TOG does much more comparing events/people/movements with actual Scripture, dealing more directly with man's fallenness (and redemption in Christ), and has more comparing of cultures (because TOG studies *world* history and TQ traces only Western Civ. history). TOG also has a strong philosophical thread (if you choose to cover it).
You would choose TQ over TOG if you wanted only in-depth history (covering people, events, movements, art, authors (but not their literature)) with *real* books. You would choose TOG over TQ if you wanted history, literature, geography, philosophy, and government covered with *real* books in *ONE* program. (It is entirely possible to cover all these things with TQ *and* other programs). I don't think you would choose either one if you primarily wanted to cover history with *one* spine and supplemental readings of your choice....
You wrote: I like that SOTW tells me exactly where to go and in what order...I'm assuming that TQ is chronological? So if I use TQ and pull in SOTW I won't be jumping from the end of the book to the beginning but following fairly closely?
Ans: You won't be jumping all around SOTW, but there will be a bit of rearranging.
HTH,
Vicki in Crna Gora
Mom to 5