The Story of the World 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition Volume 1 Ancient Times Instructor Guide is packed full of the tools you’ll need to direct your student’s learning. Now the Instructor Guide and Student Activity books are separate volumes. This guide is extremely user friendly. This newest edition is a significant and outstanding update from the previous editions’ Activity Book. The larger, easy-to-read font and layout make the program more pick-up-and-go. Key tasks, the steps to take, and supporting activities and newly updated and expanded reading options are simple to choose from. The teacher oral script for student narrations, the review questions, and mapping exercises are bolded. Answers are written in simplified italics. Icons identify the plentiful Interactive Activities, and whether they are adaptable for a classroom; are low-prep, or those that require physical activity.
The Instructor Guide allows you to easily customize this course to your family or classroom needs. Yet, the key components are straight forward and easily implemented. Core Exercises will alternate between review questions and narration questions. Each chapter includes map work and student review cards (found in the Student Workbook). Activity options are labeled by type, and include math and science related, coloring pages, field trips, etc.
Sections are clearly identified: Read & Review; Narrations, Map Work, etc., with clear steps, supplies needed, etc. Additional History and Literature readings are updated and include brief descriptions. Newly updated, the annotated literature choices range from Christian to secular, so you can choose to meet your family’s needs. For activities, exercises, “Read and Review,” the parent’s script and answers are included. Typically, there are storytelling activities, games, memory work and more, providing additional ways to engage with history. Certain chapters provide a culminating activity (Celebrations).
If you are wanting to dive deeper
and tailor the course specifically for you and your learners, detailed appendixes
will resource you quickly—super user friendly. Briefly, these Appendixes
include:
- Appendix One: Creative writing prompt instructions
- Appendix Two: Instructions for optional memory work activities
- Appendix Three: Supplies needed (those frequently used and also products by chapter needed)
- Appendix Four: Activities by Type (quick activities; art, chapter celebrations; classroom activities; cooking; craft; field trips; games; Low and No Prep; make a mode; math; memory work; movement’ picture study; and research skills.
- Appendix Five: salt dough recipe
- Appendix Six: suggested schedules (2-day; 4-day; co-op/classroom scheduling; and ends with a detailed 36-week schedule
I personally found this Instructor’s Guide very user friendly and simple to implement. Non-reproducible, 435 pages, sc. ~ Ruth