Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks) [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

Not a mention, let alone a section, on the slave trade!? Apart from the egregious moral skipping of an inconvenient truth, how can the histories of both Americas, let alone Africa and Europe, be written without it? Most schools teach it, making the omission more glaring. The book is disqualified as a teaching aid.

This is an easy to use book. It definitely is coming from a non Christian perspective so don't be alarmed when you open the book and it states humans developed from apes, theory of evolution and much more. It does highlight main topics per Era, but obviously isn't able to go over everything. There is a question with answer portion after each chapter. This book could benefit from a supported workbook. I homeschool 3 kids from grades 4th to 7th and they seem to like the book, however I don't believe in the Theory of Evolution so I tread lightly in that area and discuss other scientific evidence that shows other theories.

A weird, deliberately post-modernist take on 20th century history. Seems like benign oversight at first - but becomes clear that there is a strange marxist/collectivist, quasi-anti semitic theme running through the book.Leaves out almost every horror of communism in Russia, China and other nations. The book presents communism as just another acceptable form of government. No mention of the systematic torture, starvation and enslavement of the population.Also - odd description of the middle east conflict that does not mention at all the rejection of a proposed Palestinian state during the formation of state of Israel in 1948. Just describes Israel as a "Jewish state taking control" of Arab land. As if Jews came in and just took over. I guess thats one way to look at it if you want to ignore inconvenient facts.Also - super weird - describes the WWII holocaust in a way that makes it seem that Nazi's persecuted lots of people - some of which just happened to be Jews. In fact, when the book gives a description of identification badges Nazis made people wear - it first lists 8 variously colored symbols (from "foreign prisoners" to "Jehova's Witnesses") before listing the yellow star of David Jews were forced to wear, almost as an afterthought. From reading this, a kid would not even realize that the Nazi's systematically hunted down and killed 2/3 of european jews.So - if you want a book that lists facts in such a way as to create a misleading narrative - this is the book for you and your kid.

My 7th grade daughter absolutely loves this whole series and so do I! She is homeschooled and learns easily but gets bogged down sometimes by curricula and regular textbooks. These study guides have been a great way for her to learn the important information and retain it. We currently use the entire series as her "spine" for learning after using a plethora of curricula choices (online, classical, unit studies, you name it) in the past. She reads the chapter as an intro, then we research in other sources as needed (sometimes completing additional projects as well) and then she completes the quiz at the end of the chapter. We use the Math book along with ALEKS online math but the other books are a great scope & sequence for middle school students along with a few other supplemental materials. Her standardized test scores have increased drastically since we bought these books last fall, yet she feels like she's in control of her education and able to dive in deeper to the subjects as she wants/needs as part of our interest driven educational philosophy.

I only gave this book three stars because the first chapter is useless. When will we wake up to the FACT that evolution is only a THEORY. Let's teach our students what we actually know to be fact and discard the rest or at least possess enough integrity to teach it as a possible theory. Guess I should have looked into the book before buying (We love the MATH of this series) instead of assuming it was acceptable in terms of actual history condensed into a readable volume.

So I teach six grade social studies, which is world history And I absolutely love this book. The visuals are great and the reading is easy to understand. It is written at a level that adults and children alike can enjoy. I would highly recommend this for a student that is struggling with history or someone that enjoys reading and learning more about history. It’s an absolutely great resource to have in my classroom and I think it would be wonderful for anyone who loves history!

Awesome book! Makes learning fun! I’m not in middle school I’m an adult pursuing my history degree but the information is very accuract and fun to read.

This book is bigger than I imagined. (Like most people I tend to forget to look at size dimensions when ordering) However, it’s great size and actually a very attractive book. I think my teen will enjoy using it for her homeschool studies.We just received this so I’m not positive on how effective it will be in teaching but from other reviews, I’m hopeful.I did notice that this book ends with 2015 so anything beyond that will need to be learned else where. I hope this is helpful to another.Happy learning!

These books are amazing! I read them aloud for discussion topics with my 9 year old. As well as it's a wonderful resource for the timeline of history. The American History & Science are just as awesome.Age group is geared towards middle school (11+.) It gives basic topic information (1-2 pages per event.) It can be a great jumping off point for reasearch projects.

pretty cool notebook. my daughter loves it

Pages are a bit thin/sheer but otherwise it’s great

Among all other ancient civilizations, how is it that ancient Persia didn't deserve to be in the list in this book. Ancient Persia and ancient Rome were always competing and budding heads. How can it be omitted.The information on timeline is inaccurate about divide of Muslims in two groups. The books says the divide happened after the 3rd caliph when in reality the disagreement mentioned took place at the time of Prophet's death. Picture included.No information on the civilization of Native Americans, only mentions colonization of Americas. Negative depiction of Spanish invaders in South America. Positive depiction of British invaders in North America.The book is laid out well but lacks a lot of information. The information is biased and cherry picked. Secular and supports evolution.

Fantastic book. We use it as one of the primary resources for homeschooling as the format and content is teenage-friendly