Secular History Homeschool Curriculum '24-'25 // Story of the World vs. Curiosity Chronicles

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00:00 - Intro
04:20 - SOTW Pros/Cons
09:34 - CC Pros/Cons
16:42 - How I'm Choosing
28:41 - What Now?
34:30 - TLDR Recap
35:19 - You Can Look Forward To...
36:25 Outro

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[OdetoAbode]

✨ We've been researching, sampling, and debating over here! I feel like we landed in a good place 🤗
🗺️ What are you planning on using for History, Social Studies, Geography or Humanities next year?

[andrewjessicahersh]

We are not secular homeschoolers and I’m currently not looking for a world history curriculum for next year but it was so nice to see that you found something that fit your family’s needs in the end. As homeschooling nerds, it can be interesting to hear of other people’s journey and decision making process. Looks like it’s going to be a fun year for you all!

[Ahomeontheprairies]

Guest hollow geography looks like a lot of fun! I have had my eye on that one as well :)

[idemelendez]

We are way behind and haven’t done any history at all. Finding something that my son wouldn’t cry with or get stressed out has been hard. I haven’t heard about curiosity chronicles before so I’m checking the sample. Story of the world I had to sell last year. After Sebastian’s Tourette got really bad because I was forcing him to read garbage (his words).

[HeatherAnne]

I really appreciate this video! You did a great job explaining the history curriculums that i have also been considering and the geography and art studies curriculums at the end sound very interesting and I haven't heard of them before! I learned so much! Thank you and keep up the great content! ❤

[ashleymurphy]

This was incredibly helpful, thank you!

[kristinataylor]

Thank you for this video! I’m still not sure what to do for history, but I now know what I won’t be using 😁

[Michelgia]

We love doing around the world there is so much to explore!!!

[maggiepanning]

I found this very interesting, thank you. We are doing HQ, CC, and pieces of Layers of Learning (history and art) next. We vastly preferred HQ Early Times over CC Ancients, but after reading the CC Medieval sample we both decided to add it. My son will be in 5th grade, so it being more advanced works for us and he is headed into middle school. That being said, time will tell if we actually like it or not. I am hopeful because the chapters are longer (the chapters in ancient times were so short it drove me nuts). I think doing GH Jr. Geography is a great idea and I love that you allowed your girls so much say in what you’ll be doing next. I am curious, you never mentioned HQ US in your decision making process. Had you already ruled it out due to the subject, because it is designed for kids a bit older than your youngest, or another reason?

[ashleymahealani]

Forgive me if you’ve mentioned it in a previous video, but have you tried or looked into Blossom and Root’s “A River of Voices” history curriculums? Would love to hear your opinion on them and how they compare to History Quest, SOTW and CC!

[jenniferl]

I was thinking about curiosity chronicles but I’m pretty sure we are going to do moving behind the page instead along with other books we find at the library

[MysticWAFFLWZ]

I have a sixth grader starting world history. I love the idea of CC. Would it work for a 6th grader and up?

[lindavasquezrubio]

SOTW was recommended by our charter. It was absolute torture listening to the sample audio of SOTW.

[Abelfam]

I ended up getting core knowledge for ancient history. I like how its set up and how I can pretty much use it as open and go but I feel like it lacks depth. So we have paired it with evan moor lapbook and you tube video and books from the library. Once we finish ancient history I do want to find something else. Not sure what yet though.