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The Story of the World
The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times: Tests and Answer Key (Vol. 1) (Story of the World)
History has been taught in a boring way for far too long.
A subject as moving and powerful as humanity's past should be inviting, and when it is told well, it is. Susan Wise Bauer succeeds in telling the captivating story of history with her best-selling history series. Parents and young readers have fallen in love with her narrative history, The Story of the World, and its accompanying Activity Book.
Now teachers and home educators can take advantage of a new and valuable learning tool.
These easy-to-use tests and answer keys, successfully used by hundreds of parents and teachers, provide an objective method for measuring retention of key facts, figures, and events from history. A combination of sequencing, matching, short-answer, and essay-style questions gives students a chance to show what they've learned.
Used with the Activity Book and The Story of the World, the tests give educators a complete history curriculum for their elementary school students.
A subject as moving and powerful as humanity's past should be inviting, and when it is told well, it is. Susan Wise Bauer succeeds in telling the captivating story of history with her best-selling history series. Parents and young readers have fallen in love with her narrative history, The Story of the World, and its accompanying Activity Book.
Now teachers and home educators can take advantage of a new and valuable learning tool.
These easy-to-use tests and answer keys, successfully used by hundreds of parents and teachers, provide an objective method for measuring retention of key facts, figures, and events from history. A combination of sequencing, matching, short-answer, and essay-style questions gives students a chance to show what they've learned.
Used with the Activity Book and The Story of the World, the tests give educators a complete history curriculum for their elementary school students.
94 pages, Paperback
First published September 17, 2007
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Susan Wise Bauer
156 books1,131 followersSusan Wise Bauer is an American author, English instructor of writing and American literature at The College of William and Mary, and founder of Well-Trained Mind Press (formerly Peace Hill Press).
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March 10, 2025
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May 19, 2026
An excellent companion to the history book. I didn't use it as much with the 1st grade curriculum, since my 1st graders were not strong enough readers to read the tests, but may be more useful when one circles back for 5th grade.
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