Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook, 2nd Edition: The Complete Middle School Study Guide

Everything You Need...in One Big Fat Notebook

by Workman Publishing, Ximena Vengoechea (Contributor), Michael Lindblad (Contributor)

From the brains behind  Brain Quest comes the 2nd edition of the revolutionary World history study guide. Updated to include recent history and revised to reflect a more complete, balanced recounting of historical events.
 
Big Fat Notebooks offer the support of a knowledgeable teacher in the form of an approachable peer—the notes of the smartest kid in class.  Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook is the same indispensable resource so many students depend on, updated with new and improved content exploring ancient civilizations, indigenous cultures, social movements, war, colonialism, imperialism, and more! The revised edition provides a thoughtful, nuanced recounting of global historical events that de-centers Western, Indo-European  perspectives.
 
The Big Fat Notebooks meet Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and state history standards, and are vetted by National and State Teacher of the Year Award–winning teachers. They make learning fun, and are the perfect next step for every kid who grew up on Brain Quest .

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Education

576 pages, Paperback

Published April 11, 2023

Reviews

[Reading Mouse]

I know that this book is for middle school world history, but I just want to clarify that I am not in middle school. I just read this book for a little review on world history because I mostly forgot everything I learned.

This book was a nice book for a review. But it was a bit too long, which was mostly because of the large fonts and many graphs and pictures, which made me take longer than necessary for the book.

Anyway hope this helps.

Enjoy 😘

[Ellie Holloway]

A very interesting recap of world history. An easy read and despite it taking a very US-centric view, it was quite informative.

[Niz]

Great overview for anyone who needs a history refresher. Although it is way too light on Napoleon. He needs his own chapter at least.

[April]

These books are the best. Here is who these books benefits aside from the intended audience of middle schoolers: anyone who for whatever reason didn’t learn the basics on the subject and needs an easy overview. That’s me! I own all in this series and the world history is the first one I read. I highly recommend these books for any age.

[Dagmawit Daniel]

soo good

[Aleksandra]

Good as always. I would say US history is slightly over-represented in this book and maybe it is a huge summary of what happened in history but overall, recommended.

[Cheri]

Christian myth is not historical fact.

[Mandee]

This is a great book that covers all the standards for public school in our area. It is also fun which is important when keeping a 6th grader on track.

[Marianne Webb]

Loved this book and the way it is set out and I’ll keep it for a reference book to go back to and learn more about history.

[j p]

good book. a little boring. let’s hope it’s enough for next year.