SECULAR HISTORY | Accurate History Secular Homeschool Curriculum 2021 2022

SECULAR HISTORY | Accurate History Secular Homeschool Curriculum 2021 2022 | Texas History

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Secular History
You guys know what a struggle this is. I do see us progressing to some of the more involved secular history curriculums as my girls age. I have done so much research. As usual, I need your feedback if you have any experience and can help me out! Have you used any of these? What are your thought? I really am feeling pretty confident in my choices. I am very excited about the Studies Weekly for Texas History. I have linked below everything that I have talked about in the video. Please share if you have experience with any of these. Please share if I am missing something I need to know about. Thanks to your wealth of knowledge for getting me this far!
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Story of The World:
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History Quest:
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Curiosity Chronicles:
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Honest History:
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Blossom & Root:
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Torchlight:
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Woke Homeschooling:
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@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe that I managed to get this video up this week. I talk about the impending bad weather at the end of this video. I had no idea we would be facing what has hit Texas this week. No power, no water, no internet, some cell service, and ALL.THE.COLD! In other news, I made chili and oatmeal in a castiron on my fireplace and feel like that was a history lesson in itself.

@derina_plansherlife3006 3 жыл бұрын

I hope you all are doing good. In upstate NY, we know how to deal with the cold. You guys got hit quickly with it.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Better today, it was mid 50's and sunshine. This was so brutal, our area is not prepared to deal with this kind of weather.

@user-zh7uy6oc5q 3 жыл бұрын

Hate this for you! Worried about y'all as soon as I heard. Glad y'all are feeling some warmth. So scary!

@HistoryfortheAges 2 жыл бұрын

I really like what you say about not being able to just cut out religion, but at the same time it has to be presented in an honest narrative. For example you can't discuss the Middle Ages without understanding the role of the Church. That is exactly how I approach teaching not just history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but all the non religious topics I cover on my channel.

@MakingEverydayMagic 2 жыл бұрын

I think you just have to understand the context to better understand how decisions were made. Religions are such a huge part of the world and of history.

@PhoenixBlacc 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this!

@MakingEverydayMagic 2 жыл бұрын

😁

@threatlevelmidnight3588 3 жыл бұрын

Fellow Texan here. Your Texas history recommendation is great. Thank you. We use curiosity chronicles and we love it. It has amazing project recommendations that we love. I have a minecraft lover that loves the weekly minecraft projects. The book lists are also great. I'm not the biggest fan of history and this keeps me engaged.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

My girls have yet to get into mine craft.

@threatlevelmidnight3588 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakingEverydayMagic its what attracted us to the curriculum and it's what keeps up coming back. History quest is beautiful though and if they offered minecraft I'd love to try that.

@derina_plansherlife3006 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. I have been going down the history hole this week. Next week is the science hole. I need all the help I can get this year.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I'll be going down the science hole myself soon. Let me know if you find a gem!

@krburke91 11 ай бұрын

Watching this august 5th and hearing the end of this. My second year homeschooling and still going with the flow and just now looking into what we may use for curriculum. Yikes. Hopefully I’ll do better at planning ahead next year. lol.

@MakingEverydayMagic 11 ай бұрын

There's no set schedule! You're right on time❤️

@GoodBehaviorBeginnings 2 жыл бұрын

We are using Blossom and Root River of Voices and Oh Freedom from Woke Homeschooling for history this year. They are US history only and for upper elementary and middle school. B&R has 3 pathways within the curriculum so you can choose a level that works for your learners. Oh Freedom has a lot of reading, but I think it is more comprehensive than B&R so far (1 month in).

@MakingEverydayMagic 2 жыл бұрын

I love what I have seen from both of these curriculums but I'm waiting until my girls are a bit older.

@letoyamonteith7737 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video! I’ve spent the last couple day’s going down the history rabbit hole for all the reasons you listed. A couple on my radar that fit exactly what you’re looking for are “Woke History” and “River of Voices” by Blossom and Root.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Both of them seem to involve more supplements than I'm prepared to do at this stage. I think they could fit our lives better in a couple of years but for now I'm looking for more open and go. Why is this is so hard?!?!

@jennelvinmonzon5568 3 жыл бұрын

Would like to start off by saying, that I really enjoy your videos. My favorite is the one that you listed the 13 things you don’t do in your homeschool. I was laughing throughout it, love your personality! Thank you for your honest, open and practical approach to homeschooling. My kiddos will be in the 4th and 7th grade next year. For the last couple of years we have used Curiosity Chronicles. My eldest has enjoyed the curriculum, however, my younger one not so much. I selected CC because the author stressed that it is a secular, non-Eurocentric view of world history. Next year, we will also be switching things up for history. In California, 4th graders focus on state history, similarly to Texas. So we will move away from CC to cover CA history for my 4th grader. Instead of continuing on with CC for my older child, I may try Oh Freedom! for my 7th grader. This way both of my kids are focused on US History. My question to you is, when your eldest is in 5th grade, is this when you plan on using History Quest (or whichever other curriculum you select)? And if so, do you plan on starting at Ancient History? Side note, I reached out to the publishers of History Quest, and they said that their next book in the series will be History Quest American (release early 2022), and then finish up with the series with their 4th and final book (History Quest Middle Times).

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

My plan for this coming year is to do 2 histories together as a family. Texas, to keep on track for my 4th and HQ early times for my kinder. My big kid started SOTW with volume 2 so we missed the earliest history in our studies. Next year, for 5th may be American history alongside something for my then 1st🤷‍♀️ planning to see how this next year goes.

@kamehaz 2 жыл бұрын

What curriculum will you be using for CA history? We're in CA too

@jenniferlouie-monzon1718 2 жыл бұрын

Hi @@kamehaz, We tried California Out of the Box by Carrier Sheel Curriculum. It is an "Interdisciplinary History Curriculum", so it not only covers history, but literature, science and art. I loved the idea of it, but it was difficult for me to get into the hang of it, so we stopped using it. We transitioned to using Studies Weekly Grade 4 and children's books about CA. We will finish up the CA HIstory Studies Weekly in 5th grade and move into US History. For US History, I'm planning on using Studies Weekly Grade 5 as the base, and literature from Oh Freedom.

@MakingEverydayMagic 2 жыл бұрын

Love studies weekly!

@tuathadesidhe1530 3 жыл бұрын

With History Quest uses the Usbourne encyclopedia of world history as its spine, it's only around AU$20 and has heaps of internet links - the other books are optional - you can use them or not - or pick your own. They are for the huggia weeks where you just snuggle up and read good books, eat good food and leave the paperwork alone while you emerce into that particular topic.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I am really looking forward to using History Quest.

@cassafrasstoofly 3 жыл бұрын

Studies Weekly online is amazing! We use it in GA public schools.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

This makes me so happy to hear🥳

@patriciaguerrero3091 2 жыл бұрын

I stumbled upon My World Social Studies by Pearson and it comes in different levels. I’m loving it!!! We read the whole book together as a family and I write questions that I feel we need to review related to the chapters on 4x6 heavy weight index cards with the question on the front and answers on the back. I take them out in our free time so we can play our own version of jeopardy. My 2 kids are loving it and look forward to it! It has made learning history actually fun… unlike how boring it was when I was in school. I can’t believe how much we all have learned together and are able to retain. We do a lot of word association to help with retention. Hope you all find what works for you!

@MakingEverydayMagic 2 жыл бұрын

1) I haven't heard of this but love that you made it your own. 2) my absolute favorite part of this is " our version of jeopardy!"

@kristinbriggs8738 3 жыл бұрын

We used studies weekly last year. They send the whole year at one time. They also send a big teacher version that is the same as the student so you may not need to order 2 copies if one can use the big and one can use the smaller one.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

😱 this is the information I need! Thank you!!

@michaelagoen4603 2 жыл бұрын

Curiosity Chronicles is great. You can keep it high level or go deep. Using the timeline piece can be eye opening.

@MakingEverydayMagic 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@raeganmayfield3516 3 жыл бұрын

We will also be using Studies Weekly for our history curriculum. I also happen to have a few history textbooks from Harcourt (out of print now but great textbooks). I will use those textbooks along with websites, read alouds, field trips, etc. to build out. For our state study, which we have to do in 2 years for 6th grade, we will purchase a stand alone unit study from Moving Beyond the Page. They have state history units for all 50 states.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I did not know that! Thanks for that nugget of info. This sounds like a great plan but I know I need an easy plan for myself in this season of life.

@raeganmayfield3516 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakingEverydayMagic I completely get that. History is the one area I am willing to pull together myself because I just don't trust the accuracy. Everything else needs to be laid out for me!

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

That is so absolutely true. I'm constantly reminding myself and my girls to consider the source of information. Maybe as more people feel an obligation to be honest and accurate we can progress into accepting that all people have shades of good and bad.

@lizcalandrino3992 3 жыл бұрын

We are on our 3rd year of Curiosity Chronicles, and I wouldn’t call it unpolished, but it does have a dialogue following two cartoon kids, and that can turn people off. For my son (8 yo), he has loved it. We have always read it together, each taking a role, and that has kept him really engaged. The quality of the history is really well done, very well rounded, but it is a very small publisher. Torchlight uses Curiosity Chronicles, it isn’t a history curriculum on its own.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Good to know! I can see how that would be a benefit to keeping them interested.

@BonitaHall 3 жыл бұрын

We are in the same boat with the weather over in San Antonio. It’s been quite a week. For History, we use the Curiosity Chronicles. My son is 8 and he seems to like it. I put on the audio book and he reads along. He does a page in the activity book and the map page. The only extra we usually do is the Minecraft activity. The recording (for Ancient History) is not the best quality. For us, that wasn’t an issue. Ancient History is meant for lower elementary (1-4) so it doesn’t include a lot of information, just snippets. I still feel like my son is learning enough from it. I just realized that we are doing more modern history as learn about different people. We learned about Walt Disney last year and are leaning about the Civil Rights Movement right now through books (MLK Jr., March on Washington, Hidden Fugures).

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I'm hoping this winter weather is over! I'm good with a light history since we will be doing 2. Thanks for this input. ❤

@teresanorris4769 3 жыл бұрын

If I got history quest would it be OK to just get the audio book and not the physical book? My second grader couldn’t read it and I like the idea of just listening too it and then doing a couple of activities a week.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I would say probably. I'm not 100% sure but I love to use Story of the World that way.

@gardenia77 3 жыл бұрын

I knew about Honest History's magazine, but they have a History curriculum? The link goes to their main page, but i don't see the big books you mentioned.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I believe they're the same thing. The magazines are the books. They look nothing like magazines.

@gardenia77 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakingEverydayMagic Thank you!

@chdao 2 жыл бұрын

When I lived in TX in the 80s, we did Texas History in 8th grade, but I was only there for 6-10th grade.

@MakingEverydayMagic 2 жыл бұрын

I think standard now is 4th & again in 7th.

@juanitamayes6329 3 жыл бұрын

Yes Blossom and Roots "A River of Voices" is only U.S. History ... There is a Volume 2 in the works. I am working through it with my 5th Grader. It has 4 main "spines" for this level (the high school level uses different books) and then it depends on whether you choose book basket work, videos, etc. It focuses on the Native American, Latino American, and African American points of view.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I do think something with more supplements may suit us better as my kiddos age. 4 isn't too bad. These are the kind of comments I need, nothing tells you how it really is better than a mom who has taught it. ❤

@christinebowman2047 3 жыл бұрын

History quest requires the usborne book Encyclopedia of the world. The rest are just added options. It is fabulous and honestly the photos are wonderful. It is only a few pages per week with very little reading. It it mostly for the illustrations. I love it because it starts with history before people or animals or even plants. It starts with space dust. I’d be happy to answer any questions or send photos. The activity book we got but don’t use. We just love the story and the history hop. The history hops are super fun.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

This sounds fun. Especially since it will be 1 of 2 histories in my plan. Do you read aloud or audio book?

@christinebowman2047 3 жыл бұрын

Also each week will not only have optional books by age to read but optional recipes and art projects. They are super fun but just a supplement.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

My kids would be all in on recipes

@christinebowman2047 3 жыл бұрын

We read about. We read from the Usborn book on Monday and the kids have fun just looking through it at some point. Then Tuesday we read aloud. Then Wednesday we read about the history hop which is pretending the kids woke up in that time and place and describing what they see and feel. Then on Thursday and Friday we might do one of the extra books or a recipe or the art project or weeks like this one where my husband is stuck in Bay City with you guys...we skipped it. It’s just extra. I’ve heard good things about the audio version though and it includes the history hop in audio.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Our situation here is improving! Only 1 more night of freeze.

@Kristi-xn4pn 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your attitude toward secular curriculum. Some of the attitudes toward secular curriculum are as extreme as the other side in their vitriol and it is off-putting. I totally agree that learning about religion is necessary as part of history and cultural literacy (all religions) and is not the same as proselytizing. I wonder if people understand that even public schools teach about religion.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I really feel like any extreme is too extreme. It is so important to appreciate the other viewpoints.

@Kristi-xn4pn 3 жыл бұрын

And thank you for the information about that subscription! I just ordered the Grade 1 for our state for next year. We are doing SOTW next year - will be interested to see how it goes vs. History Quest. Will look forward to your follow-up.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I really do like SOTW but feel like now is such a great time to look around.

@KatsGrimm 3 жыл бұрын

We are looking into History Quest as well. I'm interested in the answer of needing to get additional books or not.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Someone here will help us. These folks are so nice and provide me with answers. Keep checking back!

@dijonedowns5825 3 жыл бұрын

I just ordered History Quest. If you’d like, I can come back with an update once I receive it!

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Please!

@peachy_reina 2 жыл бұрын

@@dijonedowns5825 please 💕

@MakingEverydayMagic 2 жыл бұрын

I do have an update video after having used this awhile.

@franny5295 3 жыл бұрын

History drives me nuts. I actually hated history until I got to college and the world of forbidden history was opened up to me. That was interesting. History is actually very interesting if you can get an accurate version of it. Which is not at all what my high school textbooks looked like. My son is 4 so I have time but that's the only subject I'm really not looking forward to.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I did not realize how many eye rolls I would get when discussing this topic, not here you guys get it, but in my real life day to day. I have a video coming up about it. I love history and field trips to learn more history. I'm not a grammer person but I've learned so much teaching it, I do really appreciate it now🤣

@elonas9487 3 жыл бұрын

You might like the Horrible Histories series for the elementary years!

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

We love this show!

@jessica97939 3 жыл бұрын

Studies weekly has and online component that reads the text outloud. I was able to assist my kids in the lesson while making lunch.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

What?!?! I had no idea. This! This is the information that makes me love you all!

@cassafrasstoofly 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakingEverydayMagic Every article is read aloud AND tons of great videos.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

The read aloud is so exciting! I had no idea but settled on it anyway. Super bonus!!

@lunamoonlunamoon8340 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakingEverydayMagic I’ve heard many parents state that there are quite a few errors. For instance when you click on the answer, even if it’s incorrect, it’ll mark it as correct.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I'll keep you posted on how it works for us.

@ginagiberti9283 3 жыл бұрын

You don't have to supplement History Quest. Lots of people just read or use the audiobook. I have both History Quest and Curiosity Chronicles. The audiobook for History Quest is high quality than for Curiosity Chronicles. I would recommend checking out the samples.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely will do.

@leahsabel1509 3 жыл бұрын

I used History Quest last year for my then 4th grader, I got all the books, it was too much. It used Story of the World as it's main reading material. I think we may revisit it for high school.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Story of the World as the main supplement? I may need to investigate further. Which level did you use?

@BonitaHall 3 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about History Chronicles?

@leahsabel1509 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakingEverydayMagic Sorry after more investigating, I used History Odyssey the Modern Times Level 1 that target grade was 4th grade but could be used for 3rd thru 6th. History Odyssey is from the same publisher as History Quest Pandia Press. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. I will have to check out History Quest, I don't remember it when I was doing my research in 2019.

@leahsabel1509 3 жыл бұрын

@@BonitaHall No it was History Odyssey from the same publisher as History Quest, I had them confused. My aplogies :)

@tuathadesidhe1530 3 жыл бұрын

Yes history quest uses the Usbourne encyclopedia of world history as its spine, we will be using it next year. It will be our "spine" for all other subjects.

@crystaldorais4073 3 жыл бұрын

Any ideas for unit study?

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Studies Weekly does have state histories and a civil rights. Blossom and Root seems to be U.S. History. Since most of the histories cover a smaller chunk of time, I would think you could easily expand a certain area, or a certain smaller chunk of time. I haven't run across anything that is specifically unit studies for history.

@user-zh7uy6oc5q 3 жыл бұрын

I was excited for the History Chronicles Minecraft element, but it definitely felt like a knock-off of Magic Treehouse Series with Annie and her brother. We loved Oh Freedom US History (woke curriculum) this year, but will be moving on to World History thru Build Your Own Library (we love literacy based) and have been enjoying outsourcing with OutSchool, Prodigy Math, & Night Zoo Keeper.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

My girls know zero of Minecraft so I don't feel like that's a pro or a con for us. We love NZK!

@stephanietea2450 3 жыл бұрын

Easy Peasy has an ancient curriculum I’ve been eyeing and it’s free!

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not familiar at all with Easy Peasy.

@stephanietea2450 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakingEverydayMagic it’s actually a complete curriculum for free, but you can pull pieces from it that works for you. I’ve just started looking at it for their ancient history and pulling from it for summer worksheets to keep our math skills sharp. It’s also laid out by day if you don’t want to “plan” or when you are starting out and trying to figure it all out and want something done and ready to go while you figure out what direction to go.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I'll have to look into it, I'm unfamiliar. Thanks for sharing!

@stephanietea2450 3 жыл бұрын

@@MakingEverydayMagic you’re welcome! I’m glad I found you, I’m really enjoying your videos! We are also secular homeschoolers in Dallas.

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I love the Dallas area. Zoos, museums, that botanical garden!

@sdlorah6450 2 жыл бұрын

HISTORY = HIS STORY. I heard this saying many years ago...

@MakingEverydayMagic 2 жыл бұрын

Not wrong!

@amandagilioli5524 3 жыл бұрын

Story of the World isn't secular but not because it includes religion. It's not secular because it presents Christianity as fact and other religions as "myths".

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I have not experienced that. We started in the middle ages and I feel like everything so far has been presented pretty evenly. I do see how the very first volume may be that way. So, we chose to change it up before getting there with my youngest.

@autostoppeuse 3 жыл бұрын

We're secular non-Christian homeschoolers. Story of the World...I want to love it, because it's exactly our kind of homeschool resource, BUT the depiction of us (our cultural/religious group) is so...weird? I realize I'm biased, obviously, but I legit don't know where she got her information from? Like I'm not even saying she's presenting us negatively or positively or anything. Like her description of our history is weird. She has some bare bones that seem in keeping with everything I know about our history and then the fleshed out bits, they just go so wrong, in strange ways. Like, hold up, stop the record, wrong. And you're left thinking, what was the point of that totally bizarre and completely inaccurate detail she just dropped. I cringe thinking about what thousands of homeschoolers have been taught about us over the years from this one resource. So the thing is, if I don't trust her sources for her history of MY people, how can I possibly trust anything she says about anyone?

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful perspective to share. Thank you.

@Time_Is_Left 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video, thank you! I don’t think this is contradictory to your comments in any way, just tossing my 2 cents in- you stressed that history can’t be taught without covering the religion motivators and consequences. I was genuinely surprised at the implication that there would be parents who want to do that? That seems so crazy to me! We not only can’t but we shouldn’t want to do that, it seems to me, right? That would literally be rewriting history, rather than seeking to understand. My personal view of secular history is being unafraid of the ugly parts; a history free from (or as close to it as possible) the whitewashing for the sake of... various interests ☕️ 🫖

@MakingEverydayMagic 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. There are many people who want to find a history devoid of any reference to religion. I just don't see how that could be accurate. I feel like understanding how religion played a huge role in history is crucial. I am not seeking a secular education devoid of religion, merely an education that does not promote religion. Inevitably they tend to promote one over others.