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My middle kiddo LOVED the Magic Tree House books, and they're a great way to get kids interested in history. I decided to see how much it was possible to line up the Magic Tree House Stories to Story of the World. I knew it wouldn't be possible to have everything line up because Magic Tree House books don't go in chronological order, and they do have story arcs (sub-series within the greater series) that go together and are nice to read in order.
I came up with several schedules to align with Volumes 1 and 2 of SOTW. For Volume 1 I made one schedule including ALL the books, excluding the Merlin Missions (though 13 of the books you would read after finishing that SOTW volume, and only one of those left aligned with Volume II). I did another schedule that just included the story arcs that had books which directly related to SOTW. I did the same for Volume II, but didn't try to fit in all the books that time, and also did a separate schedule for Merlin Missions since more of those books related to that time period. You can find the printable schedules at the links below.... (you can only access these by computer, not via most phones).
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Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou're so welcome!
DeleteLove schedule 1 for Vol1. Could We combined schedule 2 and 3 For Vol 2
ReplyDeleteHemm...Schedule 3 on volume 2 is currently blank, so yes. ;-) But I assume you mean one of the other schedules?
DeleteHi, your list looks awesome thanks for posting this! I'm new to SOTW and MT. Just curious, why did you recommened "The Knight at Dawn" before starting SOTW Vol 1?
ReplyDeleteSuch a great question.
DeleteI think if you read the text about the schedules (above the Chapter alignment chart) you'll understand better.
Schedule 1 has ALL the Magic Treehouse books (except Merlin Missions), not just those that relate to ancient history. I've ordered them in a way that, if read on schedule, the ones dealing with ancient history will come as close as to the chapters in SOTW while still remaining in the Magic Treehouse order.
Schedule 2 is similar...but it's built around "sub-series." All the Magic Treehouse books are part of a 4 book subseries, where the kids are on ONE quest through all four books in that series. This schedule only includes series that have at least one book dealing with ancient history, but includes all 4 books in those series even if some of them don't deal with ancient history, so you still get that overarching story.
I haven't made a schedule that JUST has the books from ancient history...though that wouldn't be as hard to do frankly. I may add it in the blank "Schedule 3" column when I have time.