Mystery of History Volume 3 Companion Guide Paperback – January 1, 2008

Our homeschool class of five has enjoyed this series. We don't do all of the activities but I still feel like we are getting a lot out of it. We use it for grades 6-11. Our level of expectation is much higher for the older kiddos. We faithfully make the memory cards as they are a great study tool for the tests.

Loving this book for our history curriculum.

Peforated pages!?!? This is our 3rd year using Mystery of History. I was willing to pay the increased price since they've separated the guide from the student reader this year because we enjoy this resource and find it useful. However, I was very disappointed to open my paperback curriculum guide today to discover it has perforated pages! This is not intended to be a consumable resource- it is not a workbook, why on earth would the pages be perforated? I am certain this book will struggle to hold up to the use the average homeschooling family puts a teacher's manual book through- I plan to use this book for 3 years, opening and closing it every school day, while flipping through to find the page I'll need. I'm very disappointed and I cannot understand why a publisher would do this. The perforations are so large I can hear it "crunch" when I turn pages... and the sound ringing in my ears foretells the pages falling out from ordinary use.**I looked back and the older level 2 book of this curriculum I have also is perforated, but in that book, unlike this one, when you turn the pages, the perforations do not immedately crease. I hadn't even noticed they were there when I used it. Perhaps a more flexible binding was used, or a better quality paper, I don't know, but having the page crease on the perforation every time I turn a page is not a marker of a well-made resource in my opinion.

This is not a book with a bind this is a stack of papers.

I do a co-op class using this text and this accompanying book. I have the CD-rom version of this book, but a member of the co-op provided me with her print version of the Companion Guide. I find it an invaluable resource. It has great crafts and activities, divided by age range for each lesson covered in the book. Some of the crafts use items that I personally didn't have, and some of the crafts are too time-intensive for my tastes, but other crafts are excellent. I try to do a craft with the co-op children every week, and there are sometimes so many crafts to choose from that I have to really concentrate to decide which would be best for my class.Wonderful resource!

I wish the cover of this book had made it a little more obvious that this is the companion volume, not the Reader (main book) for this year of the curriculum. We bought this at a homeschool bookfair and just found out today, the first day of school, that we don't have the history text we thought we had bought.

This is the text chosen by my child's homeschooling program. After buying the nearly $60 book, we learn that it doesn't contain the exercises and maps - these are another $40. Volumes 1 & 2 are structured with the text, exercises, and maps. While the content is good, I feel like I was bait and switched with no choice but to buy the additional pieces to provide a complete educational component.

We homeschool and have been using this series for a few years now and love it. I wasn’t very happy that they’ve changed it into two books, a text book and a book for the assignments. Spend twice as much for the same thing and now I have to consult two big books. Oh well it’s still an amazing learning resource.