Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide by Ximena Vengoechea

Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide Reviews

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  Carlos Guerrero

  
  In this book, you will find different topics in each chapter, that mention an important part in World History. The setting takes place in different continents around the world such as; Africa, Japan, China, Europe, Germany, Italy, Russia, Hungary, US and other continents. The point of view of the writer, is to help other middle school kids just like himself to ACE (pass) World History and to pass this notebook to others to help them ACE the class. Some of the major characters start with Lucy, who is a famous Australopithecus hominid, King Sargon I, Justinian the greatest Byzantine emperor, Christopher Columbus, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Adolf Hitler, Barack Obama and many more.
  
  In my opinion, the book was very good and easy to understand. The drawing, colors, pictures and definitions were very helpful and made the book interesting and not boring. Each chapter mentioned an important time in World History. Each chapter had a very interesting character that made a difference in a good or a bad way. I liked the book a lot because now I know what we will be learning for the rest of the school year in 6TH grade.
  My favorite chapter was chapter 9, World War II because the US wins against Germany, Japan surrenders and Hitler dies. I would recommend this book to any new 6th grader, to get a head start in history class and enjoy it, just like I did.
  
  -Carlos
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  Mary-Therese P.

  Occasional biased information, but as a whole quite good. The use of humor as a means of educating was very effective
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  Allen Central

  Easy to quickly go back to chapters but it lacked a bunch of stuff from the Canadian curriculum (First Nations people, Canadian conferences etc.).
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  Fredrick Danysh

  Designed for middle school students, this self-teaching history covers world history from ancient times to the modern period. It is easy too read and has self test questions.
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  Lore

  4.25
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  Ali Hassan

  Everything you need to ace world history from the first human to the age of the internet. The book contains multiple diagrams and maps that help in understanding world history.
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  Allie

  Looking forward to reading the rest of the series. Accessible refreshers!
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  Piyush Behera

  Nice read..
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  Reine

  cool but seemed a lil too happy when talking abt ww2 japan
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  Aprilleigh

  While there is a strong bias to Western civilization, this volume does a pretty good job of covering other cultures, particularly in ancient and medieval times. To be a true world history it would need additional chapters covering Asia, Africa, and South America. That said, it covers the same things most textbooks cover, which was likely the intent. Much like the U.S. History volume in this series, the coverage is very basic and will not replace a textbook. It will, however, serve as a nice overview. I’m not sure the coverage is sufficient to be a review. The topic is just too big and it’s difficult to cover everything adequately.
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  S

  It's really not as well done as some of the others in this series and has glaring omissions (incl. the reality of the slave trade, the cultures of N. American pre-Europran colonization, and more).
  
  I'm just not impressed, but may use certain things as primers.
  
  I could also see using parts as prompts for research projects where kids fix the entries.
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  Dawn

  This was not world history. The first half of this book fairly effectively covered ancient civilizations, but the second half was straight up European history - very biased, ignored lots of the lost interesting things. Overall I was very disappointed smh
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  Jenny

  This was a quick read and a great brush up on world history. I enjoyed it.
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  Dora Resendez

  This is an easy to read informational book.
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  Lydia

  The book could have added a little more detail.
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  Indy

  I never studied history in my entire student life, and didn’t seem to be interested in reading anything in history for the reason that “history repeats itself” - people never learn from history and make the same mistakes. Meanwhile, studying history cannot right the wrongs. It may sound ignorant, but that’s why I was never interested in studying all the warfare matters.
  
  However, I am interested in how cultures, arts and science evolve, especially travelling in European countries. Therefore, I picked up this book to have a background understanding of what’s going on in the world.
  
  This book targets high school students, and is written in an attractive way with lots of funny illustrations, and different highlights and fonts for various historical events, terms and famous people. It was an easy and fun read, which allows you to have a brief glance to the entire history of human race. Yet, I was more attentive to the cultural history, and skimmed through all the warfares without taking in much. Did my best, I guess history is just really not my cup of tea.
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  Obed M. Parlapiano

  Short review for now: Tittle long book of the history of the world. Great for students of if you're looking to fit spaces in your knowledge of world history.
  
  The good: everything is kind of covered. The important stuff at least.
  
  The bad: it skips over a lot of interesting and important stuff, gives no reasons as to why a lot of things happened and sometimes gives a bit of erroneous info. I'm forgiving these mistakes and giving 4 stars because it's A LOT of info crammed into a book.
  
  The very good: you HAVE TO remember a lot of the stuff, the format is amazing and great to keep you (or a student) entertained throughout the book, be it by the drawings or by highlighting.
  
  The not so bad: this is really for students and not so much for avid readers, I knew most of what was said but it was really enjoyable nonetheless.
  
  Would definitely recommend to a younger audience (for whom the book is targeted to anyway).
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  Chris Thompson

  An easy, enjoyable overview of world history topics, with humorous pictures and fun facts. This is pretty barebones though. It barely skims the surface of historical events, which is fine for somebody reviewing a test or looking to quickly brush up on their history.
  
  But as others have noted, it leaves out important details. The Atlantic Slave Trade, for instance is completely missing, despite the fact it was a worldwide event spanning five continents. Slavery’s only mention, in fact, is in relation to the American Civil War. Another problem is the book’s US-centric approach at about the halfway mark. I’m sure this information is repeated in the US History version of this book series, so why not devote those sections to more information about other countries?
  
  Overall I was glad for the world history review but left wanting.
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  Rubi

  This book was filled with SO much information in a small package. I loved the format and illustrations and how when it talked about other cultures and religions, it did not seem to degrade them or make them seem ridiculous, it just stated facts and information, plain and simple. I also noticed it did not shy away from letting us know when the U.S. didn't do their part (for example not signing the treaty for less carbon emissions), which is great! True history book that doesn't blindly make anyone out to be bad or good. It was enjoyable to read, actually and it both refreshed my memory and taught me new things, i loved it.
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  Suwitcha Chandhorn

  เป็นหนังสือบันทึกประวัติศาสตร์ใน theme เลคเชอร์นักเรียน มันก็เลยเต็มไปด้วยภาพประกอบลายเส้นและแถบสีสันน่าอ่าน มีข้อความสั้น ๆ ในจุดสำคัญ ชอบวิธีการเล่าเรื่องที่ง่ายและกระชับ ทำให้รู้เรื่องราวคร่าว ๆ ในตอนนั้น ๆ ได้ในไม่กี่บรรทัด เรียกว่าเอาแต่เนื้อ ๆ มาจริง ๆ หนังสือดูหนาเพราะตัวอักษรใหญ่ มันไม่ได้ครอบคลุมพื้นที่ในประวัติศาสตร์กว้างมากนัก เรียกได้ว่าคัดเลือกเอาเรื่องที่คิดว่าเราควรรู้มาเสียมากกว่า
  
  สรุปว่าชอบนะ คงเป็นเล่มที่จะพลิกอ่านอีกบ่อย ๆ เวลาอยากจะทบทวนอะไรสั้น ๆ
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  Samantha

  This book was perfect for me to get just the start of knowledge. I marked many pages so that I can add information to my lectures and activities. Teaching 7th grade world history is hard, but this book gives enough detail to build prior knowledge or review. It's not all inclusive of world history, but definitely covers a lot of good stuff!
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  Aakarsh

  one of the books that helped me become the NJ History Bee champion. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in history bee/bowl. Don't depend on this book forever though. I learned that the hard way. 5/5 book for anyone interested in history or failing history class. most of the times it will be the latter, but not in my case. :)