sixglides Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 DD did Sonlight 100 in 8th grade. Been reading about lots of different options, and as soon as I make up my mind, see a new thread that changes my mind. Is there wisdom in doing US History & Am Lit at the same time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cheryl in SoCal Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 We do everything together with history (geography, art, architecture, music, literature, etc) so I think there is much to be gained in keeping everything in context. However, we don't do a separate US History course (it's studied in context with World History) so I don't have a recommendation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixglides Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 Our state requires a full unit of US History. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cheryl in SoCal Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Our state requires a full unit of US History. We aren't subject to state laws but my PSP requires it 1 credit of US History (in CA it's 10 credits but CA is crazy). However, it can still be interspersed with World History. It's spread out for longer than a year and credit is awarded once the US History is complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlsdMama Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 DD did Sonlight 100 in 8th grade. Been reading about lots of different options, and as soon as I make up my mind, see a new thread that changes my mind. Is there wisdom in doing US History & Am Lit at the same time? Doing literature and history in tandem is one of the main ideas behind classical education. Absolutely there is a purpose. All subjects are interrelated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memphispeg Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 DD did Sonlight 100 in 8th grade. Been reading about lots of different options, and as soon as I make up my mind, see a new thread that changes my mind. Is there wisdom in doing US History & Am Lit at the same time? We are doing this now, it has been really fun. Having a good idea of the context of the times in which a piece of lit. was written makes it easier to begin an evaluation. And then you can ask the question "Why are we still reading this?" Sometimes it is hard to pace things exactly though. Anndddd to make life easier for the "teacher(s)".....When you do read much of the stuff you can ask questions for both subjects or create projects that consider the writing from both angles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sadiegirl Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 DD did Sonlight 100 in 8th grade. Been reading about lots of different options, and as soon as I make up my mind, see a new thread that changes my mind. Is there wisdom in doing US History & Am Lit at the same time? I have been browsing the forum searching for US History. We did Am Lit last year so I don't know what Lit I will use this year. We are out of synch as we did World History last year. My kids are going into 9th and 10th. Would you have any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie4b Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 DD did Sonlight 100 in 8th grade. Been reading about lots of different options, and as soon as I make up my mind, see a new thread that changes my mind. Is there wisdom in doing US History & Am Lit at the same time? Absolutely there is wisdom in doing US history and Am Lit at the same time. For one thing, a lot of the Am Lit will serve as primary sources for the history. Even if the work is fiction, it is fiction from that time period. It's a primary source. However, many American Lit courses will include documents such as the Federalist Papers. It just all meshes together really well, allowing you to cover more ground or go into more depth (whichever you prefer) than if you had to make choices based on one course alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 (edited) I have been browsing the forum searching for US History. We did Am Lit last year so I don't know what Lit I will use this year. We are out of synch as we did World History last year. My kids are going into 9th and 10th. Would you have any advice? And now for something completely different: what about NOT U.S. History/Lit? Since you just did American Lit. last year, and US History the year before, how about trying a completely different direction? You can synch up your History and Literature and do something fun at the same time with SWB's "History of the Medieval World" (adult and high school level) as your history text, and Literary Lessons from the Lord of the Rings as your literature program. LLftLotR has everything laid out for you; in addition to the 3 books of Tolkien's trilogy, the additional units in the program encourage you to also read an epic (The Iliad or The Odyssey), Beowulf, Sir Gawaiin and the Green Knight, a King Arthur work, and possibly a Shakespeare play (MacBeth or Midsummer Night's Dream). LLftLotR publisher website LLftLotR course content LLftLotR table of contents LLftLotR sample You could also choose some other medieval and renaissance works of interest -- or, use those that would be part of a package History/Geography/Lit program such as: - History Odyssey: Medieval (level 3 = high school) - Beautiful Feet: Medieval (Senior High Pack and Upgrade Pack) - Truth Quest: Middle Ages (gr. 5-12) - Trisms: Expansion of Civilization (500BC to 1500AD) - Tapestry of Grace (year 2) - Sonlight Core H (gr. 6-9) BEST of luck in finding what works for your family this year! Warmly, Lori D. Edited July 26, 2011 by Lori D. added links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiegirl Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 And now for something completely different: what about NOT U.S. History/Lit? Since you just did American Lit. last year, and US History the year before, how about trying a completely different direction? You can synch up your History and Literature and do something fun at the same time with SWB's "History of the Medieval World" (adult and high school level) as your history text, and Literary Lessons from the Lord of the Rings as your literature program. LLftLotR has everything laid out for you; in addition to the 3 books of Tolkien's trilogy, the additional units in the program encourage you to also read an epic (The Iliad or The Odyssey), Beowulf, Sir Gawaiin and the Green Knight, a King Arthur work, and possibly a Shakespeare play (MacBeth or Midsummer Night's Dream). LLftLotR publisher website LLftLotR course content LLftLotR table of contents LLftLotR sample You could also choose some other medieval and renaissance works of interest -- or, use those that would be part of a package History/Geography/Lit program such as: - History Odyssey: Medieval (level 3 = high school) - Beautiful Feet: Medieval (Senior High Pack and Upgrade Pack) - Truth Quest: Middle Ages (gr. 5-12) - Trisms: Expansion of Civilization (500BC to 1500AD) - Tapestry of Grace (year 2) - Sonlight Core H (gr. 6-9) BEST of luck in finding what works for your family this year! Warmly, Lori D. Wow...thanks so much for putting so much thought into my question. Honestly, I guess I think that since we World History last year that I should do American this year. We did Runkles Geography last year and so I was thinking maybe US History and some type of current events or cultual geography or gov't. Guess I would like something like you suggest but for US History! got any great ideas for that such as your other ideas? :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSnow Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 We are doing American Lit and US History this year. American Lit is various works but we are using William Bennett's America: The Last Best Hope along with the online Roadmap. I have gone through the material and I really believe from what I have seen and what others have said, that it will be terrific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrscopterdoc Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 We are doing AMerican Lit together with US History this year. For History we are using BJU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Lea Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Years 9-11 cover US history, world history (if you use both the US history and the world history spine). I'm giving my son a 1/2 a credit each year for both. He is using the gov/econ selections for those three years and will get 1/2 credit in both subjects by the end of the three years. The literature, poetry and shakespeare study is part of that 3 years of English credits (1 credit each year). We LOVE AO's upper years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpklehm Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 My ds is in 8th grade this year, but my dh and I are making plans for the next four years. We definitely need a road map before our ds hits 9th grade. What is outlined in this thread is excellent in that I hadn't thought about lining up history and literature, but it makes complete sense. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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