chai Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I've seen some good reviews on Lightning Lit and I've looked at the on-line samples. What do you think of this program? Could it be used for a younger student? The books look doable, but is the output too much? Is anything too mature for a 9-year old? I really want to continue with Classical Writing. Would Lightning Lit be too much of an overlap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAR120C Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I've seen some good reviews on Lightning Lit and I've looked at the on-line samples. What do you think of this program? Could it be used for a younger student? The books look doable, but is the output too much? Is anything too mature for a 9-year old? I really want to continue with Classical Writing. Would Lightning Lit be too much of an overlap? I'm using LL&C7 right now with DS(8) and so far so good.... the only concern really was Tom Sawyer (racism, slightly scary scene with murder) and that wasn't a problem (discussed racism, and scene wasn't any scarier than Harry Potter). I've heard that there is also some drunkenness in All Creatures Great and Small, but we're not there yet. The writing workload is not heavy at all, and the reading is not bad. My observation has been that DS reads at about the same speed as books on CD are read, which works out to being able to finish the books rather faster than they are assigned to be read (and I can look up the length of the books-on-CD from our local library, and estimate from there!) We're planning to move on to LL&C8 next year, and there are two things I've heard about it that you should probably know.... One is that a lot of people find the first assignment (J.K. Chesterton essay) really dense and hard to wade through. I think it's supposed to be... but good to know ahead of time. Second, I know a few people of younger DCs are planning to skip To Kill A Mockingbird. Nothing else looks terribly heavy or anything... and since I think we'll be approaching that era in history I think we're going to read To Kill A Mockingbird anyway. I've not used Classical Writing, but since the LL writing assignments are only like 8 short pieces for the whole year (maybe a page or two each), I don't think it would be too much... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I am using LL7 with my 11yo and I think he could have used it earlier. We will be using LL8 next year, but may skip To Kill a Mockingbird. I also recommend English Prep for bright kids - the passages chosen and reading lists are very high quality. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chai Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 I haven't given literature much thought yet, other than having a list of books that I would like dd to read some day. Yet, I think that I should be doing something in this area since dd is quite advanced in it. What do you see as the benefit of doing Lightning Lit? What learning/improvements are your dcs getting from it? Is it enough, for now, just to be reading good literature? I think dd is ready for Tom Sawyer now, but I don't think we would do To Kill a Mockingbird. Are the lit choices high quality? What are you planning for your progression in literature studies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakmom Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 We only plan to do half of it this year, but we could easily do the whole thing. I think we'll spread LL8 over 2 years as well~ we'll see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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