Cornerstone Curriculum

[trudence1]

Has anyone out there used Cornerstone's World Views of the Western World (WVWW)?  How does this fit on a transcript?  What other subjects are covered and what are not?  Did you have to supplement for any writing, English-type stuff?

 

This looks REALLY interesting to me, but I am not sure how to implement it into a school day. It is not what I would be using this school year, but we would use it when he starts high school next year so I have plenty of time to figure this out.

 

I loved the look of this curriculum when viewing it at convention, but it is a LOT of money and would take most of my school budget.  If it isn't really going to cover more than history, there is no way we could make it work.

[trudence1]

Thank you, Margaret.  I think I will have to look at it again this coming spring at our homeschool convention and ask a lot more questions. 

 

Is there no one out there that has used this with their kids and can give some insight?

[wingedradical]

I did this with one son. He did fine, but he was really smart and had already has a lot of exposure to that kind of thing. If your student knows how to write already, you won't need another course. There are writing assignments but not instruction. The books list a suggested transcript - it looks a little strange - both the subjects and the breakdown is unusual, but it does cover writing, literature, history, science history, theology, philosophy, government and I can't remember what else. DePaul University accepted it without question.

 

On the other hand, personally, I wouldn't do it again. Either it wasn't unified enough or I ruined the unity by tweaking it. I didn't care for many of his choices of what to read or listen to. I guess you could say, I liked the idea of it, but not the execution. Of course, I'm not Reformed and I was using a very Reformed curriculum, so there ya go <g>. David Quine is a nice guy but I think a knowledgable parent could design something just as well, using the same books (or a few different ones). There was a lack of fictional literature and poetry. I had to add them.