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Self-paced omnibus, especially the literature (secondary)


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I looked at the samples on a whim, and I'm impressed. I am not interested in the primary, as it doesn't line up well with what we are doing for history, and theologically isn't what I'm looking for. But the secondary is appealing. It wouldn't completely replace discussion for me, and I can see us watching it together. VP has been generous with visual samples, but I'd love to see more of a scope of what they discuss with the different books. I probably shouldn't be looking at all, because I've already got a book list and some plans for literature for the year. But I think this could add to our discussions.

 

Has anyone used this and can give some feedback?

 

Also I'm wondering if you can skip lessons and skip around within them. Can we easily skip a book? Can we do them out of order?

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I have been toying with Omnibus forever and finally went to the homeschool store to see it myself.  If it does not theologically line up well for you, then it might be out.  In the books they segregate the Christian content pretty well.  However, there is a lot of it.  Like a whole lot.  I discussed with my Ds about the concept that most of the moral values of Christianity fit our family very well.  That when it would ask a question about how something fit a Christian, I would want him to answer in terms of how does this fit morally.  That seemed to suffice for him enough that I still considered the books.  What finally kicked it for me was how much everything was put into terms as though the Bible came first.  Epic of Gilgamesh was foundational, not the Bible if you are going with a non-Young Earth perspective.  The same is true for the Odyssey, the Iliad, and many other works.  This frustrated me.  Rather than just looking for comparisons, or how the two seem to be sending the same messages, the text made it sound like the Bible was the one which influenced.  The same is true for coverage of other works (Beowulf, Song of Roland) which have been shown to have grown up in places where the Bible was not of great influence until much later.  This greatly caused me pause about the idea of using the text in any form of historical context or even as a "scholarly" work.  There are a lot of ways which this content could have been approached which did not openly make such bold assumptions.  At this point, we use the reading lists, but not the text.

 

If you know your theology does not line up, the self paced version where someone is directly expounding on the books might run into an issue.  At that point, you have another person directly talking to your child about being a Christian.  I don't know how your family feels about that, but it would cause me pause considering the amount that Christianity is playing into their depiction of other societies which honestly did not have much basis in the Christian thought.  If possible, I would try to get a hold of one of the texts so that you can personally glance through how they approach the material.

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