Our Human Story and American Odyssey

[jmjs4]

I am seriously leaning towards using Our Human Story and The American Odyssey for my daughters high school history classes.  I have always followed curriculums that had everything scheduled and laid out for me.  

 

Do these textbooks have questions inside of them?  

 

How would you use these textbooks to make a full history course?  What kind of assignments, etc?

Edited May 23, 2017 by jmjs4

[EKS]

The American Odyssey has "key questions" at the beginning of each chapter.  There are usually about 3-5 of them.  I tried using them when my older son did the book, but I found that many of them were actually quite difficult to answer.  With him, I ended up having him write summaries of each chapter.  With the younger one, I had him write a short essay every few weeks on a topic of interest.

 

I would not use the entire Human Odyssey series with high school students.  The third volume may be appropriate for a 9th grader, but the other two books are very obviously written to a middle school audience.  If you want a high school version of the series, take a look at World History: Our Human Story.

 

 

Edited May 23, 2017 by EKS

[jmjs4]

The American Odyssey has "key questions" at the beginning of each chapter.  There are usually about 3-5 of them.  I tried using them when my older son did the book, but I found that many of them were actually quite difficult to answer.  With him, I ended up having him write summaries of each chapter.  With the younger one, I had him write a short essay every few weeks on a topic of interest.

 

I would not use the entire Human Odyssey series with high school students.  The third volume may be appropriate for a 9th grader, but the other two books are very obviously written to a middle school audience.  If you want a high school version of the series, take a look at World History: Our Human Story.

 

Thank you!  I actually meant to write Our Human Story, and I updated my original post :). 

Edited May 25, 2017 by jmjs4