jmjs4 Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmjs4 Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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