michellem Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Can someone please share their thoughts on this program. Pros, cons, etc. I am looking for a 9th Grade Lit program and someone said they were using this. After looking at it online I am interested. Thanks, michelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christy B Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Michelle, there are quite a few good threads on this -- do you know how to do a forum search? If you look kind of toward the upper right hand corner of the posts (not all the way up -- look to the right but below your name) you can click on "search" and do a search. You might want to enter a couple of different options, I'd start with entering "lord of the rings" but you could also try LLfLOTR, etc. Hope that helps -- if you don't find some good threads, I'll try to link some for you. I have the teacher's guide and student workbook, if you have specific questions, I'd be happy to try to answer them. I've not used the program yet, so I can't give you pros or cons. I can say that the books are HUGE. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 We tried this this year and I was disappointed. While the "Additional Notes" section of each lesson is very good (this is where the meat of the program is, where she delivers the "literary lessons") much of the rest of it seemed like busywork to me. There was not enough reinforcement of the literary terms. The fill in the blank comprehension section was way too detail oriented, lots of names of minor characters and places and such. The vocabulary was good but not reinforced in any way except with quizzes. The unit studies were pretty good though. I decided after using this that we just do better with a literature program with more variety. LLLOTR, IMHO, was trying to do too much with one book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine State Sue Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Here's a few earlier threads: LOTR literary study? Question about Literary Lessons LOTR. Recommendations for Hobbit/Lord of the Rings study... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-FL Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Dd#1 did it. She'd already read the LOTR series, but re-read for this. For her is was a high point in HS. The terms, etc helped her when she went to cc--esp. for poetry class as I recall. She really enjoyed Beowulf & the Arthur sections too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michellem Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 i will search for the other comments as well. michelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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