njosanders Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 I posted this on the K-8th board and received no response. What else to do you combine with the IEW History Based Writing Lessons to make a complete Language Arts program? I have Easy Grammar and Spelling Power, but what about the other areas??? I also am thinking of LLATL? I just need to make sure I cover all the areas. I have one daughter, 8th grade for next year. Thanks, Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiddenJewel Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 I posted this on the K-8th board and received no response. What else to do you combine with the IEW History Based Writing Lessons to make a complete Language Arts program? I have Easy Grammar and Spelling Power, but what about the other areas??? I also am thinking of LLATL? I just need to make sure I cover all the areas. I have one daughter, 8th grade for next year. Thanks, Julie For 8th grade LA I try include grammar (if still needed), composition, vocabulary, and literature. I only include spelling if it is still needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 (edited) We use the IEW themed books and my upcoming 9th grader will do in adition to the medieval one: R&S English Vocab. From Classical Roots TOG's year 2 lit Teaching the Classics Latin Edited April 23, 2009 by Quiver0f10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musicmom Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 My dd did IEW History Based Writing Lessons V. 1 this year in 8th grade. It meshed well with her history studies. Then for the rest of language arts she did: Abeka Grammar (which we've used all along) Vocabulary from Classical Roots Lightning Literature 8 (we skipped most of the writing in this as it was just too much on top of IEW.) I think basically you just need a good grammar program, vocabulary and literature in addition to the IEW. Be careful about adding more writing--I had thought I could do this (even toyed with the idea of doing V.2 second semester), but the History Based has turned out to be quite a bit of work. It will be all we can do to finish the one volume this year. It's been very good, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njosanders Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 with leaving out the areas of stuff like literary analysis and those other LA areas I never learned in public school. IEW has the teaching the classics which they say that plus the History based writing covers most of the LA with the exception of grammar. Have you tried the Teaching the Classics. LLATL seems to cover a lot of other areas too, but I do already own the SP and EG. Thanks for your advice, any more is great! Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musicmom Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Actually, Lightning Lit 8 (and 7) does give a good, gentle introduction to literary analysis, and I've been pleased with that aspect of it for 7th and 8th grade. I'm still searching for the best literary analysis program for hs. I haven't used Teaching the Classics, but I've been interested in it and have read good things about it on this board. Hopefully others will share their experiences, and/or you can do a search on it to find past threads. My only experience with LLATL was years ago with the old (now very old) version of 3rd grade, so not much help there. My impression of the program at the time was that it's goal was to be all-encompassing. By the way, I should have specified in my previous post that we're using the U.S. History Based Writing Vol. 1--there are certainly quite a few others! (sorry about that; have been abbreviating it History Based on dd's assignment sheets for too long! :)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy in MD Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 This year we doing the Midieval history program. With it, we're doing: AG, season 1 and 2 Sentence composing (I like their way of teaching sentence construction and variety) Wordly Wise & Word Roots (Critical Thinking Press) I didn't get to formal spelling this year :glare: Figuratively Speaking (literary terms and analysis) Various lit study guides Misc 1000-1600 Literature to study I haven't looked closely at the other IEW book, but I think you can see from your responses that people can easily build a complete Eng program with it as only one of the included publishers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njosanders Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 I guess what I need to add would be literature. I would like to know if anyone has used the Teaching the Classics. Thanks to all! Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Actually IEW does have literary analysis now. Windows to the World is a literary analysis program designed for high school. I'm using it with my 10th grader right now. Excellence in Literature (sold through IEW) is also a literary analysis program. It has 5 levels (only American and world are on the IEW website - the others are all at http://www.everydayeducation.com ) and uses entire books. I'm thinking of using the Intro level with my middle dd for 9th grade next year. I have added Winston Grammar, Megawords, Fix-it Grammar, Word Roots, and literature to IEW for a complete LA program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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