Here is a Runkle daily schedule from Core Foundations...http://corefoundations.wordpress.com/scheds-english-and-history/ Scroll down to the bottom for the schedule. Tina

For the 5th-6th grade, we use Hands on Math Equations in our co-op. It worked great this year and we are planning to use it again next year.

Thank you! I can't seem to download them though, any suggestions?

Catholic online classes: http://www.reginacoeli.org/ http://pmgrace.com/ http://homeschoolconnectionsonline.com/

http://www.homeschoolscience.com/ Love these!!!!

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Online classes!!!!!!!!!! At a reasonable price! Daily lesson plans with an option to purchase supplemental materials. For instance, if you use a printout or a specific outline form, include that in the supplemental purchase. Are you looking years down the road or next year? :001_smile:

Toys R Us????

Anyone know where to find a daily lesson plan/schedule for Latin Alive? Thank you, Tina

Where do you find that schedule? Thanks

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Thanks everyone! Has anyone used the DVD that you can get with these now? Here is the link http://greatbooksblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/how-to-read-a-book-mortimer-adler-and-charles-van-doren-dvd/ Maryalice, I already purchased the study guide from classicalhomeeducation. Do you by chance have the schedule in the guide? Last question, do you think this would make a good co-op class for high school? Thank you, Tina

Is there a syllabus or schedule for this book? Are there any guides to use while reading HTRaB that would be helpful? Thank you, Tina

I want to personally thank you for the schedules (ALL OF THEM). I love love love them! They have been a true blessing to my family. Tina

That is funny! :lol:

Taking notes...any more suggestions? Will let you know what I decide. Thank you, Tina

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Fellow Homeschoolers, If you were going to hear a homeschool conference talk on "In the Thick of It," what exactly would you want to hear? Thanks so much Tina

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We have used Shurley for 11 years. I would say it takes an average of 20-30 minutes 4 times a week. We do not use the vocab portion and some years we skip the writing(every other year). Depending on the child if we use all levels or skip some. How old is your daughter? What has program has she used up to this point?

Megawords maybe? It is along the same line as AAS IMHO.

Page 341-342—The definition of a Renaissance Man (something described positively in the text) is explained as follows: “When Prince Henry the Navigator sent ships south to see the southern waters, rather than just accepting the old stories about boiling seas, he was thinking like a Renaissance man. When Columbus insisted on going to India by sailing West, instead of trying to go around Africa like everyone else, he was acting like a Renaissance man. When Martin Luther told the people of Wittenberg that they should look at the Bible for themselves, instead of believing everything that the Church told them, he was talking like a Renaissance man.†She goes on to link Renaissance thought with the great Scientific Method!! (emphasis mine, on this one) 344—On trusting priests versus reading the Bible for oneself (in the Gutenberg press section) “Suppose that you are a Christian who wants to find out what the Bible says about right and wrong. But you don’t have a Bible. There’s a huge Bible chained to the pulpit of the church in your village, but it’s written in a language you can’t read. So you ask your priest what the Bible says. He doesn’t read very well either, so he tells you what his priest told him years ago when he asked the same question. He might be right—or he might be wrong. That’s what life was like in Europe during the Middle Ages. Because there were so few books, scientists didn’t make very many new discoveries. Historians couldn’t find out much about the past. Doctors knew very little about the human body. And Christians had to found out what the Bible said by asking their priests. They had to trust their priests to give them the right information! (emphasis in text)†346—Vernacular Bibles—The paragraph ends with “And Christians could read their own Bibles written in their own languages.†My understanding is that there were Catholic vernacular bibles at the time, but I can’t remember where I read it. Sorry about that. Pages357-358—Copernicus and the Catholic Church Pages360-361—Galileo and the Catholic Church Page 366—Mary Queen of Scots unpopular in England because she outlawed Protestantism and tried to restore Catholicism in England Page367-368—“Good Queen Bess†The basic gist is that she restored Protestantism and didn’t allow Mass to be said, but other than that, was a good queen and allowed Catholics to remain Catholic. Catholics were persecuted under Elizabeth I. Page403—King Philip of Spain and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. He is mentioned as wanting to return Catholicism to England as one of his goals, but its not done in a distasteful way. Susan Wise Bauer chose to avoid the Spanish Inquisition entirely, as she wrote her book for first through third graders and considered it too violent.

This is not my review, and I can't find who wrote it, sorry! I love SOTW, when I get to passages such as some of the ones below, I make note of it and we discuss it. I’ve been prereading Story of the World Volume II, since this has been recently added to SL 6. There are several areas that merit some discussion, I think. This book is secular, for the most part, but I think it takes a more protestant perspective on the reformation, as is common in secular books. Each family will have to determine if the level of anti Catholicism in this book is tolerable with editing and discussion, or not. I think there is some room for friendly disagreement on this, since the level Sonlight has assigned it to is 6th grade and up, but it will definitely need either some editing or some discussion, depending on your child’s place in his faith journey and age. I do not recommend allowing your child to read this on his/her own, without discussion. I tried to quote for the more problematic areas or at least give one a head’s up when Catholicism is referred to. Page 35—re: the pope, the quote is: “Many people believed that God had given him the job of taking care of Christians all over the world. Page 54-55 Discussion of the Western belief that the Pope is the universal leader of the Church versus the Eastern perspective of councilor leadership. Page 57—The story of St. Nicholas is told, but I find it odd that she failed to mention that Nicholas went on to become the Bishop of Myra, was jailed for his faith, etc. Instead, all she recounts is the legend of him anonymously paying dowries for 3 poor girls so that they could be married. There are lots of Catholic picture stories and even a video that recount the rest of the story, that could be easily added in for a fuller picture. Page 154—A story of William the Conqueror is recounted…it is about how he hid relics under a table and tricked someone into swearing to give power to him “over the relics†so that he would be stuck. The definition of relics is given as follows: “saints remains, which were thought to have miraculous powers.†Page 178—The definition of pilgrim given is as follows: “people who made trips to show their devotion to God, and sometimes to ask forgiveness for their sins.†Page 179—Regarding Constantinople’s request for a crusade, the quote is as follows: “He promised the knights that they would get rewards in heaven for driving back the Islamic invasion. And he even promised them that anyone who joined the army would have their sins forgiven! (emphasis in text).†Page 182-183--Story of one particular crusade that is not particularly flattering of the crusaders...The author does explain that the crusaders were thirsty and exhausted, but then recounts how they killed everyone they could find. One might want to add in some Catholic perspective on this delicate subject. On page 186—the corresponding Islamic recapture of Jerusalem is told and the Islamic leader is perceived as much more merciful than the Christian crusaders. Page 275-276—Recounts the story where Ferdinand and Isabella forced all Jews to leave Granada when they retook the Islamic nation for Spain and for Catholicism. Page 331—The introduction of Luther into history: “…but Martin Luther (ML…my shorthand) decided to join a monastery instead. As a monk, he had to beg for food and money. He spent long hours praying and studying the Bible. ML chose this difficult, demanding life because he was afraid that God would punish him for his sins unless he worked day and night to make God happy. He wrote that he was ‘walled around with the terror and agony’ of God’s wrath. ML did everything that the church told him he should do. He went on pilgrimage to Rome. He prayed in front of the relics of saints. He crawled on his hands and knees, reciting the Lord’s prayer, to show how sorry he was for his sins. But he was still afraid that God would be displeased with him. …(he said to himself)’The book of Romans doesn’t tell me that I have to earn God’s love by working hard to be good. No, no! It says that God gives me the power to believe in him, and the power to be good, because he already loves me!’ This changed ML’s way of thinking about God! (emphasis in text)†And then an analogy is made where a child has 2 aunts and one is picky and expects perfection and is cruel toward the child who fails to be clean enough. The other is kind and welcomes the child even with a little bit of mud. And then the question is posed, “Which aunt would you rather go see? The first aunt is a little bit like the way ML used to think of God. The second aunt is more like the way he learned to think about God after reading Romans.†It continues a few pp’s down: “The Catholic church had begun to teach that God would only forgive sins if the sinners did penance, special deeds (like giving money to the poor or confessing their sins in public) to show how sorry they were. But the Church also taught that sinners could get out of doing penance by paying a certain amount of money to the Church. This practice was called selling indulgences. Martin Luther believed that indulgences were wrong. He preached that God would forgive any sinner who believed in Jesus Christ, not just those who did penances or bought indulgences.

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I agree!!!!!