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    Beautiful feet American history primary for a first grader?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I loved this curriculum, but I confess I didn't use the guide very much. It is a worthwhile guide, but I really just wanted to read the books and do the timeline. The guide came in handy with timeline information and which books to read first if you don't know American history very well. The books are just absolutely wonderful and the Stories of the Pilgrims was fascinating reading to my little ones. They lived such a different life and my children loved them. I highly recommend this program.

     

    Thanks for your input, Kate. I have all of the d'Aulaire books and have been thinking of using Beautiful Feet with my youngest. I think we'll be doing this next year! :)

    Rod & Staff History Review, Please

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted · Edited by Laura in VA

    We used one of the history books for a very brief time. I'm not sure if it was 4th or 5th grade. Since Rod & Staff is a Mennonite curriculum, it focuses quite a bit on nonresistance, and this focus deterred me from continuing with it. Have you looked at the Table of Contents for the 8th grade book? There are a lot of chapters that have sections covering nonresistance during each time period. It may not be an important factor for you, but I thought I'd share.

     

    HTH

    Apologia Botany

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Is this pretty doable without buying any kits? I know that general household items vary from house to house ;) but I'm wondering if those of you who've used this would say there were several items that were especially difficult to find? What were they?

     

    Overall, are the labs pretty use friendly? I'm looking over the materials list and am balking at some of the items, yet some of them are ones that are not provided in any of the kits I've seen.

     

    Also, if you've used a kit, which one would you recommend?

     

    It's been about 5 years since we used it and we did not buy a kit. I don't recall there being anything that I had a hard time finding.

    sensitive content

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    I think she would be too embarrassed for the police to get involved to not choose something. This is based on knowing her, and what motivates her.

     

    Thank you everyone for your opinions. It seems like a clear majority believe it is more important to try to get him prosecuted than to simply help the child. I appreciate your perspective.

     

    I believe the clear majority believe it *is* helping the child (and perhaps many other children), by alerting the authorities. Allowing the child to be in a home where this type of behavior is occurring, is most definitely not "helping".

    Secular first grade ancient history

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I don't know why this should be such a difficult choice for me, but I'm having a really hard time here. We will be supplementing with many picture books and encyclopedias, but I was hoping to find a narrative history "spine" (I'm not sure that I know what that word means in this context, but I see it here quite a bit). :001_huh:

     

    Anyway, I know that I don't want SOTW or CHOW. I'm looking for something secular. I was thinking about the Pearson Core Knowledge books. Is there anything else that I'm overlooking?

     

    Lots of families use SOTW secularly. Have you had a chance to see the book? I would not classify SOTW as specifically Christian.

    Drama of American History

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted · Edited by Laura in VA
    left off a quotation mark

    Here are a few quotes from 2 of the 3 books I checked out of the library.

     

    I really don't want to read the 3rd book, but if anyone needs even more quotes, I may oblige.

     

     

    Progressivism, the Great Depression, and the New Deal (1901-1941)

     

    p.22 "By 1900, if not before, it had become obvious to many thoughtful people that too many Americans were not getting their fair share of the growing American prosperity."

     

    p.30 "Although there were some improvements, farmers, laborers, and the poor were still not getting anything like their fair share of the nation's wealth."

     

    p.31 "But there was another side to the 1920's that was not so glamorous, for the prosperity was not equally spread..."

     

    p.59 caption beside a photo of Harding- "...he proved to be weak and incompetent.'

     

    P.58 of Coolidge- "He was a silent, unimaginative man who did as little as possible to disturb the seeming prosperity of the 1920s."

     

    "Hoover was intelligent and a good organizer."

     

    pp. 60-61 FDR- "one of the most dynamic president's the nation has ever had..."

     

    p.82 "...despite New Deal programs, the nation's wealth was still unequally distributed- ordinary workers and farmers, who made up the majority of consumers, were hardly getting a fair share of the nation's income..."

     

    p.84- "Thus Franklin Roosevelt, in America's greatest economic crisis of all time, saved both democracy and capitalism by reforming the free enterprise system."

     

    The Middle Road: American Politics 1945-200

     

    p.32 "Americans began automatically to see as enemies any nations, no matter how small, with communist governments, when hindsight has suggested that it might have been better to try to work with them.

    Cuba presents a good example of this."

     

    p.63 Iran hostage situation

    "(Carter finally managed to get the hostages released on the last day of his presidency.)" - Are you kidding me??? They were released because of Reagan coming in.

     

    p.65 "Ronald Reagan was not an especially thoughtful president, given to pondering ideas." So thinking about ideas isn't thoughtful???

     

    p. 69 "His confident, winning personality and actor's skill on television caused many voters to overlook problems like growing budget deficits and questionable armed forays in Grenada, and elsewhere."

     

    pp.81-82 regarding the Bush/Gore election

    "As it happened the governor of Florida was George W. Bush's brother. Both sides appealed to the state and federal courts to resolve the issue. Ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court (where two of the justices and been appointed by Bush's father), in a five to four decision gave the election to Bush."

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