Hi everyone! I’m planning on using K12’s Human Odyssey vol 1 (text only) with my 6th grade dd coming up shortly. I created a notebook to go with it, though I’m not sure how much of it I’ll end up using (simply reading, discussing, map-work, and a timeline sounds VERY appealing right now.) Since so many of you plan to use this as well, I thought I’d share what I made so maybe someone can get some use out of it. What it is: It’s a simple thing really, but I’m pleased with how it turned out. I created it with the thought of printing single-sided, and keeping the pages in page protectors (double-loaded) in a 3-ring binder. That way we could just pull out the pages we need and not have to lug around the whole thing, plus I think it would keep the pages neater as the year wears on. There’s a cover page, a page with a history quote from Cicero, a couple pages for listing books, documentaries, etc. Then there is a 2 page spread for each chapter of the book. There are lined areas that could be used for taking notes, writing short outlines, narrations, and/or summaries, or, if you do more discussion based, you could use them to kind of journal about your history discussions. There are a couple of blank boxes for drawing or pasting in pictures. There’s a box for jotting down dates to be added to your timeline, and a small box for indicating any map-work and/or projects you completed for that chapter. The pages are labeled with chapter titles and there’s a spot for the dates you worked on them. After the chapter pages is a page for general notes, then a cover page for a mapping section of the notebook (we’ll be using MapTrek maps.) Next is a cover page for an arts, crafts, and projects section. Then a cover page labeled History of Philosophy, and a chart for Jostein Gaarder’sSophie’s World. We plan to read through the novel and I wanted a place to keep track of the philosophers and their ideas as we go. Along the same idea is a cover page and chart for the first of Hakim’s Story of Science books. After all that is a cover page for a timeline sections, and two blank timeline templates. The first is based sort of on this and the second is more standard. The templates are undated; you can either type the dates in before printing, or fill them in by hand after. Last is a back cover and spine label. Where to find it: I tried to upload it to Google Docs, but it wouldn’t keep the formatting, so I went to my fallback plan and created a yahoo group for the purpose of file sharing (no messages.) You can find it in the file section here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wtm_k12human_odyssey/. If anyone has any other files (booklists, schedules, etc.) that they would like to share for any of the Human Odyssey books, please feel free to load them up. I would just ask that you kindly label them to indicate which volume they are for. So there you have it. Hope this is helpful to someone. Let me know if you have any questions. Many Blessings, Rhonda

I just wanted to say thanks again to mjbucks1 for finishing this and making it available to everyone. I'm sure she is as happy as I am that others are able to make use of it. Also, I hope she doesn't mind, but I wanted to link her other thread about the blog she started with more helpful stuff on it. (You are AWESOME Michelle!) http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=387632 Blessings all! Rhonda

Oh, and can someone please post and let me know if they were able to get on the group and access the file okay. (I have internet insecurities;))

Hello everyone! My apologies. Due to a chaotic year I haven’t been here in quite a while, but I’m getting flooded with emails telling me my PM box is full, so I figured I should check it out. I’ve got several requests for the workbook, which I unfortunately never got a chance to finish (turns out this wonderful little book just didn’t work with my highly visual son.) But I see that mjbucks1 has created the second half and an answer key (thank you so much Michelle, I’ve been meaning to go ahead and finish it, even though I couldn’t use it with my son, but just haven’t been able to find the time.) Anyway, all this rambling to say that to make it easier for everyone to get the files, I created a Yahoo group and uploaded it there. It’s an open group set to announcements only (so no need for approval to join and there will be no messages posted.) I hope I did everything right (it's my first group so I'm winging it:D.) Here’s the link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LivelyArtOfWritingWorkbook/ Michelle, if you want me to add your files to the group, send me a PM and let me know (after I empty my box.) Again, I apologize for not answering you all. I’ve not been ignoring you, just haven’t been around. Hopefully the Yahoo group makes it easier to get the file to you all! Blessings everyone! :001_smile: Let me know if there are any problems. Rhonda

Definitely interested.

How about this http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_39?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=homework+helpers+essays+and+term+papers&sprefix=homework+helpers+essays+and+term+papers Rhonda

Sorry, nothing to do with LAoW, just got a little excited for a minute.:D Blessings, Rhonda

I just wanted to share something I came across the other day. Free personal Finance curriculum: http://www.moneyskill.org/ I haven't had a chance to dig into it too much, but I did register, and they were really quick in approving me. Here's the info from the front page: MoneySKILL IS Free! MoneySKILL is a free online reality based personal finance course for young adults developed by the AFSA Education Foundation. This interactive curriculum is aimed at the millions of high school and college students who graduate each year without a basic understanding of money management fundamentals. The course is designed to be used as all or part of a grade for courses in economics, math, social studies or where personal finance are taught. Students experience the interactive curriculum as both written text and audio narration. In addition, frequent quizzes test their grasp of each and every concept. The 34-module curriculum, with pre- and post -tests, covers the content areas of income, expenses, assets, liabilities and risk management. A life simulation module asks students to project their own financial life expectancies in areas such as employment, housing, transportation, education, marriage, family and retirement. The life simulation allows students to incorporate the MoneySKILL personal finance concepts into their everyday lives, thus providing them with knowledge and skills that will last a lifetime. MoneySKILL's special features: It's free! Available for use by teachers, parents, employers, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Select specific modules and order of study for students' course. Indicate a module retake for students. Add release date for student to begin module. Records date student completed module. View student answers to questions. Recreate/duplicate modules used for a previous class. Electronic grade book records each student's module test scores and course grade. Import class roster into the electronic grade book. Hope this helps someone else as well! Have a wonderful day! Rhonda

Critical Thinking Co. has a new one out. James Madison Critical Thinking Course: http://www.criticalthinking.com/getProductDetails.do?code=p&id=05705 Huge book, over 500 pages, full of exercises-possibly worth a full credit?? Done on a Crime Scene/Criminal Investigation theme. HTH Rhonda

Again, you are all very welcome, and I really hope it helps some of you. I have sent out all request so far and my box is currently empty. (whew!) If any of you had problems with receiving my email (like my forgetting to actually attach the file:glare:), please let me know. I have to work tomorrow, and won't be home until evening, but I'll check in then. You all have a great night! Rhonda

You all are very welcome, and I hope it will actually be of use to some of you. I hope everyone is receiving them okay. Let me know if not. :001_smile:Rhonda

Karen, Let me know your email and I'll send it your way Rhonda

In an attempt to make this little treasure a bit more user-friendly, and as a preemptive measure against my ds using the book’s miniscule type-face as an excuse for “missing†assignments (*sigh*- if only he’d use his powers for good), I am in the process of creating a workbook of sorts for Payne’s The Lively Art of Writing, and I thought I’d offer to share. I’m about halfway done. (through chapter 7 of 15) I’m not sure when I’ll have a chance to complete it, but I’m hoping to take some time in August to finish it up. It’s nothing fancy. For each chapter, I typed up the chapter summary so ds can keep it in the writing section of his binder. Then there is a page(s) for the chapter questions, with lines for answering them. Next there is a page of chapter assignments. This is mostly a checklist, with the assignments listed and checkboxes to be ticked off as they are finished. Finally, there is a page(s) for the chapter vocabulary with space to do the vocabulary work. It’s done in Word, 47 pages, 52 kb, so far. If anyone would like a copy, just pm me your email addy, and I’ll be happy to send part 1 along. Please be forgiving of any typos, mistakes, and “un-pretty†formatting, and feel free to edit as you wish. I will try to remember to post when I finish part 2. Though I am a perpetual and habitual (and possibly hopeless) lurker, I have gleaned a great amount of wisdom from these boards, and I hope I can give back in a way, small such as it is. Have a blessed day, Rhonda

I don't post much, but since you haven't gotten any answers, I'll try to explain it. The only full novel scheduled in OYAN is The Prisoner of Zenda. That comes in actual book form with the program. The other literature comes in pdfs on one of the discs. These books are not scheduled. I hope I can explain this in a way that makes sense - in the textbook, at the end of many of the lessons, they will pull a chapter out of one of the other books, like, say Huck Finn, or Treasure Island. They pull a chapter that shows whatever point they're trying to make in the lesson. That particular chapter will be included in the text at the end of the lesson, then there will be a few questions after it, again, to get the student to see whatever point they were trying to make with the lesson. These chapters do not go in order, they skip back and forth from different books. So, you could schedule your student to read the full books however you want, knowing that when the program pulls in chapters from those books, it will include them in the text. Whoa, I sure hope this is making sense. It really is a wonderful, and incredibly well-done program. And I think a student can get a lot out of it, not just for creative writing, but for understanding literature, and improving all their writing. HTH Rhonda