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It says, "classes designed to help you teach your student in the classical tradition."
Is it for us parents, then?
Walking-Iris...sorry if that was unclear. These are classes for the student...as in, the student interacting with a teacher, via online lectures/email/discussions/chat. So, we hope that it will be a helpful service for the parent who's assembling their child's education, but it's not "a class for parents" in that sense.
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Hey! How can I get in on this? I don't think I'll have any kids of the right ages home next year to enroll, but I'd love to be a help in some way!
Tiramisu, go ahead and sign up for the contact list...and as more updates come out, perhaps you'll see a way you can get involved. Thanks for your interest!
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Hi all! Justin from Peace Hill Press here. Yes, the Well-Trained Mind Academy is a real thing--we're launching this fall! The www.wtmacademy.com site is a landing page where you can get some preliminary information, and where you can be added to our notification list, to be the first to hear about course offerings, registration, pricing, etc. I'm sure you'll also be hearing about it here on the Forums.
We're pretty stoked about this.The Academy is also on Facebook now at www.facebook.com/WTMAcademy.
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Shelly, yes...you can buy it as a print book on Amazon or here on our site.
And our site also has it as a PDF download.
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Justin is there a reading list as well? Thanks
Shelly, no, this doesn't include a reading list. You should definitely check out the reading list in the high school history section of the book "The Well-Trained Mind." chapter 26, i think?
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Will you be coming out with an audio version on the ancient times book?
Julie, yes, an audio version of "The History of the Ancient World" has been released! You can purchase it on amazon at http://www.amazon.com/History-Ancient-World-Earliest-Accounts/dp/B00D1YRUL4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
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If this were used for high school history, would this be a year long curriculum? Or are the three History of the Ancient/Renaissance/Medieval World books designed to all be used together as one World History curriculum?
Grantmom,
The Ancient World book would take a year on its own. Trying to get through Ancient/Medieval/Renaissance books in one year would probably be too ambitious.
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Hi Erin, sorry i didn't reply sooner. The material, especially the "how-to-teach" stuff, is almost all the same. The newer recordings have better audio quality than the old ones, and they also include mentions of our newer writing books (including Writing With Skill), which had not yet been published when the 2009 recordings were made.
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Hello ErinD,
The following lectures currently for sale on our site were recorded in 2012:
--A Plan for Teaching Writing: Focus on the Elementary Grades
--A Plan for Teaching Writing: Focus on the Middle Grades
--A Plan for Teaching Writing: Focus on the High School Years
--The Well-Prepared Student: How to Get Ready for the High School Years
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Will you guys have them for SWB's Middle Ages and Renaissance books as well?
armia741, we are working on the one for "The Medieval World" right now, and hope to have it ready by the fall. If there seems to be a good response to the first two books, we will likely make a Renaissance one as well.
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We fixed the link! It's now: http://peacehillpress.com/scratch-dent
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Justin,
That guide looks awesome! Would you happen to have an estimate for when the medieval study and teaching guide will be available? My DD has her eyes on it for fall 2014. :)
SilverMoon,
We don't have an exact date yet, sorry. We are aiming to have the book available as a PDF in the mid-to-late-summer, with a printed book a couple of months later.
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Hi all,
A month or two ago, we released the Study and Teaching Guide for the History of the Ancient World. The map exercises in that book can be done using the maps contained in "The History of the Ancient World." But some astute customers pointed out that if your student is reading "H.O.T.A.W." on a Kindle, he won't be able to write on (or trace) those maps!
In response to this need, we've created a little PDF pack of 59 maps, using only the ones that are referenced in the map exercises. Here it is, ready to download for just $3.99. Hopefully that will help those of you who are using the Kindle version. -
I've started reading through the guide. Doing the map work will be very difficult for those who have the Kindle edition of HOTAW, however. Any suggestions for where to get these maps? Perhaps make them available separately like student pages are for so many of the other products? Including them in the guide itself would be great, but I suppose it is too late for that. :)
thewaka, thanks to your suggestion and others like it, we created a Map Supplement, for people who have the Kindle version of the textbook but still want to do the Map Exercises in the Study Guide. It took us a little while to wrangle all the PDFs, but here it is.
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Hi Melissa,
Sorry that you weren't able to use this with your Ds's. Yes, we are working on a Study & Teaching Guide for the History of the Medieval World. It won't be in stores by January, but if you send an email to info AT peacehillpress DOT com, we'll put you on a list of folks to send preliminary versions to, in january. There's no charge, since it's not a finished product, but your feedback and suggestions would be very helpful to us!
Justin -
Hi all,
The Study and Teaching Guide for the History of the Ancient World is now available for purchase on our site. Amazon should be shipping the book soon, too (it takes a bit longer to complete their warehouse process).
Quick Description...
Susan Wise Bauer's "The History of the Ancient World" is widely used in advanced high-school history classes, as well as by home educating parents. This Study and Teaching Guide, designed for use by both parents and teachers, provides a full curriculum with study questions and answers, critical thinking assignments, essay topics, instructor rubrics, and test forms. Explanations for answers and teaching tips are also included.
Designed by historian and teacher Julia Kaziewicz, in cooperation with Susan Wise Bauer, makes "The History of the Ancient World" more accessible to parents & teachers.
Note, since some folks had asked: The first half of the book is for the instructor. The student's pages, in the back half, are perforated.
SAMPLES of the curriculum can be found on this page.
Justin from Peace Hill Press
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This makes me so happy! We are just starting to think about high school history and this will definitely be on the list (oldest is just in 7th grade now). Will you guys have them for SWB's Middle Ages and Renaissance books as well?
dcjlkplus3, yes we are planning on having these for future volumes, especially if this first one sells well.
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Hi all,
We've sent the "Study & Teaching Guide for the History of the Ancient World" to the printers, but while we're waiting for the physical book, we've now started selling it as a downloadable PDF, here. Remember, you can see a sample on this page.
For each chapter of Susan Wise Bauer's "The History of the Ancient World" he Study & Teaching Guide provides review questions and answers, ID's, map exercises, essay prompts and tips for helping the student think critically about the history presented in the chapter.
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Also, Tania, we're so glad to hear that WWS is working well for your 8th grader!
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Tania, yes, we expect to have WWS 3 available in a year. We'll be better able to predict the release date in a few months.
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Peace Hill Press is proud to announce that Writing With Skill, Level 2, as well as its accompanying workbook, are now available for purchase on our webstore. The books are in our warehouse, just waiting for you and your young writer!
Instructor Text: http://www.peacehillpress.com/writing/the-complete-writer-writing-with-skill-level-2-instructor-text/
Student Text: http://www.peacehillpress.com/writing/the-complete-writer-writing-with-skill-level-2-student-workbook/
Remember that samples are available at: http://www.peacehillpress.com/samples.html
If you pre-ordered, we called you last week to complete your order, and the books are on their way to you.
Amazon should have the books very soon (they work on their own timetable, which they don't always share with us, and which we think has something to do with the movements of the tides, Pisces being in the Seventh House, and the entrails of pigeons). Other bookstores and retailers will be getting the books in the next week or two.
I'll try to stick around this thread to answer questions.
Thanks for your patience. We think you're going to love the books.
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Scuff,
I'm so sorry I didn't respond to your question! I've just now seen it.
Yes, the PDFs are still available for purchase...and as of this morning, the physical books are available as well. All of the WWS products are on this page: http://www.peacehillpress.com/writing-with-skill-middle-grades/Justin
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Thank you! Is Medieval coming soon?
mumto2, we plan on having the Medieval volume available for next school year (the 2014/15 school year).
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When will this be ready for purchase?
We're thinking it will take about a month for the books to be in warehouses and ready to sell (and of course the downloadable PDF will be available before that). Could be a bit sooner...we'll post updates on Facebook as we have more specific information. These first five chapters should keep your student busy for the next month or so.
Free sample of Peace Hill Press's High School History Curriculum
in High School and Self-Education Board
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brookspr,
We're hard at work on that one right now! We HOPE...not promise, unfortunately, but HOPE...to have it ready for y'all to use in the fall when the schoolyear starts. What we can do, though, is post a free PDF copy of the first ten or twelve chapters...we will be doing that in the late summer, to tide people over while the printing process continues. When we do that, we'll announce it on the forums, and I'll ask the PHP Facebook fairy to mention it on his/her/its/their page as well.
Thanks for your interest!