Smarr ancient lit program w/Story of the Ancient World

[dkholland]

Has anyone used either of these resources for their ancients study? I will have a 10th gr. ds and he wants to study ancients. His older brother used Omnibus I, but it very well read and needs no hand-holding in analyzing literature. Older brother has a gift for writing and needed to explanation of the progym exercises. It goes without saying, this ds is different altogether and is completely math minded. He is weak in his grammar/writing skills, but not terrible.

 

I feel like Omnibus could be a struggle for us both since he will need hand-holding and I have two other dss at home.

 

My questions...are both these programs enough to constitute an Ancient History study?? I liked the samples I saw online that there were comprehension questions as well as grammar practice. what are the writing assignments like??

 

Thanks so much,

[dkholland]

My head is so full of curriculum, I am getting SWB books all confused!:tongue_smilie:

[Kim in SouthGa]

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[Rhondabee]

Has anyone used either of these resources for their ancients study? I will have a 10th gr. ds and he wants to study ancients. His older brother used Omnibus I, but it very well read and needs no hand-holding in analyzing literature. Older brother has a gift for writing and needed to explanation of the progym exercises. It goes without saying, this ds is different altogether and is completely math minded. He is weak in his grammar/writing skills, but not terrible.

 

I feel like Omnibus could be a struggle for us both since he will need hand-holding and I have two other dss at home.

 

My questions...are both these programs enough to constitute an Ancient History study?? I liked the samples I saw online that there were comprehension questions as well as grammar practice. what are the writing assignments like??

 

Thanks so much,

 

The first 10 or so writing assignments in SMARR teach how to write a 5-paragraph literary analysis paper such as the one I posted here. The rest pretty much review grammar, although you are expected to continue writing papers throughout the course. I've greatly tweaked SMARR, but really do appreciate having the daily reading assignments already broken down for me.

 

I have a plan (from someone else) using SMARR with HOAW, Spielvogel's Western Civilization, and the Foundations of Western Civilization lectures from The Teaching Company in my Google documents. I have another that gives a schedule for HOAW and some ancient literature (not SMARR) as well as biblical history. I haven't used either of these plans, so I can't comment on them. But if you email me directly, I'll be happy to forward them to you.

 

Rhonda beee at g mail dot com