Question for Progeny Press users..

[Love2Smile]

Do you have your kid read the entire novel first, or do you read and then work on the chapters in the guide you just read about?

[kahlanne]

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[Love2Smile]

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Yeah, I know! LOL The guide says to read the eintire book the first week, but some of these books are LONG! Just wondering how some of you use them, this is our very first time

[Chels~]

I had the same question :). I bought some guides to use this year and thought the same thing.

[lisak]

We are using some this year. We will just read the book and go through the study at the same time. There is simply not enough time to read the long book first. I'm still working on a decent schedule for my daughter, but I may have her be reading ahead of the study guide.

[Zee]

I used a high school guide with my 7th grader last year. We read the chapters for each question section,then we answered the questions and discussed them before moving on to the next chapter section. The questions were too detailed to read the whole book and then go back and answer. I'd do it the same with an older student, too.

 

HTH

[Love2Smile]

I used a high school guide with my 7th grader last year. We read the chapters for each question section,then we answered the questions and discussed them before moving on to the next chapter section. The questions were too detailed to read the whole book and then go back and answer. I'd do it the same with an older student, too.

 

HTH

Thanks! I thought the same thing, that she may forget certain details if the whole book was read first.

[Julie in MN]

I used a high school guide with my 7th grader last year. We read the chapters for each question section,then we answered the questions and discussed them before moving on to the next chapter section. The questions were too detailed to read the whole book and then go back and answer. I'd do it the same with an older student, too.

 

HTH

 

Same thing for my 7th grader. He would NOT have liked going way back in the book for each of those questions. We read as we went along.

 

It might be different for a real book lover who wants to enjoy the story first.

 

Julie

[Excelsior! Academy]

Maybe we should have done it that way. We did the read the book first thing and now my dds are having a hard time being motivated to go back and do the guide.

[Hunter]

I think rereading is easier for short books. I'm planning on using the guide for Old Man and the Sea.

 

I read Call of the Wild and was then planning on rereading it as I worked through a couple guides I downloaded, but got distracted by wanting to do Hemingway. If I spend weeks on a book, I want to use an author that I want to imitate his writing.

 

For now I plan on using short books and reading them more than once.

 

I'm also working through Movies as Literature with a friend and rewatching the movies several times.

[Love2Smile]

I think rereading is easier for short books. I'm planning on using the guide for Old Man and the Sea.

 

I read Call of the Wild and was then planning on rereading it as I worked through a couple guides I downloaded, but got distracted by wanting to do Hemingway. If I spend weeks on a book, I want to use an author that I want to imitate his writing.

 

For now I plan on using short books and reading them more than once.

 

I'm also working through Movies as Literature with a friend and rewatching the movies several times.

How do you like Movies as Lit? I have been looking at it for awhile

[Hunter]

How do you like Movies as Lit? I have been looking at it for awhile

 

My friend and I are learning a lot from it, and we are adults, and she has even done college level work on the subject. It is well done and worth the money. We plan on completing the entire book. I wish there was a second volume.

 

My friend is very interested in movies, but I am focusing on the short story aspect of the films. The curriculum points out that every film is a short story.