All American History for highschool?

[Cheri Warren]

Have any of you used AAH for highschool? If you have could you please tell me how you beefed it up or what lit you added?

[Wendy in ME]

I don't have any experience to add but I have considered this for next year with my then 9th grader. I actually got the idea from Memoria Press. They combine both books into a one year online course.

[Susan C.]

I am using it now for 11th grade. We will do both volumes. The beginning of Volume One is pretty easy..... but dd of course likes that.... One chapter for one or two explorers, one chapter for each colony.... so it has started out pretty slow. There are questions at the end of each chapter in the activity guide that make it high school level. We do one or two of them (so far since it is only explorers and colonies). We may end up doing more later on (I still need to look at it more). Dd just can't do textbooks, they are too summarized and she is bad at filling in the gaps. She is enjoying the reading and having good retention with it. I am planning on adding whole books to it, we'll see if that materializes!

[Cheri Warren]

I am using it now for 11th grade. We will do both volumes. The beginning of Volume One is pretty easy..... but dd of course likes that.... One chapter for one or two explorers, one chapter for each colony.... so it has started out pretty slow. There are questions at the end of each chapter in the activity guide that make it high school level. We do one or two of them (so far since it is only explorers and colonies). We may end up doing more later on (I still need to look at it more). Dd just can't do textbooks, they are too summarized and she is bad at filling in the gaps. She is enjoying the reading and having good retention with it. I am planning on adding whole books to it, we'll see if that materializes!

Do you feel it's doable to do 2 vol. in 11th grade without feeling rushed?

[Baseballmom]

My son is in a co-op that is using vol.2 for 9th grade this year. My son does all 4 "for further studies" each week. Plus we do several of the projects, timelines and book reports suggested in the teachers guide. Doing it this way, I feel like it is a sufficient highschool history course.

[Susan C.]

Do you feel it's doable to do 2 vol. in 11th grade without feeling rushed?

 

 

VERY doable. Each chapter only has about 5-8 pages. So, you do two chapters a week, read for two days, activities/workbook for two days, high school questions the last day. I'm not sure I'll test, but you can use the reviews in the workbook if you want. I think (right now anyway) that I will grade the high school questions and workbook pages for a grade. Stay tuned, though! There are 32 chapters, so 16 weeks of bookwork, and hopefully a few weeks to do a few whole books. We are still ironing out the kinks, but that is because her math and science are hogging all of her time.