mom2tbcnm Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 I am researching high school history options. Could you please give me ALL your great ideas? I am planning to use some LL guides for literature, so a history program that would go with that might be good, or anything else you have used. Thank you so much Katty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hscherger Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 For American History, my daughter is going to use America: A Narrative History (Brief Seventh Edition) by Tindall and Shi. There are two volumes. She will do volume one for ninth grade and volume two for tenth. I also purchased the companion volumes titled, For the Record: A Documentary History of America. Not only are these texts extremely readable and enjoyable, they can be found used on Amazon for peanuts. I think I paid less than $20 (shipping included) for all four books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 We used Spielvogel's Western Civ for 2 years, Ancients and Med/Ren. I did not find it very useful for 20th Cent World Hist--not "enough" for some reason. We did Sonlight 300 that year, with major, major tweaking, adding in a couple of books from this series by Martin Gilbert. It did not have a ton of analysis, just a very straightforward narrative to each year in the decade. Fairly easy to read--British, not American, perspective (kinda like watching BBC versus ABC News!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memphispeg Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 We use America Past and Present and the companion essays Voices of America Past and Present. We used the Norton Anthology of Am. Lit. for more readings. Also picked up essays and speeches from the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama25angels Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 We're planning to use the Teaching Company lectures and maybe Notgrass Exploring American History or A Patriot's History of the US or Paul Johnson's book. We'll add American Voice by Notgrass to whatever we decide to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 My daughter used a boatload of resources for a homemade 9th grade course in World History 1700 t0 2000. I'd be happy to provide you with a list if you're interested. In 10th grade, my daughter used The American Pageant for an outside the home AP US History class. She enjoyed the text itself but it was a true tome (over 1000 pages). The teacher assigned The Jungle as summer reading before the class began. I believe that matching literature and history studies is an ideal combination. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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