momof8 Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 I am thinking of using it and am wondering how you liked it if you have used it? Is it very time consuming? Too above grade level? Or perfect? Would you start in 7th grade like it supposed to be used? Thanks for your honest appraisal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLA Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Maybe post this on the logic or high school boards...I'd love to read responses too! KLA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karenciavo Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 We used Omnibus I four years ago. It's beautiful and well done. It is above grade level of most 7th graders so many people wait until 9th grade. My son did some of the secondary readings in 7th (Narnia, Kreeft, Sproul, and some others) when we were studying the 20th century and did the primary readings in 8th grade when we returned to the ancients. It's a lot of work for the student if you follow the schedule in Omnibus, our weekly discussions took about 1.5 hours. The text assumes the teacher knows how to teach the writing assignments - there are some progym assignments along with essays, etc. - so if you don't know how do teach the assignments you'll need a handbook or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 We are using it in 9th grade. There is no way I would have used it any earlier (kudos to those who do). It is challenging and time consuming, after all, it is 3 credits and I am thrilled with most of it. Dd enjoys it enough to want to stick with it for the duration. I don't think it is enough for the history credit so we added in Speilvogel's Human Odyssey with the activity and map book for a one year world history survey but next year we will just be using Western Civ with it as it suggests. We are doing most of the secondary works and all of the primary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I've posted about it on the high school boards--just do a tag search. I used one and two with ds when he was in 9th and 10th, with tweaking (we didn't read much of the secondary lit and added some in, and we nixed the progym writing exercises--I was brand new at hsing and Omnibus allowed us to explore the GB's). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momof8 Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 Thanks so much for all the input. Would it be too much to do Omnibus III with Sonlight's British Lit. for a senior? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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