skissugar Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 What are you using? inquiring minds want to know .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elinor Everywhere Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 What are you using? inquiring minds want to know .. We're using TOG, but I'm only using the subjects that my kids get credit for. For example, in 9th grade I am not awarding a Philosophy credit, so we aren't doing those assignments. I'm doing this to limit how much we do - I know from experience that there are so many goodies to TOG that it's easy for me to over-commit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam L in Mid Tenn Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 My 11th grader is using SOS 20th Century History, Bennett's Last Hope Vol 2, and lots of documentaries and historical movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilesonly Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 at this point dh has decided to create his own curriculum for both US and World History; planning a combo of books from Beautiful Feet, Notgrass and Sonlight. he really likes Hakim's US books, so those will be the spine for American and he's still unsure of the spine for World. he was looking at Hewitt's suggestions last weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kangato3 Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Using Spielvogel Human Odyssey for world history. I add in essays and project assignments gleaned from Google searches. Haven't decided yet what we'll use for American history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fischerl Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 DD 9th is using MFW Ancients this year, but I am tweaking it and scheduling the assignments myself, even though they have everything scheduled and many people just use it as is. She was getting frustrated with the way they jump around in the Notgrass book, instead of going straight through. It's more work for me than I was anticipating, but it's working well at this point. I haven't decided yet whether to continue with MFW for the next few years. That was my original plan, but I'm beginning to consider other options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 I'm doing it the easy way. Oak Meadow 9 American history Oak Meadow 10 World history Oak Meadow 11 World geography cc class for American government Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaOz Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 My two highschoolers are using Sonlight Cores for history. My 10th grader is nearing the end of Core 200 and will do 300 for 11th (we school per calendar year here). My 9th grader has just started Core 200 having done 100 this year already. We're actually finding it really good. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeegal Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 We're using TOG, but I'm only using the subjects that my kids get credit for. For example, in 9th grade I am not awarding a Philosophy credit, so we aren't doing those assignments. I'm doing this to limit how much we do - I know from experience that there are so many goodies to TOG that it's easy for me to over-commit. :iagree: We're using TOG as well, but I ended up adapting it to fit our needs. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skissugar Posted November 7, 2011 Author Share Posted November 7, 2011 thanks!! you guys have given me a lot to think about :) has anyone heard anything good or bad about americas last best hope and the roadmap stuff? just curious.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 There have been several discussions about it; if you do a search, I'm sure you'll find something helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 High school history What are you using? inquiring minds want to know .. I now have a college student. In 9th, she did an at home WTM inspired world history study of the time period from 1700 to 2000. (We began homeschooling when she was in 7th grade and did a three year sweep through world history.) In 10th, she took an out of the home AP US History class which used Bailey's American Pageant. She enjoyed the book (they read the entire 1000 page plus book too!); she thought it had personality. For a summer reading assignment prior to the start of class, they read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America by Steven M. Gillon. The latter book was written to accompany a History Channel series of that title. Before the AP test, she found these flash cards of use for review; she also took the SAT subject test and scored well. A fun add on was the Cartoon History of the United States by Larry Gonick. In 11th grade, my daughter used Charles Hauss' Comparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges for an out of the home AP Comparative Gov't and Politics class. Her class also read many articles from the Economist magazine to be informed of breaking news on the world front. For summer reading the instructor had them read Robert Kennedy's Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Wild Swans by Jung Chang, and Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian. In 12th grade, she did not do a history/social science course as she was taking a full load of other classes as well as two foreign languages. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 I'm also doing TOG. I intend to use most everything because my oldest is humanities oriented. The only two things that get slighted some with us are maps and time lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memphispeg Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 I went on the AP US History cite on NROC and then looked at the reviews of the texts on Amazon. We used something called "America: Past and Present" that came with 2 really nice books of primary source readings (with study questions and synthesis essays) called "Voices of America: Past and Present". We coupled these with readings from the Norton Anthology of Am. Lit. that we used for english. The NROC site had some practice questions for the AP US History exam that I used as testing materials or essay work. We used Howard Zinn's book as well. I found a couple of AP class syllabi that had some study questions tied to that book. We read both whole texts. Dd had a nice time with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Dd is 9th grade and we started a 4 year cycle this year with Biblioplan Year 1. She is using Glencoe World History and A Beka's World History as spines along with Biblioplan's Companion text and weekly exercises as well as historical fiction. Geography is included, but it's all physical, so I plan to add in my own Geography study after Christmas. She started the year with BJU's World history text, but she really didn't like the way it was written. She felt the Christian thought was interjected in places it didn't make sense. I wanted her to read both a secular and Christian text to see both world views. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Home Alabama Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I went on the AP US History cite on NROC and then looked at the reviews of the texts on Amazon. We used something called "America: Past and Present" that came with 2 really nice books of primary source readings (with study questions and synthesis essays) called "Voices of America: Past and Present". We coupled these with readings from the Norton Anthology of Am. Lit. that we used for english. The NROC site had some practice questions for the AP US History exam that I used as testing materials or essay work. We used Howard Zinn's book as well. I found a couple of AP class syllabi that had some study questions tied to that book. We read both whole texts. Dd had a nice time with it. Memphispeg, did your dd answer the writing assignments and discussion questions? How did you grade them? I'm trying to find something for history, lit, and comp that I can realistically grade. I'll have my first high-schooler next year, and I'm trying to learn *how* to award credit... if credit is based on objective tests or subjective writing. I'm not as comfortable with the latter. Would you also give more detail to how you handled lit and comp? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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