Holly IN Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 What is the most complete US history spine available? I think I need to use a complete US history spine to fill in the gaps that my boys says TOG has.... thanks Holly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choirfarm Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 You might look on this Hippocampus site for AP American History. If you click on this link http://www.montereyinstitute.org/courses/AP%20US%20History%20I/nroc%20prototype%20files/coursestartc.html you can see the different textbooks you can use with this course. That said, my oldest did Dialectic level TOG for 7th and 8th then rhetoric year 3 and 4. At the end of his 10th grade year I had him take SAT II in American history and he made a 730. So TOG had plenty of American history!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usetoschool Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Complete as far as a spine, but a little dry for us - All American History. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&M Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 We have Tindall's America and William Bennett's history book, but we haven't used them much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly IN Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 The boys are saying they skipped a lot of the Old West people and events they felt are very inmportant to our history. I have to verify it but they love the old west so I believe them. Unless TOG is skipping around and will eventually come back to that?? Holly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choirfarm Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 What weeks are you on. I'm out of town, but I'll get it down. Please tell me what they consider to be the important things TOG skipped. I honestly didn't notice anything and one of my teaching fields is history. That said, we always watched TONS of documentaries at lunchtime about whatever period we were studying. My boys love the history channel and A & E through netflix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly IN Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 We are on Unit 4 Week 31. Thanks! Holly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanvan Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 :bigear: I'm interested too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheWhoWaits Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 We're using a college textbook. The American Past by Joseph R. Conlin. My older ds took Am. hist. at the community college and that is the book they used. I looked through it at that time and thought it very balanced, so I decided to use it for the younger son at home. If you get the 8th edition, which is a little less expensive since it is not the newest, there are lots of quizzes and activities online for each chapter. Saves a lot of teacher prep time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna A. Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I didn't read the other thread (this being a "spinoff" thread), but I do know that MFW is college-prep material and suggests you take the CLEP test after finishing their course. They add quite a bit to "round out" the BJU textbook that's used as a spine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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