orangearrow Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Do you have to do the books in order? If dd has done the first book (Introduction to Literature) - would it be too great a leap to move next to the 4th book (British Lit)? The 4th book covers most of the books she will be reading next year... so, ideally... but I'm not sure if there is a great leap in complexity between each of the books? :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mompotter Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I was just at the website earlier tonight and at the very bottom there was on offer for all the books together in one binder. Here is the quote from that page. "If you'd like to customize your curriculum by mixing and matching units, you can get the entire 5-volume curriculum in a binder so that you can custom select units for each year." Guessing that means that you could use them out of order. I have not used them so don't take my word for it. Just happened to remember that when I saw your question. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibaker103 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I bought the complete curriculum and my 16 yr old son has been successfully skipping around using various units according to our history all year with great success! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RanchGirl Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I was just looking at this.. here's another quote from the page linked above by a previous poster: "They do not have to be used in order, but can be mixed or matched to other curriculum you are using (American Literature with American History, for example)." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangearrow Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 Thanks! I think I've looked at their website so many times, I was overlooking the info I needed! :) Now to decide on the binder vs the individual books... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinL in Canada Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 ...how it works? From the website sample, all it seems to offer is a slew of resource suggestions (books, websites) and then some writing assignments each week spent on the given book. I gather, though, that each unit also teaches how to write analytical essays? Is that correct? And how/ where does it teach literary analysis--how to identify and analyze assorted literary elements and techniques? If it does do that, does it cover many elements for each unit, repeating that instruction from unit to unit, or is the instruction about literary elements cumulative, and you only get bits and pieces in each unit? That is not clear from the online sample. Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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