Finally planning for 2012-3-need history!

[whitestavern]

I am finally finishing up our year, and am now in the planning stages for the 2012-2013 school year. I am struggling to find a secular history program for the fall. I will have 2 in logic stage. We have used SOTW up til this point (years 2, 3, 4 then 1 because we didn't use it our first time around for Ancients). So we're in the Medieval/Renaissance year. There doesn't seem to be a lot of options, and of those I don't seem to like what I've seen! What I know about so far are History Odyssey and the task cards from Creek Edge Press. What other options do I have and/or what are your thoughts on HO and the task cards? TIA for any help :)

[SunnyDays]

Have you looked K12 Human Odyssey? It's a series of three books, you could just pick the correct starting point within the series. I'm linking you to Christian Book because I like their samples, but these are secular books.

 

http://www.christianbook.com/the-human-odyssey-volume-1/9781931728539/pd/728534?item_code=WW&netp_id=881460&event=ESRCG&view=details

[whitestavern]

Thank you Sunny Days...I think the reason I scrapped that is because we're already done with Ancients so if I purchased that first book we'd probably only use the latter half, if that much.

[EmmaNadine]

I have a hands on learner, so I can see us doing something like http://www.csgn.org/7th-grade-medieval-history- to look at medieval history. I love social history though, so I'm not sure if you want a more traditional curriculum. Do you want something that is open and go or are you okay with a more do it yourself curriculum?

[linders]

Love K12's Human Odyssey books here! Readable and engaging like SOTW, but definitely suited for logic stage - encourages seeing trends and themes in history versus memorizing facts. Definitely secular - offers as much info about Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. as Christianity.

 

We have the student texts. K12 has a website to accompany it (for a price) but from everything I've heard it is often busywork. We pair it with mapwork from History Odyssey, the Kingfisher Encyclopedia, and booklists from the WTM, SL, and VP lists. DS11 keeps definitions, lists of importnat people, and writes on topics of my choosing.

[EmmaNadine]

I have absolutely no experience with this program, but this is an online k-12 curriculum developer that has an interactive The Medieval World and Beyond course that covers the middle ages and Renaissance in Europe, but also covers what is going on in Asia, Africa and the Americas. I don't think I've seen another logic age curriculum do that. http://www.teachtci.com/programs/middle_school/medieval_world_and_beyond/

 

If you download the sample, it gives you the table of contents for the whole course.

[whitestavern]

I have a hands on learner, so I can see us doing something like http://www.csgn.org/7th-grade-medieval-history- to look at medieval history. I love social history though, so I'm not sure if you want a more traditional curriculum. Do you want something that is open and go or are you okay with a more do it yourself curriculum?

 

I would love to be the type of person that could take that and run with it, but I'm so not! I am def looking for something more open and go. That's really neat though.