alisoncooks Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I'm confused about something, maybe someone can enlighten me.... The Veritas Press self-paced history fiction/lit. list is 2x as long as the regular, homeschool list. Why do you think this is? What am I missing? Is it because the regular homeschool history also assumes you are also reading from the other books listed on the history cards (and the self-paced does not)? Regular literature kit (Old Testament/Ancient Egypt): Mummies Made in Egypt The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt Golden Goblet Tirzah Tut's Mummy . . . Lost & Found Recommended for the self-paced course: In the Time of Noah The Dragon and the Garden Sarah & Abraham The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle Noah: Rescue Plan Seeker of Knowledge Tirzah Golden Goblet Tut's Mummy ... Lost & Found Egyptian Cinderella Obviously, the 2nd list is much pricier (on top of the already-pricey self-paced history). :ohmy: I'm curious if -- since as I understand it, the books are just recommended reads -- we could just pick and choose "the best." VP Self-Paced history users....what are you reading for historical fiction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorisuewho Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I'm confused about something, maybe someone can enlighten me.... The Veritas Press self-paced history fiction/lit. list is 2x as long as the regular, homeschool list. Why do you think this is? What am I missing? Is it because the regular homeschool history also assumes you are also reading from the other books listed on the history cards (and the self-paced does not)? Regular literature kit (Old Testament/Ancient Egypt): Mummies Made in Egypt The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt Golden Goblet Tirzah Tut's Mummy . . . Lost & Found Recommended for the self-paced course: In the Time of Noah The Dragon and the Garden Sarah & Abraham The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle Noah: Rescue Plan Seeker of Knowledge Tirzah Golden Goblet Tut's Mummy ... Lost & Found Egyptian Cinderella Obviously, the 2nd list is much pricier (on top of the already-pricey self-paced history). :ohmy: I'm curious if -- since as I understand it, the books are just recommended reads -- we could just pick and choose "the best." VP Self-Paced history users....what are you reading for historical fiction? :bigear: I am working out history for next year and was wondering this myself. I am heavily leaning to VP for ancient history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tammi K Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 We've used both the SP (two years) and the Mom taught (1 year). I found for the SP, some of the books were too wordy for my (at the time) non-rapid reader. So, some of the books were skimmed over. Some are picture books and I just had ds read captions while dd read the book. Some of the novels (Tirzah) were read-alouds. Some were just for background info. I'm pretty sure there were several of the books purchased for the SP years that were never even looked at. That said, they still retained a lot of the information even without the additional literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBanjoClown Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 My 2nd grader is doing OTAE, but we are also doing SOTW. We are using the SOTW recs that we can find at our library. We are doing more picture books than longer books, just because the boys are only 8 and 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 So, I guess I could just pick and choose whatever books I want -- they are just recs in the self-paced history anyway. I like the idea of looking to SOTW recs for more picture books, if needed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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