AnnaM Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 As long as I am using a good mix of biographies, historical non-fiction, historical fiction and a comprehensive checklist or scope and sequence, do you have confidence that a child can get enough history? I am finding myself drifting away from text books, even ones like SOTW and MOH. I find we are more likely to get it done if it is our read aloud or assigned quiet reading. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Veste Academy Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I think yes, with the caveat that you should take pains to read from many different perspectives. Reading two books about the same topic and comparing/contrasting POV is something that I personally think kids should move into by logic stage. Also, I would include primary source documents. In high school, I think reading from a variety of experts' analysis of events, people, etc. would be useful too, but I would classify many of those types of books as living books anyway. Books written by experts who love their subject matter seem to be inherently more interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koerarmoca Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I hope so, we do living books for a lot of our learning. We use SOTW, I see it more as a story book and we go much deeper with the use of living books. We also do many living books for Science and State history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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