Peace Hill Press History

[kfeusse]

Tell me about the high school history by Peace Hill press.  Do you like it?  do your kids like it?  and why??  and if not, what did you find you liked better?

 

thanks.

[AK_Mom4]

History of the Ancient World?

DD14 really enjoyed reading the book. SWB's writing style is appealing and DD has been retaining the material very well. We also use the study guide and the questions and map work are good.

 

The down point for us is the format of the study guide. We use the ebook and the layout is ghastly. The answers are in the first half of the book, the student questions in the second. It is far too easy to jump to chapter 15 and get the "wrong" chapter 15 and suddenly find yourself reading the answer along with the question. But this is a complaint about the way the technology was implemented, not the content. If I was doing it over again, I would probably not buy the ebook (I am not sure if the printed version has the same problem)

 

There is some Christian-centric content (story of Moses, etc), but I have not found it to be a strong bias in the writing.

[kfeusse]

I am having a hard time believing that nobody else here is using this program...please share.  I am so confused as to what to use next year.  thanks.

 

[Hilltopmom]

There was recently a thread about it, let me see if i can find it.

 

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/575941-swb-for-high-school/?hl=%26quot%3Bhistory+of+the+ancient+world%26quot%3B&do=findComment&comment=6788784

Edited January 27, 2016 by Hilltopmom

[HomeschoolingHearts&Minds]

My 15-year-old is using History of the Medieval World.  I concur with AK_Mom4 on the format of the study guide being not ideal.  The content is good, the physical format is what is lacking.  I originally purchased the paperback copy, which is one huge book with the teacher guide and student guide all in one.  And decided---this won't work!  So I turned around and purchased the pdf version, printed the student portion and maps, and popped them into a binder.  This format is much more manageable.  I would recommend doing this and then viewing the pdf on your computer when you grade.  The physical book is just unwieldy.  I did briefly consider having the spine chopped off and making it into 2 separate books, but suspect that the size of the thing would make that iffy.

 

If I were going to make a suggestion to PHP---split that sucker into two books and/or offer each part in both paperback and pdf so people can find the right combo that works for them.

 

As far as whether my son likes it---yes he does.  This is a win for us, though he is going through it more slowly than I had anticipated.  That's ok.  It just means he will be finishing it up in the summer.

[Hilltopmom]

My son did the Ancient book in 9, made it half way through the study guide, then decided to just read them. He finished 1 & 2. Then put 3 aside for other stuff (more stem & robotics focus).

 

This year for 10th, he's doing the US history syllabus from funda- funda, sort of,,plus a WWII elective.

 

Next year, he may read 3 plus some Great Courses. He reads history stuff for fun,so I know he'll get to it eventually, but we won't use any more guides, just not our style.

 

I read about half of Ancient, it's really good, but I'm too busy with littles to read serious stuff right now. I actually am going to try to read Medieval for myself next year when my younger teen does SOTW 2 (LDs & has never done that time period, my favorite).

[FaithManor]

My kids have loved reading her books, but the whole series was not going to be done before they left high school, and we needed to follow an AP World History route anyway, so they read them but did not use them as texts. We ended up using, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart which is one of the AP texts on the college board list. We also have the Great Course lectures which they enjoy and I use for teaching them to take notes from lectures.

[Amateur Actress]

I love Peace Hill Press because they come from a Classical education/Christian background. We liked Story of the World for the younger years. I haven't used the new grown-up history books (yet) but SWB is a great author so I would not hesitate to use them. We use Tapestry of Grace as our main curriculum, also a Classical, Christian curriculum. This includes history, but also literature, Bible/Church history, government, philosophy, fine arts.

[HS Mom in NC]

I am having a hard time believing that nobody else here is using this program...please share.  I am so confused as to what to use next year.  thanks.

 

Just for future reference, Peace Hill Press is a publishing company as I understand it.  (If I'm wrong, please correct me.)   Most people don't label their curriculum by its publishing company.  They usually label it by book title/series or author.  Since so many people buy those books through amazon.com or other sources, they may not even know who the publishing company is, so they may skip right over a thread title that has a publishing company's name in it.