CTC's New US History Detective book- anyone used it?

[BusyMom5]

Or looked at it?  What did you think?  We have the K12 series, and I plan to continue that for my 8th grader, but she thinks this looks like fun and it would have more questions and activities in it.  She also likes that she could write in her history book.  Opinions?  I can only find the Cathy Duffy review. 

[mlktwins]

It was discussed a little last week in this thread. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/608173-us-history-my-son-can-do-mostly-on-his-own-questions-or-tests-for-me/?do=findComment&comment=7008302 .

 

I am planning to try the 1st book with my guys this year.

[mc26]

We are just getting started with the first one, combined with the concise History of US books.  Looks good so far!

[Kassia]

It was discussed a little last week in this thread. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/608173-us-history-my-son-can-do-mostly-on-his-own-questions-or-tests-for-me/?do=findComment&comment=7008302 .

 

I am planning to try the 1st book with my guys this year.

 

I posted in that thread, but will post here, too.  We used the first book with my daughter (8th grade) this year.  She hates history, but liked this book a lot and seemed to learn/retain the information well.  I liked that it had an extended response question for each lesson and my daughter felt that writing out the answers to those questions helped her to retain the information.  

 

Erica

[Roadrunner]

We have used volume 1. It's excellent - concise and well written, but we decided we prefer the Drama of American History books, so we abandoned it.