Condessa Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 We do MCT’s language arts here, and love it—with the exception of the vocabulary components. Building Language is fine, but the material covered is so basic while the output expected is really tough, especially considering that it comes before poetics are taught for that level in their recommended sequence. My oldest had a rough time with it, but I’ve learned and changed the order of the books and simplified the output requirements for my next two, and it’s going better. I thought the vocab would get better, as so many people here love Caesar’s English. Also, it looked like it actually taught words my dd didn’t already know, unlike most vocab programs I’ve seen marketed for her age. Last year I had oldest dd doing CE I, and she absolutely hated it. But I bought the ibook version because it was cheaper, and I was trying to get her to work on it independently. And I think maybe, possibly, that the delivery method and me pushing her to be independent instead of us snuggling up together to work on it like we normally do with MCT might have been the problem. So after much deliberation, I think we’re going to give it another shot with CE II, no ibook this time. What do we actually need? And which version? I usually buy just the teacher’s manual for the other components, will that work for CE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domestic_engineer Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 We did both CE books with iBooks, but I recently got the next level in physical form. The Teacher's manual has all the answers written in it - so you'd be doing a lot of post-it note coverups, if you went that direction. I'd check the samples online to get a better feeling if you want to just do TM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 The CE books are the one part of the program I buy the student books for, but the teacher books don’t get used. The teacher books have the quizzes, but I don’t care about those. Most of the exercises are more discussion-based, or they’re stuff like word searches, which don’t work in the TM. Plus, I spring for the color versions because those books are full of photographs and my daughter loves the photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condessa Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 So we could use just the student book? That’s good to know. What do you think of the Classical Education Edition vs. the older version? We already have Ancient Rome well covered, so if the difference is primarily adding more about Rome, I don’t think we need that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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