Does anyone have any of the lit guides from Progeny Press they might want to sell? I've used Total Language Plus, and would like to see what Progeny's guides were like. I've heard they're really good. I'm not really looking for anything in particular, though many of the titles we've already read. Thanks!!!
sorry, but I have not heard of it before, maybe if I post something someone else will get an idea, did you check with homeschoolclassifieds?
Actually, there are lots with Homeschool Classifieds. I've sent a message to one gal about "Anne of Green Gables" for Faythe. I wouldn't mind getting "Across Five Aprils", because we could tie that in with the Civil War. TM, you use Notgrass, don't you? Which books are part of its American History program? I want to be sure and NOT use them now, so Rachael can read them when I use it.
Jackie, we didn't get teh USprogram yet. dd wanted to do SOS for history this year for some reason. I think its cause half her friends go to a private school that does it. I may use it with ds10 when he is older, hes more of a hands on person though. Anne is such a good read, you have to be sure and get all the versions.. actually if you are just looking for the initial book of Anne of Green Gabels I may have a second copy.. I will have to look and see?
Books used in Notgrass Exploring America Jackie, I hope it is ok if I jump in here. My daughter is using th EA and these are the books she will read. The Scarlet Letter(Hawthorne), Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanac, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Legend of Rip Van Winkle, Davy Crockett: His Own Story(we never could find this so we substituted something else), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglss(Subbed), Civil Disobedience(Thoreau), Uncle Tom's Cabin, Co. Aytch, Little Women, Humorous Stories and Sketches(Twain), Up From Slavery(Washington), Looking Backward(Bellamy), In HIs Steps(Sheldon), Mama's Bank Account(Forbes), Christy(Marshall), To Kill a Mockingbird(Lee), and The Giver(Lowry). We have one more semester to go if you are interested in buying a used copy. Hope this helps, Clarynda
thank you8 Clarynda! I wish I had done EA this year but dh wanted to make sure dd was keeping up and SOS helps us in that area at least.. I may copy those down and make her read them as well! we have Our Town, and some London book too. I forget what one it is, that is required for her lang arts reading,,, but I lilke the ones you have lited there!
Clarynda, thanks! That tells me that I don't want her reading Uncle Tom's Cabin this year! We read Tom Sawyer two years ago as a read-aloud, and I think I assigned Christie on her summer reading list last year. This year we will be doing Part 2 of "All American History" with all three kids. Next year, Rachael will be 15 (10th grade), and I plan on Notgrass World History. The year after, Notgrass American History, and then the 1/2 year government her Senior year. So I'm not yet ready to buy the book quite yet! How do you like it? I hear it's a lot of work, but very good and counts as Bible, History, and Literature.
TM, I have Anne. I got it at a library sale a while back. I've all the books myself. I don't think I had ever read them as a kid, and I finally sat down and went through the whole series while I nursed Rachael. I think I read the first one to Rachael when she was young, but am not sure. I know I took her to see a play of it.
Jackie, did you go beyond the first 6 or 8 in the boxed set? I loved it when I realised there were more! I forget how many but the ones that go into her being a mom and her kids growing up and all! So much scope for imagination in those books! Her children are very imaginative and helped me to plan fun things for my kids to play when they were younger(mine)! I also did not discover Anne with and E untill I was grown, I think I was 21 when I read my first Anne book. LM MOngomery is such a great author!
I bought (and read) all the books when I was 15. I had read the first one when I was about 12, I think. I was visiting my uncle and his family and we took a road trip up to Prince Edward Island and saw the house the author grew up in. I love those books!
I have memorabilia of the Prince Edward Is. provincial park there, one of my best friends went there and picked up stuff for me knowing how much I love Anne ( I was going to name my dd after her!)
I read all of the Anne books. I think I cried when she lost her baby, especially as I sat there nursing mine! Exactly how many, I can't say, but I remember reading about her kids.
I read all the Anne books at about junior high age and loved the first few and not so much the later ones. Then I reread them in college and just loved the ones when she is an adult, I was at a place in my life to appreciate them more. I also read very other book by L.M. Montgomery I could find. I loved the Emily books just as much, maybe more, than the Anne books. I should reread them all again sometime.
Me to re reading all the LMM books I can find! I totally love her way of writing, it grips you and makes you laugh and cry right alone with the characters.. I own two of hte sets of videos too but the third one is kinda flaky
Ea Jackie, The Notgrass EA has been a wonderful fit for my oldest daughter. It is intensive, with lots of reading, but she is doing great. I wish I had been able to do this in school(a long time ago!). I even added in some books from Beautiful Feet for early American history, so she is doing this course over 1 1/2 years, then we will do World HIstory (possibly adding in more books from Beautiful Feet) for 1 1/2 years, then for 12th grade, we plan to do gov't and economics. Clarynda
My dd really enjoyed the Notgrass World History, she read the required books as many as we could get through the library and some on her own for each time period that she could find. PLUS all the reading, if she was not a really good reader she would not have gotten through it. We have maybe two weeks maybe one of lessons and she will be done.. we started in September. It is a LOT of reading, the lessons themselves PLUS the extra reading. DD spend a lot of time in her room , and fortuntely she is one of those See it once and memorize it kind of peoples, she is now an "authority" on so many time periods in history! Notgrass ROCKS!
TeacherMom, I totally agree with you about the Notgrass curriculum, I think it has given our kids such a great education in history. The best! Clarynda
My dss used Streams of Civilization in his Christian school, and I helped him to study. I REALLY loved it, and decided back then that's what I wanted when the kids got older. But after hearing about Notgrass about a year a go, I decided to go with that instead. I'm glad y'all think it's a good choice!
