Ok - dang it... my 17 year old came to me today laughing about how she just DOESN'T GET history. So me - who is NOT a history buff - found BFB with some really cool study guides to go along with the books! Anyone else use this? I'm having her work from Early American History through Vietnam. Yes - I would have used these if I had known about them.... I LIKE them
I used them when the kids were little. It went very well until I took a Rabbit Trail and turned American History into Ohio History....
I've been bad - downloading study guides I've decided to blame all of you for not telling me about this back in 2007 when I joined - it is YOUR job to inform me of such wonderful things such as this! It's what I have been looking for - a study using literature with simple to use/read questions that I can go over with the kids! LOL - actually it's perfect for now. I want them to learn by reading and learn to love to read. The essay questions are pretty darn though provoking and I'm impressed. I can go with this. Alexis saw "horses" and squealed..... so I guess she will be studying some about horses... and then she said she wants to study Medieval history because it looked "evil".... yeah she's a little warped sometimes I talked to Jake and I'll see if he wants to read the books vs SOS which he is doing now. Karina is doing the Early American History and will move forward with history this way. She THOUGHT the computer stuff would be easier (SOS) but she doesn't retain anything from it for History (she rocks on Aleks.com math)
I Never actually DID it, but I did own the Early American History Set for a while (got free from free cycle). I did review it, look at it, examine it, and was always tempted, but went a different direction. I does look complete.
Yeah - Jake took it up once I said it would get rid of his English as it has the vocab and essay writing in it and I can judge grammar from that So History & English in one....
We love Story of the World. There are several volumes - we are just getting to the American history part in volume 3. My kids love it because it reads like a story, offers a lot of additional reading which would be great for older kids and fun activities to do. And it is very affordable!
I am on the search for history for next year. I haven't decided if I want to stick with History Odyssey or not. Can Beautiful Feet History easily be tweaked if you don't want a lot of providential history stuff? I realize you can't completely get away from that (I don't know if there is any completely secular history...if so, let me know)...but I don't want to be constantly bombarded with it in the study guide or books. I read a review that said it's easy enough to skip over the Bible stuff...but I don't know how true that is. Our "educational guide" for the school program we are in said she uses Veritas Press self paced online History (through a different school program) and said she thinks our school would maybe agree to it. But I'm thinking it would be easier to tweak written material as opposed to online video (it's not like you know what they are going to say next and can skip over it). Does any of this even make any sense?? I have a headache.
SOTW is secular. It does mention God, but my understanding is that it treats it on the same level as every other religion.
From what I have read so far - I haven't seen too much "BIBLE PUSHING" in it at all... we now have 4 study guides.... yes .... 4.... Medieval History History of the Horse (Alexis.... just leave it at that) Early American History (grades 7-9) - I'm using this for my slow history learner to get her caught up... then am moving her into the same level Jake is doing but a couple books behind so they CAN'T answer the questions together Modern and World History (it's a 2 year program) My plan is mainly for Alexis... 8th grade - Medieval History (current) 9th grade Early American History 10-12th US & World History Parts 1-4 A situation has come up where we MAY (finger crossed) get the little one... and I told my husband that if we get the ability to adopt her (appeal from her birth mom is in July) I will be homeschooling her which would give us the ability to do short RVing trips and when he retires - we can do longer ones She will be my BIG TIME CM style child.... she already learns so much by just running around etc.
Dana, I just read your siggy, and had a big laugh!!! I feel the same about what my kids are doing most the time....
I have YET to figure out what my son is doing while he TELLS me he is doing school work. I swear I need a video camera in his room ---- then again I probably DON'T want that
Honestly - I have 1 reading Johnny Tremain, 1 reading Beowulf, 1 reading Uncle Tom's Cabin..... I'm QUITE happy with the questions they ask (totally makes them think and you can't just "look it up") It refers to the Bible on occasion - but it seems to be appropriate and definitely not every other line.
