Any ideas for high school American History? 1) I do not want Notgrass. Rachael used it, and I don't think it would work for Phillip. 2) I prefer Christian-based, but that's not necessarily in stone. 3) I don't think I could handle a strict "textbook" style. 4) Is anyone familiar with William Bennet's America: The Last Best Hope? I looked and the library has it, so I'm going to check it out to see what it's like.
Despite schooling OPKs for 13 years, I've never gotten to the point of US history for high school, so - no, don't have a clue. One thing I do know, however, is that AP US history is now totally revisionist.
Thanks. I was up to 1 AM last night looking at stuff. The library has the Bennet book and I have a reserve on that. Also there's a "Student History Notebook of America" by Maggie Hogan (of Bright Ideas Press) that looks interesting, but it's not a textbook. Also, there's another book I could get to go along with that called "Guides to History Plus". It's more of a reference for those taking a notebook/literature approach. Both I can get fairly cheap on Amazon (costs more for shipping than for the books!) I'd like a book to use for a spine, but am not sure what. I do have two very good older history books, one I've used with Rachael a good number of years back. But they are old, and only go up to around the 30's. At least they're not revisionist, lol!
Well, I talked with him. I told him he had two choices that I could see. 1) Get a boring text book, read it, answer questions and take the tests. 2) Go with a notebook approach, where he'd be looking up information, doing timelines, copy work and literature. No answering questions/tests. He wants the boring textbook, so I might just go with ABEKA or something like that. Not my choice, but he's high school now and has to make some of these decisions himself. :-/
If you have a choice do BJU instead of Abeka for high school! We did Abeka for world history and it was so dull. I switched to BJU for American History and it was so much better. The tests were also a lot better. The tests for Abeka stressed date memorization and some of them were obscure events. The BJU tests were much more in line with what I would have made up when I was teaching. I wish we had done BJU for World History but we were new to hs'ing and someone loaned me that. I ended up making up all my own tests for Abeka since I could not stand the ones they provided.
Jackie you might also want to check out the following videos. They originally played on History Channel but I found them at our local library. *When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions - Episode 1 through Eposide 6 *The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents *The Men Who Built America: Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan & Vanderbilt
Thanks, Mouseketeer! Abeka is over $200!!! And it's more for an older high schooler. Maybe I'll continue with World, and do American later.
CLASS used to have Abeka 11th grade American history, but I see that now they have only BJU. The set would be $76. http://www.shopchristianliberty.com/history/?sort=featured&page=3 I have used several of CLASS's courses - they make their own TM and tests for Abeka and BJU books, usually with one test every chapter or two, not quarterly/semester nitpicky questions, but cut-to-the-chase type tests. If you're looking for 8th grade American history, there's Lifepac and CLE.
Well, it seems that MOH 4 has finally come out (or will be out any day now!). So I'm reconsidering. I think we'll do that this year, which takes us from about 1700 to present day, only world-wide, not just America. That will give me time to re-think what to do for American history next year, or even the year after.
Have you looked at the table of contents for MOH 4? I have to say... I was a bit disappointed. There are only 84 lessons. Sure, they're probably longer than the ones in MOH 1, but I'd hoped for either more lessons or more depth or something. I'm thinking about doing book 4 across two years just so we can spend more time and not rush through it. I don't know. We just started over with book 1 again this year, so maybe by the time we get to 4, I'll have a better idea what I want to do with it. *shrugs*
Yes, and I'm OK with it, as I've done all the others. I went and ordered it today. So I'll still be looking for American at some point. Part of me wished I hadn't sold my All-American History texts, because I'd might just be willing to use them now, even though I thought they were terribly BORING!
I saw a complete set of Liberty's Kids for really cheap. If I had younger kids, I would buy it! We would watch them in order, and then I would have the kids do a write-up on the person/event it covered, and then we'd put it on a timeline.
Jackie, here's a site somebody posted on FB. http://openeducationsource.weebly.com/textbooks.html FREE TEXTBOOKS. I'm not quite sure how you download all of them, some are pdf. Toward the bottom of the page there's a US history book. Maybe something you could use? There are science books, math books, NaNoWriMo, TONS of stuff.
Jackie here are a few links to some lectures on American history. Perhaps you will find something helpful in there. http://college.cengage.com/history/lecturepoints/index.html http://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadswort..._isbn_issn=9780495572879&discipline_number=21 http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-116/lecture-1 I also recommend another set History Channel DVD's that I found at our local libary. America the Story of Us There is also a website to check out for this series. http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-us
I didn't this text but it may be of some interest to you. http://glencoe.mheducation.com/sites/0078743591/index.html
Jackie, if you like the history book I sent the link to, I believe you can also buy the actual book from like Amazon or someplace.
