You could easily do the history without doing all of the literature, just by having your student read the history and answer the questions. My oldest daughter did this with Notgrass American History (she did read literature, just not the Notgrass program). It’s not the most exciting program, IMHO, but it gets the job done if you have a student (as I did) who needs to just power through it. Mine did it independently, though I enjoyed reading her some of the selections from the source document book just because I was interested. That, again just IMHO, is the strength of the program: the source document book that comes with the text (can’t recall the name of it now, but you’ll know what I mean if you look at their website). That contains some short stories and poetry, too, for literature study. I also read her a few of the books suggested in the guide, like Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Little Women, because we’d never read them and I wanted to read them, too! And I loved reading The Scarlet Letter because when I read it at her age I wasn’t a believer, and it resonated with me so much more deeply since I am now.
But you wouldn’t have to do that.
