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Can you explain truthquest
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I ditto Heather:) I love that SCM gives me a daily plan and we’re reading through the Bible consistently with a schedule. I could plan this all out with just TQ but when I tried that it was a lot of work. The price of the SCM handbook plus TQ is (I believe) still cheaper than the guides of some other curriculums. Just my ,02:) Gina
I love what I see on the Truthquest website – and the notebooking looks like it would fit in with our SCM guide really well! Has anyone used the TQ notebooking pages? What do you think of them?
At first glance the summaries in TQ don’t look like much. BUT they are so much more than just a summary. They tie all the history together and give it a rich Christian worldview.
When listing the choices for buying print vs PDF it says “searchable TQ guide on your device too” when referring to the PDF choice. What exactly is searchable?
If you have an older version of TQ (I’m assuming its older) that has Ancient Egypt (A Brief Overview) & Ancient Greece would that be up to date enough??
Also, the “commentary” sections do not actually say “commentary” do they?? I didn’t use the TQ guide as much as I thought I would this year but may want to next year, but would like to use it the best I can. I think I already have SCM’s guide for Greece, so I’ll use that, but would like to add the commentary sections of TQ. I see sections of paragraphs w/ some ThinkWrite boxes…is t that considered the commentary??
Thanks
I haven’t used the notebooking pages but have heard good things.
I don’t know what searchable means…have only used hard copies.
I’m using the older Egypt/Greece guide I was told Egypt content was basically the same as the Egypt content in the newer Beginnings guide. I’m not sure about Greece, but I’d guess its pretty similar and good enough for me since I already own it:) you can ask on the TQ Yahoo Group and get a more definite answer….Michelle is pretty active on it.
No, the commentary isn’t labeled….it’s just there with book selections following it. Some sections are so short I don’t read. For the Think Writes, I just ask the qu to the kids and we discuss them orally. Since the SCM guide is not a cumbersome amount of work and TQ commentary is just sporadically added, I really don’t think it’s too much. Just my .02:)
I haven’t been able to get on the forum for a few days, so I’m jumping into this late. Just wanting to add that, at present, I’m doing just the TQ guides without the SCM guide. I’ve done both and might go back to doing both, but you can make it work either way. As others have said, the SCM modules give you a framework and sometimes that is very beneficial.
I’m using TQ with ages 7-14 presently and it works very well. I schedule an entire time period before we begin using the table set-up in Open Office. If I had completely uninterrupted time I think I could do that in about four hours. I schedule a spine that I read to the youngest kids, a spine that the oldest kids read on their own, readers for all ages and a family read-aloud. We read the commentary together, mostly with me paraphrasing and all of us discussing.
We often skip the artist and composers in the TQ guides and use SCM for that and for Bible.
We are using Truth Quest American History 1 for young students and I would like to use SCM with it but not sure which module to start with 4 or 5. Truth Quest starts with the explores. Thanks so much for your help! Lord bless
Thank you! I had looked at the sample of module 4 and saw that there was some things on Christopher Columbus so I wasn’t sure.
It’s hard to match up exactly when combining curriculums, but I think it will be fine overall. You can always add a book about Columbus, etc. to your studies if you wanted to.
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