Frustrated

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  • April 26, 2010 at 9:02 pm
    Nina
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    AAAHHHH!!!!  I am going crazy.  I need input, please!

    We started early American History using a boxes curriculum.  It is all books but I don’t agree they are all CM style and there is a ton of them.  And when I say a ton, I mean a ton.  Atleast for me.  We have had such a up and down year.  Lots of sickness and the birth of a sibling.  It seems like we have been on the same subject FOREVER!!!!  I’m getting burnt out and I know my kids are as well.

    What do I do????  It wasn’t cheap but I really don’t know how to hurry up and get past this.

    Does anyone know of a good book that can get us through the 13 colonies and onto the revolution?  Quick?!?!?

    My children are 11.5, 9, and 7.5.

    April 26, 2010 at 9:30 pm
    Rachel White
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    I know how you feel. I would suggest the HA Guerber” The Story of the Thirteen Colonies” from Nothing New Press. Here is the Table of Contents:http://www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber/colonies-contents.html

    If you’ve already covered exploration, then start wherever you stopped.

    It will be just right for your two older ones, your youngest will pick-up here and there; I suggest a Colonial Based coloring book for the young one to do while you’re reading from Dover (go to children’s and coloring books, then American history) or find online free. Remember the young one will go through it again, it’s most important for the two older. I’m sure some of those books you’re taling about could be useful as supplements read independantly.

    The other option is in two books, but would cause your younger one to be more interested, yet it’s not as meaty:

    Mara Pratt’s Vol 1 and Vol 2 of “American History Stories”. They are free online.

    HTH,

    Rachel

     

    April 26, 2010 at 10:22 pm
    blessedmom
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    http://books.google.com/books?id=fFjUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=thalheimer+history&source=bl&ots=J_UpfuShzZ&sig=0KEZqJ-b1B3hVmXTrPoUMNtENuk&hl=en&ei=og_WS4unApL2NZ2wwOgH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

    Thalheimer’s Eclectic History of the United States gets you from Discovery through the Colonies in about 115 pages, and then on to the Revolution.  (The book continues until the Civil War and Reconstruction.)  It has maps, discussion questions, and essay ideas.

    Just another option that I’ve been looking into myself for next year.Wink

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