Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-26T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Columbus, OH

Tagged: High school history, History

This topic has 4 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 5 months ago by Benita.

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June 23, 2014 at 11:00 pm
Nina
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I am in need of some help from you great people 🙂 I’m going to be painfully honest here please don’t throw anything, lol. My son is going into 9th grade. Sadly he has had little experience with history for various reasons which I won’t go into (too long). I do not have any extra money to buy anything else. We have lots of living books tho. I just don’t know how to put a history curriculum of sorts in order with what I have for him 🙁 Can anyone offer some advice? Throw me a rope? Point me in a helpful direction? lol. TIA
June 23, 2014 at 11:41 pm
Tristan
Participant
What about doing a “survey” course? Instead of detailed exploration of a narrow time period use the books you have for a broad range. Maybe put them in chronological order?
Do you have a particular time period he would like to study? You could then use the books you have and intersperse with library books as needed.
June 24, 2014 at 12:04 am
anniepeter
Participant
That’s great advice. I would add that since he is a bit weak in history, you could easily augment that by deliberately choosing his literature to coincide. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Scarlett Letter, Grapes of Wrath come to mind for American history. There are many, many others. The ones I suggested may be best saved for a year or two…depending on the child. We did this and had a credit for American Lit.
June 24, 2014 at 3:12 am
Nina
Participant
Thanks 🙂 Another question ~ if I do a “survey” course wld you recommend starting at Ancients and then work through to current? Or do Ancient and American at the same time?
June 24, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Benita
Participant
My advice is that if he has had little experience with history- and maybe he isn’t fond of it?- let him pick the time period. As long as you have him do a Book of Centuries, the continuity of history will make itself evident over time. Just a thought. I am also in favor of having literature selections reflect the time period as well. He gets some history on the sly that way!