High school Modern History Guide and Grading

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  • March 14, 2016 at 4:51 pm
    Jessica Voges
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    Looking for feedback from those that have used the Modern History guide for high school.  What was your impression?  Did you use it as written or change/add anything?  How did you assign grades?  There are so many wonderful literature books for this time period so did you coordinate history and literature?

    March 21, 2016 at 9:02 am
    Jessica Voges
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    March 21, 2016 at 3:16 pm
    Melanie32
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    Hi Jessica! I haven’t used this guide for highschool history but I have looked at it a lot and considered using parts of it.

    What grade is your student in? If he/she is in 10th or up then, I wouldn’t add anything to it. It looks plenty of meaty enough with William Bennet’s American history book as a spine.

    If you’re thinking 9th grade….I don’t think I would add anything to it then either. I would definitely choose some great literature to go along with the study but as part of my daughter’s English credit, not her history one. The modern history guide seems good as is for highschool IMO whereas the other guides seem a little light for highschool. I would definitely add to them if I were thinking about using them in senior high.

    Of course a government course will need to be added at some point.

    March 21, 2016 at 5:02 pm
    HollyS
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    We’ll be doing Early Modern next year for DD’s 9th grade year.  I plan on adding some literature books from the same time period and will do the same for Modern Times.  I’ll probably count it towards both language arts and history credit-wise.  I haven’t figured out what to do about grades yet. I’ll probably try to figure out a rubric for grading her narrations.

    March 21, 2016 at 5:25 pm
    Jessica Voges
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    My son will be a 10th grader.  The changes I’ve considered are adding the following books:
    All Quiet on the Western Front(WWI)
    No Promises in the Wind(Great Depression)
    Night(Holocaust)
    Hiroshima
    Lost Names(Korean War)
    Kite Runner(Afghanistan)

    But now I’m second guessing myself and not sure any of these are essential!

    I also plan to add several of the Ken Burns documentaries:

    The Cival War, The Roosevelts, The War, Dust Bowl, and the movie Bridge of Spies.

    Any thoughts?  I don’t want to overwhelm him.  What literature are you considering?  I think I’ve figured out grading.

     

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