History Schedule for Older Ones?

If you’d like to go through chronologically for your older daughter and have her end with US history, in another thread Sonya mentioned using Beautiful Feet study guide for the ancients so that you can cover all three of them in one year.  Then, you can go through the other 3 each of the other high school years to wrap it up. 

I am using some of the BF books to add in to our year this year.  We covered Egypt last year, are doing Greece and Rome this year, then will do medieval times next year to wrap up dd 17’s high school career.  DD 14 will end with US history, and dd 10 will probably end somewhere in the middle unless she specifically requests something else, and her request makes sense for her.

Does that help you?

That may work.  There is quite a lot of ground to cover in US history.  So my concern would be that you’d feel as though you’re driving through that time period at about the speed of sound and not really able to savor as much.

I just went to the History/Bible/Geog. Overview page, and clicked on the links for mods 5 & 6.  Mod 6 uses Notgrass which has 75 chapters.  Here is a review from CBD catalog of someone who has used this (we have not).

“I am using this curriculum to teach Government to my daughter, a high school senior who is more interested in Science and getting on with her life than learning about her country’s government. With that said, you may understand my frustration.First and most importantly, Mr. Notgrass has loaded this curriculum with lots of important information and the encouragement to use the info to make your own decisions about the issues. He explains the ideas and goals that the founding fathers had in mind when constructing our government…even the views of those who disagreed with the outcome! He then goes on to describe how our government works by explaining the constitution, piece by piece. Along the way he also explains the struggles to follow the constitution and the checks and balances that were meant to keep everyone in their boundaries. He goes on to cover the workings of state and local government as well as government budgets and taxes. The last section deals with the issues that voters are debating and deciding about today; issues concerning healthcare, the economy, and terrorism. All of this is presented from a Biblical worldview with the intention to get the student thinking and making informed decisions.The student who will most benefit is the future lawyer or politician. Plenty of opportunities for debate are presented throughout the book. Since my daughter is going to study animals, not politics, she is feeling rather overwhelmed with all the details. This is not a “just learn how to vote” course or an easy grade. The student should not only be prepared to memorize facts (and lots of them) but to analyze and express their opinion about those facts. One of the activities is to write a letter to a newpaper describing “which functions of the bureaucracy seem appropiate, and which seem redundant, unnecessary, or unconstitutional.” My daughters response was, “How would I know?” In her 17 years she hasn’t been concerned about big government. If your student hasn’t wrestled with the issues before taking this course, then consider stretching it out to a full year.Hence, my frustration. I had planned on only spending half a year as Mr. Notgrass suggested. Well, we won’t be done until spring! My daughter is learning to apply herself to a course that she feels is unnecessarily too detailed. This is a very complete government course. It produces wonderful citizens who know how to participate in their government with wisdom. But to use it most effectively, consider taking a full year to complete it!”

The book we have used would take just as long as Notgrass and covers the same type of materials, so I’m not really any help subbing.  There are also a lot of books to cover up to 1850 as well, so you’d have to drop some or read very fast… not a lot of savoring that way.

K… I just read this over quick, and I’m not trying to influence you one way or another, I am just looking over the material and seeing it through eyes that would apply it to my own girls.  I know it would be too fast for us to go through all of this, BUT you may be able to do it with your girls.  In looking it over, I think they would both need to be relatively capable with their school work, relatively mature, and not easily burnt out.  Maybe someone else has combined both of these, though, and has insight of one who has actually combined them.

@sheraz – Yep.  This is what the BF guide does. 

@cyndi60 – If you choose to do as sheraz suggests, PM me and you can have the BF guide that I have here.  It will save you a lot of time and headache/ heartache.  Then you *can* add some of the books from the SCM guide as OYO reading.