NON-CM High School History Options, any ideas?

My 10th grade son is doing the Bob Jones American History. I have been reading it, too, and I like the perspective. For a textbook it has a conversational tone. Our pastor is teaching once/week supplementing the text. He has been recording podcasts—if you are interested I could ask if they may be shared. They are amazing. I have also been having him read living books on the side.

I looked at Compass Classroom awhile back and it looked interesting.  They have several textbook/video combinations.  We might use their Economics course.

My high schooler is using Beautiful Feet.  She doesn’t like historic fiction, so it seemed like a good fit.  For Early American history, they use mostly biographies and Genevieve Foster books.  There are some assigned research papers as well.  The Ancient guide uses the Streams of Civilization textbook for a portion of the readings.  This still may be too literary for your DS, but I discovered my DD just wants more factual books, so biographies are okay for her.

I wouldn’t say that Take a Stand is a textbook approach. He uses Patriot’s History of the United States and the Patriot’s History Reader. There’s a good bit of writing. But I would love my son to take it, but he’d balk at the writing.  I’ve read it can be tricky to implement yourself,  but if you have Mr. DrGree do it online, it’s real good.

My son uses the books mentioned above on his own, with the Hillside videos, American Heritage, and two Great Courses’ courses, alongside.

Speaking of Hillside, check out the free Hillside video lectures. Though your son may be too young?

As it was explained to me, Take a Stand is Center for Lit applied to history.

Oak Meadow has a good reputation, just keep in mind, it probably comes from the perspective that your typical high school would. But, you could supplement with teaching videos from Wallbuilders and then there would be balance.

What about BJU World History and/or United States History?  Big River Academy also teaches courses using those texts if you want to outsource.

There’s also Susan W. Bauer’s three book series for world history. There’s a class utilizing it with it’s study guide at Big River Academy, as well as Well Trained Academy which covers all three, or you could implement it yourself using all or parts of the study guide ( I’ve read from most people that they pick from all it’s parts). It’s a lot of reading (big books), but they are supposed to be fantastically conversational and an enjoyable read. I think American history is integrated. I think she’s working on the next one.

I’m going to have my son do the Ancient World class at BRA next year in 11th, and then cover the remainder of world history his senior year.

If I think of anything else,  I will chime back in; this was on the top of my head.

Another!

The Potter’s School. It uses Ways of the World: A Brief Global History.

The class is taught from a Christian perspective.

https://www.pottersschool.org/course/list/

I am rethinking now my choice for SWB’s class and have him take this instead,  because it would leave many centuries left which I would need to fill in. I wanted a British history specific course, and this would allow it.

We plan to try Biblioplan next year.  They have several choices for spines, etc.  as well as Cool Histories for different ages with writing assignments.