Free shipping on USA orders over $129!
Now that Notgrass has been mentioned . . . .
- This topic has 29 replies, 12 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 3 months ago by
.
- Posts
LOL. I’m sure our kids would love that.
Thanks for the ideas Rachel. We do use lots of source documents and it’d be good to have so many in one place.
We’ve used happily this past year The American Story by Garet Garrett (isn’t that a fun name) but it goes only to WWII. I have a new title from the Foundation for Economic Education on order: A Republic, If We Can Keep It, but it focuses primarily on economic issues (necessary, but not sufficient!) I’m still hunting for more.
I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, but Truthquest recommends these for spine materials: http://www.truthquesthistory.com/store/products_spine.php?itemId=34. We’re not there yet, but have enjoyed the younger student guides. Hope you find what you’re looking for!! Blessings, Gina
I have read all of these, Gina. Guerber is not appropriate for high school; we read those long ago, in our first pass through American history. Carson’s history is valuable but a very, very dry and difficult read; I am not a SOTW fan; the others are much more important resources for the confluence of worldview and history than they are comprehensive history books themselves.
As far as economics goes, have your boys read The Wealth of Nations which inspired the founders? How about reading through Whatever Happened to Penny Candy if they haven’t already. Also have your ds’s watch Milton Freidman’s 1980 series – I think it was on PBS. (I have it pinned on my homeschool links Pinterest board.) I need to hunt down the economics course I found as well, though I’m not sure if we will use it or not.
Also, how about reading through A Visual History of the Modern World as a spine? Would that work a bit better for you, perhaps? I am not fond of that book as the only source for modern times, but I would use it to find audio/ video materials – speeches, etc., to add depth to it. My oldest used this (though it had a slightly different title at the time), and enjoyed it for what it is. It can be overwhelming, but when used daily with a timeline that incorporates various continents, it makes things easier to cover, IMO.
I’ve read The Wealth of Nations and don’t recommend it for teenagers. Unless you know where the “meat” is and can skip out the other stuff, it is a very distracting, meandering read–in eighteenth-century language, no less–and quite difficult. We did most of the Uncle Eric books in middle school. Love them!
For economic HISTORY if necessary, I have a nicely done audio recording set from The Teaching Company’s Timothy Taylor, who is a neoclassical instead of an Austrian but not too bad for all that (he’s kind of like a rock star here, lol).
Hey, I just found this resource while hunting around, and it covers a LOT of ground. Thought I’d post it for whoever might be interested:
http://www.cato.org/cato-university/study_course/
This looks like it covers history, political theory, economics AND the American constitution, as well as legal issues. Would be quite a multisubject thing! I will try to listen to the first audio soon.
I just did a bit of searching online for economics courses, and found this one, but can’t remember if this is one that I heard about from SCM or if it was one I came across on my own.
Here is one from Lamp Post HomeSchool Store.
Sonlight has the one that is centered around Thinkwell’s Economics course.
There is also one through HSLDA which I know nothing at all about other than it came up when I typed in my search parameters, and there appears to be some through various colleges & online courses.
Please share what you decide to use as I would be interested in your feedback on your choice.
Pax,
~jacqleene
Jacqleene,
I like both of those options VERY much! Almost used the Lamppost one myself, although from a different vendor, and I was privileged to have some conversations when they were revising Economics in a Box with the people involved and I whole heartedly recommend it. We actually had already read or done or watched some of it, lol, but it would be an EXCELLENT preparation especially for the interested student.Oh, and what I really like from the Sonlight course is the novel from Russ Roberts–there are actually two more and they are ALL terrific. My teens have read them all. Highly recommended– living books explaining economics!
Um, ya know Bookworm, I think you’ve done such a good job teaching your children that I’m not sure there’s gonna be much for them to learn in college! They’ll be teaching their profs! I’m always amazed at your posts – I think you guys have read “everything”! 🙂
LOL, well, first you have to realize that we are all major geeks and had to have a friend come over and show us how to do something as prosaic as install a new door because we were clueless. 🙂 And then in the area of economics and politics, well, that was what I studied in grad school so it’s kind of my “thing.” Believe me, there are areas I’m considerably weaker in.
The Cato Institute has a wonderful website, it is a favorite in this house, lots of interest. Michelle thanks for the heads up on the Teaching Company – I will look at those for us to maybe listen to – we like their courses.
I love that list on the Cato Inst. site. I’m glad you found it. BTW, looking back at my post, I should’ve written libertarian leaning conservative, not libertarian leaning republican-BIG difference.
My son (11) will be reading The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey later this school year. Next year, I’m going to begin him on the Bluestocking books. He wanted to watch the Speech tonight but I told him no, I couldn’t take it!
First State of the Union that I haven’t watched since I don’t know when.Rachel
First State of the Union that I haven’t watched since I don’t know when.
- The topic ‘Now that Notgrass has been mentioned . . . .’ is closed to new replies.