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

This topic has 5 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 7 months ago by Rachel White.

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June 11, 2013 at 4:15 pm
pjssully
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Has anyone used the Great Course (Teaching Company) for history? I have two high schoolers and I was considerng using the U.S. History course for them, and then adding a few other books/activities. Has anyone ever done this?

I would take any advice on books/curriculum for U.S. history for high school-one daughter needs just this credit, and a few others and she will be ready to graduate. I just don’t know what other resources there are for US history that are BORING!
thanks
pam
June 11, 2013 at 4:29 pm
csmamma
Participant
Hi Pam. Have you looked at Notgrass’ Exploring America? http://www.notgrass.com/notgrass/american-history-high-school-curriculum
We were pleased with it and thought it worth mentioning.
June 11, 2013 at 8:31 pm
Rachel White
Participant
The Notgrass is a definite option. Another one – the one I’m most considering when the time comes – is James Stobaugh’s https://www.forsuchatimeasthis.com/-history-curriculum
June 11, 2013 at 8:55 pm
Bookworm
Participant
I really like the Teaching Company. I would encourage you to add some reading. Also read the reviews carefully of the courses you are considering. We have done these very successfully, but not for American history. They can be a lot of fun; if you added in some bios, living books, it might make a very nice course. In general I’m coming to like the newer MOOC’s better than Teaching Company (I’m cheap, lol) but there don’t seem to be any upcoming American history ones I can see. You might try watching. Good sites are coursera.org, udacity, and edX We are becoming MOOC addicts at our house. LOL I personally found the Notgrass materials pretty dull and one-sided. The Stobaugh I looked at last year and did like better. But I ended up designing our own American history course that my liberty-loving sons could live with.
June 11, 2013 at 10:41 pm
crazy4boys
Participant
Bookworm – you should start a list of all the courses you’ve watched and what you thought of them….then give that list to me!
And just wondering, can we, as homeschool parents, then assign ‘credits’ for courses taken?
June 11, 2013 at 11:00 pm
Rachel White
Participant
Some liberty-lovin’ resources (cause that’s how we roll here, too!).
I plan on supplementing these and other books to whatever I choose to do.
At LIberty Fund Books there are first-hand primary docoments re: our history:
American Republic – https://catalog.libertyfund.org/home.html?page=shop.product_details&product_id=956&flypage=flypage.tpl&pop=0
and
American Nation – https://catalog.libertyfund.org/home.html?page=shop.product_details&product_id=1204&flypage=flypage.tpl&pop=0
Also:
The 5000 Year Leap – http://www.nccsstore.com/The-5000-Year-Leap-A-Miracle-that-Changed-the-World/productinfo/5000YL
http://www.nccsstore.com/5000-Year-Leap-and-Making-of-America-Study-Guide/productinfo/DG/
http://www.nccsstore.com/Study-Courses/products/2/
Other books available at NCCS and other bios. I haven’t compared the books at Stobaugh with others I’m familiar with yet.