Truthquest Beginnings

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  • July 20, 2017 at 8:49 pm
    amyalk
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    We enjoyed using the Truthquest for young students series and I was anxious to get started with the regular Truthquest series now that my oldest will be going into 6th grade.   My plan was to go through the Beginnings guide myself this summer and decide what to use and what to skip but I am getting very bogged down in the length of the commentary.  It’s not that I don’t appreciate Michelle’s thoughts but it just feels very wordy to me.   I want to have time to dig into the Bible and read other good living books along with the commentary but when I think of the attention span and interest level of our 6th, 5th, 3rd and 2nd grade children, I know it will be too much, even if we skip half the commentary.

    I was also hoping to get through ancient history in less than three years.  We have been reading through the old testament of the Vos Children’s Bible this summer to give the big picture and I planned to read portions but not all of the actual Bible text as we cover the topics through the school year.   Now I am second guessing my plan to use Truthquest and am not sure how to proceed.   Any suggestions?

    Thanks,

    Amy

    July 21, 2017 at 10:23 am
    caedmyn
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    We got Beginnings a couple years ago and never used it…it was just too much

    I ended up getting an older TQ guide that had Egypt and Greece together.  We did Egypt at the end of one achool year and Greece and Rome last year.  That fit in well with Long Story Short which we used for devotions and I didn’t feel the need for the TQ Beginnings commentary.  This year we’ll be doing both Middle Ages and Renaissance/Reformation.

     

    If you didn’t mind splitting a topic over 2 years, you could do Egypt, Greece, and half of Rome one year, and the other half plus Middle Ages and Renaissance/Reformation the next.  Oe combine Egypt with Greece and Rome in one year.

    July 22, 2017 at 5:19 am
    Grace
    Participant

    I want to use TQ Beginnings. Now I am wondering what it is like. can I contact you Amy?

     

    My email is foreternity3 at gmail dot com.

    Thanks

    Grace

    July 22, 2017 at 12:21 pm
    CrystalN
    Participant

    I attempted Truthquest with my kids when they were in k, 3, 5 grade. It was way too much. There are soo many choices. We only got to the story of Joseph, in one whole year. I think we could have done it if I had only read the TQ commentary and a story Bible. But I chose to use the Bible, plus Story of the Ancient World, plus the extra Commentaries she recommends, Herein is Love or something like that, the Nancy Ganz one. The Story of the Ancient World is chock full of Bible stories, so it felt redundant, and reading two commentars felt redundant. If you could bring yourself to really scale it back I think it is doable, but I felt compelled to do it all and not skip anything. Everything she recommends is so good I didnt want to miss any of it.

    July 22, 2017 at 3:14 pm
    amyalk
    Participant

    Grace – yes you can contact me.  I sent you an email with my contact info.

    Crystal and Caedmyn – Thank you for your responses.  It sounds like I am not alone in thinking that the Beginnings guide as is might be too much to tackle in a year.

    For those of you that have used both the Beginnings guide and the following truthquest guides, do you find they are similar in the length of commentary or is the Beginnings guide wordier than the others?

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