truthquest -has anyone used this for high school? or just for middle school?

We used it throughout. It was fabulous. My son, now 23, credits TQ with showing him how to evaluate history and the times we’re living in Biblically. He learned not only people and events, but the foundational beliefs that drove them.

I only used TQ. I started it years ago when it was hot off the press. I’m not sure what they meant by being difficult to schedule the course work. We just went through the guides, read life-changing books and had great conversations. The Think-Write exercises are useful for jumping off points if you wish to use them. I think we can make things harder than they should be. My purpose was to equip my son and TQ was a main tool in helping to accomplish that.

We could never live without our Truthquest guides :). Along with the Bible, they have been our foundation for history – my oldest graduating this year and we’ve used it throughout. Have you read the reviews on TQ website?

Jackie, this is how I did it but I’m weird so take it for what it’s worth. I’m in TN, too, registered with Gateway for 16 of our 18 years (and counting) of homeschool.

I keep a record book done in a very Charlotte Mason-y style. For my son for high school, I simply wrote down what we did each day under the classes it would count for. So, for example, if we were reading a book for history, I listed it under history and English. Written essays/narrations went under history (or science or whatever) and English. We had a government credit (or half-credit…I don’t remember.). I wrote down anything we did that would count for government and the year I was actually recording that credit (I think the year we would be getting to the constitution) I added in God and Government. We did history every year even though we only needed two credits. I awarded one credit for world history one year and one credit for American history the next but we just kept on with what we were doing.

Most people would probably be uncomfortable being so relaxed but life doesn’t fit in convenient little boxes…or credits. If education is a life, as Charlotte says, I want our learning to be in context and relevant. I have over 16,000 books in every subject. We read…a lot and widely. We discussed…a lot. I had a list of credit requirements for high school and I simply assigned which credit would be counted for what year and we continued on. Now skill subjects such as math and some science or other subjects he had to have but had less interest in were more “in the box” but content subjects were not.