Using strictly Yesterday's Classics books or Heritage history for history and literature

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  • Des
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    Does anyone strictly use the Yesterday’s Classics or Heritage history books for their history and literature programs?  I’m asking strictly for budget reasons, I’m thinking of getting the YC or the HH Young readers CD, but I “really” need to use them with an eye to “not” being able to buy any other books for the rest of the year.  I will have access to the library and we have some books in our home library, but this year i’m hoping to cultivate a deeper love of reading in my Ds.

    LyndaF
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    Have you tried looking at mainlesson.com. I use those books all the time and it is free.

    Des
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    Yes I’ve looked at the books at mainlesson and will use some of those as well.

    nebby
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    We use Heritage History and I would say you could definitely do just that for history. I have gotten a few other books from

    the library for my kids to read but I have 4 and it is hard to find ones at each kid’s level. I could have managed without that though. We also own yesterday’s classics but I haven’t used them so systematically.

    Nebby

    Des
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    Nebby, thank you. I think I will just get the HH ones for now.

    bethanna
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    Are some of the Yesterday’s classics free or must they be purchased?

    sheraz
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    You can get both HH and YC free to be read online. I think that both are great, and each has it strengths. Most of the YC history selections are available from HH, and since they have a much wider historical selection, you get a better deal from HH. These stories are living books, with heroes, action, and morals…making them easy to read for literature as well. To read YC on an ereader, you have to purchase them, and as far as I have seen, you have to buy the whole collection. HH lets you buy and download individual books.

    Here is the link to the YC collection online: http://www.mainlesson.com/

    Here is the link to the HH collection onlline: http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=books

    The advantage that YC has is that they include a variety of things, including science, kindergarten stories, etc. Depending on your needs, that could be good. (these are also wonderful living books with heroes, action, and morals).

    If you are looking for classics for literature and you have an ereader, you can find those for free all over the internet. Kindle has tons of them for free, you just need to search the Kindle store. Using Calibre, you can convert the files to any erader that you have. I have been locating and downloading literature options as I have time in order to be ready this next year. 

    Specifically to answer your question, Des, HH is the route I am most likely to follow in the upcoming years as I am trying to my older girls independent and responsible for their educational choices (within my guidelines of course). I am loading and sorting their Kindles/content so that we can review their choices together and get a list ready for next school year.  My hope is that as we get into some of these cultures that they find something of interest and I can immediately show them a great option… =)

    I do not anticpate “needing” to buy books for history for many years because I bought the 8 disc collection for $140 (8 different eras of history).  Wanting to buy books because I love them is another matter, lol!

    Des
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    Sheraz, thank you, I love hearing your thoughts on this subject. I’m having a doozy of a time trying to decide which collection to get first. I might try just picking and choosing a few books from each collection to get us through next year.

    sheraz
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    Des, for your ages, I really think that would probably be happy with the Young Readers since it already has a wide variety of each collection’s subject, and you can just choose them on chronological order if you chose too. It would really be easy and less time consuming, overwhelming, and frustrating for you. It has over 80 books on it, too, so there is a lot of variety for one year! That gives you time to feel them out and plan for the year after. 😉

    Des
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    Sheraz thank you again. I’ll get the young readers collection.

    Love this thread as I am trying to move in this direction as well. Des, how old are your kids?

    And just an FYI, you can buy many (maybe all?) of the YC books in the Kindle store on Amazon, but the prices range quite a lot… from $2-$5+.

    sheraz
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    @Lady in Pink – I did not realize that they were available as Kindle books on Amazon! Thanks!

    @Des – I was thinking about my reply and was going to ask your children’s ages, too…they are 4th grade and under, aren’t they? What have you done for History and Literature until now? 

    Des
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    Lady in Pink- the two i’ll be using this for are 10 and 5.

    Sheraz–We’ve actually done a smathering of Ancient history this year, but he wants to do it again.  I don’t think we dug as deeply as he probably needed to.  Last year we did MFW Adventures, the year before he followed along with his older siblings in SCM’s module 4.  He’s also been listening to SOTW vol. 1.  I have the other volumes for him to listen to as well.  For literature, we’ve not really followed a plan, we’ve just read books (mostly done as read alouds).

     

    I have another question for you Sheraz, do you think the Young Readers Collection is still the way to go if we have a few of the books in paperback edition?  We have:

    Famous Men of Greece

    Famous Men of Rome

    Fifty Famous Stories Retold

    The Jungle Book

    Aesop’s Fables (not the Milo Winter version)

    Our Little Spartan Cousin of Long Ago (kindle version)

    Famous Men of the Renaissance and Reformation

    Famous Men of the Middle Ages

    sheraz
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    The Famous Men collections are not on the Young Readers collections. They are on the CD’s of the time period (Greece, Rome, Middle Ages, Christian Europe – except the Renaissance and Reformation. I am not seeing it listed at a quick glance).

    Here is the list of the Young Readers Collection:

    American History

    American History Stories—Volume I

    American History Stories—Volume II

    American History Stories—Volume III.

    American History Stories—Volume IV

    Stories of American Life and Adventure

    Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans

    America First

    Stories of the Pilgrims

    Story of Abraham Lincoln

    Men Who Found America

    Story of Columbus

    Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coast

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin Told to the Children

    Colonial Children

    Peter of New Amsterdam

    Ruth of Boston

    Seth of Colorado

    Richard of Jamestown

    Hannah of Kentucky

    Stephen of Philadelphia

    European History

    Old Time Tales

    Viking Tales

    Stories from English History

    Stories from French History

    Stories of the Vikings

    Stories from Pilgrim’s Progress Told to the Children

    Stories of Gulliver’s Travels Told to the Children

    Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

    Stories of Don Quixote

    Children’s Heroes

    Story of Joan of Arc

    Story of Robert Bruce

    Story of Sir Francis Drake 

    Story of Sir Walter Raleigh

    Story of Lord Clive

    Story of Captain Cook

    Story of Napoleon

    Story of Nelson

    Stories of William Tell Told to the Children

    Ancient History

    Stories from Greek History

    Stories from Roman History

    Stories from the Iliad Told to the Children

    Stories from the Odyssey Told to the Children

    Aesop for Children

    Our Little Cousin Series

    Our Little Athenian Cousin of Long Ago

    Our Little Roman Cousin of Long Ago

    Our Little Saxon Cousin of Long Ago

    Our Little Spartan Cousin of Long Ago

    Our Little Viking Cousin of Long Ago

    Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago

    Our Little Crusader Cousin of Long Ago

    Our Little Norman Cousin of Long Ago

    Our Little Carthaginian Cousin of Long Ago

    Historical Anecdotes

    Fifty Famous Stories Retold

    Fifty Famous People

    Thirty More Famous Stories Retold

    Bible and Saint Stories

    In God’s Garden

    Nursery Book of Bible Stories

    Stories from the Life of Christ Told to the Children

    Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts

    Stories from the Old Testament Told to the Children

    Heroes of Israel

    God’s Troubadour: The Story of St. Francis of Assisi

    Saint Christopher and Saint Cuthbert

    Legends and Folklore

    Jataka Tales

    More Jataka Tales

    Page—Esquire—Knight

    Stories of King Arthur’s Knights Told to the Children

    Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children

    Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children

    Stories of Guy of Warwick Told to the Children

    Stories of Robin Hood Told to the Children

    Stories of Roland Told to the Children

    Book of Legends

    Stories from the Arabian Nights

    Twins of the World

    Belgian Twins

    Dutch Twins

    Eskimo Twins

    French Twins

    Japanese Twins

    Mexican Twins

    Puritan Twins

    Scotch Twins

    Spartan Twins

    Swiss Twins

    So out of over 80 books, you have 3 of them.

    Keep in mind that hese books are aimed at 4th grade strong independent readers or as great read alouds for anyone as they learn oral narration skills.

    Des
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    Thank you!!  We will go ahead with the YRC then.

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