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, middle school

This topic has 5 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 7 months ago by pslively.

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May 12, 2013 at 10:58 pm
pjssully
Participant
HI, I am considering coming back to a simplier type of CM schedule. We did HOD this year due to health problems-I just couldn’t plan anything due to chronic pain. I am beginning to feel a bit better but still need a gentle schedule/planning. I have a 14 year old and 11 year old twin boys. They don’t have to work together but my 14 year old was interested middle ages. I think we should concentrate on 1800’s though to get a high school credit. Anyways, I don’t think I could use the US stories that are listed in the guide here since they look kinda young for my age of children. What do people use with older kids
May 12, 2013 at 11:12 pm
suzukimom
Participant
Is this the list of books you are looking at?
FAMILY
American History: Stories of America, Volume 2; The Story of Thomas A. Edison; The Brooklyn Bridge;Empire State Building; The Hoover Dam; Billy Graham: God’s Ambassador OR Billy Graham: Just Get Up Out of Your Seat; Our Country’s Presidents (reference)
World History: Stories of the Nations, Volume 2;George Mueller; Gandhi: The Young Protestor Who Founded a Nation; Mandela: The Rebel Who Led His Nation to Freedom

GRADE 10-12

American History: (selections from) American Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays, Hymns, Poems, and Short Stories from American History; Lincoln: A Photobiography; The Red Badge of Courage; (opt.) Up From Slavery; (opt.) The Story of My Life; Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt; The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane; America, The Last Best Hope, Volume 2 and Volume 3; The Yanks Are Coming; Victory in the Pacific; Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Exploring Government (American Government course)
World History: Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave OR How Should We Then Live?; Rescue and Redeem; The War to End All Wars; Hitler; (opt.)The Hiding Place; Stalin: Russia’s Man of Steel
May 12, 2013 at 11:15 pm
suzukimom
Participant
Or there is AO’s highschool level books in Year 10 for that timeperiod…. http://www.amblesideonline.org/10bks.shtml

May 12, 2013 at 11:47 pm
pslively
Participant
We used Abraham Lincoln’s World for our spine of that time period. If you haven’t used it before, it might be a good choice for you. It would work nicely for those ages.
May 13, 2013 at 3:21 am
pjssully
Participant
Thanks for the responses! Yes, the Stories of America Volume 2 and Stories of the Nations are too young for my age of children. I was looking for another spine to replace those.
“pslively” how did you schedule Abraham Lincoln’s World when you used it?
Thanks again!!!
pam
May 13, 2013 at 11:23 am
pslively
Participant
My kids read one section per day and narrated it to me. Not one whole chapter, but one section. Each chapter has clearly divided little sections. I did not schedule it as such. They just knew that every school day they had to do that.