Secular Charlotte Mason
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Making some changes
| Posted on January 1, 2011 at 12:48 AM |
Drakon has decided that Trisms is not a good fit for him. I have to agree that it is only an ok fit and I am having to supplement a fair amount. So we are making a change that I think is a perfect match for Drakon's interests and learning preferences. He is going to keep using the same spines for world history (Roberts, Harman) since I had let him chose his own spines in place of the ones recommended in Trisms. He will keep doing Story of Art with the family, which is the girls' history spine. The main difference is that he wants to go with more of a pure literature based history so we are adding in History of World Literature from the Teaching Company. We will also be drawing readings from this list javascript:mox(); . Also from the Teaching Company, we will be adding in the Great Religions series as needed. As you can see my son really likes the Teaching Company lectures. Learning to take notes to these will be good practice for college.
javascript:mox(); Roberts
javascript:mox(); Harman
javascript:mox(); Story of Art
javascript:mox(); History of World Literature (I ended up getting the set as it was considerably cheaper than just the one course)
javascript:mox(); Great World Religions series ( I wanted the series but only Judaism and Buddhism were on sale)
And that is the new plan for High School World History
Categories: History, High School/Rhetoric Stage
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1. The unit plans that the student reads and uses as his checklist. This was a major reason we bought the program so I decided to keep it. I just added in the extra readings and DVDs and crossed off the stuff I don't want him to do. Takes a bit more effort at the planning stage but will make it easier for Drakon to work independently.
2. The science and literature assignments. I actually like most of these. He will answer them as essay questions whenever possible, do projects as needed and the rest will just go into his note-taking outline.
3. The mapwork. Although we are using Knowledge Quest maps instead of the very poor quality ones TRISMS supplied. And as usual, I add in cities and features that I think should be common knowledge.
I will compile the end of the unit tests by combining the TRISMS worksheets (but not the questionnaires), vocabulary test and the discussion questions from the Teaching Company DVDs. I'll probably add in an essay question or two of my own as well.
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