hiemenz
- Reviewed on Monday, July 19, 2010
- Grades Used: 9th and 12th
- Dates used: School Year 2009-2010
I have been homeschooling for over 17 years and have never found a History that I was totally sold on. The best I came was doing my own unit studies for retention, until I found this. I used this with 2 of our sons last year. One in 9th and the other in 12th. I have a business in my home, so I wasn't able to do the unit studies any more and really missed it. This course is like a unit study without me having to do all the work! It requires very little teacher time and no prep work. I just get their schedule for the week and grade their tests at the end of the unit. I will be using only Notgrass for all of our History and Government subjects from here on out. We are looking forward to using the American History with our 10th grader this year and the new middle school American History with our daughter! I give this course an A +++
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gcfulgham
- Reviewed on Thursday, December 20, 2007
- Grades Used: High School
- Dates used: 2007-2008
The previous reviewer did a stand-out job of describing the content, layout, and quality of this high school level curriculum, so there is no need to repeat any of that here. What does bear repeating however, is how user-friendly, interesting, God-honoring, and wonderful this curriculum is! Our son is thoroughly enjoying studying world history this way. Study questions are truly thought-provoking, the text is engaging, and the literature selections are all worthy. The daily lessons are reasonably paced and self-directed - students will have no problem working independently. The Notgrass family has done an outstanding job presenting world history - HIS-story!
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Susie in MS
- Reviewed on Saturday, September 25, 2004
- Grades Used: Highschool
- Dates used: 2004 -
Exploring World History (EWH) comes in two spiral bound volumes and includes a resource book also spiral bound. All three have a heavy clear plastic to protect the covers. An optional teachers guide is available and inculdes daily history review questions, literature questions, weekly test and semester exams. A literature package is available our you can use the library.
EWH has 30 weekly units that are further broke down into 5 daily lessons each.
At the beginning of each unit you will find a quick overview of will be covered that week, a list of what books are needed (usually a Bible, the resource book In Their Words, and an assigned literature book), writing assignments to choose from (no mechanincal instruction) and a brief about the author of the literature book being read that week(s).
Monday through Thursday you will have a history lesson and on Friday you will have a Bible lesson that relates to what was studied that week.
The lessons start with a lively narrative and end with a Bible verse. Then there will be the Bible Study Question that causes the student to think about the lesson just read. Next is a Grammar Point, this is basically a quick lesson review of some point in grammar that will help in writing skills. Then comes the writing assignmenst. These can be from the Bible, In Their Words(ITW), and/or an assigned literature book.
There is no guessing as to what to do. It is all planned out and can be used independently or with Mom.
All three of the books (Vol 1, Vol 2 and ITW) have b/w pictures/photos through out. The way Mr Notgrass causes a student to think about a situation and look to the Bible instead of coming right out and saying *this is right* or *this is wrong* is wonderful!!! The narritives are very lively and grab your attention.
You will find charts of what is happening in the rest of the world at the time, and maps, and interesting snippits that bring the lesson to life.
Literature relates to the history or time period. The selections are great!
I give this an A+++
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