I have decided to use History Odyssey by Pandia Press for our study of Ancient History this summer. The girls are not too thrilled about school during the summer, but I told them we would make it fun and since we are only studying history, we will be finished fairly early in the morning, so they will still have lots of free time.
I purchased the e-books yesterday and have been devouring the schedules and book lists and I LOVE it so far! I cannot wait to get started this summer. We bought Ancients Level 2 for Bailey and Ancients Level 3 for Amanda.
I plan to add TONS of extras (short books, internet sites, games, videos, recipes, etc) to make this a fun study of Ancient History. So I will have to schedule each of their studies to coincide so that we can do projects and activities together. Right now, they do not coincide because Ancients 3 has 165 lessons and Ancients 2 only has 87 lessons.
I noticed that Ancients Level 3 (9th-12th grade) is VERY writing intensive...luckily, Amanda likes to write! It also has scheduled some very involved books (The Iliad, The Epic of Gilgamesh, etc) but I think she will be fine reading these, as long as she has some free reading time also. She usually reads 20+ books in the summer, and I don't want to restrict that freedom, so we will see how it goes and adjust the schedule as necessary.
I have also thought about continuing into the Fall Semester with this History study since it is so involved, but we will see how it goes (and see how long we all can keep up the summer schedule, since we have never done school during the summer before!)
I purchased the e-books yesterday and have been devouring the schedules and book lists and I LOVE it so far! I cannot wait to get started this summer. We bought Ancients Level 2 for Bailey and Ancients Level 3 for Amanda.
I plan to add TONS of extras (short books, internet sites, games, videos, recipes, etc) to make this a fun study of Ancient History. So I will have to schedule each of their studies to coincide so that we can do projects and activities together. Right now, they do not coincide because Ancients 3 has 165 lessons and Ancients 2 only has 87 lessons.
I noticed that Ancients Level 3 (9th-12th grade) is VERY writing intensive...luckily, Amanda likes to write! It also has scheduled some very involved books (The Iliad, The Epic of Gilgamesh, etc) but I think she will be fine reading these, as long as she has some free reading time also. She usually reads 20+ books in the summer, and I don't want to restrict that freedom, so we will see how it goes and adjust the schedule as necessary.
I have also thought about continuing into the Fall Semester with this History study since it is so involved, but we will see how it goes (and see how long we all can keep up the summer schedule, since we have never done school during the summer before!)
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