How long does it take to complete a Progeny Press guide?...

[Michelle in GA]

The website says that each guide takes 8-10 weeks. That seems like a long time for many of the books they have listed. How do you use these? Thanks!

[CAMom]

The guides are broken up into sections containing a certain number of chapters. There is a vocabulary section, a section of questions, a section of "digging deeper" questions, etc.

We do one section over the course of a week so it takes however many weeks as there are sections in the guide. We've just started Farenheit 451 and that guide has 6 sections.

HTH,

[Gwen in VA]

My kids get bored silly studying a book for "forever" (as they put it). So we do lot of the comprehension / discussion qustions orally, and then I assign one or two questions to be answered on paper.

Do most of the work speeds the studies up -- we do 2 - 3 sections per week usually.

[Starr]

We've used these with a small homeschool group doing one section a week. The dc seem to want to share all of their answers so it takes a while to get through. But...they loose some interest toward the end unless they really want to get together and play afterwards. :) If I were doing the study with just my children I would do some of the questions orally and move through a little faster.

[FloridaLisa]

We typically covered 1 - 2 sections per week. Since this was for a book club and my dd had lots of other reading, it didn't seem too drawn out. If she had been working on only one book at a time for literature, we would likely have increased the pace.

HTH,
Lisa