Need a good resource for historical essay topics.

[Trivium Academy]

A friend of mind has asked me to find this for her and I figured I'd ask the experts!

She wants questions for each time period for middle - high school aged students. She doesn't want to buy a program b/c she's a major tweaker, she won't use the program other than what she wants from it so the money would be wasted if she bought something expensive.

I've suggested TruthQuest, not enough questions for her but it is still a consideration.
I found "Historical Essay Questions" at HomeschoolEStore.com for $3.50 and she loves this but wants more.
TRISMS has been eliminated, Tapestry has been eliminated although I think Evaluations from TOG might be helpful...I need someone to respond that has more experience with Evaluations.

She just wants questions to use for essays and discussions.
Thank you!

[Lorna]

Here is a general source of history questions

http://www.sparknotes.com/history/



These are primary sources on the Reformation plus questions

http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/EHAP_Topics/EHAP-Topic-Reformations.htm

[Julie in GA]

They're called "Think-Write" questions. Of course, it might be too expensive to buy it just for that part of it, but maybe your friend could find a copy to browse through.

HTH,

[Alana in Canada]

What about using the chapter tests for SoTW? The questions could be tweaked for essay writing.

[Trivium Academy]

For upper levels? The Trism questions were too simple, I would think the SOTW questions would be the same. Thank you though! Her kids used Streams for grammar stage and read SOTW as assigned reading she doesn't follow anyone's idea of hsling other than her own. Lol.

[mcconnellboys]

I would suggest that she look at the Critical Thinking in US history books and maybe any others CT Press might have on history topics. I thought there were a lot of good ideas in there that could have been turned into essays, rather than just using them for discussion purposes.

Regena

[Laura Corin]

They tie in to SOTW chapters, but the level is higher. Some of them may tie in too closely to the materials we are using, but some are more general.

History Essays (http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfdc5dvw_0gkn879)

Laura

[Lenora in MD]

Doesn't iew have some writing materials for different time periods? I don't know anything about it, but I do remember seeing a post about it somewhere.