Truth Quest :American History for Young Students 1

[TracyR]

Just wondering if anyone uses this for their history program. How do you implement it?

I had bought a program from someone and recieved this book by accident . The person that I bought it from said that I could purchase it if I wanted to. But I'm on the fence as to wether or not I want to use it or not.
What are everyone else's thoughts on the program?:confused:

[OhElizabeth]

Well since you have it in-hand, you can see that it has commentary and booklists. It's all there (with the 3 volumes), but what gets people is how to implement and schedule it. I have all the volumes of AHYS and several of the ancients, like them as booklists, but wouldn't feel comfortable using it the way they say. I let my VP cards and spines drive. Tami around here does the same thing, letting the spine drive and then reading the pages that apply. I'm in the minority I guess, because I don't really get into Miller's commentary. I don't know, maybe I'll like AOR better. In any case, for us right now it's mainly been a great booklist, extremely helpful with a voracious reader. You can keep it for that. With the ages of your girls, you might also like something like WP AC, which would have hands-on already scheduled for you. Tami also has a schedule she made for TQ and various spines on her blog.

[ABQmom]

I will be using it this year. I went through the entire guide and made a list of what our library had. I then printed up the list of books and added some mapping activities and a couple of projects to go with it. The following is a sample: (my notes tell me which of my dc should read this book, and which library I could find it at---"other" meaning I have to put on hold from another library in town.) We will just work through the list. If time grows short, we will skip some things.

I.Race for the New World
Read TQ pp. 3 – 4
Think about how God lifted the curtain on the New World
Literature
§John Cabot and Son (1-4) (England)
§Ponce DeLeon by Heinrichs (5-8) (Spain)
§DeSoto (check bio section)
§Balboa (check bio section)
§Henry Hudson (970.017 Mattern)
§Conquista! (Bulla) (2-6) (other)

* Mark places on map where explorers traveled and glue their country’s flag close to territory explored.

II.Meeting Native Americans
Read TQ pp. 11 – 12
Literature
§Penobscot (970.3 Duvall) (2-5)
§Wampanoag’s (974.4004973 Flanagan) (2-6)
§Three Little Indians (1-4) other
§Good Hunting Blue Sky (K-2) Easy Parrish
§Hiawatha Easy Longfellow
*Mark on map, names of Indian tribes settled in New World

III.Lost Colony of Roanoke
Read TQ p. 16
Literature
§Lost Colony of Roanoke (Fritz) (3-6) other

[kim in ks]

I used this as a resource list, when I wrote my own American History Unit last year using " A Book in Time"
http://www.abookintime.com/planyouryear.html
http://abookintime.com/store/images/TeachingHistoryCover-small.jpg

Kim