Has anyone here used Mosdos Press Lit and liked it ?

[michellem]

It looks great to me. I am considering it for 5th grade, instead of CLE Reading. It is quite pricey so I really have to love it to justify the expense.
Can anyone shed any light on this ?
thanks, michelle

[WendyK]

I have the Pearl set. You wanna buy it? ;)

Honestly, it is too textbooky for my taste.

[plansrme]

I used Mosdos gold, which I think is for 9th grade, last year. We loved it, and I am considering the 5th grade version for my younger daughter next year.
The teacher's manual is excellent, so it was easy to teach. My daughter enjoyed the stories and learned a lot from the program. I loved that the stories were, as advertised, wholesome without being religious. I had too much religious literature thrown at me in my own high school experience (BJU lit) that I tend to shy away from products that are overtly religious, but I still want my kids reading good literature, rather than twaddle or smut. Mosdos was an excellent resource for that. I also liked that literary elements were taught using short stories rather than whole books. My daughter reads a lot of whole books anyway, which is a problem with many whole book programs--they're not as enjoyable for her because she's usually already read half of the offerings.
It is pricey, but I hear there's a homeschooler's discount off of the prices listed on the website. I also have seen some of the books on half.com. The teacher's manual is huge--comes in two volumes so it's portable. There is a lot of help in there.

Terri

[Elizabeth Conley]

It looks great to me. I am considering it for 5th grade, instead of CLE Reading. It is quite pricey so I really have to love it to justify the expense.
Can anyone shed any light on this ?
thanks, michelle

Yes!!! Totally in love with it.

We used Jade this year for our 7th Grade Daughter. We fully intend to use Coral for our 5th grade son next year and Gold for the daughter. It's awesome.

Mosdos tracks down much of the great literature I want the kids to read, plus plenty of stuff I'm not sufficiently well-informed to be familiar with, but am nonetheless well pleased to have them exposed to. (I'm a Math major. Literature isn't my specialty.) The teacher's manual is an awesome resource for parents who didn't major in Liberal Arts but still want their kids to have an appropriate grounding in Literature. I've learned a lot from it, and we've all had fun.

Sure, the kids read lots of other stuff. For me the Mosdos is the literary equivalent of a vitamin supplement. I don't worry about going down a reading list, because the basics they really need are in their Mosdos Literature book. The other stuff they read is designed to aid their studies in Social Studies and Science, or meet their interests. Mosdos is a great check in the block for me, as well as a source of great read after great read.

The price is stiff. You can get by on the student text alone. I love the teacher's manuals, but I find the workbooks to be overkill.

[Elizabeth Conley]

Here is a link that gives you a beautiful sneak peek inside each of the Mosdos Student texts:

http://www.mosdospress.com/try_before_buy.html

[one l michele]

I've ordered it for 5th and am anxious to see it. It seems to be a secular BJU literature program.