Dec. 18, 2008 - Finished Mystery of History II

Well we did it!  Book two of The Mystery of History is finished!  We'll start book III along with All American (also by Bright Idea press) in January.  My plan is to stay chronological and do both world and American at the same time. This was also the end of our co-op, at least in it's present form.  Some in the group are continuing to meet weekly but stretching out the lessons somewhat.  My personal view on this is that we'll cover the same period's three times (Trivium) so I don't want/need to dwell on every aspect for long periods.  The other side to this coin is we need to cover it all and time will run out if we dawdle too much in any certain area.  So, we may do a different type of co-op with at least one of the other families going the same route but we haven't decided yet.   For the last week our high schoolers got to do a fun project.  They made an Inca rope bridge.  I think it turned out pretty well and they had fun doing it.  > We also at Quinoa (pronounced keewah), which is an Inca grain.  There was so much on the Inca's alone you could do a whole lapbook.  We did a page with booklets on the rope counting, eating Quinoa, the Allya (family group/clan) and the types of lands included in their area (rainforest, mountains, and desert.)  The other lessons for the week were the Ottoman empire and The Printing Press.  Check out my previous blog for the worksheets we used. Now we're looking forward to a new book and getting more American into the picture.  I've got lots of extra things planned to go with Columbus and John Smith.  We're also doing The Pilgrims Progress unit study for our Literature which will go nicely with the beginning of MOH III.  Isn't it so fun to start new books?!

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Jan. 4, 2009 - Congratulations!

Posted by dgallew

You finished. That is so exciting. We ended up swinging into All American History around Leif Ericsson. This program is good but doesn't have the same feel. It will be good to go back to the Mystery of History 3.

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