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I do enjoy Truthquest, now being almost halfway through. I plan to continue using it throughout. Things I like about it are:
The book recommendations. Our children have enjoyed all of the books I have chosen for their independent reading, as well as our read alouds, with the exception of one that was over their head. We have probably read at least 20-30 from the recommendations and are almost halfway through.
The books are organized by age group - ranging from K-12 and placed in chronogical order based on how it happened in history. This is a lot of work already done for me!
They recommend older books and really good quality books. Ones that I would actually want to keep on my shelves to read latter for enjoyment! Having said this, I enjoy researching and scouring used sites/stores to find hidden gems in literature. Nnot everyone enjoys this process. I find older books still refer to God and are often of better literary quality. It fits with the twaddle vs. living books discussion.
Yes, Truthquest would be literature based. There are writing exercises every so often, which help bring together for the student "the big picture". We do a mostly Charlotte Mason approach, so Truthquest fits nicely within this framework. There are no activities within this curriculum. However, on their website, they have started to pair with another company that makes notebooking pages and activities to correspond with the chrological order and content that is being read about. I have not used these, so I can't speak to that.
If you're thinking of starting it, Beginnings (their first books which starts at Creation) is probably a good start with littles. But, keep in mind, history doesn't really need to be started until your oldest is around grade 4. Josiah is in grade 1 and he only listens in to our stories to get a big picture. It is the grade 6 and grade 4 children who are engaged in this curriculum.
We are using Mystery of History. We started at Creation and I love it. The lessons are about 2 pages of written info on the topic. We read it with a sticky note at hand and jot down the important/relevant/interesting points. Then when we are finished 3 lessons, we review our jot notes and make up one cue card for each lesson. The front of the card has the title date and photo. The back has the card #, title and the points the kids memorize as taken off the jot notes. (more points for older kids) If it is a person who is in the lineage of Jesus we put a gold star on the card. I like the flexibility so you can prioritize how much detail to include and what is relevant to your family. (I'm a creation nut so on the creation card we but the last note as Evolution is a lie. On the bottom of the Jubal Tubal Cain card we put: There were no cavemen). The kids review the cards with the goal of memorization. We also do a simple binder. White paper with a horizontal line. Same pictures as on cards. We paste the pictures WITH descriptions on the timeline. Above the line is in bible (ie Joseph) and below is out of the bible (ie Stonehenge). These pictures with words underneath are in chronological order left to right. We put these pages in page protectors and if we did any assignments/maps, we slip those in behind the white timeline page. We don't do lots of assignments. The pictures are from History Through The Ages - A collection of Historical Timeline Figures. You can print them of with or with out descriptions. (note these dates don't match MOH dates exactly). There are 'tests' before and after each three days to whet your appetite and see what you remember. There are assignments for each lesson as well. We usually discuss some of them but there is much that could be done. There are book lists with info on each book which I found very helpful. There are maps as well. if you plan to print book lists and maps etc, you should take the book apart and put it in a binder or purchase the reproducible CD ROM. Check out their facebook group (there's a FB group for each volume of MOH). My prep work includes printing off pictures which the kids colour while I'm reading, searching out a few fictional books to read and buying them used, making more white timeline pages as needed.
This is different from TruthQuest because you could simply use MOH with no other resources and it would work. The great thing about Truthquest is that they have a massive list of books (regardless of if they are in print or not) and they give you the corresponding chapters of spine/text books. You can find online people who have mapped out how Truthquest fits in with multiple other history spine books. The author has an overall goal with this history program and I know that there are several people I respect who have used Truthquest. Sherry being one. Sherry, is it fair to say that Truthquest is literature based?
Mystery of History works much better for our family because I can simplify it and just pick the few fiction books I want to supplement with and not prep too much. Note: I was in my first year homeschooling when I used Truthquest and I started in Medieval Times which isn't in the bible and I don't know much about so perhaps that's part of why it wasn't a fit for our family.
This seems like a post worth resurfacing. Sherry, I would love to know what you know think of Truth Quest History after having started it. And I would love to know what people think of the Mystery of History books. With the used curriculum Sale and homeschool conferences coming up and one never knows what treasures might abound there so it would be nice to know a summary of anyone who is willing to share of your best and worst curriculum's that you have used.
We just started using Easy Grammar this year and I so wish that we had started years ago. Even the related Daily Grams are good to use alternately through the years so that it does not become too daunting for some families. Solid stuff.
We are really excited to start Truth Quest History this year. It looks like a great match for our family. Simple, comprehensive, lots of family discussion and lots of great books to read!
We also have enjoyed everything we've used from Simply Charlotte Mason.
We did not enjoy Christ Centred Phonics or Professor B Math. Neither were a good match for us.
Give me your two cents. What is the best and worst curriculum out there? I'm not looking for the good or the not-so-hot stuff. I want to know what curriculum is worth its weight in gold as well as the stuff that isn't worth the paper it's written on.
BEST - Easy Grammar - saved our family
- Mystery of History - reads like a story with so many activity options and great map work
WORST - Rod and Staff Grammar - grade 7 - unless you're looking for a university grammar book
I plan to continue using it throughout. Things I like about it are: