I mentioned in January I was worried we were not getting enough American history in. Sure, we had been reading the living books that went with the American History curriculum from Sonlight, but that was it. I wanted more for my daughter. So after I wrote the blog post I sat down to figure out what I could do without having to order a new curriculum or back track through Sonlight. Here's what I came up with:
3 - She also had to write a 2 page report on what she learned in the video. Nothing dry, but interesting stuff she'd want to share with a friend. The library had a detailed America, The Story of Us book that corresponded with each episode as well. I ordered that and she used it while writing.
4 - Dear America books correspond nicely with an America study and we had maybe 25 books that have been sitting around. I put them in order chronologically and she read one each week based on what the episodes were about.
5 - I also typed up vocabulary lists based on the videos and episode paperwork, that she practiced on Quizlet. You can find my lists here.
6 - Additonally when she had time, she watched the Dear America videos on Netflix. It doesn't have all of them but it has maybe 10.
7 - And finally, to throw in a bit of US geography, she watched How The States Got Their Shapes each week. This show is great!
She learned so much with this approach. I don't know if it would be a full 1 year of credit for a high schooler on it's own but you could add more books on famous Americans, research on American inventions, explorers and maybe additional reports or field trips. We had read a lot of the Sonlight books in the fall so this rounded out to a full high school, credit and an enjoyable one at that!
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at the thrift store and tornadoes can destroy your city!) plus our church is going down to Joplin, MO next week to help with the devastation there from tornadoes, so we've been discussing all of that
(we're still discussing him, and need to order books, but the discussion started because I named my dog Winston Churchill because our first dog's name is Clementine. Winston's wife's name was Clementine, it seemed fitting. Also, he came up in some book the little one is reading as well.) 
going and I plan to study American history, as well as the World's history during the time America was settled, up until now. Other than that, I'm open to suggestions. Could use a good foreign language program. We might study Spanish or mandarin Chinese? Who knows. :)
but as of yet we have not let her. I found several 
, some a spinoff of when 
. For now, that will appease her interest. I found these for me: 
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
(I've been reading extensively on eating to the low glycemic index so this was a great find for me!)
them and froze for future eating. It's so nice to stock up food I've grown for when we might need it in the fall, like when I run out of money before I run out of month! lol
by Rick Riordan also 
by Rick Riordan
by Rick Riordan as well as 
by Rick Riordan
by Rick Riordan
by Cleo Coyle
and 
by Hailey Lind
by Elizabeth Lynn Casey
by Heather Webber
by Lorna Barrett
by Sheila Connolly 
by Elizabeth George
by Gail Blanke
by Susan Wise Bauer
(Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series)
(Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series)
(Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series)
and 
(Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series)
(read to see if its something for my child.)
(Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series)
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. I picked up a few books at a garage sale: 
(by Charles Dickens) and 
(by H.G. Wells.) I've reordered Ken Follet's 
that I didn't get to and I'm thinking of rereading Bodie Thoene's 
I read oh so many years ago. Wonderful thought provoking Christian Historical fiction about the Holocaust and WW1. I see they have a newer series, 
. Might have to read that as well. Also on my shelf: 
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