Hi there! Just want to say thank you for sharing your heart. I can tell you’re coming from a place of just wanting to know and recognize ALL groups of people-not just one! And I LOVE that!! Even as a Caucasian family, I am with you in that I want to know the truth and I wanna know about all people! And I love that someone has come up with content that showcases all parts of history!! Praise the Lord! My family has mixed colors within and I love the diversity!! I’ve always been interested in ALL of God’s creation- not just one part! So I too may try out this curriculum so that my sons can know about all the people within history! Thank you so much, Morgan!
Thank you so much for sharing! I’m a Caucasian mother who adopted African American children and I’m always looking for addition resources to incorporate African American history. You opened a new door for us with this video to explore what I want my kids to learn. Again, thank you and may God bless your family and homeschool.
I am so glad you made this video. My kids and I are using the same exact curriculum America's Story 2 along side Our History- His Story Vol 1. We completed the first volume last year along with the readings recommended from Our History -His Story, it was a game changer. However, I have not been able to figure out a good balance of reading the books and reading the America's Story lessons simultaneously. My oldest does not love reading on her own much and enjoys me reading aloud. So, I am reading a lot all day long. How do you balance the reading, both the books and the lessons. Also, what's your opinion on the student worksheets that come in the teachers guide?
This year I purchased the audiobooks of AS2. It has been so helpful. We listen at meals, during art, or in the car. The chapters are about 15-20 minutes long. We listen 2 days per week (T, Th). On M, W, F, we read from the book list for Our History HIS- Story. We can usually get through one picture book a day where as the schedule may say to break them up into multiple days. My youngest (6) will do word searches, color, mazes, or do puzzles while we read. Often times that’s for about 20 minutes. Also finding some of the books as read alouds on RU-vid. We have found some pretty interesting one. (Not dry and boring)
@@LifeofTillmans Oh wow!! I did not realize that there were audio books. Yes, I have to check that out. That may be a life saver. Thank you for sharing your ideas. You have given me something to work with.
I agree, we need a multi cultural homeschool history resource! I'll be pretty excited when someone puts one together. Thanks for all the tips on how you weave things together. I'm trying my best to do that for learning about Australian history (where we live) this year and it's so good to see examples of how you're piecing things together. I love your timeline idea! Thanks for going to the effort of putting this video together.
I love history so much more now as an adult than I did when I was in school, I find it so much more interesting learning about history that relates to me and my family instead of just the world wars. I’m not sure about age-appropriate books on the topic, but there is a lot of black-native history that is so cool! I live in Canada so I learned nothing about black history in school and very little about native history, so I’m obsessing over it as an adult and learning so much about my family history in the process!
I got America's Story 1 this year too and didn't get the workbook. I actually got 180 Days of Social Studies Grade 5 and it lined up perfectly, then I got a timeline book to keep track of specific dates. I do a lot of living books as well to expand on things because I wanted it ALL and from many angles. One book I use along side it is, Howard Zinn, A Young People's History of the U.S. it doesn't fluff up the hard and terrible parts of history. I don't know why, but I don't like many of the workbooks from Mastbooks but the texts are good.
Thanks for sharing the 180 days books! I agree I’m not a fan of the worksheets by MB. I actually have the Howard Zinn book from last year’s curriculum. Definitely doesn’t hold back, but so good!
