Ladies!!!
You are SUCH researchers. Women after my own heart! I wondered how long it would be before you started finding the resources in the store! The actual descriptions and packages are coming soon on the website, but the items are already in the store.
We are VERY excited about the resources that will be used in the new guide. Our web designer is working SO hard to get all parts of it just right before we launch the new product on the web for pre-order.
As far as the language arts goes, for our newest guide we will be listing a choice of Rod and Staff English 4 or 5. We will also be including dictation passages for Level 3, 4, and 5 in the Appendix. Drawn into the Heart of Reading will be in the schedule 3 days a week, (with the choice left to you as to what order to do the units).
We will include guided written narration practice with the history stories, oral narration practice with Storytime and Geography, and reading of poetry from poet Robert Frost. Storytime will be your choice of 3 options: History Interest, Boy Interest, or Girl Interest. A guided literature question list will be provided in the Appendix for you to choose a few questions for discussion during the Storytime sessions.
For creative writing, we have changed our mind to use Write with the Best Vol. I, instead of Story Starters (which we had planned to include before this). We have found Write with the Best Vol. I will do a better job of preparing kiddos incrementally for upper level writing requirements, and also use classic literature passages as models (which we really like).
This, of course, changes our future writing recommendations.
So at this point, in order to be prepared for high school level essay writing, we are upping our writing requirements in the middle school years. We are tentatively thinking of the following sequence for writing: Write with the Best Vol. I, then Igniting Your Writing Vol. II (doing intermediate lessons one year and advanced the next year), and last using The Elegant Essay by IEW in the final middle school guide. I mention this sequence for any of you who are seeking to fulfill writing requirements that will prepare your middle schooler for high school level writing.
Blessings,
Carrie
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But we're just so excited!