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I love Carrie's take on history. As I look at other curriculums I too have found many subjects like mythology, false religions, etc. that I don't want to introduce at this young age.

I'm trying to learn all I can about homeschooling and I'm just curious what style you'd say HOD is. (I looked on the home page and didn't see anything...But it's late and I may have missed it.)

Thanks!

I would say Charlotte Mason...

http://www.heartofdakota.com/educational-philosophy.php

Hope this helps a bit.

I'm up late too, time to go to bed!

Candice

I agree! The best Charlotte Mason curriculum for Christians.
Dorla

I see the short lessons, narration but I'm not seeing living books. The history in BLHFG looks texbook based.

We're doing Bigger and it's definitely what I would consider living books-the style of the book is in a story, narrative format. I wasn't sure...the Eggleston books struck me as text-bookish before I had them in my hand. I think I thought that just because they are old... kwim?

justme,

Warning: Soapbox is out, and I am on it!

I only have a moment here, but I'll pop in to tell you that from a Charlotte Mason perspective the history books we use in our guides are all living. They are books written by single authors passionate about their subject material (many are reprinted from an older time). They are told in narrative or story form and only use facts in the context of telling the story. They use the words to paint pictures in the mind rather than using the eye-candy type photos to tell the story.

We also use each book in a CM style read slowly over time to savor and internalize the content. Each of the books in our curriculum (except for the science textbooks used in LHFHG and Beyond) show up on every Charlotte Mason list there is! This includes Cindy's Rushton's reading lists, Penny Gardner's, Catherine Levinson's, and the Ambleside Online advisory's. So, you don't even have to take my word for it that they're living!

It took me quite awhile to figure out what a living book actually is, as so many curriculums like to drop that phrase to describe their own books. But, from studying Charlotte Mason extensively and using CM methods exclusively with my oldest son for years, I can tell you that it is rare to find a curriculum that truly uses living books in a CM-style. Either the book chosen is not truly living, or it is consumed in such a quick fashion that is not in CM-style, or there are so many books scheduled to be read that no one book can be savored in the CM-fashion.

Hope that helps!

Blessings,
Carrie

Carrie,

Thanks so much for sharing this. It was a huge help!

Blessings,
justme

Would you consider the educational style of HOD to be solely Charlotte Mason then?

Thanks so much!

justme

justme,

I'm going to point you to a couple of past threads that will help with this question:
viewtopic.php?t=171

viewtopic.php?t=718

viewtopic.php?t=229

viewtopic.php?t=719

viewtopic.php?t=113

If you're not a researcher and find this list overwhelming, then just read the first couple of threads!

Blessings,
Carrie

Thanks Carrie. These were great and really clarified it for me.

Blessings,
justme