Create your own lesson plans, lecture, and use hand-outs or assigned reading to reinforce them.
I would contact William J. Federer. . .more than brilliant. http://www.americanminute.com/
The following is an excerpt on his website today:
“Each year on JANUARY 16, we celebrate Religious Freedom Day in commemoration of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom,”
-wrote President George W. Bush in his 2003 Proclamation.
Saxon Math. There is none better. A student can teach himself without the intervention of a teacher, unlike with Public School and most private school texts. A homeschooling parent who is literate but did not do well in math can use Saxon with the kids and probably teach himself at the same time. The teacher is useful to keep the student engaged.
Instead, it was a case of Columbus succeeding in finding sponsors for his venture despite the fact that the (known) circumference of the earth was twice what Columbus claimed it was.
- The “Flat Earth theory” myth refuted:
- De mensura Orbis terrae
If you take a globe, and airbrush out the lands that the people of Europe and Asia knew nothing about, you will see that not only was Columbus’s voyage nominally suicidal, but the Great Circle route from Spain to China does not run due west from Spain. Not nearly.
Notgrass has an EXCELLENT American History program. It combines history, literature and geography to reinforce the content.
Jr. High American History
http://www.notgrass.com/notgrass/america-the-beautiful.html
I used ABeka for history.
Here's a list of books recommended by Seton Home Study through Grade 8: Elementary School Book List through Grade 8
And here's the Seton catalog: Seton Educational Media
Actually, the textbooks aren't as expensive as I remember. We've been using secondhand textbooks-whatever I could find. But the Seton books are worth looking into.
You could “supplement” the current textbook (use it as little as possible) with information from A Patriot’s History of the United States, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, Dinesh D’Souza’s books, etc. I use these in a class I am teaching at a co-op for homeschoolers. Also, Bob Jones Press has some good history material written from a conservative POV.
Contact the Mises Institute. They are very prompt with specific resource listings, or people to contact that will help you achieve your educational goals:
Mises Institue
518 West Magnolia Avenue
Auburn, Alabama 36832-4501
Web site: https://www.mises.org/
PHONE 334.321.2100 | FAX 334.321.2119
Email contact page: https://www.mises.org/contact
If you can, avoid textbooks. Get bios, historical fictions, atlases, first-hand accounts. We homeschooled K-10 (then college) and never wasted our money on textbooks. There are wonderful paperbacks on any number of things. Textbooks take a great deal of stuff, pablum it down into mini-packages, and paste it together. imho