I am referring to the 7th grade English course in the Ron Paul Curriculum, as should be obvious when taken with my previous posts. In the 7th Grade English course this year I have done quite a bit, which I’ve recapped in my previous post, but this one is intended to review what I liked and disliked about the course, not recap it.
With regards to the video lessons, they were fine, they conveyed quite a bit of information about the authors of different books, and about the lesson material, especially in the first lessons that talked about analyzing literature, and near the end when teaching the different forms of poetry. However, none of them were more than six minutes long, with the shortest being less than two, the average being two and a half minutes. For these shorter ones, and the ones that only talked about vocabulary words, I don’t think they needed to be video lessons, I think that they could’ve been purely reading assignments and bullet points with the vocab words defined, since that was all those lessons really did.
Speaking of the vocabulary words, I did like them, since many of them were ones that I had heard used but never learned myself, with a sizable quantity being words I had learned long ago, though some were new to me. My only complaint is the unevenness of them, with some lessons having one and others having eight, seemingly arbitrarily. I feel that they could’ve easily been regulated, thereby improving them.
I quite enjoyed the books and reading assignments in the lessons, especially since so many of them are famous stories, like Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island, Robin Hood, A Christmas Carol, Macbeth, and so many others. the only thing I found lacking was humor, but that’s to be expected in old classic stories like these.
Overall I really enjoyed the 7th Grade English course in the Ron Paul Homeschooling Curriculum, and truthfully recommend it to any one interested in homeschooling.
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