Mid-Year Comprehensive Review: Oak Meadow 8-Civics

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4 ай бұрын

✨ A comprehensive mid-year walkthrough and review of ‪@OakMeadowLearning‬ Civics course in grade 8. How we adapted it so far, additional insights on the possibilities of using this course as a high school credit, and more!
*This level was sent to me in exchange for my honest review, but as previously stated, we are long term users of #oakmeadow resources (since grade 1). My opinions are always my own.
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@Arleneandcompany 4 ай бұрын

What questions do you have ?

@tracylynn8101 4 ай бұрын

This will definitely be on my radar for the near future. Thanks for such a great resource review. I can’t wait for your video on how you do the main lesson blocks tying ELA with social studies and science. From watching your previous videos this approach is really speaking to how I’d like to structure 4th grade.

@Arleneandcompany 4 ай бұрын

I have a main lesson block planning video loading as we speak ☺️

@tracylynn8101 4 ай бұрын

@@Arleneandcompany - perfect timing!

@hiveonlinepresencemanageme3163 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for yet another amazing, comprehensive video. Your videos are just spot on and so incredibly helpful!

@Arleneandcompany 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ♥️♥️

@LeahHung125 4 ай бұрын

As ever a brilliant walk through. This is on my list for 8th grade as CA standards have us doing US history and I think it will help a lot. I like blending but it’s good to have a framework.

@Arleneandcompany 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! And yes, definitely a great blend with US history or to follow it right after.

@ddchomeschool 4 ай бұрын

You’re so right about how hard it is to find a :secular: civics course!!!

@Arleneandcompany 4 ай бұрын

So hard! It’s the same with health for middle school. Tons from faith based materials, but secular…crickets! Found an old textbook for that some time back. Glad OM has the high school course and we used their elementary one too. But there’s definitely certain subjects that secular brands miss completely.

@fab5bailey369 4 ай бұрын

This is the review I have been longing for. I love this course but wanted to use it for high school and you answered my question. Thank you so much for this update and looking forward to the block schedule video.

@Arleneandcompany 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure, glad it was helpful! I just uploaded a main lesson block video that leads into some of the concepts of my block scheduling. If you want to check it out ☺️

@fab5bailey369 4 ай бұрын

@@Arleneandcompany Yay!!!

@dariusmannino6235 4 ай бұрын

I have been eagerly anticipating doing this course for years. It looks so wonderful. My kiddo will finally be old enough next year. Thank you for this video! On a side note, this year or next, I’m hoping you do IEW 1C. There aren’t many reviews of the high school level. I also hope you review OM high school courses in the years ahead. Thanks for all you do!

@Arleneandcompany 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure, thank you for watching. I have a couple OM high school courses already up. But yes, I will be reviewing a lot more from OM high school in the coming months. For IEW, there’s a free trial , you can print , I believe 3 weeks worth of lessons to test out. The link in in my linktree in the description box. I find with IEW, the best way to really tell if it’s for you, is to try it. I did review 1A, over on IG. Same format.

@dariusmannino6235 4 ай бұрын

@@Arleneandcompany Thank you!

@tracylynn8101 4 ай бұрын

Have you ever looked into Writing & Rhetoric? If you haven’t used it but investigated it I’d love to know why you chose other writing sources (Journeys, My Perspective, Brave Writer and Oak Meadow) instead.

@Arleneandcompany 4 ай бұрын

For WR it’s not something we would use, since it’s faith based and we stick to strictly secular. I do know a lot of families like it. With writing, I want things not to get dull and I adjust for the season we are in. Each of the above has a specific strength and we used it when we needed that approach. Younger years with Brave Writer and later IEW for learning specific mechanics . The textbook curricula wasn’t mainly used for that purpose but it was included. OM is our main spine and has always been in the mix since we are Waldorf inspired and the approach connects with us. But in the elementary years, they needed added support.

@tracylynn8101 4 ай бұрын

@@Arleneandcompany - thanks! I haven’t used W&R yet so I didn’t know it was faith based. Good to know!

@johannagrossman2758 4 ай бұрын

Do you think this could be used for a 6th grader?

@Arleneandcompany 4 ай бұрын

Honestly, I wouldn’t . This is a very dense and rich course. Several levels of complexity and higher level of expectations (and content as well to think about). Even if you adjust it down, several concepts are difficult for an 8th grader and for your typical younger child, several lessons can go above their heads. There’s activities that could definitely work with a younger child, but overall, the level of complexity is evident in this course. If you use it only at a surface level to accommodate for a younger child, you really not receiving all the benefits of this course. From our personal experience and sitting with it for a while , this is easily a high school course. I know of others that have completed this course and agree with this assessment. This to us is done with added support in 8th and with more independence as a high schooler. Of course, you know your child best, but that’s my honest assessment and recommendation on it.