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Core 300 2012

2012 Core 300 Packages

  • Core 300 (300-00)
  • Core 300 IG package (#300-05) = Parent Guide *plus* Student Guide
  • Core 300 Parent Guide (#300-01) = Duplicate of Student Guide *plus* answers in Study Guides and additional lit. notes
  • Core 300 Student Guide (#300-02) = Duplicate of Parent Guide *without* answers in Study Guides. Includes blank maps for geography assignments. Consumable. Not Reproducible.
  • REPURCHASE DISCOUNT = on Parent Guide only.
  • LOVE TO LEARN GUARANTEE = on both Parent Guide and Student Guide and on Core IG set.
  • CLASSIC CLUB MEMBERSHIP = on Parent Guide, on Student Guide, on Core IG set.
  • Tabs for 300 and 3" Binder

3-Week IG Sample:

Core 300 IG 2012 3-Week Parent Sample
Core 300 IG 2012 3-Week Student Sample

2012 Core 300 IG Errors:

Book defects, backorders, edition changes, etc.:

  • The Road From Home - Week 2, Day 5 schedules chapters 10-11. It should schedule chapters 10-12. (9.28.12)
  • God Spoke Tibetan - the reading assignments do not match up with the questions found in the notes. Day 2 the student reads chapters 3-4, but the questions are for chapters 3-5. On Day 3 the student reads chapters 5-7, but the questions are for chapters 6-8. This will be corrected for next year. (9.28.12)
  • Visual History of the Modern World - there is a new edition being released by the publisher but we are *NOT* carrying it. Our vendor did a print run for us so we have stock of the current edition. (9.19.12)
  • How to Ruin Your Life by 40 - Beginning May 2012 we will sell a new edition of this title. Author has completely re-written the book and re-titled it How to Ruin Your Life by 30. An updated schedule is available on the Curriculum Updates page. (5.7.12)

Events & Trends, understanding the big picture

There is a "Prime Events and Trends" in the notes for The Visual History of the Modern World in the History Study Guide section of your Instructor's Guide. That will give you a point of reference for the decade summaries.

In regards to seeing the big picture, it is a little more challenging at the beginning of the year to understand how events connected. What you might do is have your daughter set up a chart or spreadsheet showing trends or significant events across the decades in various themes: political, science, entertainment, etc. For example, the invention of radio led to television which changed how people spent their leisure time. You might also get some good input from other families who are using Core 300 this year on our Upper Level Cores forum at: https://www.sonlight-forums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=79.

Labor's Untold Story 07.13.10

There are a number of pages for this title not scheduled in our guide. This is intentional, as the book is used to line up roughly with the timeline in the guide, so pages that do not line up with the timeline of Core 300 are not scheduled.

Purpose of history in Core 300

  • forum discussion with a variety of suggestions on identifying the purpose of history in core 300, how to focus it, how to not feel like it is disconnected trivia

Amy's suggestions for using the Core 300 IG

Core 300 book choices

Why no 1984 or Animal Farm?

Assigning Credit for Highschool

Literary Analysis

where is it, when was it added

Describe LA 300 - 400

Focus and purpose

Great Gatsby

no preface

Questionable Content

encourage parents to pre-read

Events and Trends Outline

decade by decade

No Notes in Study Guides?

Some books have no notes, why?

User opinions on Core 300

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