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Core 300 2015

2015 Core 300 Packages:

NOTE: 2015 edition released 4/1/15

  • Core 300 (300-00)
  • 20th Century World History (#320-MD)
  • Instructor's Guide 320 (#320-IG) = Parent Guide *plus* Student Guide
    • History 320 Parent Guide (#320-PG)
    • History 320 Student Guide (#320-SG)
  • 20th Century Literature (#330-MD)
  • Instructor's Guide 330 (#330-IG) = Parent Guide *plus* Student Guide
    • Literature 330 Parent Guide (#330-PG)
    • Literature 330 Student Guide (#330-SG)
  • 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.
  • STUDENT GUIDE MAPS are NOT reproducible.
  • Tabs for 300 and 3" Binder

2015 Edition Changes:

  • Cover design
  • First They Killed My Father - replaces To Destroy You is No Loss

2015 Core 300 IG Errors:

  • Week 25, Day 3 - The Bible reading is 2 Samuel-1 Kings 1. There is no chapter 25 in 2 Samuel. This will be updated for the next print run. (2.27.15)

Book defects, backorders, edition changes, etc.:

  • To Destroy You is No Loss removed - replaced with First They Killed My Father (#320-24)
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (item #330-58) ... new book edition as of 4/25/15
  • Visual History of the Modern World (item #320-27) ... a new edition with new cover has been released. The new title is The History of the Modern World. Just as soon as we have sold the last of the old edition, we will replace with the new. No change to the IG as the page numbers didn't change. (4.6.15)

Our Century in Pictures is out-of-print. It was replaced with National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century, but that book also went out-of-print shortly after we started carrying it. Per Pavica, we will not be replacing it for this school year or the '15-'16 school year. We may find another book in the fall of 2015 to add in for 2016. For now, only the Visual History book is included. -KC 12/16/14.

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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