Catholic Homeschool Support

I am all about saving money and usually buy used syllabi and books for school. I was unable to find a used syllabus for 10th grade religion this year for Mother of Divine Grace. So, I picked up a copy at the Atlanta homeschool conference.

I was in for quite a pleasant surprise – the new syllabus has an Assignment Overviews section. I just received a new copy of the 10th grade Ancient History, and I”m so pleased with this new section. For each paper assignment, there is nearly a half a page describing the method and content for the assignment.  The first assignment is a Summary of the Life of Daniel. There is an explanation of what a summary is – that there should be a theme to the summary and that what is included should bear out the theme (of course this is a very brief explanation). In the Content section, there is a explanation of what Daniel shows us so it’s like a very mini set of Cliff notes.

These notes are so helpful for parents who are trying to help their students and well worth the additional cost of buy new syllabi. You can always call Emmanuel Books. Their helpful staff is very familiar with Mother of Divine Grace and will be happy to see if the new syllabi have this section (not all have been updated and I’m not sure if all the grade levels have these kind of notes).

One further note is the the Henle 1A and 1B were extensively revised last year to include great fill in the blank charts to help students cement verb conjugation and noun  declension. I was happy to have updated these  syllabi last year.

And, since I mentioned Emmanuel Books, I thought I would publicly praise them for their awesome customer support. I placed an order just before Easter this year for a gift that I was going to give my priest. Somehow, I ended up sending it to the wrong address. They tracked my package down and had it redirected to the correct address so that I received it in time for Easter. Thank you for helping to correct my blunder.

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