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This thread has me thinking now about this program. I can't seem to find much by googling about it (I was hoping someone out there in the blogosphere had a post all about  ).
Anyways, I thought I'd come back here and ask those of you that have used it if you could give a good picture of it.
From what I gathered from the website, it uses real books and there is a big animal project. My specific questions are, is there some sort of an assignment every day? reading assignments? are there writing assignments or lab write-up type assignments? are there questions to be answered? are those in the syllabus? did you use all the supplementary books listed or just the required?
I'm not familiar at all with MODG, so that may be the source of some of my "lostness" because I just don't know what to expect in their syllabus.
Thanks to anyone who holds my hand on this one 
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I have another question about this...
Does it matter if you are not Catholic? Can you use this as a protestant without it feeling foreign?
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I was wondering if I should use this myself this year for my 10th grade daughter. I ended up calling Emmanuel Books just to see if I could take a look at the syllabus (which isn't allowed), but spoke to the owner of Emmanuel. She was VERY helpful, and in the end, I decided to go with the Natural History. It does sound very hands on, with real books, observing and drawing. MODG syllabi have daily assignments, and will include tests and writing assignments, as well. I have not seen that syllabus yet, however. I'm just basing my opinions on my experiences. If you still have doubts or questions, I'd suggest you call Emmanuel. She was so very helpful and even excited about the text (we discussed other science options). I hope this helps. As for whether it would be usable for a non-Catholic, I'm almost positive it would be.
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I have decided on this for my 10th grader this coming year. No, none of the books are "Catholic" so I don't think that a non-Catholic would feel odd. God's creation is a book that ALL mankind can read and wonder at, yes?
My issue is more that the books are geared towards the eastern USA, so I am having to supplement heavily with Southwestern flora and fauna books.
I haven't received my order with the syllabus yet, so I can't comment on that. Feel free to keep in touch with me over the year. :-)
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Kacky, I meant to come back to this but forgot. I have the syllabus if you want to ask more specific questions. Yes, its a 3-4 day a week syllabus with specific assignments. Basically, the Fabre and King Solomon's Ring books are scheduled with questions (in the syllabus) to answer each day for the first part of year. Then there is a big chunk where the students read in a nature journal and then do drawings. There is also a 12 week observation/research project. My ds did beta fish. Biggest downside is that there isn't an answer key for the questions in those first books. That means you have to read each chapter to find the answers and grade your child's work. Time consuming. The rest of the course wasn't that time consuming to keep with, from a mom perspective.
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Thanks ladies for your help.
We've decided to stick to the Kolbe bio plans.
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We used the MODG Natural History this past year for our oldest. We were enrolled with MODG and had a Teacher Assistant for the course. While it was "fun", it was so light you could really hardly consider it high school level, imho. Ds found the workload to be incredibly light (and this dc will complain easily if he feels he is being overburdened  ). If you decide to use the syllabus, you may wish to "beef it up" a bit, so to speak.
BTW - ds did the wild bird feeder project. He ended up with an A for the course.
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What is the copyright date on the latest edition of the Natural History Syllabus? Has it been updated at any time?
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