Product Description
Sample
Like Omnibus III, Omnibus VI covers modern U.S. and British history. But like Omnibus IV and V it studies more difficult texts, incorporates the growing rhetorical nature of the student, and engages them at a more mature, higher academic level. Teaching with the emphasis on ideas, not simply information.
The text includes two separate but compatible courses, the Primary books course and the Secondary books course. Primary books tend to be closely tied to the time period and include more primary source materials. Secondary books are, at times, lighter reading. Primary is scheduled for five days per week. Secondary for three days per week.
This book includes a daily schedule and will make teaching and interacting with the greatest works of Western Civilization both enjoyable and profitable. Students will also apply and further develop their skills in composition, logic, and aesthetics. Students completing all six years of Omnibus will have carefully studied every book of the Bible, too.
The student text assigns the readings for the Primary and Secondary books each day. We have gathered these books into discounted kits. The Primary reading covers books that the student will interact with most. Papers, tests, field trips, etc. will generally be more geared to the Primary books. Secondary reading is not necessarily less important, but it is given less emphasis.
Related Products:
Omnibus V: Student Text – Second Edition
monaffe (verified owner) –
This book has been a fantastic resource for my daughter who has a love of literature, the Bible, and medieval times. The workload is high, with a lot of required reading. However, the depth of knowledge that is being learned is unmatched by any other curriculum we have used. I have found it very user friendly as a parent, to map out a year’s worth of learning on the calendar. My daughter uses it in a self directed learning approach. While it would be beneficial to work through it with other students, that hasn’t been an option for our situation. Her feedback on the course is that it is very thought provoking, and asks questions that are not quickly answered. She appreciates that it does not shy away from literature that contains thoughts or writings that wouldn’t line up with a Biblical worldview. Rather, it promotes the idea of sorting through these issues from a Biblical perspective, and learning to think for yourself.
On a very practical side, we have been able to find many of the required reading books through the local and interlibrary system in Alberta. We purchased any we couldn’t borrow, or didn’t already own, but the library made this curriculum choice feel more affordable. (And on that note, the local library was actually quite willing to buy the books that I needed!)