TOS review: Easy Classical

I received a digital copy of Easy Classical's Early Modern History Schedule for review.  I was given the copy of  Early Modern Times: Explorers to 1820.  Easy Classical is a company that provides resources to teachers and parents who are teaching their children through the classical method.  This particular schedule is geared toward elementary age students. 

When I first heard the term "history schedule" I was wondering what that meant.  Well, it's literally a schedule telling you what to do each day with your child in history.  It is designed to complement the information given in Susan Wise Bauer's book "The Well Trained Mind: a Guide to Classical Education at Home." It is also meant to complement their main schedules, however, you can easily use the history schedule on its own. 
The schedule is based on a 35 week school year and is broken down into 5 sections meant to be used in the order the schedule is written.  The five sections are Explorers, Thirteen Colonies, Colonial America, Road to Independence, and Revolution.

There is a list of resources you will need at the beginning of the book.  Each weekly lesson ends with a list of supplies you will need for the following week.  There are several books I imagine you would want to purchase to go with this schedule.  Their website has a page with links to purchase most of these resources.  Other resources (such as the historical fiction suggestions) would most likely be available through your local library.

Each week starts off with what looks like a fair amount of reading on Monday.  As I do not own the resources recommended I can't tell how much reading is actually required but there seems to be at least 4-10 chapters to read in several books.  Then as the week progresses, there is a writing assignment (you will need their writing resource to do the writing project), geography lessons, a project (usually using one of the History Pockets books mentioned on this page) a read aloud book and a test on Fridays.  Also, each week has a list of questions (with the answers for the teacher) to discuss with the children.

Now, as I do not have the resources listed and we do not use a classical approach in our schooling, I wasn't able to actually implement this schedule.  However, looking it over, the schedule looks pretty easy to navigate and use.  There are a lot of things to do during the week but it is mentioned that you do not need to do everything suggested.  I would recommend going through the week and choosing what would work for your family. You can take a look at the samples pages here. 

You can purchase their history schedule in two forms.  The 3-ring binder form is $39.95 while the instant downloadable PDF file is only $29.95.
Go here to see what my fellow crewmates had to say about Easy Classical.

( I was given a copy of the Early Modern Times history schedule for free in exchange for my honest opinion.  No other compensation was received.)

(As of posting this morning, the Easy Classical website was down.  I will check the links again this afternoon to ensure they are working.)