Progeny Press - Crew Review

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For this review, we received pdf digital downloads of the Little Women Study Guide with answer key, as well as the Animal Farm Study Guide with answer key from Progeny Press. These interactive study guides are written for grade levels 9-12. With the interactive files, students have the capability of entering their answers directly on the computer and saving their work in progress. The interactive file does not automatically grade the student’s work, teacher’s still grade their work right from the computer and can leave comments or notes within the file. You may also print off the study guide, purchase of the study guide entitles an individual teacher to reproduce pages for use in the classroom or homeschool. Multiple teachers may not reproduce pages from the same study guide. I usually purchase the booklets for my girls, so I printed out the study guide as we worked through the chapters.

Like all Progeny Press study guides, the Little Women Study Guide and Animal Farm Study Guide include:

·         A concise synopsis of the book.

·         Information about the author.

·         Background information pertinent to the story.

·         Suggestions for pre-reading activities.

·         Vocabulary exercises for each section of reading.

·         Literary analysis and terminology questions designed to give students a good understanding of writing technique and how to use it.

·         Critical analysis questions designed to help students consider and analyze the intellectual, moral, and spiritual issues in the literature and weigh them with reference to Scripture.

·         A complete answer key and suggestions for further reading.

Below is a picture of one vocabulary lesson.

Below is a picture of some questions within a lesson.

Below is a picture of some spiritual questions within a lesson.

Below is a picture of some optional activities within a lesson.

As you can see from the images above, these lessons coordinate with chapters 5-9. Our family reads one chapter each day, and then we complete one section each day, as we thoroughly study of each piece of literature. Here is a glimpse of our 4-day lesson plan:

Week 3 Day 1 – Read Chapter 5

Week 3 Day 2 – Read Chapter 6

Week 3 Day 3 – Read Chapter 7

Week 3 Day 4 – Read Chapter 8

Week 4 Day 1 – Read Chapter 9

Week 4 Day 2 – Complete Vocabulary

Week 4 Day 3 – Complete Questions

Week 4 Day 4 – Complete Dig Deeper

Little Women is a timeless tale of the four young March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy – who grow to maturity in their mother’s tender but strong and loving care. As different in personality as they are unified in their devotion to each other, the girls vow to support their beloved mother by behaving their best while Father is away serving in the American Civil War. Literary-minded tomboy Jo develops a fast friendship with the boy next door, and pretty Meg, the eldest, finds true love. Affectionate but frail Beth fills the house with music, and little Amy, the youngest, seeks beauty with all the longing of an artist’s soul. Although poor in material wealth, the family possesses an abundance of love, friendship, and imaginative gifts that have captivated readers for 150 years.

Animal Farm is about a farm that is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. The stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism, just as terrible.

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