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Anyone combine Ancient Greece and Rome?
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What grades would you be doing this with? I have not done this, so please take what I say with a grain of salt, but i’m thinking that if you’re doing both Greece and Rome, you should be able to spend about 18wks. on each. Heather, (i’m sorry I can’t think of her user name) posted how she schedules doing Egypt, Greece and Rome in one year, so maybe you could use a variation of her schedule.
I will have one in 2nd, one in 4th and one in 7th. I’m wondering if I do half a year on each how I go about deciding which books or chapters to not cover? I may need to just do ancient Greece next year. It’s just that I noticed in Greenleaf’s history module (6 year plan) they combine it but don’t give any information on how.
Actually, I think since those are perhaps the years with the least amount of books to read they could all be done, if your kids are avid readers, if not i’d pick a couple for each term and have them read just those. Here’s what i’m thinking, do all of the family reads for Greece and Rome and then just pick a couple of books for independent reading for the 4th and 7th grader.
I’m the Heather Des was speaking about.
Here is the post I made about doing modules 1-3 in one year.We do a 4 year history rotation, so doing modules 1-3 is year 1 (Ancient History) for us. Module 1 is fairly light on books, and module 2 and 3 aren’t overly heavy, in my opinion. We school year round and I’m sure we get more like 42 weeks of school in opposed to the average of 36, so that helps spread the books out. I don’t follow the SCM study guides exactly for these modules. We will be able to read all of the Module 1 History selections in 6 weeks or so and then do Module 2 over about 18 weeks and then the remaining 18 weeks on Module 3. For Bible we will spend the first 24 weeks reading from the Old Testament (on our own schedule) and my oldest will do the two independent SCM Bible studies over the whole school year. During Module 3 we will read the Gospels and Acts three days/week and do the Foundations in Romans study as a family two days/week. We will do all of the geography studies and just spread them out evenly. Does that make sense?
My kids are voracious readers, so I simply plug all of the books that I want to cover into the CM organizer and let them go. They have never gotten behind; I actually end up adding in a few extra selections from the Truthquest guides to keep them satisfied.
I REALLY feel like this is doable with these three modules. I WOULD NOT attempt to do this with any other modules, as they have more books and historical material to cover.
Blessings,
Heather
Thought I should mention that my two oldest kids will be 13 (ninth grade) and 9 (fourth grade) when we are doing the above modules.
Heather
I don’t do this, but I had an idea about knowing what to leave out. If I did this, I would try to include and leave out the same type of info about each segment. For example, studying how both cultures farmed the land and organized their governments but using less info on their art or architecture (or whatever you felt would be the most important and least important info). That way they can compare and contrast, emphasize what they have already learned, and make conections between the groups.
That was very helpful, thank you. Heather, do you end up reading all the books on the SCM guide for those modules or do you do the family reads with a few of the extra books? Also, with combining those modules do you still use the SCM guide books and are they very helpful?
bkack–i’m not Heather, but (and I hope it doesn’t bother her) I can answer this question, I think, lol. I think for this time period and because she’s combining she does not use the SCM guide books, but uses the TQ guides for commentary and extra books. I think that it depends on your kids for if you should try to read all of the books or not, I think that if they are voracious readers then it’s possible to read them all, but if they are slow readers, I would do the family read alouds and then pick a couple of books from Greek and Rome for independent reading for each child’s grade level. HTH
Des is right. I won’t use the SCM guides to layout my weekly schedule, but I do own them and will follow the book order that is in them and use them for project ideas and end of term exams. Every family will have to decide how many books and which books to use. My kids REALLY like to read and will get through all of the recommended books and then some. If they weren’t such avid readers, then I would do the family books and pick and choose the ones I thought they would like best.
Hope this helps
Heather
It helps 🙂 So I think what I decided is to just have all three of mine on different history years. I only started homeschooling a little over a year ago and so part of my dilema is that I want my oldest (in 6th grade right now) to get all the history in before she graduates (and she will have to attend a private school, using Abeka, her 8th grade year, so she really only has 5 more years to get it all in). My oldest is a very strong reader. My younger two are not yet. So I’m combining Greece and Rome with my oldest (for next year) and my then 4th grader will do a year of Ancient Greece and my then 2nd grader will do a year of Ancient Egypt. I’m hoping this will work out ok. I will also have our 4th child being born the end of July…it is going to be a busy year! I have thought about combining my younger two but the youngest has not learned anything about ancient egypt yet and my middle one has. From your advice and experience I do think my oldest will be able to handle the reading without any problems.
Here is the post I made about doing modules 1-3 in one year.
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