combing history lessons

I agreer w/Kayla. I’m trying to condense a bit myself. Egypt and Greece have Bible scheduled 3 days per week. Rome has Bible 2 days. The rest of the guides have Bible scheduled 1 day per week (w/Geo on that day…but that could easily be tacked onto another day of the week). 

So, for the following guides I’m assuming you want to complete, if you have a 36 week school year and did something separate for Bible, you’d gain the following days per guide:

Greece: 108

Rome: 72

MA/Ren/Ref: 36

Early Modern: 36

Modern: 36

That’s 288 days of history you’d gain if you did all the guides and did something else for Bible. How much time are you wanting to spend on American? If it were me, I’d probably evaluate how much of the other eras I wanted to cover and maybe just read the spine selections for those if I needed to make up more days. Or maybe assign some of the readers as summer reading. Hope that was all clear! It is in my brain, but not sure if I relayed it well:) Blessings, Gina

P.S. I’m still trying to decide, but since Bible/Geo is only scheduled once per week in Modules 4-6 I think I’ll use them as written, but add the Bible/Geo to another day of the week so we’re only taking 4 days a week to complete 5 days of work. 

I just want to mention that the Bible in modules 1-3 is historical and integral to the time period being studied. Remove it and you lose a significant chunk of the HISTORY study. Part of the beauty of these three modules is how they weave the Biblical account into the secular history. It is all history.

Personally, having gone through all 6 time periods (using modules 2-6 the first time) and starting over with module 1 this year, I would be more apt to switch out Bible in modules 4-6 for something else than I would for modules 1-3.

Each person needs to figure what’s best, of course, but I simply wanted to convey that the Bible isn’t just tacked on and separate, but rather part of the historical record to be studied.

Just my 2 cents,

Christie