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Creating a 4 Year History Cycle with SCM
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We stumbled onto CM’s ideas later in our homeschool journey from a classical model. My children’s history has been a 4 year cycle (MOH) for the majority of our home schooling, but the more I look at SCM, the more I fall in love with it. My trouble being, my oldest is graduating this year and my next is a rising 9th grader. I’m wondering if there are ideas on how to use the 4 year cycle approach with SCM for the late-bloomers like me?
I should add that my youngest son has very significant special developmental and health needs, which is why SCM is drawing me in. The idea of having our plans mapped out for me, to save me mental energy and stress, is huge! I pieced together my oldest’s program and while he did wonderful, my youngest’s health has deteriorated which leaves me needing more hand holding than ever.
Oh Momma,
Please don’t push to get the 6 year cycle into 4 years. Your cup is so full as is. I fear you may set yourself up for more frustration trying to rush through or combine while also dealing with your son’s health struggles. If you started your son’s 9th grade year with Rome or Middle Ages and move forward from there, he will have a wonderful education. We always feel the need to do it all don’t we? You don’t have to though.
We should be starting back at the ancients this year, which is partially why I’m tempted to make it work. So that we move from ancients through modern again. I’ve been tempted to just start with ancient greece/rome and skip Egypt…
The thing about the SCM guides is that they take you through the entire Bible in that six year cycle. Trying to combine them would work if you are ready for a lot of reading. But if you want it simple and are dealing with special need challenges, that would be a lot of work.
I don’t do a 6 year cycle, because I prefer a four year cycle, too. But, the one year we followed the SCM guide was really great and it truly was simple. In your situation, I think it would be easiest to just read a few great living books on the Ancients over the summer and start with Rome and the SCM guides. But don’t feel pressured to “do it all.” It takes a lot of the joy of learning and teaching away.
That’s a great idea to get the ancients in without making it a task list. My super power is over complicating things! <3
If you did Ancient Greece and Rome WITHOUT the Bible studies, you could do them in one year by focusing on one half the year, then do Middle Ages the next year for 10th, Early American for 11th and Modern History for 12th. That gets you through everything except Egypt, which you could read in the summer.
What sheraz said is basically what I am going to attempt to do with my upcoming highschoolers. We’re going to try to get through a modified version of the Ancient Egypt guide in the next few months, and then move through the rest after that. Probably combining Greece and Rome next year.
Sheraz & Kerij – What will you do for Bible? There is so much ancient history in the Bible, I would hate to see that skipped. They really are not separate topics, but one and the same. I have come to realize that more and more through the years.
We wouldn’t skip it. Just do it separately. Right now all of the children and youth departments at our church are working systematically through Genesis-Deuteronomy. We also do Bible time with Dad most days of the week and have covered quite a bit. I would probably use something like Taking the Old Testament Challenge for older kids to do on their own.
We don’t skip the history/scripture. We have been keeping our century chart since they were little, so connections are easy to make. In addition to daily personal/family devotions, my children have Bible classes each morning before public school starts once they hit high school. As much as I love the gospel, at one point I figured out the time spent on daily Bible study in one form or another was 2 1/2 hours with my teenagers and realized that they were struggling to get other things done. It seemed a bit like overkill at that point.
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