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Easiest way to combine history modules
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This year we will complete our first full rotation through the 6 history modules. Thinking through next year (my school age kids will be 7th, 5th and 1st), I am highly considering combining the first 4 modules into 2, like some here have done. For those of you who have done this, how exactly do you go about doing that? Do you keep all the readings and have to complete them in half the time? Or do you eliminate some readings? What is the easiest way? I have thoroughly enjoyed the past 2 years getting into American History, and I can’t imagine letting it go for another 4 years.
Thanks!
I think most combine the first three guides, if they combine them. Then they do the remaining three as-is, giving them a four year cycle. Some take out the Bible portion, since they are covering Bible elsewhere and just complete the history and geography portions. However, I love the combination of Biblical and Egyptian history in the first guide! It gave them a better understanding of Joseph and Moses’ struggles and the culture around them. I’d want to include these readings somehow, even if just through a children’s Bible at a faster pace.
We did the first guide, then I switched to Mystery of History, hoping to move a bit quicker. In the end we spent 2 years on MOH 1, giving us a total of 3 years on the ancients…Looking back we should have stuck with the guides! LOL
The next time around I’m hoping to combing the first three guides more successfully. We’ll be using Famous Men of Greece and FM of Rome, since they are a bit shorter than the Guerber books. We’ll also cut back on some of the independent readings. Still not sure what we’ll use for the Bible portion. We are in Early Modern Times, so I have awhile to figure it out!
Holly when I look at the first three modules I see some days are Bible and others are history, would it be reasonable to do Bible and history on the same day, at least for family time and exclude some of the student reading if necessary. For example I see in Module 1 there is one day of history/geography, 1 day of history and 3 Bible days. If we combined Bible with history day one; Bible, history, geography day two; Bible alone day 3 then move on to the next week, would that makes sense? It may take just over a school year to do the first two modules, it does look like lots of catch days are planned so maybe it would work. I have a hard time skipping lessons so it may drive me nuts trying to cram it all, hate to cram…..
The Bible readings are pretty long. It would be quite a bit to read at once. If I did something like that, I’d want to use a story Bible to shorten the readings a bit. <i> </i>
I would like to add, we did SCM Ancient Egypt last year. This year we are combining SCM Ancient Greece & Ancient Rome. We spent the first part of the year on Ancient Greece and the last part we on doing Ancient Rome. I have done this by doubling up on Bible. We do a Bible reading during our school day (one lessons worth) and then do an additional Bible lesson’s reading in the evening. We already had a Bible reading at night so we just covered more ground by continuing it at our nightly reading. This allowed us to move through faster. We also didn’t do any of the Create Your Own Map in the Visits to series. I agree that the Bible readings are often lengthy and would be hard to do in one sitting. We have thoroughly enjoyed both of these time periods and all the resources that were recommended. I just wasn’t to give up the Bible readings and I didn’t want to give up the weekly geography study and wonderful living books. I hope this gives you some ideas. Combining is great and may be needed at times. I must say though, I prefer to just do one time period a year so we are really able to delve more deeply into whatever interests us as we learn. That is one thing we haven’t had time to do this past year. I am looking forward to the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation being our only period of study next year 🙂
Regan
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