Enjoying Module 3?

We did not enjoy Module 2 either. Module 3 is better. We did not use The Famous Men book as recommended, but subbed with Guerber’s Stories of the Romans. It was an improvement for sure. I just think Ancient Greece and Rome aren’t my time periods. Persevere. I honestly don’t think you’re going to find a different curriculum to make it more enjoyable. 😉

I’m using Mod 6 – the first time using any SCM history curriculum.  I’m considering using Mod. 1 next year, but I’m concerned that taking 3 years to get to the Renaissance is going to seem like FOREVER.  Is it that bad?  Is there a way to speed through Mod. 1-3 so that the 6 modules will fit into the typical 4year rotation?

I’m looking forward to reading others’ thoughts on these early modules.

You could combine Modules 1-3 into one year and either leave out the Bible portions (which I don’t recommend bc they are integral to history) or have a separate Bible time. However, I don’t think there is any magical rotation. 4 years is what classical trivium people do, but its rather arbitrary IMHO. In all of my schooling I NEVER went through all periods of history. In school we had 8th grade state history, 9th grade world geography (the most boring class in the history of mankind. I mean who needs to remember exports and GDP and other facts devoid of context.), 10th grade was economics and government (again textbook drivel), 11th grade was US history (made tolerable by a decent teacher, but still textbook boredom), 12th was world history (crammed in one year and utterly worthless).

At one point I stressed over how many times we would go through a history rotation. Should it be 2 or 3 or 4 or ??? Then I realized that no one on earth will ever know all there is to know and that even going through once would be more than I got in my school years. We’ve settled on using SCM’s 6-year rotation because it lets us linger as desired in a period. It isn’t rushed. It isn’t so crammed full that we can’t add other books of interest. It works for us.

Just my 2 cents.

Christie

The first three Modules are set up to keep the Bible history on the same time frame as the Ancient cultures it takes place in. That is why is seems like it takes so long.

I think that the newly revised editions are much, much better because they use a more interesting comprehensive spine to tie all the stories. I wouldn’t throw FMoG or FMoR out totally – when used with older kids in context with the recommended spine, you can really enjoy and learn from the Famous Men books. I think that the Romans would be more interesting in fact that there certainly are more written records and more geographical area of their civilization to draw from, which brings in other realities to deal with that aren’t necessarily mythological in nature.

I love history so have completely enjoyed all our studies so far! =)