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Feeling VERY overwhelmed
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Wings2fly, I went back & was rereading you post. Your idea for other options like audio books or videos, were you saying that maybe we could do this to get caught up in their history & call it good? Not sure I worded that right or how I’m thinking it in my head. Yes, they DO need more hours, I think, just because of those days we couldn’t do the history.
Yes, that is what I am saying one option is. How Should We Then Live is also available in video for 5 hours, available on DVD or Amazon Prime streaming. I’m not exactly sure what you could substitute for Bennett’s America books. Has he finished reading vol. 2 yet? You would need to find a resource to cover those time periods, in video or audio format. But you have options here, too. You don’t have to continue the same books next year, but that’s an option. Your coursework is American History/World History. So Drive Thru History videos could work as an overview/summary as a substitute for some books. Buy on DVD or watch free streaming at iTBN website or roku channel. This is to get them caught up and learn the course subject material, earning their credit without it seeming so schoolish, because breaks are important too. And from your posts, it sounds like you are stressed out and in need of a break. A field trip to a history museum should count too. When does your new school year start?
Would you consider having your 9th and 12th grader doing the same SCM history module together next year? Really the 6th grader could join in, too. They were written to be used as a family. Discussions could arise between them on topics they are studying in common.
I usually start near the end of August or have even waited until after Labor Day. I prefer to start in August.
The reason I haven’t combined them is because at the beginning of last year my oldest, 12th grade at the time, only needed modern U.S. & world history as he had covered the first half with another curriculum in his 11th grade. My then 11th grader needed to have American History so that’s why we started him with the Early American & world history module. Also, I need & they are used to being independent in their school work.
It messes my thinking all up to start my coming 9th grader in the last history module. Its all out of wack. Oh, and that is what he just studied THIS year with MFW…. I’m used to the history cycle of Ancients, Middle ages (or World history), Early American, & Modern. OR Geography, World History, American History, & Government/Economics. In that order – 9th, 10, 11, & 12th.
And I don’t know how to get 6 modules done in 4 years of high school for my soon to be 9th grader, IF I were to use SCM.
I really appreciate you thinking through this with/for me. I AM stressed. It seems the whole school year is one big stress for me more or less. I’m more of an introvert I think. The interaction can wear me out physically, & emotionally.
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