Help with long-term planning using SCM

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  • April 13, 2011 at 4:02 am
    chemambk
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    I am planning to switch to SCM history modules in the fall and we will begin with Module 1 because this is where we are in our chronological study.  I have a concern and don’t know the best way to plan.  I am planning primarily for my daughter who will be in 7th grade in the fall.  She will have time to go through all 6 modules in her 6 remaining years.  My concern, in doing this in 6 years, is for my son who will be in the 4 th grade.  If he stays on the same cycle, then he would be doing ancients in 10th-12th.  This cannot happen because of state requirements. 

    I really want to make these modules work because I have 6 schoolaged children and desperately need to keep them together in the same time period.  Can someone tell me how to plan for this so that I can keep them together, but also meet requirements?  I really don’t want to combine modules, but I’m concerned that I will have no other choice.  I really appreciate any insight.

    Thanks so much,

    Holli

    April 13, 2011 at 8:36 pm
    chemambk
    Member

    Can anyone give me any suggestions for this?  Has anyone combined modules in order to cover the history or ran into this issue with any of your children mainly studying ancients throughout high school?

    Thank you!

    April 13, 2011 at 9:01 pm
    Bookworm
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    What state are you in?  What are the requirements exactly? 

    April 13, 2011 at 9:49 pm
    chemambk
    Member

    We’re in NC.  It looks like requirements would be 3 credits in Gov/Econ, World Studies and US History.  I’m guessing that all of this would be met, but am concerned that I am taking 3 of his highschool yrs in ancients.  Maybe this shouldn’t be a concern, but I need someone to speak in regards to that.  Thank you!

    April 13, 2011 at 10:32 pm
    Bookworm
    Participant

    Hmm.  I have no idea what “World Studies” is.  Do you have guidance?  I guess I should confess my undergrad degree is in “Global Studies”  and I don’t really know what that was, either.  Laughing

    I don’t think you have an issue.  You’ll just have covered American  history in 8th and 9th grades.  Give a credit for that.  Study ancients as per the schedule, add in a study of Government and Economics sometime during 10th-12th.  Your older kids will be ready for some additional work at this time anyway.  Cover the vital world  history with them, toss in some geography and current events covering the world, and give a credit in World Studies consisting of ancient history, geography and current events. 

    I myself spend a little less time on ancients–two years to cover what the SCM modules cover in three, and then I take more time with a year in the Middle Ages, one in Renaissance/Early Modern, and then two years on post-American Revolution to present.  BUT I don’t rely exclusively on the guides and don’t have as many children following as you do, so you may find tinkering more difficult–I’ve been tinkering for years and years now.  Laughing

    Remember that you don’t have to give a credit just for something happening in one year.  I do my transcripts by subject, not by year, since many of the things I am giving credit for extend past one year.  Do it this way and you likely will have no issues. 

     

    April 13, 2011 at 10:41 pm
    chemambk
    Member

    Thank you so much for your help!!

    I would like to ask you another question in regards to what you mentioned about spending 2 yrs. in ancients.  Are you using the SCM guides to study those years?  If so, what have you done/omitted/changed in order to go through the 3 yrs. in 2?

    April 14, 2011 at 12:18 am
    Bookworm
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    Well, I do have a Module 1 guide, but I just set up my own time frame using the books I like, whether from SCM or other places.  I cover Old Testament and Egypt one year, and move on to Greece and Rome the next, then go right on to Middle Ages.  I have guide difficulties.  🙂  I love how SCM guides are set up, but I have certain books I like to use and already own, and it’d be dumb at this point to get rid of them and buy new ones, since I’d been doing this already for a bit when SCM started coming out with the guides.   Some of the books are the same as in the SCM guides, and some aren’t, so I just keep winging it.  🙂 I just take the books I want to cover, and set up a schedule like is recommended in the wonderful Planning Your CM Education here at SCM. 

    April 14, 2011 at 4:52 am
    Sue
    Participant

    Hi, Holli:

    I just took a look at HSLDA’s legal analysis of your state’s homeschool laws as well as Article 39, Chapter 115C of North Carolina’s General Statutes (I know, I have too much time on my hands….or I’m just an insomniac!), and I don’t see any specific requirements for which portions of history have to be covered in grades 10-12.  In fact, HSLDA’s analysis states that there are no “required” subjects, just that there must be standardized testing administered annually for grammar, reading, spelling, and mathematics.  Are you basing these history requirements on what is expected to be taught in NC public high schools?  It would be worth looking into further.

    If what I’ve concluded regarding subject requirements is correct, then Bookworm is right, and I would just list the subjects and credits on your child’s transcript, not the grade level at which they were studied.

    Sue

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