HIstory Frustrations

After deciding to use CM History module 3 (Matt-Acts & Ancient Rome) this year and ordering most of the books, my oldest comes to me yesterday and says “Mom, when are we going to learn about the World Wars?”  This is the child whom I’ve been asking for months what he’d like to learn about this year with no answer, just a grumble about not wanting to talk about school.  So, I had decided to pick up where we’d left off with the SCM modules, because I was having difficultly piecing together my own plan for Canadian/World history.  I tried it last year and only got about a third of the way through because I didn’t have a clear plan mapped out, and my out-side the house work schedule was often pre-empting our school work.  I figured it would be easier to go back to what we’d been doing with at least a certain amount of consistency.

Now I don’t know what to think.  Maybe I should continue with my plan for mod 3, and set him some independent study work (he’s headed for grade nine), but I really don’t want to add too much to his coarse load and this year we really need to focus on written narration as we’ve been really struggling with that.  I don’t have the time or energy to organize two separate study tracks, one for each of my children.

SO, now I am torn between whether or not to continue with Mod 3 plans, or go back to trying to sort out a plan for Canadian/World history.  I do want to capitalize on the fact that he’s interested in a certain topic — he doesn’t often get very excited about learning.