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history module questions…sonya can you help?
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I have been thinking through what we are doing History-wise and would like very much to start SCM Module 1 next year for History. I presently have a 7th grade DD, a 3rd grade DS and a K DD. I have two toddler boys who aren’t really paying much attention, YET anyway. This year we decided to use TruthQuest American History II, 1800-1865, which we are enjoying greatly,as American History is a hit around here. I want to go back and start with Ancients, since we haven’t done any of that at all, and I LOVE the idea of including all the Bible work and geography that the SCM module has. But if I start Mod 1 next year, I won’t have enough time to get through it all before my DD finishes high school. I have 5 years to work with and 6 possible modules. Any thoughts?
I did look into Beautiful Feet’s Ancient History, but honestly, I think I like the look of SCM better. Can anyone make any suggestions, or provide some insight? Should I try to speed up what I am doing now, so as to begin sooner? Is it possible to condense two modules and squish them together? How is the Beautiful Study Guide? Any other suggestions?
thanks so much, friends!
in Him,
Amy
We were running into a similar issue with our crew. After reading a comment on the Truthquest yahoo group, this is what we decided to do.
Our history time will consist of Middle Ages-Present. We will be using the Truthquest guides for these. 1 guide per year would be 5 years (we’re having to go a bit faster than that but for you that would be the right amount of time).
We then put our study of Ancients into our Bible time. We will be using the SCM guides for these. So this year we are doing the SCM Ancient Egypt/Genesis-Deut guide. We will be doing this over 4-5 years also (1 each for the Egypt, Greece, Rome guides and then 1-2 years to go thru the rest of the New Testament on our own). Our Bible time then consists of history, theology, geography and scripture memory. So far it is working really well. Our kids are getting a much better picture of the Bible and how it relates to everything else-talk about greater understanding!
-Rebecca
I posted a similar question earlier today and I have a 3rd grader and an 8th grader. I think I understand Rebecca’s advice but could you clarify, is bible time using truthquest? I”m unfamiliiar with truthquest. And are you only using part of the modual one part of the day and then adding an additioanal History lesson with bible, etc?
-Wendy
I use the SCM guides for the Ancients and Bible (Egypt, Greece, Rome). We do everything in the guide during our Bible time (unless there is extra reading for my older kids then they do that during their independent time). For us, Bible time is before breakfast.
We use Truthquest (TQ) for History time but only use the Middle Ages thru Present guides. Personally I love TQ for these time periods but prefer the SCM for Ancients. Our history time is after lunch (same rule for extra reading for my olders). Since the MA-present doesn’t line up with an actual Bible time period, we do those separately.
If you wanted to stick with SCM guides, you could do the same but just use the SCM Middle Ages-present guides for history. Amy just mentioned TQ guides so I included those since that’s what I use also.
Does that make better sense?
I’m going to give it a try. We will finish Volume 3 of the Story of the World and then transition into TQ and SCM. Very helpful and timely. Thanks so much.
Any other feedback is welcome!
Rebecca, that idea sounds great! I wonder if I could use SCM mod 1 as a Bible course and Middle Ages SCM as History? Sonya, what are your thoughts on that?
Also, has anyone else ever seen or used Queen Homeschool Supply’s “Learning History Through Living Books” series? I am wondering about THeras and His Town and its study guide for Greece, A Triumph for Flavius and its study guide for Rome, and the book From Egypt to Canaan and its study guide. Anyone ever seen or hear anything about these?
Thanks in advance. Also. Can I ask you sweet ladies about Science? We bought God’s Design series from Answers in Genesis. The kids insisted that they wanted to do it; they looked at the sample pages and really wanted to do the Chemistry course. Having given it a shot, we are not thrilled. It’s dry, we feel, and it’s over the head for my 3rd grader and boring to my 7th grader. My K stopped listening after the first lesson. However, my husband feels since it wasn’t cheap and we have not a penny to spare, we need to make the kids finish it. Thoughts?
in Him,
Amy
Amy – any chance on selling the Chemistry Course? Then you would get some of the money back, and wouldn’t have to finish it?
Selling would be one idea. Maybe look into how much you could sell it for and if it would be enough to recoup some of the cost.
If not, could you change it up some? Maybe add in living books from the library to different parts or skim the reading and do the experiments or use it as an outline to tell you what subjects to cover and use other books (from the library or friends) to actually cover it or ??? We’ve never actually use that curriculum so I can’t give specifics but it seems there should be some way to change it around to make it work for you.
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