How to Combine SCM and TQ?

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  • August 10, 2015 at 6:04 pm
    Sarah Himbaugh
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    Hi ladies! I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed with my planning and am really hoping someone can help.  This is our first year doing SCM history and we’re starting with Matt-Acts/Rome.  I also got the Truthquest guide to Rome because the idea of having history commentaries and discussion of the “Big 2 Questions” sounded really neat.  I was planning on just reading whatever commentary went with the SCM lesson but I’m having a hard time figuring out how to mesh it together.  I’m also wondering if it will just be too much/ over my kids heads? They are boys age 10, 7, and 4 and some of the commentaries are much longer than I expected. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

    August 12, 2015 at 10:12 am
    Aimee
    Participant

    I haven’t used SCM history but I have used Truth quest. I would just relax and follow the SCM guide adding in TQ only by using it for book suggestion at your children’s reading levels.  The commentary in that guide is written to 5th grade and up, so for younger kids you could read it ahead and share just the parts you feel are important or interesting to your children. I’m thinking just to look up (in TQ) the topic your on in the SCM guide share what you find interesting from the commentary and see if there are any books you’d like to get from the library for your children to browse. Make sense?

    Most of all relax and enjoy your history studies. If everyone is stressed and its no fun, it’s time to cut something out or change something. God Bless!

     

    August 12, 2015 at 11:38 am
    caedmyn
    Participant

    My 4th grader is using SOTW 4 for history this year, and I got the 3rd Truthquest American History for younger kids guide and just looked at the table of contents for both (I might have actually flipped to each commentary page for TQ…can’t remember if it was clear from the TOC which sections had commentary) and figured out which commentary sections would fit in with which SOTW chapters. I already had her go-along books scheduled so I am not using Truthquest for anything but the commentary (which is what I got it for anyway). I know the commentary in this guide would be over my 1st grader’s head…I imagine the commentary for the upper grade ones would be WAY over younger kids’ heads. Maybe you could read the commentary just to your 10 YO at the end of your history sessions? Or give the younger ones something to do like color while you read it.

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