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Multiple ages, how to work the high school plan?
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I will have a 10th grader, 8th, 6th, 4th, 2nd, K, and toddler at the table next year. (two graduated now…*whew*)
How do I schedule history when I have a high schooler coming in every two years? Somehow, if I simply use 1 SCM history guide each year, someone is going to miss American History, which they need for the transcript.
Has anyone done this? Can you help me see how to make this work?
I cant wait to see responses. I was wondering this also. I only have 3 children, but any way I work it out one is missing American History Credit. I was thinking of having them do two guides. Whatever one we are currently scheduled for plus the American. I would split up the readings and the credits, I think I could give a full American history, literature, and Bible credit if I split it up right.
I don’t use the SCM guides for history, but I use their book lists extensively. I don’t use the guides, in large part, because I study history in a four-year cycle (Ancients, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern). I supplement with some American Government when I have a high schooler in the mix. I find that the four-year cycle is good for using outside history resources, since many homeschool curriculum providers also follow a four-year cycle.
Thanks, Monica. I would consider this, but I want to use the guides as is, as the guides are what help me most (tired, old brain of mine 😛 ) and if I’m going to use the SCM guide, I’d like to keep us together as a group.
High school years go SO fast and my already graduated ones do so much on their own, I would really like to have at least one thing I can keep my high schoolers with us/me for these last few years.
Any SCM guide users have ideas?
This is why I like multiple strands of history going. This year we have American, British, and ancient history strands going. There are a few ways you could divide up the guides, deleting a few of the titles to condense it down to 4 years. You could do:
Year 1: Ancient Egypt and half of Early Modern
Year 2: Ancient Greece and finish Early Modern
Year 3: Ancient Rome and half of Modern Times
Year 4: Middle Ages and finish Modern Times
Holly I love that idea. My question is, do you have your younger ones doing the extra 1/2 guide as well or is that just added in to the high schoolers?
Im still years away from high school (oldest is 3rd grade) but I’ve been thinking about what it will look like in a few years as I add in more students, and the older ones become more independent.
This is part of the reason my children become completely independent for history (and almost all other subjects) in high school. They do their own program separate from the rest of us. I was sad about this at first. I now see the advantages to it. The responsibility it teaches, the ability to easily put on their transcript what needs to be there, them not having to wait for the rest of us to move on, and the freedom it gives me with the other children is great. Just another option to think about. Holly’s idea is great too.
We have used the SCM guides before and sometimes other guides and there are even years where I just make up our own plan. For high school my kids are allowed to jump off the family rotation to independently do studies they need or are interested in. Last year my high schooler chose to stay in the same time period with the rest of the family (middle ages-reformation). This coming year she is moving ahead to the Civil War – present day, with a heavy focus on the 20th century, while everyone else will move to early American history from about 1600 and working toward the civil war. With my high schooler: she and I do a lot of discussion and narration (written and oral) so she has someone to bounce ideas off of and I stay in the loop with her studies. Everyone else stays as a group.
My kids this year will be 11th, 7th, 6th, 4th, 3rd, 1st, K, PreK, PreK, and I’ll be having baby #10 this winter.
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