Need help planning history cycles

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  • June 18, 2023 at 4:40 pm
    CathR04
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    Hello!  This will be our first year using SCM.  My boys are 14 & 10.  I am leaning towards starting the history cycle with “Matthew Through Acts & Ancient Rome” from a Bible study viewpoint; I simply feel like my 14 year old needs a stronger foundation in the life of Christ.  This would allow him to have Early Modern & Modern History before graduation:

    • Ancient Rome: Liam 9th/Cullen 5th
    • Middle Ages: Liam 10th/Cullen 6th
    • Early Modern: Liam 11th/Cullen 7th
    • Modern: Liam 12th/Cullen 8th

    If I continue through the 6-year cycle, my youngest doesn’t get EM/Modern History in high school:

    • Ancient Egypt: Cullen 9th
    • Ancient Greece: Cullen 10th
    • Ancient Rome: Cullen 11th
    • Middle Ages: Cullen 12th

    The only way I can get it to work out, is if I start this coming year with Early Modern; however, my oldest would miss out on Ancient Rome and Middle Ages.

    If I do indeed start Ancient Rome this year, would I cycle back to Ancient Rome in 4 years for my youngest’s freshman year?

    I’m so confused.  😕  I would greatly appreciate any guidance/perspective from experienced SCM moms.

    June 18, 2023 at 10:23 pm
    Ruralmama
    Participant

    You can do lots of different things. What I may tenitively plan to do is skip Rome and Middle ages round 2 with Cullen and go right from Greece to Early modern then modern adding in a government study.

    June 19, 2023 at 11:35 am
    Karen Smith
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    You can count what was done in middle school on a transcript as long as it is high school level work. We divide the grade groups as 7th-9th and 10th-12th, so the work completed for either of those grade groups can count for high school. The last page of each history guide gives you the amount of credit you can award on a transcript for each of those grade groups.

    You could also require your younger student to read some of the 10th-12th grade books in 7th and/or 8th grade, if he is able. I would not add them to the 7th-8th grade books, but pick and choose from both groups for him.

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