New here and some questions

Hi, Donna, and welcome! Wow, you have been at homeschooling a long time. What an encouragement to all of us that God is faithful and continues to give grace and strength for each day! Personally, I’m encouraged to read of your perseverance with your oldest child. My youngest is 10yo and operating on about a 4 or 5 year old level due to autism and developmental delays. Thank you for a faithful example to recall on those days when it seems like we’re taking two steps backward.

I’m interested in buying the Ancient History family guide and I noticed

a second one that covers through Ancient Greece. Am I correct on this?

2. Will there be future guides to continue through history?

Yes, currently we have family study guides for the first two modules of history/geography/Bible in our SCM Curriculum Guide. The plan is to write one each year, so Matthew through Acts and Ancient Rome is scheduled for release in spring 2009, Lord willing. In the meantime you can still see the books we recommend for each time period.

3. Do unit studies work well with CM?

Charlotte didn’t recommend extensive unit studies, in which the author contrives to somehow relate every school subject to the selected theme. She did encourage us to coordinate history, geography, and literature and sometimes poetry of the time period being studied when possible. But she wanted the children to make the mental connections themselves whenever possible (thus, her phrasing that “Education is the science of relations” [relationships or connections]). She encouraged studying history chronologically also.

So all that to say, if the unit study material you have simply helps coordinate history and literature and maybe another subject or two without trying to force them together, you could probably use the suggestions in a CM way and be fine.