Please talk me through the History Rotations

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  • February 20, 2011 at 6:36 pm
    Dawn
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    My oldest child will be doing 3rd grade work next year.  This year we are working through SCM’s Ancient Egypt Module 1 study.  As I was looking at planning for next year though I realized if we continue on a 6 year rotation he will not get to Module 5 & 6 in High School when he should be studying more in depth.  However, if I switch to a 5 year rotation and combine Greece and Rome he will get to it all twice and have 12th grade for I don’t know what. (or I could switch to a 6 year rotation after we completed this 5 year one) 

    I don’t even know how to go about doing this.  Suggestions?  Resources?

     

    February 25, 2011 at 4:49 pm
    Dawn
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    Any tips on combining the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome study?  Is this too much? 

    I got the suggestion from someone else of doing New Testament Greece and Rome from Veritas Press, but that would mean we skip Joshua through Malachi.

    Has anyone else done a 5 year rotation instead of 6?

    February 25, 2011 at 7:03 pm
    Sonya Shafer
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    It seems like it would be a lot to cover to get through Joshua through Acts in one year. Possible, yes, but you wouldn’t have a lot of time to ponder. A couple of ideas come to mind:

    1. You could do both the history and Bible lessons each day, doubling up. Module 2 has Ancient Greece one day a week and Bible three days a week. So you could do, for example, the Greece reading and one Bible reading on one day, then the other two Bible readings the next day. Doubling up like that should allow you to finish in half the time and you could spend the other half of the year doubling up the Rome study. Again, you would get through the material, but I don’t know how enjoyable it would be at that pace.

    2. You could separate your Bible from your History. Cover Bible history at your own pace as a separate subject and then spend the year covering Ancient Greece and Rome for your History subject, which is quite doable. This option would give you more freedom to go through Bible at a more leisurely pace without trying to keep it lined up with world history. Obviously, that’s not how we have things outlined on the curriculum guide, but it is an idea. 

    February 28, 2011 at 5:59 pm
    Dawn
    Participant

    Thank you Sonya.  I think you are right.  The best thing to do would be to seperate Bible from History for this year.

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