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Scheduling books to coincide with history guide
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Question in brief: How do I schedule books to correspond with the lesson that uses it in a history guide? For example, how would I schedule Stories of America to be read when the child gets to a particular lesson in a history guide resource?
I am trying to put at least a term’s worth of resources in the organizer but I want them to come at the right time.
My “work around” has been to schedule the resource (the history guide) over and over again choosing 1 lesson at a time and then scheduling the corresponding living books to go with that particular lesson. But this is VERY time consuming and in the drop down my choices will be umpteen different options of the same resource but nothing to distinguish which lesson of that resource it is.
I am sure someone has already done this with the SCM guides or some other guide so I thought I would ask instead of plowing away like this.
Thanks for your help!
The books are already scheduled in the lessons. Did you not want to follow that guide?
What I have done is scheduled the books ine the appropriate area – history, geography, and Bible for a Saturday. BUT I schedule the guide for daily in history (although other people schedule it as Teacher Resource). As we go through the lessons and read the books, I locate that book under the “Not scheduled for today” tab, open the the resource (book), and mark the lesson (Chapters, etc) as either worked on or finished.
Or are you adding other books in, too?
I am sorry for being so dull. Do you mean that you schedule all of the books for a particular Saturday?
Also, my older child might be using the guide independently and I have it as one of his resources.
I wonder if I am making any sense?
By the way, there are no subjects not scheduled for today yet. None of my assignments are dated. They just come after or with whatever they go with.
Maybe that’s my problem? I was trying to keep it flexible.
Oh, I just saw the last question you asked me. Yes, I am adding other books. Actually I am using a different guide but including SCM books.
And it might be helpful to know that we will do about 2-4 “lessons”/week in the guide, so knowing the start date will be hard.
Or can I just put in any start date as long as I date them in order matching the dates for the resources that go together?
You cannot schedule a book to be read on a certain date – a day like Friday or Saturday, yes; but not a date like Read chapter 3 on Friday Oct. 11th. The Organizer doesn’t do specific dates, just days. That is what makes it so easy to use in a CM education. You miss a day for some reason and you don’t have to erase all your planning notes to correct your plans – it adjusts them for you. With that said:
I schedule the guide as daily.
I schedule the books on Saturday simply to make it easier on myself if we miss a day. (And we have – to illness, unexpected out-of-town appointments, etc.) That way I am not scrambling around in the guide to do our lessons – I just do the next one.
So, in order to do that without a bunch of books popping up on my daily to-do-list, I scheduled the books to be read on Saturday.
HOWEVER, since I am doing the guide daily, I am actually reading the books during the week as scheduled in the guide.
When I marking our assignments worked on or finished, I call up the “not scheduled for today” tab, locate the book(s) read that day, and mark it finished.
On my report, it prints the days we sctually did things, not the day I scheduled it, so your reports come out fine and accurately reporting your completed schedule.
If you are worried that what I do won’t work, you can just add them to your daily list and close them the day you aren’t reading them. The downside to that was that I had to pre-read the lesson to know what books we were doing that day. Also, I printed the lists for my children and if we weren’t doing the books, that was a lot of wasted ink. 😉
Did that make any sense?
ETA – Just saw your other posts, so let me read those and perhaps I can reply to them. 😉
Oops. Looks like I was posting while you were responding. I think I am understanding. Are ALL your books listed?
I was planning to print out the schedule as a week at a glance as someone suggested in another post and I want the books and the guide (TruthQuest) to show up for the child who is working independently.
With my work around the books are started with or started after the particular lesson. Otherwise each Saturday would show a list of many books, some “spines” of which only some chapters are read at a time and not necessarily in order right. I think that’s what would happen, at least.
Sorry, I wasn’t more specific at the outset. I was trying to concise.
IMO, I think that you are making it harder by trying to match individual chapters with additional books in the O. 😉
Honestly, to schedule in extra books like you are doing…
I find it MUCH easier to simply write the corresponding chapters/books by the lessons in the main guide I am following.
Then I still do my Saturday thing to make it easier on me.
If you do that, your son can still do it independently and you don’t have to try to match the lessons in the Organizer. (It will let you get to bed sometime tonight somewhat sane, anyway! LOL)
OK, I think the fog is clearing.
What you are saying is to go ahead and list all the resources, reordering the chapters in the scheduler if necessary. The child will follow the printed guide to let him know which books to read, when.
But when I print the week at a glance since Dad checks his work, Dad will see a bunch of resources undone, right? (I’m printing before the work is done.)
Maybe I should wait til Monday to try to figure this out. Usually I am not so software illiterate….
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