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Tagged: our mother tongue, scheduling grammar

This topic has 4 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 13 years, 8 months ago by Misty.

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September 11, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Sue
Participant
We are using Our Mother Tongue for my 8th grader this year. If you have used this, how did you schedule it? (How often and how many units covered in a year?)
I saw a schedule for Analytical Grammar on SCM’s Curriculum Guide, and it is spread out over 8th, 9th, and 10th grades. However, the units are not exactly in the same order in Our Mother Tongue. So, I’m wondering how to break it up and how often to schedule it, i.e., daily? twice a week? three times?
If you’ve used it and could tell me how your schedule worked, I’d appreciate it.
September 11, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Bookworm
Participant
Sue, I simply scheduled it twice per week and we just worked on it about twenty minutes each time. It took us about a year and a half to do the book in this way. We didn’t schedule a certain amount per day, but just worked what seemed a reasonable time. My children had little difficulty in this; we often did what we could orally and I often only requested half the exercises. Someone who had had less grammar than they had might have to take longer, I don’t know. I’d already taught some things as we’d already begun Latin.
September 11, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Rachel White
Participant
There’s a schedule at Ambleside Online for using it over a two year period.
Rachel
September 11, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Sue
Participant
I looked at AO briefly, and although they mention splitting it up over two years on the Year 7 and Year 8 Booklists, the actual weekly schedule shows all 49 lessons covered during Year 7 and the same for Year 8.
I just went ahead and scheduled it twice a week, lessons 1-15 during September and October, then a break, and lessons 16-27 during January, February, and March. I think I will save lessons 28-49 for next year. There are fewer lessons for next year, but the material covered gets more complicated, so I think that will work out.
Thanks your input, ladies.
September 12, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Misty
Participant
We are using it this year also and I just have my son do what he can in 20 minutes. If he gets stuck he comes to me for help. When he finishes he finishes be it this year or next. I’m not to worried. I feel its more imporant that he understands it than finishes in a certain number of weeks.