Should I use Mod. 2 Handbook?

Even though I ended up adding and changing my history portion to The Story of Greece and the Famous Men of Greece, I still use the guide to help me with the Bible and the geography part…like Rebekahy said, it makes the Bible manageable for lessons. So if you want the Bible portion already figured out for you, it is worth the money to get it.

The additional book list is helpful, but you can do that part on your own.  In fact, when I drew up my plans for The Story of Greece, I added in those SCM books.  I even scheduled out a couple of the older ones.  The smaller ones I added to my additional reading list to do when I felt like it with in the time frame it falls. Since I have the ones I have collected in physical books, plus the YC collection, some might be replaced by another selection.  The problem I have is weeding out books – they are all so good.  That was why I listed everything I have in my plans – when we are there in the actual lesson, it will help me choose a book that is based on something my kids are expressing interest in. 

I wanted to do history more than one time a week too, so I figured M and W are Bible days, T and TH are History and F is geography – and if I can find a video from the library about the country we will watch it instead of the Holy Land geography book during the time we are on that country. If we finish one before the other, we’ll just add those extra lessons to our days. I decided not to stress too much about the number of lessons since many of the MacGregor ones are short and easily doubled up.  Sometimes I double up on the Bible if they are short enough (I added a few things to that, too).