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Teaching CM history in a co-op setting
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Hi,
I’m teaching history for a homeschool co-op and I would love to use CM approach. Does anyone have any suggestions on how it could be taught in an hour classroom setting rather than five days a week? I was thinking of teaching 2 lessons each week and having the children read the appropriate books at home during the week.
You might be able to choose your time period and a main living book for it. During class times you could read from that main book, have the children narrate, work on a Book of Centuries/timeline, and do related geography studies. Then assign another book for that time period to be read at home. Depending on the ages of the children, you could require written narrations to be turned in during the following class time, or ask parents to listen to oral narrations during the week. And/or you could ask narration questions about that book as part of the class time the next week.
That’s one idea.
Thank you so much for your help! Do you mean that they would have the main book in class, another book about the time period and a living book at home or just the living book at home?
You could go either way, really. Let’s say you have the main book for class time, then Book A and Book B that you want them to read at home. You could do something like
Monday – class book
Tuesday – Book A reading
Wednesday – Book B reading
Thursday – class book
Friday – Book A reading
or you could assign only readings from Book A until that book was done, then start assigning readings from Book B, depending on how long each book is, of course.
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