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- This is our 1 st year with scm. I have an 8th grade son, 4th grade daughter, a6 year son old and 4 year old daughter. We have done AO with my 8th grader before, but we kinda bounced around a lot because I never put 100% in. Well now I’m ready. The problem I’m having is where to place them. I thought it would be good to do family history, but should I start in the beginning with genesis through deuteronomy, or some place else? My son will not get through the 6 year rotation by 12th grade, and my daughter will not go through it twice. And then I’ll have the same situation with the younger children too if I wait for my daughter to be 6 before we start school. What would you do, or what have you done in my situation?
I’d start with whatever history you want to study this year, and just go on chronologically from there…..if you’re really concerned about getting it all in before the oldest graduates, just double up and go through some historical periods faster than the teacher guides dictate.
Last year, I combined Modules 1, 2, and 3 – (Ancients, Rome, Egypt, all that craziness) and did my own thing. I used the All Through the Ages book (it’s a book of booklists!!) to get book-ideas, I pulled books from the Resource Lists of SCM’s Modules 1, 2, and 3, and from other places. Then I figured out in which order we’d use the books and just worked down the list. If I felt like we were not where I wanted us to be, I skipped a book or two……or used a DVD (Drive Thru History – free on itbn.org) to cover something a bit quicker. We also added in books on things we were enjoying.
I was really excited that I designed our history curriculum. (And it really wasn’t as hard or stressful as I imagined it would be.)
At our house, we’re working on a 4-year rotation of history…..so that’s why I combined SCM’s 1st 3 years of history. I used Story of the World last time through the Ancients, but didn’t want to use it again, so that’s why I did my own thing. And I will combine the Ancients the next time we cycle through, too.
But you can combine and condense any time period you want……Or you can focus and extend any time period you want. 🙂
Agreeing with Karen. You can start in any level and go at whichever pace you choose. We did Gen.-Deut. then switched to MOH 1, and are now going through Middle Ages, Ren., Ref & Epistles. After that, we’ll most likely go through the last two modules (Early Modern & Modern). From there, we’ll start over at the beginning.
If you want to start at the beginning, Gen-Deut. would be a good choice. If your DC are interested in American history, you could start with Early Modern. If they want to cover Middle Ages, you could start there.
If you choose to shorten the history cycle (so that your 8th grader goes through it before graduating), just make sure you aren’t scheduling too many books. When we get back to Ancients, I plan on spending one term for each of the 3 history modules…that will be scheduling 36 weeks of lesson plans into 12 weeks for each module. So we’ll have to cut out quite a bit of it. I’ll probably cut out many of the Bible readings, since we read through those as part of our daily Bible readings. That will give us a 4 year history cycle.
You all are saints, I worry that I’m not that organized. Thanks for the resonses. I’m sure I’m making it out to be harder than it can be. What is your suggestions on the littles? I was thinking of including them this year (6 and 4) but then I figured since I’ll have all of books for genesis through deuteronomy I can wait till the 6 yo is 8 and the 4 yo is 6.
I combined Modules 1 & 2 so we would get through it all in a 5-year rotation, but you could just spread out Modules 1, 2 & 3 over 2 years as well. We just wanted to spend more time on Ancient Rome than the other two.
I used the Simply Charlotte Mason Curriculum Guide and just used select books instead of everything they listed. I feel that both of my girls got a good overall grasp of ancient history.
I would start with Rome. It would mean your 8th grader does mods 3-6 to finish up and gets all the American history. And the same thing for the 4th grader.
I bought everything for genesis through deuteronomy already so I think I’ll start there. I was hoping to combine ALL my kiddos but I don’t think that is reasonable if I want them all to graduate “on time.” Or at least have my now 4th grade some how line up with the two little ones. But at some point the years will be off and someone will have to double up, and I’ll most likely just have to teach two different history cycles in a year. Thank everyone, hopefully I’ll figure it out.
In my house, I’m just letting the littles tag along. Where they end up, they end up! So, if they finish in 12th gtade with the Ancients, no big deal…….Of course, by the time they get to high school, I could change my mind. But it really doesn’t matter, unless your state requires certain subjects in certain grades.
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