proudmamma Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Okay, we're talking history here :) If you had a child that had 6 years left of school, and they previously hadn't been through a complete history cycle...more of a unit study approach with a lot of "holes", what do you think would be a better approach? Choice A: 7th SL Core 6 8th Sl Core 7 9th Ancient 10th Medieval 11th Early American 12th Modern Or... Choice B: 7th Ancient 8th Medieval 9th American 10th Modern 11th Ancient 12th Medieval Do you think it would be better to use 7th and 8th to do a world history overview and then delve deeply in the highschool years? That way seems good so they can see the "big picture" first to understand the overall flow and then go year by year deeper. Then again, are they really learning that much if they go that fast...would it be better to go ahead and delve deep right from the start without the big picture overview. I am making this way harder than I should, but I just cannot make a decision on this!!! Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amtmcm Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I like your option A. We used the SL Alt 7 booklist last year along with LFBC World History and it was great! I'm very happy my DD got a solid intro to World History, and now she's doing US History this year. We'll start over with Ancient History next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Choice C :D Are you planning to add in some in-depth American history to the mix in either of these? If not, I might consider doing the following: Sonlight Alt 7 (one year world history overview, since you will be going back to this later), Sonlight Core 100 American history in-depth Then follow those with: Ancient Medieval Early Modern (with some special emphasis on American history) Modern (with some special emphasis on American history) Logic stage (as I understand it, we are just starting 4th) is about making the connections between things, with the rhetoric stage for delving deeper, so I would use 7th and 8th grade for the overview. Of the two you've outlined, though, I would pick choice A and do a lot of American history in the second rotation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibaker103 Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Just to add a little spice to the mix...you could do Trism's History Makers over a 2 year period and then finish out your schedule A more indepth. It is world history ancients to current day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyAberlin Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I would do Sonlight Core 100 Then Trisms 5 yr History program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proudmamma Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 Awesome ideas...please keep them coming!! :bigear: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 What KarenNC said. You want to survey through world and american to bring together all the pieces they have from the prior years. It might not be as bad as you think. :) Then start into a full cycle, allowing that they might want to diverge as they develop particular interests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 If you're doing it the WTM way with period texts, then I'd go with A unless your student is seriously advanced. Those books for the ancients would be pretty hard core for a 7th grader. Ditto for the middle ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I like you Option B better. It gives you an American History to put on your high school transcript since most colleges require it. It also gives you Medieval in 12th grade which will go nicely with a British Lit class. I think an 11th grader will get more out of a an ancient history class than a 9th grader would - you would be able to go more in depth on the classical literature along with it. I think the more focused history classes are more enjoyable than trying to speed through it all in two years. We have always enjoyed our studies more when we were able to go deeper into them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proudmamma Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 Now Karen, you just had to go and say that you liked option B better didn't ya! lol... ;) See...I agree with ALL of you...that's the problem!! :confused: I need more opinions ladies and gentlemen. :lurk5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibaker103 Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 How about using option B making Ancient and Medieval middle school level by using Trisms History Makers or Beautiful Feet Jr. High Level. When you hit high school level do it ala TWTM or continue with Trisms using the high school program or BF at the Sr. level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanaTron Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Or you could start Option B, but leave 11th and 12th for government, economics, U.S. history, or any other special topics (like Chinese or Middle Eastern History). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peela Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I like option B too...my younger will get something like that (not with American though). I like the idea of going back to Ancient and Medieval in the last 2 years. I am terrible with programs like Sonlight- I want to tweak them too much to be worthwhile. I also change my mind frequently according to how well things are going, or whether I feel we need a change. And, Sonlight seems like a lot of books. I prefer to go more deeply into less books. The one thing I have stuck with the last 6 years (I started late too) was the 4 year history cycle and I am so glad I have even though it wont be 3 times through for us. I love the year long theme that extends to our literature as well. I just started at the beginning and each year we move on. It has worked well. But honestly? I don't think it matters that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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