How long does CW Aesop & Homer for Older Beginners take each day?

[dragons in the flower bed]

I'm trying to plot out our daily schedule and need to know about how much time I can expect it to take each day.

[Beth in Central TX]

I can give you what we do each day for Homer A this year. CW recommends 2 sessions a day with 30-45 minutes each. I don't do the separate session, but I do plan for an hour each day. The first day doesn't take that long usually because we are just reading aloud, narrating, and doing some upfront analyzing. Days 2, 3, & 4 generally take the full hour, and occasionally, then some. Day 5, if there is one, is set aside to write the final draft of their project. That shouldn't take the full hour, but sometimes it does (pencil phobia in conjunction with lack of focus syndrome). Next year for Homer B, I think I will bump up our time to 1-1/2 hours a day.

 

I've never seen the CW program for older students, but my guess is that you will spend less time working through the Aesop portion, and your time will increase as you work through the Homer portion. You'll start out at probably 45 minutes a day and end at around 1-1/2 hrs a day. You could set your schedule for an hour now, and then adjust later in the year if you need to.

 

This is just my experience and conjecture. Hopefully, someone who has used or is using the CW older student workbooks will chime in.

[Pam in MA]

I would say we spend an average of 1 1/2 hours a day. We also do both sessions in one time block, in fact, I've found that alot of the Analysis exercises serve as a great warm up for the actual writing. We usually do CW four days a week. Boy, my girls love the 6 step sentence shuffle! We're going to do CW Poetry for six weeks when we finish Homer A, which looks like great fun.