diaperjoys Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Can these two programs work together? We're considering CC for next year, but my son is really, really enjoying his current VP self-paced history, so I'd like to continue that. Will the two programs conflict with each other, or would the timeline differences be minimal??? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joy at Home Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Can these two programs work together? We're considering CC for next year, but my son is really, really enjoying his current VP self-paced history, so I'd like to continue that. Will the two programs conflict with each other, or would the timeline differences be minimal??? Thanks! We use them together. You will cover all 160 timeline cards every year with cc, but the 24 history sentences you memorize will correspond with the cc cycle (this year is cycle 3, American history). I roughly tried to line up history by having dd10 do Exp to 1850 this year. I'm not too concerned with lining history up exactly, as I consider all memory work for cc to be pegs to hang future knowledge and not necessarily something we're going to totally flesh out while memorizing. I love VP self paced and so does dd10 , and I think it works well with cc. Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm4him Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 The timeline cards will be different next year as CC is changing their timeline. They are not producing activity books with it or anything like that so far so you could continue doing self-paced just fine with CC. I am planning to as well :-) Some people think of it as a negative that CC will have a new, different timeline than VP, but I actually think I have come to see it as a plus b/c CC organized the VP cards differently and I think that would confuse them when taking VP self-paced classes. Now they can be separate in their heads and give them TWO great timelines in their head to use. I don't know if you are going in order with VP, but we are planning to loosely line it up with CC like this: Cycle 1A: OT/AE Cycle 2A: MARR Cycle 3A: Ex-1815 Cycle 1B: NT/G&R Cycle 2B: SOTW Cycle 3B: 1815-Present (what we are doing this year) So next year we will do OT/AE and the following time we do Cycle 1 we will do G&R. This expands on our history sentences, but b/c we have a timeline in our heads it is ok for us to skip around...... stm4him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in KS Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I'm doing both. This is our second year doing the VP self-paced course. We love both VP and CC. Honestly, we have a hard time fitting the VP course in consistently, so we are behind... If your child is in Essentials as well, there's only four days to get all of your other academics in, including the assigned grammar and writing from Essentials. It's worthwhile, but I do admit, sometimes history or science slides. Hopefully, we'll make up ground in the Spring when we are done with CC. We will finish continue with both VP and CC, though, because we find them both enjoyable and valuable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessMcG Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 We did both this year. And I plan on doing the same next year. But I don't have much to add to what's already been posted. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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