elegantlion Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 What would you do in this situation? We're finishing 8th grade and our history study has been Renaissance, Reformation, and Elizabethan. Well I decided to extend it to the scientific revolution and beyond that a little. We'll be reading from The Discovers and a couple of chapters in Speilvogel's Human Odyssey. At our current pace we won't finish by the end of school, and I don't want to extend that study for several reasons. We don't follow a chronological history strictly, and I don't plan on studying this time period again in depth in high school. So do we just read and discuss? We can probably finish what I want if we do so. Or do I stick with my plan of doing reviews, more writing, and finish short? I know the skills are important, and we are using the same text series for next year. He is also doing WWS, so he is doing history writing there. What would you do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomatHWTK Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 If the time period won't be covered again and the ancillary skills are also being covered in other classes, I'd probably just read and discuss the history in order to complete it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corraleno Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 If the time period won't be covered again and the ancillary skills are also being covered in other classes, I'd probably just read and discuss the history in order to complete it. :iagree: absolutely! Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 If the time period won't be covered again and the ancillary skills are also being covered in other classes, I'd probably just read and discuss the history in order to complete it. :iagree: absolutely! Jackie I love simple. thank you for simplifying my thoughts. Ds will send his regards, I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyCamper Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Timely question. I have been considering the same change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Read and discuss sounds fine to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 You all are good for me. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Just as an observation, you could create a unit project to give him that chance to work with the material and synthesize but that wouldn't take so much time each day. Could be a lapbook, a large model with display board and captions, whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted April 2, 2012 Author Share Posted April 2, 2012 Just as an observation, you could create a unit project to give him that chance to work with the material and synthesize but that wouldn't take so much time each day. Could be a lapbook, a large model with display board and captions, whatever. Thanks, we could do something visual. A lapbook, however, would make us gouge our eyes out.:lol:I did buy an art book at a thrift store I plan to cut up and use for pictures. Maybe we'll do a collage or something. Thanks for the idea. We've spent a good deal of time studying the art this year, but haven't done anything real artistic with it due to time and money or lack thereof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Oh I know, lol. I have great dreams for lapbooks but little reality. But around here *projects* are a big hit. Can be something on the computer too like a powerpoint presentation or digiscrapping or videos or whatever. It's just a thought. I think there's value to doing SOMETHING with the material, but it doesn't have to be the same thing all the time. It could be more in the creative range. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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