High School Planning

[billswife]

My son is going into 7th grade next year. I've been thinking about high school a lot. He is doing CTC right now. So the order he would do the guides is 7th RTR, 8th Rev to Rev, 9th Modern, and 10th Geography. My question is will doing Modern History in 9th grade mess up the history sequence for high school--since it is the last half of American History? I'm considering skipping the RTR guide and going to Rev to Rev. for next year. I feel that would put us more on course. Is this crazy? Could it work to do Modern History in 9th grade?

[Mom2Monkeys]

Just giving you a bump up the board There are a few other posts with "high school" in the titled so this one may have been overlooked!

[Carrie]

Ann,

Good question! As far as your son goes, I would take an honest look at the updated placement chart when it come out in March and really see where your son places on the first page of the chart. If he truly places in Rev. to Rev., then you could make the move to that guide with your son. However, if your son is thriving and doing well, then there is no need to skip a guide to make the history cycle work out. Over all correct skill placement is so much more important than the history cycle.

History is only one piece of the puzzle for high school and for learning considerations. If you did decide to stay with the order of guides you are currently on, it could work to do Modern History for 9th grade. You would still get your credits all in in high school, and you wouldn't mess up the flow of the history cycle now. So, then your cycle would look like this:

9th Modern American History (in a world context)
10th Geography
11th World History
12th Early American History with Government (in a world context)

Your American history credit would be split, but that would work out fine as Government works well when added to Early American History and is often done in 12th grade.

Anyway, I hope this helps a bit.

Blessings,
Carrie

[billswife]

Thanks Carrie! I will look at where he would be placed best when the updated chart comes out. The schedule you came up with for high school looks like it would work well. We love HOD and would love to use it for high school!!