Looking to HOD to focus our CM attempts

[1blessedmom]

sorry...double post!!

[pjdobro]

I only have a quick moment...my little 2 yo dd is not feeling well. She's with Dad for a few moments.

My biggest concern about CTC, other that we just did the Ancients 2 years ago, is that my oldest won't ever get to American history past 1800. He only has 3 years left!

I'm sorry your 2 year old is not feeling well. I hope she is feeling better today.

I was thinking about your dilemma last night. Ordinarily, the history cycle isn't the biggest concern, but I know when you are looking to fulfill high school credit that is not the case. Carrie has spent quite a bit of time lately outlining ways for some of the ladies to use these younger guides as high school worthy credit. She has given valuable advice in these. Try looking in the sticky posts at the top of the message board for ways to use the program for high school. She gives some great detailed information about how to work the history cycle into high school worthy credit. Hopefully you can glean enough information from these to help you figure out what to do.

This is just an idea that I had and I don't know if it will work or not. Hopefully others can jump in and correct me. I was thinking since CTC is a 4-day a week program, perhaps you could start right away with it and use it 5 days a week. If you were able to use CTC, RTR, and Rev to Rev 5 days a week instead of 4 and do the beefing up that Carrie suggests for high school, you should be able to cover these 3 guides in about 2 1/3 years. So if you started now, you would be done by the end of his junior year. Then you could use the future guide that covers modern history for his senior year. Another option would be to see what skills you would need to work on to start him in RTR and try to get those skills in place by fall and start RTR with the added high school options then. You would then be on target to complete the last 3 years of the history cycle by the time he finishes high school.

For your younger son, he is right on track to do the guides as planned, so I would just place him where he belongs and do the guide as written if possible.

I don't know if this is at all feasible, but this is what came to me as I was thinking on it. HTH!

[Carrie]

1blessedmom,

The ladies are doing such a great job of pondering through this with you. I'll just pop-in to say that I still don't have a good feel for where your kiddos fit in the first page of placement chart as individuals, with all thoughts of combining them aside for now. Without that common ground in understanding where your kiddos are at in the 3R's, it is so tough for me to help guide you more specifically. So, if you get a chance to share where each child fits on his own on the first page of the chart, with no thought to the history cycle or the science cycle for now, and no thoughts of combining for the moment, but truly just looking at their 3 R's, then once we have that common ground, we can all help toss around more specific options that may work for your family. We're just missing the information we need in order to be able to really help you more specifically!

Blessings,
Carrie