RTR for World History credit

[deltagal]

Hi all,

My Freshman is currently working in RTR (beefed-up) for one of his high-school History credits. I would like for it to be his World History credit. We're using the 3 resources that Carrie recommended in a previous thread:

Drive Through History DVD: East Meets West for the first section of the study, The Story of Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation by H. E. Marshall (Yesterday's Classics) along with Courage and Conviction: Volume 3 by the Withrows to accomplish this.

He took an Ancient Literature/composition course this year through a tutorial that was a HUGE load. Great academically, but it absorbed all of his hours. As a result, he's not going to finish RTR history by the end of May. He really needs to take June and July off from doing academic work. He's got too many other items on his plate, to be able to stay attentive to his academic load, so in light of this I'm pondering a few possiblities:

1.) just stay with the plan, and when he finishes RTR (beefed up), he finishes and receives one credit for history.
2.) Stop where we are - Unit 19 and do "a little" more in-depth work on the time periods we've studied thus far - via essays, oral narration and some sketching and a few more books to read and award a full credit for the first half of world history. The reason I'm thinking this is his Literature class was VERY HEAVY. It only awards one credit, but in my thinking the work-load was enough to spill over into another area. He wrote essays, research papers, tests, oral presentations, special projects using Julius Caesar, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Homer’s Odyssey, and Sophocles’ play, Antigone and an in-depth poetry unit. Then pick-up with the remainder of RTR in August and add on more on to bring the history study up though the enlightenment and modern times and award a 1/2 credit for the second half of world history. Then begin Rev to Rev.
3.) Your ideas!!!

I have 2 wheels turning in my head. One I want him to wrap-up his history for this year and get credit for his work. Two, even though we've beefed-up I'm wondering if we should still add more to extend the time-period studied in order to call it World History.

[deltagal]

I'm answering my own question here, but after reading this on the Mystery of History Website I now understand how we can count RTR with some beefing-up for a World History Credit. I had in my mind until reading this that we needed to expand the study to do an overview of the entire history of the world. I was wrong. What a relief! God is SOOOOOO good.

"World history, by definition, can be the study of any time period of history ranging from ancient times to modern times. It is not necessarily the entire history of the world in one course. Therefore, a student may choose any volume of The Mystery of History for their world history studies. For example, on a transcript, Volume I may be recorded as “Ancient World History”. Volume II could be listed as a study of “The Early Church and The Middle Ages.” Volume III, in general, would be a study of “The Renaissance and Reformation.” These are broad definitions of the time periods covered. Bright students may choose to use two volumes of the MOH in one school year by reading the lessons at a rapid rate and choosing activities accordingly."