RTR for World History credit
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:47 pm
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.
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.
