Long term pondering - TRISMS users, younger siblings question.

[one l michele]

I really think TRISMS would be a good fit for my oldest, once he finishes a Sonlight history cycle. I'm thinking HM in 7th, DAW in 8th, EOC in 9th, RON in 10th, and AOR in 11th/12th.

He has two younger siblings, all of them are two years apart in chronological grade level. When he starts TRISMS in 7th, they'll be in 5th and 3rd. I'd rather not juggle multiple history periods, yet I don't enjoy doing my own lesson plans either. What do you do for your younger students if your older ones use TRISMS? I'm just trying to get an idea of how the history cycle will fall for my younger two.

[Deb in NZ]

My 16yod is using E0C. My 14yos is using HM. For my 10yos I put together a mix of different daily History / Literature readings. As a family we have read through SOTW 1-4, as well as used AWOA & SL 7 / 3+4. I felt that it was time not to combine our studies. This term has flowed so much smoother as no one has to wait for someone else to finish up something before we do history. And my 10yos is loving his history studies. I set up his week's readings like this:

M---NZ History (Frontier of Dreams books)
T---Empire History (Our Island Story)
W---American History (This Country of Ours)
TH---World History (SOTW 1) [ds#2 was only 5yo when we read this the first time]
F---Literature (Tales from Shakespeare)

Ds#2 narrates back to me what he's learned. We read the NZ history together, but I've found audio downloads or cds for the other readings. I'm amazed at how enthusiastic he is about what he's learning.

If you are determined to keep your dc on the same page history-wise, how about this...

7th---HM [SL1+2 = 5th / 3rd]
8th---DAW [SOTW 1 & SL 6 (1st half) = 6th / 4th]
9th---EOC [SOTW 2 & SL 6 (2nd half) = 7th / 5th]
10th---RON [SOTW 3 & SL 7 (1st half) = 8th / 6th]
11th---AOR [SOTW 4 & SL 7 (2nd half) = 9th / 7th]

But if you want your dc#2 to use HM in 7th, you wouldn't be able to keep them on the same time period. I only know of WTM, TOG, Biblioplan, & HO that enables families to easily study the same time period at different levels. We are enjoying Trisms, but it wouldn't be practical for me to try to keep everyone on the same topics.

JMHO,

[JanOH]

I'm doing the same thing and am trying to keep everyone in the same historical period but I can already see that it may not work. My oldest are doing DAW this year as a freshman and sophmore, my middle is doing HM over two years (sixth and seventh) and my youngest (second grade) is doing STOW I. My basic plan is to keep using STOW but over five years rather than four to make it match the older group (not perfectly but close) - History Makers in the middle school years will always be messing with my schedule because it goes so much faster than the other volumes, but I think it's valuable for the training in the method of research.


So, my plan (as it is right now) is to use STOW until sixth grade, HM in sixth and seventh, than the other Trisms volumes for eighth grade and up and just keep folding my kids into that cycle and hopefully the only kid that will ever not be in the same exact history cycle will be the sixth and seventh grade.

[LanaTron]

M---NZ History (Frontier of Dreams books)
T---Empire History (Our Island Story)
W---American History (This Country of Ours)
TH---World History (SOTW 1) [ds#2 was only 5yo when we read this the first time]
F---Literature (Tales from Shakespeare)



I love the way you set this up. Learning about NZ, GB, US, and world history each week looks like it would be so much fun and very well rounded.