MOH question

[4boys]

Would it be possible to do 2 volumes of Mystery of History in one year? Or would that be far too much work?

[Chris in VA]

I think it would be too much, personally. The Medieval year (MOH 2) is a big, beautiful book, and I just wouldn't want to skip things in it!

But, if you wanted to combine two books, you could probably just pick and choose some of the content. I've done this with other curricula--it's not a perfect solution, but you can make it work if you don't mind leaving some big gaps. For example, I did not do Ancient China that thoroughly in SOTW 1, but it turns out that dd got more of that culture this year in ps, so it worked for us. THat's the thing that you have to keep in mind--if you do the 4 yr rotation, your child will get 3 chances thru the history periods, so if you skip a little in the first rotation (particularly), your child won't really be hurt.

[sandra in va]

I think with the ages of your kids that it might be too much. MOH 1 is fairly laid back, but it picks up in MOH 2. SOTW 1-2 would be a better bet for the ages of your kids.

hth,

[Chris in VA]

Oh yes, I agree with Sandra--I didn't realize your kids were so young.

[4boys]

Well I am planning ahead, I'm not thinking of doing it any time soon. I am wanting to incorporate Canadian history in with world history and do the cycles so I am having a hard time fitting everything in. Maybe if vol. 1 is more laid back I could combine it with one of the Canadian courses I want to do instead of combining it with vol. 2. Just thinking out loud and trying to decide where to fit everything in! Thanks for the suggestions!

ETA: My next question is, could I do vol. 1 with a 4th and 2nd grader together? The books say they are for Gr. 4-8 so I am wondering if this will be too early. Thanks.

[mims]

I've done it by working daily. We made it through volume 1 and 2 in one year but it did push us quite a bit.

[siloam]

Would it be possible to do 2 volumes of Mystery of History in one year? Or would that be far too much work?

Erin,

Yes you could do volume 1 with a 4th and 2nd grader. Doing 2 volumes in a year? Maybe, depends on the age. With High School you could do a lesson a day instead of 3 a week.

Let me run the math:

3 lessons x 36= 108 lessons in volume 1
3 lessons x 28= 84 lessons in volume 2

That is 192 lessons total.

36 x 5 = 180 lessons

Yep, you could pull off doing 2 in a year with a student who could do the volume work of one lesson a day, but they would have to fit in the mapping, timeline work, quizzes and 3x5 cards as they went and not take whole days to do them. That is why I wouldn't do it till High School.

Heather

[4boys]

Thanks for the advice. I think I will try and do each volume on their own, we'll probably get more out of them that way.