Darn! I thought I had next year all set!

[iammommy]

I was going to start SOTW (ancients) with my ds this coming fall (will be a fifth grader). Fine. Then I realized that Fifth grade LLATL is focused on novels centered around American History. I really had hoped to coordinate lit and history. Darn!

I'm having a hard time accepting that hist and lit will not match.

Am I just bieng obsessive? I relly like LLATL and don't want to switch that.

UGH.

Any suggestions?

[Omma]

When was the last time you did American History?

Brenda

[iammommy]

I just started homeschooling this year, and the only history we've done is Explorers and Native Americans.

Nan

[JudoMom]

If you like both SOTW & LLATL, then I would do both and not worry about history and lit matching up. If you start with ancients now, you can get 2 full four year cycles in. That would be more important to me than history & literature lining up.

[carlychan]

My 5th grader is doing LLATL and SOTW (with Kingfisher World History). I may add in or even substitute some of his literature from LLATL. SOTW has lots of books you can read with it. The 4 or 5 books we read in LLATL won't take the whole year. I am assuming my son can get through one book in no more than a few weeks or a month. This is in addition to free reading.

I think some people omit the literature studies in LLATL. Is that possible? You can just do the grammar part and read history books. I will be interested to see what you decide because I have been thinking about this, also.

Carly

[Deana FL]

Even if you were "in line" w/both subjects. I think you'd be surprised at how little Am History is focused on in SOTW3.

The colonies were started and then we quickly hopped back across the water to Japan/China/Europe.

I'm hoping it gets a little more concentrated, but it is Story of the WORLD, afterall. LOL

I think you'd be fine doing Am Lit and Ancients concurrently.

[Cadam]

Why not just use SOTW 4?

[Tree House Academy]

Haha...you are preaching to the choir. I just toally overhauled my entire curriculum for next year. We are either going to do SL Core 3 or HOD BHFHG. :)

[Wendy B.]

I was going to start SOTW (ancients) with my ds this coming fall (will be a fifth grader). Fine. Then I realized that Fifth grade LLATL is focused on novels centered around American History. I really had hoped to coordinate lit and history. Darn!

I'm having a hard time accepting that hist and lit will not match.

Am I just bieng obsessive? I relly like LLATL and don't want to switch that.

UGH.

Any suggestions?
If you like LLATL why can't you just add ancient lit for your reading? Except for the 4 book studies you don't have to read any of the other selections for the exercises. I really liked LLATL and I don't remember the lack of coordination between LLATL and History ever being a problem for my kids. Actually if I remember correctly the bookstudies were optional and could be skipped......it's been a few years since we used LLATL around here but I do remember skipping a few titles along the way without any dire consequences.:lol:

WWE is actually for 1-4 grades. The level 4 workbook isn't published yet but I doubt if it will match up to Ancient history. I'm doing WWE 1 and SOTW 1 at the same time and they don't match up. You could try to do WWE 4 type exercises and pull your examples for your Ancient History titles if having a total match is important enough for you.

[MamaSheep]

I was going to start SOTW (ancients) with my ds this coming fall (will be a fifth grader). Fine. Then I realized that Fifth grade LLATL is focused on novels centered around American History. I really had hoped to coordinate lit and history. Darn!

I'm having a hard time accepting that hist and lit will not match.

Am I just bieng obsessive? I relly like LLATL and don't want to switch that.

UGH.

Any suggestions?

I just started homeschooling this year, and the only history we've done is Explorers and Native Americans.

Nan

You could do American history in the fall, and save world history for next...or the year after next. American history seems like a good follow-up to explorers and Native Americans.

[Dawn]

I coordinated our literature and history this year and I wish I hadn't. It was overkill, I think. She needed to read literature keyed to the history program as well as books with our language program - all historical. So she had to read selections from 2 historical books daily with narrations or Q&A from both. Too much history. LOL

My .02 FWIW. :)