TOG and TWTM for Logic stage History

[melmac]

We're in the first week of our first year of TOG, doing D level mostly but with a little UG here and there for my 5th grader. I also have a 2nd grader, but we're just going to do SOTW and a few literature books thrown in here and there.

I've been going back and forth in my mind between the positives of doing Logic stage with TOG or doing it TWTM way. For some reason, I've been looking at them as either/or, but last night it occurred to me that there probably is a way to do both, to take the best of both worlds and mix them together.

So, I came up with this schedule and if any of you would be so kind to give me your opinions good or bad, I'd really appreciate it. Am I missing something? Overdoing something? I really want honest opinions and appreciate you taking your time to help me out.

Our school week runs Tuesday through Saturday.

Saturday: Assign literature and in-depth History books, (I borrowed this idea from Karenciavo), picking and choosing from TOG and TWTM lists

Tuesday: Read SOTW
Assign corresponding pages in KHE and have ds outline them,
one sentence per paragraph
Read worldview selection

Wednesday: Orally go over vocabulary words (we don't use a Voc program, so I think this would be beneficial)
Fine arts

Thursday: Geography- Find all locations on map, globe and in atlas, do corresponding mapwork from SOTW AG, pick and choose assignments from TOG where appropriate for us

Friday: Orally go over other half of Vocabulary
Fill in timeline
Aim to have all assigned books finished by Saturday

Saturday: Discussion
Have ds prepare written summaries on at least two topics

Everyday: Check to be sure ds is reading his assigned books, maybe read some with him.

Hands on projects as we can.

[siloam]

Tuesday seems a bit heavy, but overall I think the plan will work. One question through. Are you going to skip the weeks where TOG doesn't have any SOTW chapters scheduled?

Heather

[melmac]

I kinda thought Tues seemed a bit heavy, too. I may move worldview to Wed.

No, I'm not planning to skip the weeks without SOTW scheduled. I figured with what I've seen so far, we would just concentrate on what is scheduled, like the bible stories, probably just read those and discuss some. Possibly bring over some of the sections of KHE not outlined (I can't see assigning so many sections when there are 3 to 4 chapters of SOTW Scheduled in for one week). So those may be opportunities to outline some sections not previously assigned.

I'm sure I'll probably be making adjustments to this schedule down the road, I put this together just to get us going and was hoping for opinions, like yours that point out things I need to think about a bit more.

If you have any other thoughts or suggestions feel free to let me know.
Thank you very much for your help. I really, really appreciate it. :)

Tuesday seems a bit heavy, but overall I think the plan will work. One question through. Are you going to skip the weeks where TOG doesn't have any SOTW chapters scheduled?

Heather

[Mary in GA]

I tried to do something very similar to what you want to do. But what happened was I ended up arranging TOG around SOTW because it drives me a little crazy to skip around in my spine book! I used TOG as a book list and discussion tool.

We will be finishing SOTW 4 this year. I have TOG Y1 for next year, but I plan to use TWTM methods for outlining and summaries. I don't follow TOG's ideas for note taking and graphic organizers. Thanks for sharing your scheduling ideas.

Mary

[melmac]

You're welcome. I'm glad it helps, that makes me feel quite a bit better about it. :)

I tried to do something very similar to what you want to do. But what happened was I ended up arranging TOG around SOTW because it drives me a little crazy to skip around in my spine book! I used TOG as a book list and discussion tool.

We will be finishing SOTW 4 this year. I have TOG Y1 for next year, but I plan to use TWTM methods for outlining and summaries. I don't follow TOG's ideas for note taking and graphic organizers. Thanks for sharing your scheduling ideas.

Mary