A Little Rebellion Every Now & Then

I’ve spent most of my day today working on history plans for next year. Mapping out not just what to cover each week - that would only take an hour at the most. No, I’ve been recording supplementary history reading and corresponding literature selections and projects and audiobooks and then figuring out how to break that down into a cohesive whole.

For the record, too, this is no where near the first time I’ve gone through SOTW and the Activity Guide. I’ve read both the main book and the AG through at least once each. Then I went through and marked what books were available at the library. Another time, I went through WTM and marked down the books there that weren’t in the AG and which ones of those were available at the library. Then I picked what books I wanted to own. I put them on Gillian’s amazon wishlist and we’ve been slowly collecting the majority of them. I also previously had made a sheet in my notebook with the week, dates, chapter(s), a list of the bare minimum (review/narration, map work, coloring page, and if there were pages listed, UBWH), and then the aforementioned Additional History Reading, Corresponding Literature Selections, Projects, Audio, and then a tenative schedule for both history and reading/literature.

So what have I been doing today? Typing it all in. Tweaking. Updating. Adding in the specific dates as they correspond to our school calendar for next school year. I have another hour or so of work before I set it aside until right before school starts. It’s a good thing I’m almost done, because I need to get started on adding books to Gillian’s wishlist for SOTW Vol2 before her birthday (in August).