A Little Rebellion Every Now & Then

01. History for Gillian for next year. Time period 1600 to 1850 in world history, so that’s a lot of ground to cover. In addition, I want to have her read supplementally about American history, specifically, during that time period. I have no idea how to accomplish this without going somewhat insane. This is why we’re going to do world history in just three years, glossing over any and all American history, and one year of just American history, when the fifth to eighth grade rotation arrives. Plus, if she does American history in eighth grade, she could probably take the SAT Subject Test for American history after that, unless they’ve really changed the difficulty level of those things. Nevertheless, none of that helps for the coming year. Or, for that matter, fourth grade, which is 1850 to the present in world history.

02. Latin for Gillian. We’ve totally slacked on Latin in the last few months, but I don’t want to start over completely at the beginning of third grade. I’m thinking we’ll start reviewing in the next few weeks and jump into some new material, slowly, over the summer, which would give her a slight leg up, at least, upon starting official third grade work next autumn. Or something.

03. Latin further complicates the plan in that, if we had continued to do Latin this year as planned, we would have started Greek in the first half of third grade. Now I don’t know if we should postpone it to the second half of third grade, or to the first half of fourth grade. How aggravating.

04. What to do with Jacob. I know that if I don’t have a plan in my mind, I won’t think to do ‘academic’ stuff with him. Just between Gillian’s school and having another baby, you know, some things are going to slip my mind, and I don’t want it to be me going in December, crap, I meant to read to Jacob more than once a month, and help him learn to use scissors, too!* or something like that. So I’ve got to figure out a plan, just for me. NOT to say, oh, Jacob, you MUST finish this, every day, or anything like that, but just so I’ll remember to offer various things.

*With Jacob, it’s more likely he’ll cut something that he’s not supposed to, and then I’ll say, I meant to help him learn to use scissors appropriately, but hey.