mid-year evaluation

We easily slid back into our ancient history studies this week with Ancient Greece (more about that later). I am really glad we decided to study ancient history this year. Beeper has really been enjoying it, and it has given us some structure (admittidly, it's a very loose structure).

For the first few months, I was able to match up our curriculum with the chapters in Story of the World (volume 1) fairly well. However, the further along we get , the harder it is to match things up. For example, in SOTW, Ancient Greece takes up something like eight chapters and Rome ten. The curriculum has both sharing one month. After Rome, we're going to have to use SOTW volume 2, and I have no idea yet how that's going to work out.

I figure this year it's not a big deal to pick and choose the chapters we read. This is all just an introduction anyway. After we have gone through the whole four year cycle, I'll have to decide whether to follow the SOTW four year cycle next time around or do something similar to what we did this time (but maybe Beeper could read the extra chapters on his own next time?) Or I could come up with my own schedule that's somewhere in between. As it is, I am not even sure whether we will spend a month on Greece and Rome together this year, as planned, or give each its own month. We'll just have to see how things go. So far it looks like there is a lot of interesting stuff to do, but who knows how fast we will get through it or whether we will get tired of Greece before we cover it all.