Dear Carrie
Should my son do World Geography to keep it open and go, even though he places best in Revival to Revolution?
I’m a mother of 7 children. We use Heart of Dakota with all of our children. We tried some different things with our 13 year old son, and we’re so glad to be back! My son is finishing up Resurrection to Reformation. He didn’t do the extensions. He’s using Revival to Revolution’s physical science. We didn’t do RTR’s IEW writing. (Failure on my part!) In truth, he hasn’t had much formal writing. He will be 14 in August. This next year will be his freshman year, and I’d like him to use Revival to Revolution. I love HOD’s open and go feature. When I consider the things we’ll need to modify, I start to panic that it won’t get done. So, my question is, should my son do World Geography, even though he places best in Revival to Revolution, so we could keep the open and go aspect?
Sincerely,
“Ms. Choose Between Open-and-Go World Geography or Better Placement Revival to Revolution”
Dear “Ms. Choose Between Open-and-Go World Geography or Better Placement Revival to Revolution,”
If you are finding RTR to be a good fit for your son, then it may be wise to move into Revival to Revolution for his 9th grade year. Since he hasn’t had much in the way of formal writing instruction or formal literature instruction, I’d lean toward doing RevtoRev for those areas along with the DITHOR Level 7/8 Book Pack. However, from what you’ve shared thus far, a more independent type program may be needed in those areas for the time being. With that in mind, you could definitely borrow the literature and writing from the World Geography guide to use with RevtoRev. Both may be a challenge, but they would be more independent and be on grade level for high school.
I would do either the BJU Literature or the novels with DITHOR 6/7/8.
If the literature looked too overwhelming in the World Geography guide, you could potentially do just the BJU lit. text without the novels or do just the novels with DITHOR 6/7/8 without the BJU lit. text. Either option would downsize how heavy the literature is but still keep your son moving forward in this needed area.
I would do R & S English 5 all year to cover his bases well and follow up with R & S English 6.
For grammar, I would do English 5 all in one year as planned in RevtoRev. English 5 is a key year in Rod and Staff and will cover his bases well in this area. Even if you stall out and need to take more than one year to do English 5, it is good to keep going on through it until you finish it. It is a terrific level of Rod and Staff. We will definitely want to follow-up with English 6 after that!
I would omit Storytime and do the Extensions.
You can omit the Storytime and do the Extension books instead in RevtoRev for high school. If the reading in the Extension Pack looks too heavy, he could instead do the Storytime books rather than the Extension package. He could look at both sets to see which appeals more.
I would consider doing IPC from World Geography for science.
For science, since you have already done the science in RevtoRev this year, you could consider doing the IPC from the World Geography guide for science as well. This would be a good first year of high school science for your son. If he is headed toward a science degree, he should follow the science path of the high school guides. He could consider doing Physics instead of the Astronomy and Geology for his senior year if desired. But, you will know much more about his interests for college once you get to his senior year.
I would address government later in his junior or senior year.
You could hold off on doing Government for now, as getting formal literature and writing in will be much more important for his first year of high school. If he is college-bound we have to make the lit/comp/grammar a primary focus this year. We can always address the government part later, adding it in his junior or senior year.
I would add Spanish as a foreign language credit.
I would also consider adding the Spanish from World Geography to his day to get him started on needed foreign language. Getting Started with Spanish is short and sweet and an easy way to begin that credit.
So, his credits would be as follows:
U.S. History I (1 full credit)
Fundamentals of Literature/Composition (1 full credit)
Integrated Physics and Chemistry with Lab (1 full credit with lab)
Math (1 full credit Algebra I hopefully)
Spanish I (1/2 credit)
Bible (1/2 credit – if you add additional free time Bible reading to the RevtoRev plans or sub this out with World Geography’s Bible. The World Geography Bible is worth 1 credit but will be quite a bit more intensive. If he liked the Bible in RTR, I would probably stay with the Bible as written in Rev2Rev.)
Fine Arts: Music Appreciation (1/2 credit)
Blessings,
Carrie
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Oh my goodness, I cannot believe the timing of this post! I just got on to research how to make rev 2 rev fit for 9th grade! and ran across this post and wrote down all of the much-needed information and then saw the date. Wow. So, can you point me in the direction of how to manage 10th – 13th following the plan you laid out here? So very helpful!!!
Sorry, phone typo. 10th – 12th
Hello! The following years for history would go as follows:
10th grade – MTMM with extensions (counts as one credit in U.S. History II)
11th grade – WG
12th grade – WH
For science, you’d follow the path of the high school guides (i.e. 10th use WH Biology, 11th use U.S. History I Chemistry, 12th use U.S. History II Astonomy/Geology/Paleontology or Physics another way if you prefer).
For foreign language, you’d follow the path of the high school guides (i.e. 10th use WH Spanish 1 other half-credit, 11th use U.S. History I Spanish II half-credit, 12th use U.S. History II Spanish II half-credit or Greek/Latin). Math would follow this type of path as well. Lit./English/Comp. would just move forward too for English II, English III, and English IV credit. Electives could be added from the high school guides as needed. We can certainly help you figure this out year by year as well. Hope this helps!
In Christ,
Julie