I just opened the sample lesson plans you showed and you had rhetoric and dialectic doing history discussions on Wednesday. However, you had them doing history readings on Thursday and Friday.. So how does that work. I just don't see how my rhetoric son can do all of the reading and all of the questions by the end of Tuesday when he was taking till Thursday to do the dialectic.. That said, we did co-op on Wednesdays and didn't do TOG. This year we have no co-op. But how did they answer the questions, if they didn't do the reading until Thursday and Friday??? I'm trying to figure out if I need ot give the quiz for my 9th grader on rhetoric level each week and if so, how int he world to fit it in. I guess I might be able to fit everything in by Thursday... It just seems like a lot.

PS... my head is spinning trying to get dialectic and rhetoric planned for this year. Boy I wish they could stay on the same level, but oldest needs to bump it up. The history and church history looks harder but doable, but I"m really having to modify the literature. Having two levels for history and literature is blowing my mind... and I haven't even started planning for my 2nd grader!

Christine

Christine,

If I am understanding your question correctly, the scheduling for those charts has the student beginning the reading each week on Thursday (not Monday). This gives them the weekend and the first two days of the week to complete the reading. By having the discussion on Wednesday, the student can follow the Read, Think, Write plan. They begin reading the following week's material while they are wrapping up the writing from the current week.

If your schedule is different, due to a co-op on Tuesday or whatever, you can adjust things to fit a similar pattern to help you fit it all into your week.

I asked a similar question when those were first posted, so I hope I am explaining it clearly for you. I think you'd have to pull out your reading chart for those weeks to get a better idea of which assignments are assigned to week 1 or week 2.

Blessings,
Eia

OH.. so they read let us say week 29 books on Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday and have the discussion on Wednesday. But then lit follows the regular week.. I'm not sure that will work. We aren't doing any co-op this year. In fact, the only outside activity my 9th grader will have this next year is piano and then youth/church on Sundays.

Christine

Dear Christine,

For two years our "week" began on Thursday. Dss read for all subjects on Thursday, Friday, (Weekend), Monday, and Tuesday, and we held our discussions on Wednesday afternoons. This schedule worked well for us during that time, but dss did have to take their evaluations before our discussion time. This wasn't too big a deal because we were using Classic, and I was making up my own evaluations.

Last year we went back to a Monday start for our week and we split up our discussions over three days. On Wednesday, we discussed history and government. On Thursday, we discussed church history and philosophy. On Friday mornings, dss did their evaluations, and on Friday afternoons, we discussed literature and fine arts. This schedule worked well for us. Dss knew they needed to get history and government done first, then church history and philosophy, then literature. They never had any trouble completing their assignments on time, even though they were sharing books.

HTH!

Hi ladies,
Just a note to remember that the "lesson plans" are just one way that a high school student can plan his lessons (so "lesson plans" isn't really accurate for this age..."planner" would probably be better).

The idea is to hold a discussion mid-week, as has been stated, so that the "read-think-write" process can proceed as easily as possible. The student *can* begin reading for the next week as early as Thursday, but can also wait until the weekend, or even Monday morning. Of course, by doing all of the reading on Mondays and Tuesdays, those days are really full. When you do it this way, you might want to hold off on literature readings until Wednesday and Thursday to balance out the day.

We'll likely adjust that sample "lesson plans" to show history readings done on Mondays and Tuesdays, simply to avoid confusion.

Hope this helps!