Rome to Reformation Year Plan 2020-2021

This school year is special.

First, we ventured into different curriculum, while keeping My Father's World as the spine. Also, more importantly, it is the first year we are doing some kind of spontaneous schooling. Well, as spontaneous as this crazy control-freakish mom can take.

Because of COVID and the quarantine, we figured we might as well start school, then take breaks when we can.

We took May off, and here we are, June 1st. And we embarked on our journey to Ancient Rome.

The last time we did RtR, I had a 1st, 3rd, 5th graders, and a little tag-along. This year we have a 3rd, 6th, 8th grader. And we have another littler tag-along. =)

Here is the plan this year.

HISTORY/BIBLE

MFW is still our spine even though we are using some new materials.

This is one BIG new change. I REALLY like this curriculum when I looked at it. Because I'm having all girls this year, and they all love cutting, pasting, coloring, I think this curriculum will be a great hit.

We will still add in some readings or projects from RtR whenever applicable.

For middle ages, I will also use 

this

but in a different way. We will follow the schedule in RtR, which is mostly Story of the World: Vol 2

I like the audiobook by Jim Weiss, so we may listen to it.

I will use Project Passport: Middle Ages to fit into the schedule, instead of the other way around for Ancient Rome.

As for Reformation/Renaissance part, we will follow the MFW schedule.

SCIENCE

For Lil Sis and Baby Sis, we will be using Masterbooks God's Design for Life: The Human Body (section)

 as the spine.

but we will still use other books recommended by MFW especially the human body model, which I REALLY loved from the last time.

We will use Apologia's Astronomy for the second part.

Big Sis is doing Biology from Masterbooks this year.

MATH

The little ones continue with Singapore Math and Big Sis is doing Algebra I

LANGUAGE

Everyone continues with Rod and Staff English (3,6,8).

Big Sis will also finish up Writing with Skill Level 1

Lil Sis and Baby Sis will do Spelling Power and everyone will do English from the Roots Up: Latin roots.

 

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Lil Sis and Baby Sis will do duolingo Mandarin (with worksheets and teaching from me)

Big Sis will finish up Integrated Chinese with Big Bro

ART

We will do different art projects that  coincides with that week's school. For the 2nd half of the year, we might do picture study on art pieces by artists of the Renaissance.