During the summer, I look over the syllabus/lesson plans BJU suggests. First I cut out their writing assignments since we use IEW for writing. Then I look for times when they spread out discussion/work on a reading assignment over 2-4 days (it happens quite a bit!) and see if I feel those can be condensed down. Usually, I can condense their program down by about 4 weeks or more to allow us to fit in a novel study or two. This year the 10th grade book has more units than we are used to and we slowed down A LOT on the first poetry unit. Added to that, the novel study we did was Fellowship of the Ring and it took more time than I anticipated. Most likely we will skip the second poetry unit in BJU and wrap up on time with the final unit on drama.
Yahoo!!! You won!! Congratulations…how fun.
Love this! Congrats on your win 🎉
What a fun idea! I'm going to mention this to our library. They already do a ton of fun things / clubs and this seems like something they'd do too. 😊
It really is a great event to bring the community together. I can’t wait to do it again next spring!
I saw your video on the bju literature. I was wondering how you schedule it. Do you schedule each reading a day to finish out the year.
During the summer, I look over the syllabus/lesson plans BJU suggests. First I cut out their writing assignments since we use IEW for writing. Then I look for times when they spread out discussion/work on a reading assignment over 2-4 days (it happens quite a bit!) and see if I feel those can be condensed down. Usually, I can condense their program down by about 4 weeks or more to allow us to fit in a novel study or two. This year the 10th grade book has more units than we are used to and we slowed down A LOT on the first poetry unit. Added to that, the novel study we did was Fellowship of the Ring and it took more time than I anticipated. Most likely we will skip the second poetry unit in BJU and wrap up on time with the final unit on drama.