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Miscellaneous Questions

Question: What if I think Tapestry presents assignments that are too much reading or too much work for my child?

Answer: Tapestry will not be exactly right for every family as written. You will need to use prayer, discernment, and your husband's guidance to decide how much of Tapestry to implement. Here are just a few creative alternatives to using Tapestry differently than it initially appears:

Have your child work at his or her own level, regardless of formal age-grades. We have seen more than one case where an older child started off at about a third grade writing level, and then advanced through several grade levels in less than a year.
Use two weeks to execute every "week-plan" and go through the program once in 8 years with elementary students; then, with a solid foundation, speed up during your older children's High School years to go through it again in 4 years.
Cut entire units and spend longer than suggested on specific, choice units. For instance, one family decided to use Year 1, but to only do the Greek and Rome units, making them the entire year's subject.
Collapse weeks: is the unit getting a little long? Are little ones losing interest? In Year 1, there are 11 weeks on The Hebrews and Their Neighbors. One week each are devoted to the Babylonians and The Assyrians. I have known of families that collapsed these two weeks into one and then resumed the regular pace.
Falling behind? Either do less work in each week, or collapse weeks, or skip units.

The beauty of having a plan like Tapestry is that you know what you skipped! The only absolute NO-NO in using Tapestry is to make this program your taskmaster instead of your tool!

Tapestry is BEST used as a road map! Do you want to take a two-week detour off the road and visit a country inn? Do so! Do you want to shorten the journey and just hit the major highways? It's your choice!