Using Yesterday's Classics with Tapestry of Grace

I think you know that we're heading overseas again this next year, right...if not, write me, we'll talk...

For everyone else, I have been trying to reconcile a great classical, Tapestry of Grace worthy education for my children, without having to spend a lot more money on books, and add too much more weight to our already overweight allowance in luggage.

Enter the hubby, and a great solution...use the Yesterday's Classics books that we have already purchased, and are on our Kindle, in the Tapestry curriculum.

Yes!

But....is there a schedule, a rubric, that tells me what book to use what week, and which chapters or pages to read? There are 225 books in the collection, covering a myriad of topics! Where do I begin?

I asked around and no one seemed to have a completed list. So, I just decided to do it myself.

It didn't take me nearly as long as I thought it would, and I have plenty of books left over. Some of the books were already listed in the Tapestry curriculum, on the Alternates page, but many more good classic texts were in the set that we had purchased. I sat down and went week by week.

During the time periods that we spend numerous weeks, like Greece and Rome in the Year 1 curriculum, I replaced almost all of the Literature options with collections of stories from Church, Gould, Synge, Marshall, etc. There are also several good texts that can replace the Core History options, like "Story of the Chosen People," " Shores of the Great Seas," "Story of Mankind," and "Streams of History."

I had about a dozen tabs open on my web browser and searched through Tables of Contents to figure out which books, which chapters, which pages, would suffice for each week...for each Thread in the fabric of time that we needed to cover.

I made pencil notes all through my Reading Lists and also had a piece of paper going and Amazon open to check if books that couldn't be replaced, like "Wonders and Miracles," "Daily Life at the Time of Jesus," and some stories I want the kids to read like, "Adara," "The Bronze Bow," and "Twice Freed" were available on Kindle.

I completed scheduling Year 1 in about 4 hours. I now have a list of just a dozen books that I will need to purchase to fill in the blanks, and half of them are on Kindle! I will be taking with us most all of the LG books that I bought 5 years ago when I was doing Year 1, spread out over 2 years, with just my oldest. I am thrilled! Now, just Year 2 and Year 3 to go....there are plenty more Yesterday's Classics to be used, and we have a collection of GA Henty books on our Kindle that we bought a few years ago that I am going to also use to fill in some of the blanks for our UG and D sons as well.

If you haven't heard of Yesterday's Classics, or are interested in taking a look, you can go here - Yesterday's Classics Catalog