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Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - AnneWhite - 04-11-2025
The AO Advisory is pleased to announce a change of pace for Years Four through Six, in the subject of Mythology.
Many years ago, when we first assigned Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, we tried to keep the reading plan simple: one-third of the book for each of those years, nothing fancier than that. However, as the full curriculum evolved, we began to notice where parts of that book overlapped with other assigned texts. We listened to users' comments about what their students liked and didn't like, understood and didn't understand about the book. Finally, we considered the fact that, in the original PNEU programmes, students in the first year of Form II (those of about age 9) weren't assigned The Age of Fable, but The Heroes of Asgard, a somewhat simpler book of Norse myths. (In fact, we know that some families are already doing this.)
We decided that, to make this part of the curriculum more intentional and useful, we would make Heroes of Asgard an official part of Year Four. The Age of Fable will now begin in Year Five, with the stories that used to be assigned for Year Four. The first term of Year Six will include several chapters from later in the book, to give maturing students some new and challenging reading. And the rest of Year Six will be opened up for the Homer retellings (or originals) that were already part of those later terms.
If you're already thinking, "How am I supposed to figure out..." or "But we already read...," fear not: more details and schedules (including links to previous schedules) will be available on the AO website. We want to make this small but important change as painless as possible.
Oh, and one more thing (how could I almost forget this?): we will also have a set of brand-new, free study guides on the website, for The Heroes of Asgard and the assigned chapters of The Age of Fable. They will be linked from the pages for each of the three years.
We are excited about this new component in the AO curriculum, and we hope that you and your students will find it a blessing in the next homeschooling year.
RE: Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - Mguerette - 04-11-2025
This sounds like a great change. Thank you!
Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - BrittanyBell - 04-11-2025
This sounds wonderful! Thanks for all y’all do!
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RE: Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - Sammie2 - 04-12-2025
How exciting!
RE: Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - GloryB - 04-12-2025
We have really enjoyed the Heroes of Asgard in our MT together. It is beautifully written and provoked a lot of connection-building in our house with other mythologies and with Bible stories. I am so glad you have decided to include it!
Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - rosiewear - 04-12-2025
I’m looking forward to this change! We opted to skip Age of Fable (replaced for the moment with D’Aulaires mythology) for my year 4 so we will add this in.
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RE: Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - Mindybird923 - 04-12-2025
Oh this is exciting! Thankful for all the thoughtful work y’all put into everything.
RE: Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - Sammie2 - 04-12-2025
I was just wondering about including Norse mythology! I am very excited about this, especially as AoF was not a hit here (because that's not how it happened in D'Aulaires,
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RE: Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - LuminousMotherhood - 04-12-2025
I read of D'aulaire's Norse Myths to my children last year and we all enjoyed it. Just today we finished term 1 of year 4 and so far we are enjoying Bullfinch's Age of Fable. So I am trying to asses whether we should just keep going with the old schedules or switch to include Heros of Asgard. Does anyone know how much overlap their is between Norse Myths and Heros of Asgard? Would it be redundant to go through HoA, or is their enough new material with more depth to make it worth our time?
RE: Changes to Mythology in Years Four to Six - AnneWhite - 04-12-2025
I would say to stick with what you're doing. You could jump into the new Age of Fable guide at the point where you finished the term.