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How I Scheduled Year 7 (Fifth Time)

 This summer I will schedule Year 7 for the fifth time, although this is the first time I will be scheduling Year 7 since the big changes in 2023.  The first time I scheduled Year 7 was before the addition of most of the science, so it also was significantly different from the three Year 7s of my middle students.  We are also participating in an online discussion group this year, so I will have to adjust our schedule for some of the books in order to match the discussion group schedule.  We will be reading Plutarch with an in-person group, so I will not be adding Plutarch to our schedule at all this year. As I always do, I begin by saving a new copy of the Year 7 chart from the AO website .  I use the regular year chart rather than the "basic" or "lite" chart to begin from.  If I were lightening this year, I would still start with the regular schedule and then consult the basic schedule for ideas, but I don't expect to need to lighten this year for this stu...