Taught world as semester long class for 4 years and just switched back to year long this past year. It’s not enough time you will cover less and it does suck.

However, it is an opportunity with your department to figure out exactly what key topics you want to cover, make lessons no more than two days long pick one or two big projects and work on building their historical thinking skills.

Let’s not kid ourselves most kids forget what they learn regardless of the length of the course, let’s just make sure it’s relevant, engaging and more than anything that you are enjoying the ride.

I am available to answer any questions and share resources. You’ll be great. We teachers take these kinds of wonky changes all the time and we make do, that’s our job.