Hi @jreilly2016,
That sounds like a really short amount of time with your CSP students.
I just posted another reply to someone regarding a non-traditional schedule, referencing discussions from other teachers with non-traditional schedules: Teaching AP CSP in a 4x4 block
However, I’m not sure if any of those situations are in any way similar to yours since as far as I can see, your situation is that you just plain have fewer total instructional minutes. It may just be a matter of experiencing the course for a year or two in order to get a better idea of where you feel you can cut some corners for your students.
The soonest we recommend you do the Explore PT is after unit 4, when they learn about data (relevant to the Explore PT written response questions), and do the Create PT after Unit 5 Chapter 1 (so students have sufficient coding knowledge). Hopefully that helps you in terms of sequence.
Frank