Katie144 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I'm getting overwhelmed with HS curriculum, will anyone be willing to share what they are using? This is what I have so far: Geometry - may use Jacobs, Science - Chemistry (Apologia?? that's what we've used so far), History - ????? (we've done Omni I, II), English - ????? American Lit?? What about AP classes, shouldn't she take some of these and how does she take the test through the Board of Ed? Thanks for your help - Any suggestions, curriculum that you've used and loved would be great - by the way, we're not strong on grammar, any thoughts?? :001_smile::001_smile::001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan C. Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Hi Katie, Deep breath, sigh......breathe in, breathe out :) I can completely sympathize, high school is scary! I have graduated one, and my other is going into 10th grade. Take one step at a time, do what you can, and plan the rest of your high school classes so you know what you need to do each year. So far, this is what we are doing: World History, BJU, other books added as there is time Geometry, probably Chalkdust since I already own it World Literature, A Beka, own it and like it BJU Writing & Grammar 10 Apologia Biology Spanish (still figuring out what I am using) PE (my daughter exercises every day like you would in a PE class) Traditional Logic 1 (not as a class of its own, just an extra) My son (who has graduated) did A Beka English 10, the whole package. Grammar, Comp, Lit, Vocab. Spelling. It comes with an assignment book that tells you what to do in each every day, what questions to do in the Lit. text, etc. It was a good year. Since we did literature based history as well, those books added to it for honors credit. My daughter prefers BJU Writing & Grammar, so I am mixing the 10th grade English for her. Both BJU and A Abeka have strong writing/grammar programs, they are very easy to administer, just do a little every day, do papers while you are doing the every day grammar exercises, and at the end of the year, you will a great grammar education. Hope this helps, do a search on this forum for 10th grade schedules, there have been a few threads in the past that will help you. Sorry, I don't know anything about AP, haven't done it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnitaMcC Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I'm getting overwhelmed with HS curriculum, will anyone be willing to share what they are using? This is what I have so far: Geometry - may use Jacobs, Science - Chemistry (Apologia?? that's what we've used so far), History - ????? (we've done Omni I, II), English - ????? American Lit?? What about AP classes, shouldn't she take some of these and how does she take the test through the Board of Ed? Thanks for your help - Any suggestions, curriculum that you've used and loved would be great - by the way, we're not strong on grammar, any thoughts?? :001_smile::001_smile::001_smile: We are doing 9th grade technically but our curriculum isn't specifically for 9th graders. Language Arts: Grade 10 Writer's Choice Composition & Grammar (with workbooks), Glencoe Vocabulary. Math: Larson's Algebra 2 and Larson's Geometry. World History: Duiker/Spielvogel World History to 1500 and since 1500 5th edition.... AP level text and they plan to take the exam. World Literature: (1/2 credit taken over the full year). Reading 15 books (fiction, non-fiction, biography/autiobiography) along with World History time periods being studied. Health: (1/2 credit taken over the full year). Holt Lifetime Health Computer Fundamentals: (1/2 credit being completed 1st semester) Norton's Computing Fundamentals Consumer Education: (1/2 credit to be done after computer course is completed) Glencoe Consumer Education & Economics Latin: Wheelock's Latin for Ds Italian: Prego Intro to Italian for Dd Science is to be done at CC.... Ds taking Chemistry Fundamentals and Descriptive Astronomy first semester. Dd taking Biology first semester. Music: Dd is also doing History of Music Literature and music classes at CC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 At the bottom of the posts, you'll find the tags: 10th grade schedule and tenth grade schedule If you click on one of those, you'll see several other threads I tagged that are on the same topic. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda in NM Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Here's what we've got: Science--Apologia Marine Biology (his choice) Geometry--Videotext (his choice, so far...we'll see...he likes it better than I do...) Latin 2--So You Really Want to Learn Latin German 2 (either at home with Learnables or at highschool in Michigan) English--TOG (year 2 DE) History--TOG (year 2) PE--probably highschool Strength and Conditioning Music Performance---looking for viola teacher near Interlochen... In Michigan (we're moving on August 12!), you need to take one course at the highschool to participate in sports, and he is planning to play hockey (we've already cleared it with the registrars and the coaches...) and maybe baseball... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Barb B Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Here's what we did last year: English - Seton 10th grade (a good combo of English and Lit) History - Seton world history (liked the book but soon dropped having Seton grade) Religion - a text from a Catholic series called Didache Spanish - continue rosetta stone (the lastest version I think version 3) physics - Saxon phyiscs (good and bad points to it - good continual review of past topics but some topics spread to far apart in the text) Math -Saxon advanced math - we liked it I guess on his trancsript I will note music (guitar lessons and playing at church) as well as baseball for PE. Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy in WA Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 What really helped me with high school was to make a four year plan, in your case a three year plan. There was no way to reasonably do everything I would like to do. I started with the obvious core classes: math, english, science and history, chose which one for each year. Then I added electives based on the child's interest or future career goals. With a basic idea of how much time per day we will choose to do school, I added curriculum choices being careful to not overburden the schedule. With the basic outline in place, the choices of curriculum became much easier. HTH Cindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Here's what we did for 10th (last year): Jacob's Geometry Lial's Advanced Algebra (started late in the year) Great Books/World Views Chemistry 20th Century World History English (vocabulary, punctuation, grammar review, writing skills) We gave up on his Spanish studies because it just wasn't getting done. He will be picking up Spanish 1 at our local university this fall as a concurrent student. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie144 Posted July 16, 2009 Author Share Posted July 16, 2009 Thanks one and all.... I love this forum, everyone is so helpful and encouraging, I've been working all morning trying to get organized and have found your suggestions very helpful, especially the one about breathing in and out!! Still not sure on all the curriculum, here's what I have so far: Chemistry - Apologia Geometry - Jacobs 3rd Ed. American History - Exploring America, Notgrass American Lit - American Voices, Notgrass, also How to Read A Book (Adler) Spanish II - Rosetta Stone Pilates & Swimming Ceramics - local class I'm not completely sold on the American History (Notgrass) only because I haven't seen many reviews on it..... my friend is using it this year, heard about it at the convention in VA and loved it... we need a break from Omnibus - very hard reading! Does anyone have any thoughts on Notgrass? Thanks again - Katie:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan C. Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I've seen a lot of reviews putting the Notgrass American Hist. with the college level Teaching Co. series for US History (the one with 84 lectures, not the high school one). Teaching Co. does have a high school Chemistry set that is usually on sale for about $79, I got these after I did Apologia Chemistry for my son to review chemistry before a college class, and my son said to put them with the Apologia Chemistry for my daughter, that it would help. But let me tell you... I spent all weekend trying to decide if I wanted Teaching Co. dvds because there was a big sale. We already don't have enough day when we do school, so I opted to just do our World History text, and add books as needed. Also, I did find most of what I was interested in at our library, so we can watch a few if we have time and not be out any money. Your schedule looks good, are you getting dvds for the geometry, or do you have a geometry person at home? We are doing geometry as well, and are using dvds. I looked at one geometry book referred to on a thread..... and am glad to have the dvds! No way can I do geometry without help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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