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My eldest child is entering 9th grade in the Fall and I am attempting to write course descriptions that would end up in his school district "file". I would like to write the course descriptions well enough to be able to include in a college "resume."

Help - does anyone have some good samples for me to follow or a great website?

 

I'm looking to start.... with courses he's already finished like ....

Jacob's Algebra

Jacob's Geometry

Latina Christiana I and II

Intro To Chemistry

Intro to Biology

Story of the World (all 4 volumes)

 

Thanks,

Myra

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This is what I have...I am struggling with whether to keep it past tense, "this course covered" or change to present which I think sounds better, "this course covers" but maybe isn't as accurate. I tried to keep them short and sweet!

 

Algebra I

Text: Elementary Algebra by Harold Jacobs.

This course covered a typical Algebra I scope and sequence, including order of operations, linear functions and graphs, integers, rational numbers, equations in one and two variables, simultaneous equations, exponents, polynomials, factoring, fractions, square roots, quadratic equations, and real numbers.

Biology with lab

Text: Biology: God’s Living Creation and Biology lab manual (A Beka Book), with additional materials supplied by lab teacher.

Textbook main topics included: botany, human anatomy & physiology, life sciences methodology & philosophy, zoology, and cellular and molecular biology.

Lab topics included: ecology, natural selection, taxonomy & keys, microscopes, wastewater microbes, cell division (mitosis and meiosis), genetics (Mendelian and molecular), tissues & skin, bones & muscles, nervous system (eye & brain), digestive system, blood tests, dissections of cow eye, sheep heart & brain, fetal pig, frog, perch, grasshopper, crayfish, and earthworm, plus plant collection, leaf, roots & stems, plant divisions, algae, flowers, fruits & seeds.

Labs taught by xx, professor of Biology at xx Community College.

 

Geometry

Text: Geometry, 2e, by Harold R. Jacobs.

This course covered a full range of Euclidean geometry topics including: points, lines, planes, rays, angles, congruent triangles, inequalities, parallel lines, quadrilaterals, transformations, area, similarity, the right triangle, circles, regular polygons, and geometric solids. An emphasis was placed on writing proofs.

Chemistry with lab

Texts:

The Spectrum Chemistry by Gary M. Wilemon, Ph.D. and Durell C. Dobbins, Ph.D.

The Spectrum Chemistry Home Laboratory manual and lab kit, Beginnings Publishing

Bridge Math by Durell C. Dobbins, Ph.D.

A rigorous first year high school course including but not limited to: chemistry vocabulary, scientific notation, measurement, properties of matter, the periodic table, bonds and molecules, chemical reactions (oxidation, stoichiometry, etc.) , state (solids, liquids, and gasses), equilibrium, acids and bases, environmental chemistry, organic chemistry and biochemistry. Thirty hands-on labs during the year included: lab safety, density, chemical properties, chemical changes (heat, light, gas production, and precipitation), electrochemistry, thermal gel, chemical clocks, surface chemistry, vapor pressure, extraction, saturation, colligation, and reverse chemistry. Bridge Math covers the math commonly used in chemistry, such as scientific notation and significant figures.

Latin I

Text: Latin in the Christian Trivium vol. I by Gail Busby and Mary Harrington.

A first year high school course in Latin covering grammar forms, vocabulary of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd declension nouns, adjectives, numerals, all six tenses of first conjugation verbs, adverbs, indicative and imperative moods of verbs, interrogative and relative pronouns. Also covered was the history of Italy, geography, the Roman calendar, the Circus Maximus, an introduction to the Vulgate and the Pledge of Allegiance. Vocabulary and culture are reinforced using an ongoing story about a family living in Roman Britain.

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