Pistachio mom Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Hi, I am almost done with my course descriptions for last year. I have 2 more to go. I need some advise from those of you with more experience than I. My daughter is always reading books outside of academics. Since we keep lists, I was planning to group some of these as a 1/2 credit due to the amount of time she spends reading. She also writes papers related to the reading so there is an educational component. I am planning to put these as an elective course called Mystery and Suspense Lit or the other growing list of her Historical Fiction genre. My thoughts are to grade it 75% reading time with 25% composition average. Any thoughts?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicia64 Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Hi, I am almost done with my course descriptions for last year. I have 2 more to go. I need some advise from those of you with more experience than I. My daughter is always reading books outside of academics. Since we keep lists, I was planning to group some of these as a 1/2 credit due to the amount of time she spends reading. She also writes papers related to the reading so there is an educational component. I am planning to put these as an elective course called Mystery and Suspense Lit or the other growing list of her Historical Fiction genre. My thoughts are to grade it 75% reading time with 25% composition average. Any thoughts?? I love what you're doing here. Can you share your daughter's Historical Fiction list? The Mystery and Suspense list would be great too. Thank you so much, Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistachio mom Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 The mystery list includes 12 Agatha Christie novels, a mystery short story audio series, and then another 10 or so titles without authors. I have to check these out to make sure they are at least teen and adult level. Her historical fiction list is still in the works. She has already written one paper towards this and probably has at least 20 titles. I will cut and past my rough draft course description below: Course Descriptionelective: Historical Fiction LiteratureCredit earned: 1/2 creditCourse Description: This is a self-directed course. In this class, the student will read historical fiction novels. She will choose various authors within this genre. Credit will be awarded based on hours of participation. Student will write at least one paper related to the reading content of this course.Primary texts: various novels from the historical fiction genre, related video recordings of these same books.Books include: I have to add these in..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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