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MamaSprout started following English Language Arts for middle grades. What is the gap? , Chemistry is a disaster! What now? , creation/evolution text and 4 others
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Chemistry is a disaster! What now?
MamaSprout replied to MJmom's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
I could have written this post. +1 for the GPB materials. -
creation/evolution text
MamaSprout replied to omishev's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
Have you considered offering it as an OER? -
Also... Dd has "found" a couple of homeschoolers at college by the AoPS Calc books they had on their desk. I said, "They brought them with them to college?!"
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Oh dear. It was a bit messy, lol. Definitely ask questions from all of us veterns. Most of us have "what we would do differently" advice. ETA. I just looked at some of my old posts. Oy. Dd has some eye tracking issues that were clearly a problem from the beginning. It would have saved us both some grief if I had pushed harder with the eye docs back then.
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We didn't use AoPS as much as imacs/EMF. Dd told me later that she wished we had done more of the EMF/imacs. I told her the computer wasn't up to more of her banging her head against it. 👀 (Geometry was just a textbook. Larson, I think). We always sort of had two math threads going at a time. Regular Math and Fun Math. Sometimes more of one than the other. Pretty sure nothing about The Geometry Year was fun, though.
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My college kiddo just kinda thanked me for making her do proofs. I’m pretty sure Geometry aged me 6 years… So “yay” for getting through the hard stuff when no one wanted to do it. :0)
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x-post: Language Arts Gap
MamaSprout replied to MamaSprout's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
I agree that high school students should be writing essays, but most can't. Or very few can. I have taught college students who don't even write sentences well. I think I like the Writing book for this project. Since it is a one-off assignment, I'll focus on co-remediation, so a subset of the whole book. If I'm having fun, I might clone/ adapt the whole thing, It could be a solid "transition to essay writing" curriculum. -
x-post: Language Arts Gap
MamaSprout replied to MamaSprout's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
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x-post: Language Arts Gap
MamaSprout replied to MamaSprout's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
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x-post: Language Arts Gap
MamaSprout replied to MamaSprout's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
In this case, no. It isn’t licensed for sharing. Thanks though! -
So I need to make a free-to-use Language Arts resource. I would love input from you all. I originally posted on the Logic Stage board, but it seems very quiet there. Here is my original post: I am taking a certification course around creative commons/ copyright. One of my final projects is to adapt something out of copyright or with an open copyright into a new free-to-use resource: "Find an open educational resource and adapt it to better serve your students/community." My initial thought was to create a remediation co-requisite work text for my university's communications and English courses. The material will be 7-9th grade, because those are skills missing for many of those students. But. Maybe this could serve more than one of my communities? When I was teaching co-op courses, there didn't seem to be much available in Logic stage for Language Arts, especially that is free to use. It seemed like there was a gap between about 6th grade and introductory college level. Is that still the case? What would you look for in a resource like that? Remember, this is an assignment to adapt something that exists, not create something new, so I would also love to hear about free resources you have found that are "almost" what you need. Thanks in advance!
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Help with Composition!!
MamaSprout replied to IanSebast's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
I liked Fable level just to get reluctant writers to put words on the page. After that, we usually went a different direction. Lots of good suggestions above. -
I haven't been on the Logic Stage board for a while. Hi. I feel old. I am taking a certification course around creative commons/ copyright. One of my final projects is to adapt something out of copyright or with an open copyright into a new free-to-use resource: "Find an open educational resource and adapt it to better serve your students/community." My initial thought was to create a remediation co-requisite work text for my university's communications and English courses. The material will be 7-9th grade, because those are skills missing for many of those students. But. Maybe this could serve more than one of my communities? When I was teaching co-op courses, there didn't seem to be much available in Logic stage for Language Arts, especially that is free to use. It seemed like there was a gap between about 6th grade and introductory college level. Is that still the case? What would you look for in a resource like that? Remember, this is an assignment to adapt something that exists, not create something new, so I would also love to hear about free resources you have found that are "almost" what you need. Thanks in advance!