He just had his oral interview with Goethe, and they said that he was at a B1.3 on his written part of the exam, but C1 with his spoken German, so their suggestion was to start at B2. ETA: I guess I'm surprised because I read his German and I think it's pretty poor quality. His German school last year had him in the native-speaker class, but I honestly assumed it was perhaps because they don't have that many actual native speakers (because he sounds nothing at all like a native speaker to me! lol)

I like this one a lot. I found a PDF of it online. Thanks for the suggestion! I also found PDFs of German Grammar Made Easy and Die Gelbe aktuell online (so I could see the end of the book and not just the first chapter!) and I really like those as well, though the Routledge Intermediate one seems like it might be in the middle of the other two, in terms of difficulty/complexity. German Grammar Made Easy is definitely too simple for my 9th grader, after having read through a goodly portion of it, but would be great for my 7th grade I think. I may go with the Routledge Intermediate for my 9th grader this year; it won't be at all challenging for him to read, and I think you are right on the money in that it will allow him to focus on the grammar concept that's actually being taught. Then I can fill in any gaps with Die Gelbe aktuell after that. Within the CEFR, would you have an estimate for what level the Routledge Intermediate book would cover (B1 or B2 perhaps?) vs what German Grammar Made Easy would cover? I read that Die Gelbe aktuell goes through about B2 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/German/wiki/textbooks/ He'd like to get the CEFR certification as well as CLEP it when he gets to college, so I'm trying to prepare for both! lol 😛

If you were creating a set of high school German literature courses, what books would you include for each grade and why? You may assume the student already has relative fluency in spoken and written German, though reading higher level books is slow-going (perhaps half the speed of their English reading).

I've been looking at different things, and I love the look of German Grammar Made Easy, because I love that it comes with solutions to everything, so we can check ourselves. My oldest son breezed through his A2 exam the year before last at German School, and has been studying for his B1, but we won't be able to continue going through German School anymore, so I'm looking to take up where he left off there. Part of the issue that we're facing is that his vocabulary and rudimentary sentence formation is fine; he can understand most everything and get his point across in most situations. But his grammar and his cases are just awful! lol. His teachers say it's great, but it often sounds to me as clumsy as "Me wants potato" would in English (though I can't come up with a good German example off the top of my head -- I just know that his cases, articles, and overall grammar needs some real help! :D) I feel like ignoring it and continuing to model correct speech and grammar has not helped and he just needs something explicit at this point. We've been focusing on articles recently (both broad categories for articles as well as ending forms). Can you compare your recommendations with any of the following, if you have experience with them? They're other books I've also been looking at: 1) Hammer's German Grammar 2) Die Gelbe aktuell 3) Grammatik Aktiv

Yes, I just heard back from the evaluator this morning saying that they are willing to do that. I just have to decide how to proceed, because they want to charge me $200 and I don't even know for sure if college board will accept it. 😛 I may also punt it for a year. I'd planned on having this kiddo take the SAT early this year, but I may just go with the accuplacer for now. Yesterday he got accepted into a hybrid program (public charter school that has a part-time homeschool option with vouchers for CC courses) that will help us create an IEP. I was talking with them last night and it seems that they may be able to advocate for us with college board down the road, providing some of the suggested documentation.

Thank you all. I will look into these other ideas. Maybe this was my problem - that I sent in every piece of documentation I'd ever gotten with nothing redacted and gave too much information by leaving all "gifted" portions in and so now they think I'm just bluffing about needing the accommodations.

I seriously thought I had covered all my bases. I have a kiddo with dyslexia, adhd, autism, and dysgraphia. I did my paper trail: I have multiple neuropsych evals, dyslexia assessments, etc. I have notes from a multiple psychologists recommending educational accommodations, particularly extra time on tests (for the dyslexia and adhd) and a testing environment with fewer distractions (for the adhd and autism). I submitted all of it to the College Board, even highlighting the relevant recommendations, and they wrote me back saying it was insufficient to qualify for the requested accommodations, and what I NEED to submit is timed academic scores in different subjects, RTI reports, detailed teacher evaluations or surveys, performance reports, etc. It feels almost like they want to deny him because he's bright and he's not "failing" his IQ testing, despite having very clear deficits in attention and phonological stuff related to the dyslexia. And I don't have the requested reports and tests from schools or teachers, of course, because we homeschool. I worked hard to get all my ducks in a row for the last ten years, and I confess I'm pretty discouraged at feeling like he won't actually have a fair shot at performing to his potential. I've no doubt he'll still do "well enough" without any accommodations, but it doesn't seem fair. Any suggestions for what we can submit in order to argue our case?

I will check them out! Thank you very much!

Not at this time, unfortunately. DH is in grad school and I'm the main bread-winner *and* homeschool teacher for the four kiddos. 😄

I'd forgotten about thinkwell! I'll look into it again, I don't know as much about it. She's just finishing up Primary Math 6B, but I'm thinking that we may take a step back and start with a 6th grade program with whatever we switch to. Placement tests don't work well for her because she often freezes and forgets something that she was doing just fine for the last two months, so it's always a bit of a gamble...

I've been trying to find a unicorn of a math curriculum for my profoundly dyslexic 7th grader. She did Primary Mathematics (Singapore K-6) and she did alright, but I think she needs more review because she often "gets" things, but then forgets them again very quickly. We've done a lot of hands on stuff in the past, and it may be good for her, but she hates it. She just wants to "git 'er done" when it comes to math. I've been on the hunt for the "right fit" for a while now and I don't feel like I'm having a lot of success, so I just figured I'd ask here if anyone has done this, and perhaps just added in their own review (since Singapore just doesn't do much review). We finally got her math facts mostly memorized, but it took us 5 years!! lol Reasons I am considering it: 1) Not too much text per page and not super tiny print. I've looked at a lot of other programs (Saxon, TGTB, BJU, TT, Horizons, LoF, etc and my oldest does AoPS) and there's just not enough white space on the page for my child. 2) Relatively solid. Again, I've looked at several other programs, and found them wanting (I write math curriculum and teach math for in-service middle and high school level teachers... I don't want something weak, though, and I'm sad that AoPS is not a good fit for this child.) 3) Not online (though I wouldn't be opposed to online videos, if I could find any that correlated). She does better with paper and pencil. We've tried Khan and ST math, and ST math helped her some, but Khan didn't help her retain anything. 4) I am not a fan of "memorize this procedure/formula and do a hundred problems." I want something that actually makes sense to her. Reasons I am hesitant: 1) No video lessons. I'm a math teacher and don't mind teaching it myself, but my child would rather learn from a video of someone else and then just rely on my to clarify anything she's not sure of. 2) Lack of review I don't have capacity to spend 1-on-1 with her during 20-30 minutes of math each day on top of all the other subjects we do orally/together, though I'd love to just make up my own content for her. I have 4 kids, all with varying extra needs, so I need something she can look at on her own, and then I can teach or review main ideas with her for a few minutes, and then have her work on while I am working with other kids, but still available to help, clarify, go a little deeper, expand a bit, etc. If you've made it this far, and have recommendations for me, I'd love to hear them. I've looked at Nicole the Math Lady, Mr. D, and several other programs besides the ones listed above, and nothing seems to really fit. Despite her dyslexia and autism, she'd really like to go into a medical field, so needs some solid math skills. But reading a lot exhausts her and gives her a headache (yes, before anyone suggests it, we've already done VT :D).

Yes - we just found the timelines overwhelming. Invariably, we'd be cramming too much into a small space. More to the point - and something the timeline didn't help with - the issue for us ended up being less that we didn't know what else was going on in the world at that same time, but more that we lost the cohesion of moving through one culture/civilization. It felt like we lost the "story" aspect that is so appealing about SOTW and helps kids really remember the history. If today's chapter has a section on Japan, for instance, instead of seeing this as part of Japan's story, we had to look back at the time line for the last time we wrote/learned something about Japan to jog our memories about what was going on in Japan before this. And even then, it didn't really "stick" as a continuation of Japan's story.

I know, know, know that I saw these ideas many years ago, but the search function isn't playing nice with me this week, so feel free just to link old threads that are relevant! We are finishing up SOTW 4 this year, and it's just not clicking for my kids. They aren't tracking all the jumping around that happens in the modern times book, although I completely understand that it's hard to talk about history in one area without talking about what's going on in the rest of the world as well. So I am looking for something more like history by civilization or region to start next year, where maybe we just study South American History for 6-8 months, from ancient times all the way through modern, then the history of Oceana for 6-8 months, etc. I feel like we have a big picture of many things, and that something more focused or like long unit studies will help us fill in gaps and deepen our understanding. I've found these books that seem like something we could use as a spine, but I don't know if they're suitable for children and there's not a wide variety of them at this point: https://www.workman.com/series/shortest-history-series I don't need all the extras like activities, games, map work, but I'm certainly not opposed to it either. My kids love doing history together and they will be 3rd-8th grade. I don't mind supplementing with extra books and videos, but I'm not feeling up to the challenge of making up my own units for each civilization or continent by jumping through something like Kingfisher, and I'd just really like something that's already "made" for me and geared towards children.

I would love to connect, if these are still available! I will message you. :)

How fun! Thank you!!