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    Well-Trained Mind Academy: questions?

    in The Chat Board

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    is it possible to take these courses but it be on the internet for the ectra lectures?  We live overseas and our internet is very slow.  loading videos and live chats take hours....i don't think DS would be able to always actively participate if that is the case.  We will be stateside in January so perhaps we just need to wait.

     

     

    Well-Trained Mind Academy: questions?

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    is it possible to take these courses but it be on the internet for the ectra lectures?  We live overseas and our internet is very slow.  loading videos and live chats take hours....i don't think DS would be able to always actively participate if that is the case.  We will be stateside in January so perhaps we just need to wait.

     

     

    Nervous about HS Credits and the whole shebang! (going into 10th)

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    sorry I left out that we are doing Apologia Chemistry.  The local CC here will accept 11th grade students.  Our son was dual enrolled last year but does not want to do it again this year and I am okay with that.  When we move during the year we will move to KS and that will open a whole new world I am sure.  We were spposed to take PSATs but the local school here messed that up for us...long story but I will try to get him enroleld for the test again this year.  Our SLO is great, but not the help that I need.  He suports our local co-op and is a great resource for the little things.

     

    I use HSLDA highschool info as a guideline for what we should be doing and we do have a rough map for the next 3 years.  DS is completely lost as to what he might even wnat or consider int he future and I find that challenging in terms of picking material that would captivate him.

     

    Do you see anything, besides the chemistry that I left off that is missing?  Anything glaring?

     

    Nervous about HS Credits and the whole shebang! (going into 10th)

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    My son will be 15 next month and entering 10th grade.  We are military, assigned overseas on a remote base.  Our outside resources are limited.  Several years ago DS was testing at post high-school levels according to the Stanford Academic Achievement test.  We should be back in teh states for Jan 2015.  I would like to have a look at having him enroll in the local community college in the near future.  We struggled some through 9th grade because he was bored.  He could use some improvement in writing and his math is average (finishing up Alg 1).  I am at a loss as to how to keep him motivated, challenged and improve allwhil making sure that he is getting the courses needed to graduate and then go to college.

     

    His courses thus far are:

     

    Biology (summer before entering 9th)

    Marine Biology and Lab

    Spanish 1

    Guitar (.5)

    Intro to Formal Logic (1)

    Creative Writing (IEW) (.5)

    Psychology (.5)

    Personal Fitness (.5)

    Applied computer applications (.5)

    Humanities (.5)

    Literature based U.S. History

    180 Daily Grams

    Vocabulary from Classical Roots

    Growing Vocabulary

    Spelling Workout

    Saxon Algebra 1

    Scuba Diving

    Baseball

    Soccer

     

    Next year's tentative plan is (we move in Dec so I only have the 1st semester planned out at the moment):

    Apologia Chemistry

    World History (not sure what to use)

    LLATL Gold Book (British Lit)

    Writing (not sure what to use)

    Vocabulary From Classical Roots book D

    Saxon Algebra 2

    Spanish 2

    Pencil Drawing (.5)

    Guitar (.5)

    Financial Literacy (SoS)

    Scuba Diving

    Soccer

     

     

    Maybe I just need a pat on the shoulder, or redirection.  Writing all of this out here has been helpful, however I am still not confident.  ANY advice would be greatly appreciated.  TIA!

    Teaching Textbooks vs MUS?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Is TT simpler than MUS?

     

    I printed out the Math 5 placement test. DS has not taken it yet but it seems VERY easy as compared to where he is in MUS Delta (almost completed).

     

    I will also have him take Math 6. Are they supposed to correlate to the school year the child is in?

     

    (DS LOVES the graphics shown on teh placement test )

    MCT?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    we already have something that we like (easy grammar and wordly wise) and though I am not one to deviate too much or too often, I am looking for something to help bring our school alive. I looked at this a few months ago and settled on what we are using now. So we are new to Easy Grammar. I have looked at the site...but unfortunately for me, I am a visual and hands on kind of gal and have a very hard time making decisions on this sort of thing without a hard copyt in my hand.

    How do I bring school alive?!

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Ds will be in 6th grade next year. We are moving to MD and will be near D.C. and have access to so much!! He is thrilled about this. I do not want to be stuck at home too much. I want to take our schooling out and about, if possible. We are currently making it through the day with ease, but I am not convinced that either of us are IN LOVE with our curriculum. What we do like:

     

    Wordly Wise, Easy Grammar, Mind Benders...:lol: That is about it! :confused:

     

    I need to make school more exciting! Please help! I will also have a K'er and a 3yo next yr.

    How much time did you/are you spending on the civil war? How did you study it?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    For what age student? My current 5th grader and I just finished her study of the Civil War. We spent 20 weeks covering it.

     

    My favorite books on it are:

    Golden Book of the Civil War http://www.bookfaerie.com/si/019612.html

     

    Gettysburg (Landmark book http://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-Landmark-Books-MacKinlay-Kantor/dp/0394891813 )

     

    Lee and Grant at Appomattox (Landmark book http://www.amazon.com/Lee-Grant-Appomattox-Landmark-books/dp/B0007DKI0C )

     

    I think we spent at least 6 weeks on it when the boys were in 3rd and 5th. I read Across Five Aprils aloud and they read Sonlight readers and more. We watched the part of The Civil War Documentary by Ken Burns that corresponded to where we were in Across Five Aprils. We watched Gods and Generals and Gettysburg. We made a giant timeline like in this unit study (has tons of other fun activities)

    http://www.homeschoolinthewoods.com/HTTA/TTS/CivilWar.htm

     

    I just realized she is selling this. I did it when it was ideas that were free. We made the giant timeline by putting posterboards together and having painting tape in the middle. We ran off pictures from our tons of Civil War books and put important battles and events on it.

     

    We culminated the trip by going to my sil who lived in Quantico. We saw First Manassas, Gettysburg, Chancelorsville, and Frederickburg. The boys had a blast! Now that they are 7th and 9th we are studying it again TOG style and they spend 4 or 5 weeks on it. They will both be doing the rhetoric as they have read all of the regular and alternate suggestions for dialectic (and a few of the rhetoric as well). I think we own about 30 books about the Civil War.

     

    Christine

     

    so...if we do spend a lot of time on this, do I not worry about the subsequent chapters in SOTW...just do them as they arise? how did you map out what you would do and when you would do it?

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