I met Ellen McHenry at a homeschooling conference back in 2008 or 2009. I picked up her Neurology program and gave it to my husband's neurologist to look over. He was very impressed. We used it and found it to be excellent - fun and informative. ETA: We used it at home easily in a semester and I also taught with it in a co-op setting in 10 weeks.

I think Stewart English is excellent for grammar review in high school. It moves fairly quickly. Most of the writing is coming up with words, phrases, clauses in a fill in the blank, finish a sentence kind of way. There is some original writing of paragraphs but not a lot and students are sometimes asked to find examples of grammar from a good book and write it in their workbook.

The Piper book linked above is good - we used it with TOG, but I have to say I love Eric Metaxas. I read this one after I read Bonhoeffer. I love his humor and writing style.

A good friend's son had the same experience with W&M regarding SAT2s- even with fives on AP.

This board never disappoints. :lol:

ds17 works at a movie theater. Great benefits. Free movies for the whole family, free pop corn and drinks :thumbup:

My oldest took it twice, ds17 will probably take it 3x unless he he makes great strides in June.

I put down we just pick up where we left off but usually it's because we finish a book and immediately start the next thing, e.g. ds9 finished a year of Latin two weeks ago so we moved on.

Depends on the kid. It prepared my oldest, a history major, really well for college. If you don't mind a little mama brag he received the history major scholarship at his college - he had to write a paper on an event from history or something like that. Every college he applied to loved his reading list, but in fairness part of the admiration belongs to Memoria Press's 12th grade online English course he did in 11th grade. Ds17 is meh about it, but he's meh about everything but sports these days. And video games - he's good there too. :001_rolleyes: Ds9 enjoys it and has learned a lot but I have put a lot of effort into fleshing out the grammar stage for him. I'm looking forward to dialectic next year so that can slow down a bit.

I find it hard to believe only 5 people like Mikes. :cheers2: I started using WWE4 with ds9/4th grade this year. It has been going really well and I plan on using WWS in 5th grade.

agree with Stayseeliz. It was cheaper to belong to a swim club but the convenience of not schlepping stuff is nice.

My youngest has never asked, my oldest was in school for 1-4 and didn't miss it. Ds17 on the other hand did miss school at one point and we let him attend school for 9th grade, he was back home the next year.

does iCloud work with the touch? I've been using it with my iPad.

I used TATRAS.

Jane, I think most of us have had that moment where we say, "I can't do this! I suck! My children will be ruined for life and live in my basement!" I know over the years I fantasized about my house being clean, laundry caught up, reading on the deck in the sunshine, everyone happy and content. Then I remember what it was like when my children were in school before homeschooling; always rushing and screaming did you brush your teeth? What do you mean you have to bring a display board in today! Did you do your homework? Rushing to after school activities. Rushing home to make dinner. Homework at night. And the worst part: the age segregation. Our family was begining not to know each other, I know my ds18 and my ds9 wouldn't be as close as they are today if we continued with school. It wasn't my plan to convince you either way. I'm sure there are people who can share stories of success and happy, harmonious families outside of homeschooling. Just a hug :grouphug: and a btdt.

Every year plan includes 3-8 weeks of non-western history. Also there are times in other weeks that you touch on a non western culture as they interact with the west. I'm going by my increasingly faulty memory here: Year 1: Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, and Buddhism Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius and Taoism Week 12: Ancient Americas: Inuit, Mound Builders, and Mayas Year 2: Week 3: Byzantine Empire and Rise of Islam Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East Week 14: Spanish Dominion and the New World: Aztecs and Incas Year 3: - this year plan focuses a lot on indigenous peoples met through colonization/imperialism and is basically 1/2 and 1/2 each week listed Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America Week 8: South America in Transition Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere Week 19: Westerners in Asia Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires Week 29: The Scramble for Empire Week 30: Imperialism and Culture Year 4: Week 19: India's Independence Week 20: China's Revolution Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare TOG is western civ heavy, it is also US history heavy for the dialectic and under sets. But in all cases you are not spending significant time at any one period, with the exception of year 1 which devotes a lot of time to Isreal and Rome and a good amount of time in Greece and US history in Year 2. But ultimately it never feels like enough time. Before our co-op days we would camp out at certain periods and cultures to study them more in depth.

We like Festivals Family and Food. Origins, poems, songs, food, crafts.

2012-2013 will be our 10th year with TOG Lord willing. We will be in Year 3. We've used it at all levels, currently UG/Dialectic (we're transitioning) and Rhetoric (history only). I am involved with a TOG co-op for now at least. It's our 4th year. I have a blog (below) but I don't have much time to post to it any more.

Ds18 is home <3 I'm really enjoying seeing how he and ds16 are relating now. They've always loved each other and were supportive but being 20 months apart there was some of this :boxing_smiley: too. Something has changed, it's nice.

As far as math programs go, Singapore Math has very little writing. Teach her short division if you like, but other than that I would have this battle about writing things down now. Believe me, it's a bad habit that will harm her down the road.

My son's toughest final is tomorrow: US History. He had Western Civ last Friday and has Theology on Wednesday. He was excused from his other exams. Home on Thursday. :D

How did he think it went? Is this a call?

I'll pray stranger. (Ditched me for google+? :glare:)

Hi Paula, I was curious about that too. My research turned up that the first known use was in a comedy (Mostellaria) by Roman playwright Plautus. The way it is used in the play indicates that the audience would have been familiar with the title. I wondered if Alexander, who was enamored with the east, took on that tradition from the Persians. I've also read that perhaps Ptolomey I was the first to call him Great, but didn't see any sources.

I'd pass on your contact info but she is borrowing a copy if she decides to go with it. Sorry about the worksheets. :tongue_smilie: