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  1. Math – Precalculus at home taught by me. I’ve used Foerster for the previous 7 kids and for the last 5 I have debated about finding something else Lol! I’ll probably stick with Foerster since I know it, but I’m going to work through AoPS Precalc this summer and see if I think that will work better. Science – Physics taught by me (if you can call teaching what is really rather my stumbling through it with her!) I’ve used Knight College Physics in the past and am debating trying ISLE method with the Exploring and Applying Physics text. If summer planning allows me enough time… Literature – Angelina Stanford (House of Humane Letters) Early Modern Literature. My daughters(10th/12th this year) have loved the self-paced mini class on Fairy Tales and also the one on Beowulf and my rising 11th grader is looking forward to this! This child reads a lot, so she will also be reading some other books (though that wouldn’t begin to be needed for a credit) This is my first ever outsourced true high school class that wasn't writing (this doesn't count a few community college classes for some of my older kids). Writing/Composition – with me, I need to plan this History – US/World up to the Civil War. A History of the American People and other books American Sign Language – Using materials from Bill Vicars https://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/ Choir – local homeschool group Excel and Javascript/html/css. – Not sure how to go about this yet and she will probably get a big head start on it this summer because her 11th grade schedule will be full. I have a Son-in-law who is a programmer so we have help when we have questions. We will probably use Code for Teens by Jeremy Moritz and maybe some free resources for html/css and excel through our library’s website. Thanks for starting this thread. It has pushed me to think through it. 2024-2025 will be my penultimate homeschool year which is a little sad. Kendall
  2. Good to know. Have you seen this on real ACT practice(beyond this years online practice test) or on other company's practice materials?
  3. There was also a two column geometry proof!
  4. I was helping a teen who had used the online ACT practice test that is on the ACT website. I was very surprised to see a problem that involved csc (cosecant). I've gone through a lot of real ACT tests or real ACT practice tests and I have never encountered trig functions beyond sin, cos, tan. Have any of you seen this before on the ACT? There was also a more difficult matrices problem than I had seen before. Thoughts?
  5. So, now you might want to try her books Blackout and All Clear. It is really just one long book in two. All Clear is not a sequel, just the rest of the book. To Say Nothing of the Dog is definitely lighter emotionally and very different and we found it very humorous. I'd say Blackout and All Clear are closer to Doomsday in that regard.
  6. Lori, I've always done 1 full English credit that was writing (and all that encompases) and then a half literature credit. Sometimes if I have them write something about literature, once they are writing it that will become the writing project for English and then we start another book in literature. I am going to incorporate into the English credit some speaking based on your suggestion. Thanks! Also, for the Ancient year and the Y2 (400-1600) I've often split the 90 minutes for History and Lit more like 45/45 because the line between lit and history is not as clear in those areas especially Ancient and I wanted to be able to read more books. (I still give the full credit for history and half for Literature) Thank you so much for all of these thoughts. Fuzzy in the back of my mind was this thought of yours "We preferred doing Literature, Worldview, Logic, and Philosophy as more of the main focus of our Social Studies credits, with History as support." And also competing in the fuzzy region (Lol!) was the thought that we have to do a complete chromonlogical Year 400-1600 study as the focus. You have helped give clarity to all of these thoughts. We did a chronological study of 400-1600 both 4 and 8 years ago. Now I can have history as support to focus on the philosophy, worldview, influence, etc of the time period. I WISH I had saved the Lord of the Rings this year. My oldest (12th)slogged through it over the last 3 years and the younger one(10th) read it in junior high on her own. Thank you for all of your input! Kendall
  7. Thanks for sharing this title! Have you read the Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis? I was going to try to read that this summer, but didn't get to it.
  8. Thank you so much for discussing this with me! Yesterday I went to the local college library and checked out Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts by Sam Wineburg and have read the first chapter. He talks about realizing that we do not think like the people of the past and realizing that is a key step. It is going to be a helpful book. I think he was involved with the Stanford think like a historian materials.
  9. I am also going to second Connie Willis. I want my children to enjoy To Say Nothing of the Dog on their own and I assign it (after some exposure to Jeeves, Three Men in a Boat, and reading the Moonstone). This spring I read To Say Nothing of the Dog aloud and even though my daughters had read it on their own the previous year, we all thoroughly enjoyed it as a read aloud - even the child who complained before we started that she had just read it. I agree about Doomsday Book being grim. Connie Willis is an amazing author.
  10. Yes, they will have a 30 minute medieval literature time (1/2 credit spread through the year) in addition to the history(and also a full credit of English). We have done US History for 2 years, AP Us government, and Ancient History (which I wasn't happy with thus wanting to think through what they really should be getting out of this). I'm not sure if I should use history to really focus on learning medieval content or rather just learn the big facts content wise and use the history as a vehicle for writing/thinking/researching/ speaking/summarizing/improving reading skills/other?
  11. What should my goals for history be for my high school girls? What are your goals? I'm not even sure what I am going to use. I'm debating between something like The History of the Medieval World /The History of the Renaissance World Or an easy overview such as The Book of the Middles Ages. by Dorothy Mills. and then having them read some adult trade books But I think I need to start with goals for history and so I'd love a brainstorm session here about what your goals are and if you have time, what tasks you give them to accomplish those goals. Or what routines you use. Thanks in advance! Kendall
  12. I read the following aloud to kids 5 year old through 17 year old (and 4 in between) Northanger Abbey/Emma/Persuasion. all by Austen A Christmas Carol. by Dickens Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt (can't recommend this highly enough!) very funny with also deep things My Family and Other Animals (I did edit some things as I went, but this is a family favorite and very funny at times) Little Britches Pay Attention Carter Jones also by Schmidt. (same notes as above) Clementine series by Pennypacker. (I would classify these as intermediate fiction, but my high schoolers enjoy them a lot and I had college children home who would listen in-they appreciated it because of having to work with kids) I haven't read Three Men in a Boat aloud, but it is funny I have read Wodehouse (one of the jeeves books) aloud as well so I second that recommendation That's a start and all I have time for at the moment!
  13. That sounds encouraging. I get it about the grumpiness. The child I mentioned in my post turned around quicker and easier than some of my other children! I've taken mine out to ice cream or out to lunch after a hard book(Paradise Lost Lol!) or AP test. Maybe you could have a joint reward of some kind when you've completed several review chapters or something. Hang in there!
  14. I was going to suggest something similar, though what I have done is put a representative problem on one side of an index card and the worked out solution on the other. Every day spend a set amount of time "doing cards" working the problems and checking the answer right away-which she can do largely on her own with some monitoring by you as needed. Any that she misses go back on top. I started over with Algebra 1 doing chapter tests and slowing down and reteaching as needed. Then do the same with Algebra 2. Make problem cards for any type of problem that she doesn't remember how to do. I also agree with EKS "Whatever resource you decide to use, I think the most important thing is to teach her yourself and check each problem she does on her own as she does it. You don't want there to be a lag between mistake and correction" First I would sell it to her as a joint adventure, you are both learning math and both learning how to help her remember it. I had an ongoing I don't like math, slight negative attitude in general while doing math (I was not enjoying this Lol!) So I told this 14 year old child that we learn to like things that we get better at, she needs more time to get better so that she would like it better and so we added a 10-15 minute math time to every evening and to every weekend day. It didn't take long of doing that before she liked math better Lol!!! Also try not to express frustration when she doesn't remember. (Maybe you don't have this temptation, but I do!). Just go in adjusting your mindset so that you expect her to forget everything that was learned even if it was that day.
  15. Currently reading aloud to my 9th/11th. Fiction: To Say Nothing of the Dog (We are enjoying this so much even though we all read it independently a year ago. so many historical and literary allusions, so many small details the author attends to, amusing, well written) Non-fiction: Thanks for the Feedback by Stone and Heen. (Two of my older children told me recently that they didn't appreciate this all that much when I read it aloud when they were in upper grade school but are realizing that as adults they are using what they learned and are grateful now!)
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