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    7th grade curriculum advice

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    For my current 6th/7th grade ds:

     

    Bible studies/book studies (reading Acts, The Case For Faith, The Case For Christ, Be The Change, Foxe's Book of Martyrs)

     

    Chalkdust PreAlg

     

    LC 1 & 2

     

    Apologia General Science

     

    Fallacy Detective logic

     

    Writing (w/ grammar instruction) w/ local tutor

     

    Reading/Literature (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Golden Goblet, Lord of The Flies, plus random non-fiction)

     

    History (my hodge podge of various sources)

     

    We'll go back to Easy Grammar after Natl. Latin Exam in March

    How do you use the Teaching Co?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted

    We are watching World History: The Fertile Crescent to The American Revolution taught by Linwood Thompson. Its a young high school course and it comes w/ a workbook that the kids fill out while they watch the dvd. We watch the videos when I am introducing a new ere/event in our history studies. Its a nice addition and I hope to purchase more dvd's in the future.

    More on Latin--but what I really need is a Big Picture book

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    You were right -- each word has a gender, not the declension. The words comprising the first declension are so predominantly feminine, those in the second so predominantly masculine and neuter, that we could speak of those declensions as corresponding to those genders. There are exceptions in each of those declensions, not to mention the third declension (most nouns) which includes all three genders. Gender is a characteristic of the words, not the declensions. Think of a declension as a group of nouns which follow the same pattern in their morphology.

     

     

    Mark

     

    Mark, Welcome! A new Latin expert here -- How wonderful! So many of us have a plethora of questions for the resident Latin teachers and those w/ lots of experience. May I ask you what is your curriculum of choice -- and -- the ages of your kiddos?

     

    Thanks for chiming in. My favorite threads here on this board deal w/ Latin since I'm so new to this subject.

    Pretty please? Opinons on 5th grade plans...

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    You plan looks wonderful. Since you are leaning LCC, I don't think you need to do logic unless you want to. The logic is part of the complex process of translating.

     

    AMEN! My kids are only in LC 2 but they love the mental gymnastics of translating. So many levels of thinking to get it right. You mean we could skip the formal study of logic? Did Drew really say that in his book? I'll have to look that up.

     

    I also read on these boards that logic is helpful for geometry (or vice versa)...

    Question about Austen's novels and early 19th century British society . . .

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    Carrie, its great that a conversation on Austin brought you out of lurking :) (on the new boards anyway. For all I know, you've been here for years). You have great insight. Thanks for sharing.

     

    Karen, I have the new P & P edition you speak of w/ the details/notes throughout. It was so helpful in reading Austin for the first time. (I wish I could find a Jane Eyre edition like that).

     

    Laura, where did you read that Austin's sister destroyed her notes? That's terrible!

     

    I'm sucked into Emma currently. Not quite sure how I feel about her. The vocab alone is keeping my pace rather slow going.

     

    Do I sense a Jane Austin book club in the making? :)

    8th Grade and 6th grade Curriculum choices? Schedule line-up?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Same here -- 8th grade ds and 6th grade dd next year...

    I love the Highlands Latin School reading lists: http://www.thelatinschool.org/summer-reading.html

     

    8th'er will be doing:

     

    Christian Studies: Bible reading/devotionals/study guides

    Math: Chalkdust Alg

    Latin: (probably Henle w/ local tutor and/or online class)

    Lit/History/Theology: Omnibus 1 online class

    Physical Science: Apologia

    Writing/Grammar: local tutor

    Geo: Trail Guide

    Music: Guitar lessons/worship team at church

    Logic: Thinking Toolbox

     

     

    6th'er will be doing:

     

    Christian Studies: Bible reading/devotionals/study guides

    Math: TT7

    Latin: (probably Henle)

    Lit: various study guides

    History: Teaching Company dvd's w/ lots of books

    Writing/Grammar: local tutor

    Geo: Trail Guide

    Music: Piano lessons

    Art: local class

    Logic: Fallacy Detective

    no formal science

    Question about Austen's novels and early 19th century British society . . .

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted

    Wow, this topic strikes my fancy for a few different reasons.

     

    I loved the article about "Emma" which is my Austin selection of the month (I'm trying to make it through the list this year).

     

    I just read P & P and I don't get the impression that Mr. Collins is "slimy" -- just a little odd and self-serving. The A & E show must have added some Hollywood to his character. He is a clergyman looking for a wife and was actually trying to help his relations by proposing marriage to a Bennet girl. I could be so wrong, though.

     

    As for the "daughter" issue, we adopted 2 little girls from China in the last few years so I have studied this issue in terms of Chinese culture. Girls are and have been considered property/burden in many societies/cultures from the beginning of time. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is a great book about this phenomenon in China.

     

    Back to Austin, I just watched the movie "Becoming Jane" last week and I was hoping to find out here if the movie is remotely factual. Anyone know?

     

    And yes, I also rented "The Jane Austin Book Club" which I was fairly disappointed with.

     

    Great topic, Michelle. Thanks for bringing it up. :)

    What do you use in your school that your chidlren consider "fun"?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    How ironic... I just had this conversation w/ a friend last week about the lack of "fun factor" in my homeschooling. I told her what I'll tell you: School is school. Fun is fun. We do school so we can have fun -- later. We work hard, play hard. We do have many giggles and smiles during our homeschool days. But not always. Some days are tough --and no one would consider them fun (especially on the whiny "Do I HAVE to do my writing?" days). All-in-all my kids love the way we do school at home. We get down to business so we can party later. :) Which is vastly different from the long days at their private school w/ hours of homework at night. AND they are learning more and having more fun w/ our rigorous homeschool schedule. Go figure.

     

    To answer your original question, though: My kids would say Latin is fun (how crazy is that?).

    Potters School

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted

    My former high school English teacher wrote the materials for TPS Narnia class and was a co-founder of the school. She is on the board still and speaks very highly of TPS.

     

    Chrissy, Did your ds take Mr. Spott's Latin course? Which writing course is he currently taking?

     

    Thanks!!

    Beth

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