Thank you all for your help. I've signed her up to Write At Home's first high school writing class and to Lantern's 8 week courses. Also, a couple more questions - has anyone tried Blue Tent Online? How would they compare and contrast to Well Trained Mind's classes? Especially for science classes? My kiddo wants to do either Biology or Chemistry as her first high school science class. Any recommendations on which class she should take first? As always, thank you. And how does a homeschooled child meet her high school visual arts requirement? I was thinking that maybe an art history class would be good. I'm deeply appreciative of all the help I've gotten here, eternally grateful. I decided to home school out of necessity, my daughter's special-ed school in NYC had a weak curriculum and NYC is so competitive that she'd have a hard time getting into a decent private or public. I wasn't willing to let her underachieve just because she has some disabilities.

@cintinative Thank you! These are wonderful recommendations. Thank you again! I will research them. We live in NYC with its weird rules and regulations on what home schooled kids can do. It is surprisingly hard to pull together a challenging but developmentally appropriate curriculum for my kiddo. I really appreciate your help.

Hi @cintinative! Thank you so much for all the detailed questions. 1. I don't mind if the classes are not combined, that might actually make things slightly easier, but combined is ok as well -- I'll support her differently. Her current class combines reading and composition so that's been kind of intense. 2. She greatly enjoys reading about world cultures, especially through a contemporary lens because we travel a lot and she's visited many countries; she loves Asian and Eurpoean countries the most. 3. I suspect that a slower paced class might be better, but I realize that I might be defensive given everything she's struggled with. Her tutor says that she can handle harder literature. I've never tried audiobooks, but that is an excellent idea, so thank you for that. 4. Asynchronous for writing might work just fine because we will augment that with a live tutor or mom. Thank you so much for writing back so promptly. I truly appreciate the support.

Hi all, My daughter, who just turned 15, has been homeschooled through middle school. She's attended classes at her local homeschool coop in NYC. While we love the coop, they don't grade and since she's entering the critical high school years, we need pesky things like grades to demonstrate that she has done quality work. My daughter is twice exceptional and reading/writing have been the areas of struggle because she struggles with severe visual processing problems. These are resolving with intense therapy and I'm looking for a curriculum for 9th grade English that will be honors level and challenging, but something that she can do with her tutors who are happy to grade her if necessary but we would prefer external graders. We're doing a biology class with WTM, AOPS for Math (Intermediate Algebra), maybe Derek Owens for Geometry (she's a math lover). I'd greatly appreciate any recommendations for English and Writing. Blue Tent's first class looks perfect but they are overbooked. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated. And I'm sorry if I have posted this in the wrong forum.