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  1. and I truly do not know much, but I have heard that the ACT essay has a different format, that the student is supposed to include reasonable objections to their thesis and rebut those. I am pretty unclear on what is precisely required, but if your student is doing the writing portion, it would probably be beneficial to know the format requirements and practice them.
  2. I've been pondering what to use for my last student, and this looks like it may be just what he needs. Can someone list some ISBNs for the student books? Jann in TX, could you share a bit about the teacher supplement and any other materials you've found useful? I'd like this course to be a WOW course for ds. He is very auditory and is discovering a very late-blooming love for math. I'd like to knock this one out of the park for/with him. :) TIA!!
  3. around here, many of the top performing kids who are *extremely* busy during the school year (think band season, for example) or who letter in a fall sport and do drama, complete their applications during the summer.
  4. :iagree::iagree::iagree: Of course, my FIL had to put up with my foibles, too. For some odd reason, I didn't like the dogs' dish on the kitchen counter when he was mixing up their food, and things like that! :)
  5. Messiah was one of the last three colleges left standing in dd's college search. It is the school that I most would have liked for her to attend, of the colleges she looked at. Even though they offered very generous financial aid, we were not able to stomach the debt she would have had to incur to attend, so she chose another college that I think she will be very happy with. There were many things dd liked about Messiah, and I have no doubt she would have gotten a fantastic education there. (I am a Wheaton grad, and I would have been entirely comfortable with the rigor of the education at Messiah. Some other places, not so much.) What set them apart from any of the other colleges she visited was the feel of "family" that we had, from the very beginning of getting to know Messiah all the way to the end. The admissions people went far, far above and beyond, treating her exactly like a good friend's daughter--picking her up at the airport, housing her through the PA blizzard, helping her reschedule flights, lending her snow gear, etc. Every time they called us and spoke with me or her, they were personable, gracious, and very articulate. With several of the other Christian colleges we/she visited, we were made to feel as though they were doing us a great favor arranging a campus visit for us. Sigh! The faculty she met on the honors interview weekend were all very different from one another, and all were warm and engaging. She did not care for one departmental administrator, but that was because the person "mentally turned off" when it became clear that dd was not primarily interested in that department but in another. (I might have done the same thing on a long, busy day.) Several of the faculty made a special effort to continue to connect with dd during times that were not pre-scheduled, inviting her to meals or to visit areas of campus they thought might she might enjoy; one made it a point to go with her to visit the service/ministry office, because the knew that was important to her. While she was on campus, she noticed a general atmosphere of trust and safety that she had not experienced other places. People walked away from their laptops, left food in the community fridges, left bikes at racks without locking them. She asked about it and was told that, indeed, things did not get stolen, and people looked out for each other. Very different! The one slightly negative comment she had was that students seemed to have very little awareness of or interest in dressing smartly; what she described is what I would call "dowdy." Dd is generally a jeans and blouse gal, but she likes to look cute. That might not matter in the slightest to a guy, and it would not have been a deciding factor for her. I have more detail, but it is specific to her major/field, so probably not of much interest to you.
  6. Straight out of college, I worked in a doctor's office as an in-office lab tech. I ran a small lab for doing all the common blood tests like UAs, CBCs, BGs, etc. and drawing labs to be sent out. One morning, the back door to the office was not locked like it usually was, and I came in to find the office mgr (the MD's adult, married-with- kids son) drinking teA with the receptionist in an exam room. Ick! I didn't stay at that job long.
  7. of mine is entirely different from each other. I have one who is a fantastic scholar, one who is hugely gifted with electronics/AV/multi-media, and one who has wonderful people skills. While each of them is multi-faceted and their gifts overlap with each other to one degree or another, each is a different "package". I've just had an academic "glory" year with my senior, where the culmination of all she's done (and I along with her) has come to beutiful fruition. As her teacher and mom, I couldn't be prouder. I am moving my sights with the next one, though. When he blossoms, it will be in an entirely different arena. He will come into his own in a completely different way. While we work the academics, I am actively hunting for ways to help him develop his gifts--in outlets we never explored with either of the first two. To do that, I'm having to reset mentally, since "book learnin'" is my favorite thing. :)
  8. Just about any course title you google, in combination with the keyword syllabus, will net you many options to choose from. :)
  9. Katiebug, we used to have bamboo, and I would try just about anything else before I'd plant bamboo. It is a grass and spreads like crazy with undrground runners. It is nearly impossible to eradicate. We chopped and chopped for years as bamboo would just keep coming up. Gahh!! There are many other thing that grow fast, including forsythia. (Ask MariannNOVA! :) ) If it were my problem, I'd stop my knee from jerking (it sure would be, given what you've described), I'd take my dds and play on the *other* side of my house, and plant something that I really would like to have in the yard long term. And, as soon as I had the money, I'd fence my yard. And I'd talk to the children about the danger the neighbors pose to them. And I'd call the police about the kidnapping comments and about the indecency. And I'd have dh talk to the neighbors telling them that their comments are not cute nor funny and to cut. it. out. Wishing you safety!
  10. If you wanted it to be like taking a college course, I'd have him plan the work for one or two of the "courses" that you are expecting him to complete this year, working from a one or two page course syllabus that you hand to him. Have him schedule his own work, plan when to complete his assignments, give him occasional pop quizzes over the reading, term papers to write, including a proposal that you have to approve, blog entries to upload which are "reactions" to his reading, and have him plan his own studying for the three timed exams that will constitute the majority of his grade. give him essay exams if he hasn't had any. English 101 and 102 (freshman courses) are about the only ones in which there is any sort of a writing process, so he has to learn to "get" (understand) the writing assignment with very little input from the prof. hth
  11. I'd like to make breakfast-type ground sausage and stop ingesting all the chemicals that come in the store bought stuff. My family will eat a variety of different brands, so the taste doesn't have to be "just so." Please share your recipe. Pretty please? TIA!
  12. I wanted to address two things. 1) Humidity: not very bad, unless you are used to *no* humidity, as in desert living. The humidity is about the same as VA, NJ, and IL in the summer for a few days, but mostly it is a dry, baking-in-the-oven kind of heat that assails you when you walk out the door in the dead of summer. I've lived in FL and spent a lot of time in Houston, and this is *nothing* like either of those. Once in a blue moom when we have an unusually humid summer day, we all talk about it feeling like FL! :lol: 2) In the Dallas area, there are two CC systems, Tarrant County College, and Dallas County Community College. For dual credit, DCCD will allow you to take any of the core courses, and you used to be able to take two courses per semester free of tuition if you were still in high school. If you brought your dd's cc transcript, you would probably find a lot of leeway in what she took. TCC is not tuition free, but ds could take anything he wanted there, inlucding the more vocationally oriented courses if he desired. If you are far north of the DFW area, up into Collin county, it has it's own CC system that I know nothing about. UT-Arlington will allow students to take early enrollment courses through their Honors Academy for about the same per course tuition as the CC, a huge discount (about 80%) over the full tuition. That "scholarship" is only for Honors Academy enrollees, though, so you'd have to work through them, not just be an EA student. You can check their webpage to see what the current requirements are, i.e. she would have to have certain PSAT or ACT score to be admitted to the HA program. It has been a wonderful opportunity for my two eldest--I have nothing but good to say about the Honors Academy and the Honors College personnel. They have been wonderful! HTH
  13. Nicole, The course grade for several of my kids' state university courses (which they took dual credit in high school) was composed entirely of the scores on the three exams in the class. These were usually gen ed courses, but one was actually a required engineering math course. (Ouch--nothing to pad the exam scores!) Basing the course grade entirely on the tests is within the range of normal; in your son's case, his body of knowledge for the course was pre-learned. :lol: hth
  14. How wonderful that you both are interested in Hillsdale! Had I the chance to do college over, I'd do it twice, once at Hillsdale in something along the lines of a public policy-related field, and again at Messiah, in something "people-y". :D None of my kids has taken off in anything that would make Hillsdale a first choice, but I do love that institution. One of dd's good online friends from Torrey classes may very well go there next year. And the summer trip, lucky him!! I hope it's the trip of his lifetime!!
  15. This made me laugh, although it was sad! Ds is a very skilled a/v guy, from working volunteering (and finally paid now) at church. He has run sound for more funerals than you can imagine because of his daytime availabilty as a homeschooler. My mom (in FL) had a funny moment one day when she called and wanted me to drag the kids to a funeral for an extended family member none of us knew, who had lived in my area. B/c she couldn't be here, I was going in her place. She was having one of "those moments," in which the generational divide seems very wide and she suddenly had a desire to close the gap. In her mind, it was very important that my kids know how to go to and behave at funerals. (Important life skill, that one! ;) ) It was a bit ironic that ds had probably been to more funerals than she and I combined!
  16. Robert Byrd scholarship anyone? Has anyone had any success with the Robert Byrd scholarship? It looks like it is federally-funded, state dispersed merit aid. TIA
  17. has anyone had any success with the Robert Byrd scholarship? It looks like it is federaly-funded, state dispersed merit aid.
  18. The second one will be exactly what I would have told you, and I speak Spanish fluently. (Spent my entire childhood and most of my teen years in Central America.) Matroyska's likening the single-trilled /r/ to a /d/ is pretty close to what it should sound like, just remember to keep it very fast and light in the front of the mouth, with the tip of the tongue. It does not involve the the middle of the tongue and the mouth like when we say /duh/, at all. I taught my students to think of it like a /d/ that is un-emphasized, such as when you are saying d'Urberville, or DeGarmo, or some other name in which you almost don't hear the D up front. Another way to give you the location of this (tip of tongue, upper palette, front) is that it is just behind where we touch our tongues to say /th/ as in "this" or "that." The /kh/ for J is something I've never heard in Latin American pronunciation. (??) HTH
  19. Adding in one that missed the big list; re-adding ds and a couple others that somehow disappeared from the list) and4judge - DS#1 Furman University (attending), Sewanee - University of the South (accepted), Univerity of Alabama (accepted), University of Alabama in Birmingham (accepted), Birmingham- Southern College (accepted) Blue Hen - ds - University of Delaware, Case Western Reserve, CO School of Mines, Drexel (PA), Lehigh(PA), Rose-Hulman, Tulane, RPI (NY), Stony Brook University --- all acceptances. Brigid in NC - ds - accepted @ Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State (attending) CherylG's ds-UCLA, graduated, UCSB, UCSD, Westmont, all accepted. UMD-attending for master's in engineering. CherylG's dd-SBCC school of nursing-graduated. CindyMarsch's dd#1 - Grove City College - attending CindyMarsch's ds - Grove City College - attending CindyMarsch's dd#2 - Grove City College, Gordon College, Union University - all accepted, she's choosing UU Creekland's ds - Covenant College - attending fall 2010, Union University, Calvin College - acceptances Deb in NZ's dd - Bay of Plenty Polytechnic (begin Feb 2010) dkholland- ds - Covenant College (will attend in fall), Patrick Henry College (accepted) Grove City College (accepted) FloridaLisa -- ds1: accepted to: University of Florida, Florida State University (attending) Gwen in VA -- Washington & Lee (attending); acceptances from U Chicago, U Pitt, U Dallas, U Delaware, Hillsddale, UVA, William & Mary, College of Wooster, Case Western Kate in FL-ds-Cornell University (accepted Early Decision so all other apps had to be withdrawn) Kathy in Richmond - ds - MIT (attending), also accepted at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, U Michigan, and UVA. Kathy in Richmond - dd - accepted at Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, U Chicago, William & Mary, and wait-listed at Swarthmore Katia - ds- Ellsworth Community College (AA Computer Science) , Anderson University-attended , University of Northern Iowa (BA Computer Science), Kansai Gaidai University, Kyoto, Japan-attended Katia - dd#1- Hilldale College-attending , accepted at: Luther College, Ball State University, University of Northern Iowa, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music Katia- dd#2 - applying to: Hillsdale College , Warner University (accepted) Lady Lorna - dd accepted at Fordham University, Hillsdale College, The King's College, Middlebury College, St John's College, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College, Trinity College. Waitlisted The University of Chicago. Still waiting to hear from Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University LaJuana - dd#1 University of Dallas - graduated Summa cum Laude. Also accepted to Hillsdale. LaJuana - ds#1 University of Dallas - graduated Summa cum Laude. Also accepted to Hillsdale. Attending Westminster Theological Seminary (MDiv). LaJuana dd#2 Attending Oklahoma City University Bass School of Music (Musical Theatre and Vocal Performance). Also accepted at Samford University (AL), Whitworth University (WA), George Fox University (OR), Covenant College (GA), Houghton College (NY), Oklahoma Christian University. LaJuana ds#2 Attending Whitworth University. Also accepted at University of Dallas. (Except for dd majoring in MT and VP, my dc knew where they wanted to go, applied to two schools only, and were accepted at both.) Laughing Lioness - DS -Boyce College (KY) attending. Accepted to Augustana College (SD) and St. Mary's School of Nursing (SD). Lisa in TN's dd - Vanderbilt University - attending. Also accepted to Hillsdale College, Belmont University, University of Memphis. Lisa in TN's ds - Washington University in St. Louis - attending. Also accepted to the University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, Case Western Reserve University, University of Alabama, University of Tennessee. Liza Q's dd - Saint Francis College - attending. Kings College, St. John's University, Brooklyn College - accepted Luann in ID ds1 and ds2 - LeTourneau University - attending (They both knew they wanted to go there, so this is the only place they applied.) Margaret in CO--dd accepted to Western State College for dual credit, accepted to Hillsdale College, graduated, accepted to CU Boulder School of Music, finishing Master's Margaret in CO--dd accepted to Western State College for dual credit, accepted to USNA, attending finishing Firstie Year, accepted to flight school, acceptances: Hillsdale College, USAFA, USCGA, ERAU (on NROTC), School of Mines Margaret in CO--dd accepted to Western State College for dual credit I'm going to stick my should-have-been-son-in-law (killed last spring), accepted to Hillsdale College, transferred to WVU, graduated, accepted to Toledo Medical College. Mary in GA ds: Clayton State University (attended & transferred) Georgia Tech (attending) Michelle in GA ds- University of Georgia (accepted); Berry College (accepted); Georgia Tech (currently attending) Moira in MA dd -- Acceptances at Dalhousie U (Nova Scotia), McGill U (Montreal) Mommyfaithe's dd #1 (accepted College of St. Rose (NY) attended Sage College Albany, NY Graduated Summa Cum Laude Mommyfaithe's dd#2 Attending Russell Sage College. Accepted SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Albany, waiting to hear from Simmons College in Boston Mass. MSPolly's dd- Acceptances at Covenant(TN), Union U(TN), U of MS, Belhaven U(MS) - ATTENDING Collaborative Piano/Pedagogy major WAHOO! Ms. Riding Hood ds1- MIT (attending), Texas A&M, Rose-Hulman, Purdue Musicmom –ds- accepted at Carnegie Mellon (attending fall 2010), Cornell, University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Honors Program Newbie -dd- Accepted Chatham University(PA), Carlow University(PA), Mills College nrg - ds#1: attending BYU, accepted at Cal Tech, Stanford ds#2: attending UC Santa Cruz, accepted BYU ds#3: junior in hs Osmosis Mom Dd 1, Wellesley College (attending), accepted to Merrimack College, BU, Simmons, Emmanuel College Ruth in NC ds accepted St John in NM, Oberlin w/scholarship, Colorado College, Boston U, will attend UNC Chapel Hill, offered waitlist at Vanderbilt and Emory Ruth in NC dd accepted NC State, UNC Asheville, Appalachian State and Earlham w/scholarship, on Oberlin waitlist. Still deciding. Sharon in MD's ds-Drexel University -attending; UMBC-Meyerhoff program, UMD-College Park-College of Engineering, Messiah College- acceptances Spock - ds – accepted at Liberty University (plans to transfer after attending CC for a year) Susann-dd-Rose-Hulman, Purdue, University of Evansville, Trine, Taylor, Cedarville-acceptances Susie-Knits ds1 - Rose-Hulman, Valparaiso, U of Evansville, TN Tech - acceptances TransientChris's DS- George Mason U,attending; Hillsdale College- attended, Abilene Christian, Hampden-Sydney, St. Olaf- accepted Valerie(TX) - ds UT Arlington attended Valerie(TX) - dd accepted Biola (CA), Messiah (PA), Belhaven (MS), Mary Baldwin College (VA), UTA (TX), Hardin-Simmons (TX), Univ. of Mary Hardin-Baylor (TX), and Ouachita (AR). ATTENDING--Hardin-Simmons Outtamyshell - BYU Provo
  20. I'm sending you a case of vitual Kleenex--I stocked up last summer, and I have a few left. :) Congrats to you and dd--what a joyous occasion! I've asked the Father for his blessing on you and the entire family today and tomorrow. May His loving kindness be very evident throughout this special weekend and during the years to come in their marriage. Sending hugs!
  21. When I originally posted, I wasn't thinking about this being a transition to her becoming an independent young adult, but that is part of the reality as well! Thanks so much for your suggestions (...except for the knitting--anything but knitting!--LOL) and, as always, anyone with experience navigating these waters or simply good ideas related to them, is invited to post their thoughts as well! Thanks, all!
  22. I have decided that I don't want this summer to be all about the "lasts" with dd. Our life is not going to end when she leaves. Her life is not going to end because she is a graduate; we are both beginning new chapters, and hers will be a WOW. Yet we are both stuck in a rut looking at things nostalgically and with tears, realizing that, in many ways, we are coming to the end of what has been a very good thing. We need some balance. Not everything is ending, although much is changing. I need to start establishing some "firsts" with her, things that we do or share for the first time this summer, things that might turn into traditions that we share when she comes home to the family. Anyone have any experience or suggestions? What have you done with your young adult? I think, honestly, that we've had so much loss and so much stress in the extended family and with dh (health, injuries, and work issues) that I could be diagnosed with depression. Yes, I am taking steps to address that, but...one of the things that seems to have disappeared is my creativity and imagination! I'm hoping to find it soon, but in the mean time, could you all prime the pump for me and send any great ideas my way?? Thanks ever so much!
  23. what a beautiful little baby--she matches the rest of the family! ;) Congrats and best wishes for you all!
  24. and I found most of the information to be useful and some of it very necessary. The hour about paperwork, permissions, and what they could and couldn't do (by law) to keep parents in the loop was very informative. However, it was only two hours. :)
  25. 1) eldest - isn't pounding the pavement hard enough to get a job and is content to work the occasional day job filling in on ropes courses at all the local camps. Makes decent per hour $ doing that, but we've told him to get a full-time job. 2) Dd, not quite 18, looked for 6 weeks (33 interviews) before finding a fast food job at an upscale fast food place. She likes the job, but isn't quite getting enough hours yet. Still looking for a second job. So many places she wanted to work don't hire under 18 year olds. 3) Ds is only 15. Another fast food place would have hired him, b/c he cultivated a good relationship with the mgr, but the second mgr said not until he's 16. Sigh...this after 4 weeks of persistence. Instead, he and I both took a day job at a local Christian camp, so he can work at *something*. (He's too young to drive there, so I am working and providing transportation.) Tough times for young workers.
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