Kathy, Thank you SO much for your response! This is very helpful (as always). I was starting to think there were no Latin geeks on this board, which would be very sad indeed :) I've ordered from Bolchazy-Carducci in the past; it's a wonderful site - I will definitely spend more time on it now that I have an idea of what to look for. I'll have to dig through Ester Maria's old posts too. Thanks again!

Our piano teacher absolutely loves the Celebration Series of piano books. She feels it is a thorough, complete package. I dont know if your dd could do it on her own, but it may be worth a look. The repertoire alone is head and shoulders above most of the piano curricula I've seen. Hope that helps

So, I'm thinking long term here, and just trying to get a sense of where the road leads. We have just started to get intense with Latin study, and if all goes as planned, (ha!), my dd will finish the equivalent of high school Latin 3 by about 8th grade. So, assuming I have all of high school to really study Latin texts, what would a course of study look like? How do you pick whom to study, and which selections? Especially if you have the luxury of going off the beaten track. My Latin is rusty, but I'm brushing up on it. I did AP Vergil in high school. That was the end of my Latin, except for one class in college, which I absolutely loved, but can't even remember what we studied :blush: I'm perfectly willing to outsource when it becomes necessary, but I should be good for at least the next few years. I'll be back to ask about Greek later. Never studied that one. Have no clue. Will see what I think when my Greek books arrive! Thanks for your thoughts and any help/advice!

Maybe the MCT literature program? 3 books per year. I think there are two sets so far. I don't know how many he is planning to put out. The books have notes (mostly poetics and vocab), and then there are separate teachers guides.

I've been going through the same exercise! I ended up with mostly the same list, but my breakdown is a bit different. Latin will be a focus, but I think 30 mins a day. There is no way my daughter can spend 1 hour a day on it! Math, on the other hand, is more like 90 minutes a day, and often more. Spelling is once a week for 30 mins. Grammar is about 3 to 4 times a week for 20-30 mins. We recently started Analytical Grammar, and this is what we will continue with next year. History, we will be starting Human Odyssey, with a goal of 1 chapter per week. I'm hoping this can get done in about 3 hours, but I have no idea. Writing will probably end up at a minimum of 45 minutes per day. We are still slogging through WWE4 and won't finish until next year some time. After that we will move to WWS. Science, we will continue with BFSU book 1 and start on 2 when we finish it. I'm thinking 2-3 hours per week. Reading for now will continue as is. She reads what she chooses, in her own time, and we discuss occasionally. This has been working well and I don't want to mess with a good thing! She has read a lot of great stuff this year. She has piano twice a week and gets plenty of music theory that way. I have music history and art history tentatively scheduled for alternating Fridays. And that just leaves geography, which gets shoehorned in somewhere. :) So, I think all that ends up at about 5 hours per day, which doesn't include things like 30-45 mins of piano practice and daily Kumon worksheets. I'm ditching the modern language for now. I'm excited and nervous at the same time!

Here is ours: Math: continue with AoPS Algebra. Continue with Kumon. Science: finish BFSU 1 and move into BFSU 2. Toying with adding something else in, not sure what yet. Writing: finish WWE4 and start WWS Grammar: continue with Analytical Grammar season 1 and possibly do Season 2 Spelling: finish Spelling Workout F and start G Reading: free choice Latin: continue with So You Really Want to Learn Latin Book 1. Hopefully, if she doesn't blow up, we will finish this and start Book 2 :D History: continue with SOTW2 with younger sister. Start K12 Human Odyssey book 1 - read a chapter a week and summarize. Art History/Music History once a week Poetry memorization. I dropped the ball this year, as I didn't like many of the selections in FLL4. I've bought several anthologies for my kindle and plan to pick out mutually agreeable selections over the summer. I have plenty of logic materials, but I think she may get enough logic from the Latin and the math. Piano, chess, tennis, ballet I'm a little nervous as several of these will stretch her. It's going to be a big step up. We are ramping up for the next several weeks to get used to the pacing and difficulty.

I just found this through the AOPS website last night: http://homeschoolmathcontests.com/individualchart.aspx

If you really just want her to like history, why not get Human Odyssey, assign a chapter a week, and discuss a bit? The writing is so engaging. This is what I'm planning to do, with hopefully, but not critically, some written narrations. This is how we've been doing SOTW this year and it's been great. They love it, it's simple so it gets done often, and their retention has been great. We've done only two related readings - Gilgamesh and a reselling of Beowulf that was phenomenal (by Robert Nye). Sounds a bit like heresy, but it works for us! Last year I planned out all the related activities and readings, and we did only four chapters the entire year! Just a thought.

Well sure, AP Latin, but I was thinking more in terms of having time to really dig into the literature. I think if we do it right, we should have all of high school for that. At least that's my plan :D

I'm in the same boat as you re the ages of my kids, but I'm also thinking backwards on Latin, and, possibly, Greek. I want to have plenty of time to actually read, so we need to move at a certain pace to get the morphology, grammar, syntax, etc down.

Ok, maybe this will be more helpful. Down on the bottom of this screen, under similar threads, is one entitled "linguistics?". Looks like there are many suggestions there. Yes, I am so lame I don't know how to link a thread :blushing:

Here are two books that may be relevant, although they both look more neuroscience rather than anthropological. The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language, by Christine Kenneally Talking Hands, by Margalit Fox I haven't read either of them, but acquired them because they sounded interesting. I majored in linguistics way back when, but most of it is lost in the fogs of time...:D

You can buy just the American Odyssey book from the k12 website. It is $125. You can also buy the Human Odyssey books there, but they are $99 each. You can't get the World History book though.

I was thinking about this too. My rising 5th grader is doing So You Really Want to Learn Latin book 1. We are only in chapter 3. I'd love to use Lukeion. I just think it will be too much for her. I'm hoping for 6th grade. I started working through Wheelocks and it just moves too fast IMO for my 10yo. Sorry. I'm sure that was useless.

I have found it necessary to check answers so far. Really, I had no idea of all the different words that could be pronouns! I thought I, me, my mine, etc. were about it. So, if you are good at grammar, you might be fine without it. I thought I was decent, but I don't have the detailed knowledge I need. Once I've gone through it with one kid, I'll probably be fine for the next ones. Hope that helps!

My dd9 finished FLL4 a few weeks ago. We looked at Hake, Rod and Staff, and Analytical Grammar (not junior). She and I decided to go with Analytical Grammar. I thought the amount of review and repetition for the other two would just kill her. We are only in Unit 2, but I really like it so far. It's straightforward, challenging, and independent.

In amazon, try typing "brief biographies founding fathers" You'll get a few different search result sets, with different combos of words. I think the third grouping has what you are looking for, but I didn't check to see if they are all included. Hope that helps!

This is me! I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. We need a support group.

I'd go with it! In fact I have gone with it. My kids know they have a free pass if they ever want to spend the whole of school time doing math. In my experience they will do it anywhere from one day to a few weeks, and then they are ready to go back to "balance". I absolutely love it when they get on one of these kicks.

My almost 8yo DD is working thru SM 6A and I had no hesitation in ordering BA! I don't think it will be too easy!

Mine just came!! Connecticut. I thought I had shown restraint, but apparently I did spring for the priority shipping. It was 3:30am :blush::blush::blush: By the way, I LOVE the "nerds" tag on this thread. I am resolutely not looking at it until tomorrow. My younger dd is almost 8, working through SM 6A. My plan is to integrate BA while she completes SM 6A and B and then continue with BA until she's ready for the pre-algebra book. So probably a year and a half or so. I think the depth of this prevents it from being boring or just review. The sample chapter was awesome. I anticipate this will really solidify her understanding.

I'm also doing AoPS pre-algebra with my nine year old. I wouldn't say she is flying through it (depends on the chapter), but she has definitely gotten the hang of how it works. We just finished up chapter 12, but we spend a LOT of time on math. I really can't say enough good things about this curriculum. My child is a different math person than she was six months ago. Anyway, back to the actual question. My plan is to go on to Algebra after this. My thinking is that we will do the first 12 chapters, which I think corresponds to Algebra 1, then the number theory and counting books, and then back to algebra. I am basing this on the AoPS website, which lists their courses in order of difficulty. We did try the algebra book before the pre-algebra. It was too hard then, but mostly because the approach was so unfamiliar. I think it will be fine after we finish this book. We will just go at the pace that works. Hope that helps. I'm happy to do more raving about AoPS and the prealgebra book if anyone cares to listen :D

I was told mine shipped yesterday :001_smile:

We started some time in September and we just finished 5.5. Chapters 1 and 2 were really slow, as she had to get used to the new way of thinking. Now we do a section about every 1-2 days, and take about 3 days for the chapter ends. I've definitely seen an improvement in how she thinks and I'm so happy we decided to do this book!

Faith, I just want to thank you for that absolutely fascinating look into a music performance major. I have read some of your earlier Posts about it as well. I just started taking piano lessons again with my children's wonderful teacher, and she has commented on how most of the people she know who majored in music performance ended up hating music. And that it's the retired attorneys and doctors who enjoy the piano the most because they actually have time to practice! In 40 years of teaching she has never recommended to one of her students to pursue a career in music because of how brutal it is. I can now see why :) Thanks again.