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Help! I have an upcoming 8th Grader - in August. She has just turned 13 years old and really has no idea what she wants to do with her life - college wise. One minute she is loving the idea of early childhood education - the next she is considering wanting to become an optometrist. The question I have is how do we KNOW whether our daughter would be able to be smart enough to do premed or not We are in the South Pacific and we start our school year next week. I had planned to do BJU DVDs for science for high school. This year she will be starting with Earth Science. But, if she is considering premed then I would probably prefer she do an online course like a TPS science course - where there is more teacher contact and better labs than what we do on our own. We have missed out on the General Science year - she did Life Science with BJU DVD last year - which was really, really difficult and technical for an 11/12 year old. Do I get the Apologia book on General Science and look at signing her up for TPS Physical Science in August - IN THE CASE - she may want to do something medical in the future? How do we know whether she would be able to handle the science / pre med? I was thinking that an online science class would give us some idea of whether or not she is good at science. We have done science by DVD since she was in Grade 3, so I honestly just don't know. Should I know? As a homeschooling parent how do we work out which pathway to take? I would not want to limit her options. Thanks in advance. Sherid
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I am trying to decided between a few novel studies for DD11 & it is very difficult to pick from the small blurb on amazon. If anyone has read these books as they are winners please advise :) They are Progeny Pres Novel Studies: Crispin: The Cross of Lead OR Door in the Wall Then which of these have you enjoyed reading: Shadow Spinner The Giver (is this appropriate for an 11 year old?) Tuck Everlasting The Cay The Hobbit Which books did you enjoy? Thanks
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BJU DVD High School Credits
CookIslandsMommy replied to CookIslandsMommy's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
No, none of that makes any sense to me. We are not American but are looking at sending our daughter to a Christian college in the USA. I was wondering whether the BJU DVD courses have High School Credits to put on our transcript - like how some course if they are full year normally say 1 High school credit of 0.5 high school credit. For example if I am looking at the TPS Online high school courses they have anywhere from 0-3 high school credits per course. So I am just wanting to find out what the credits would be for the high school BJU DVD history and science courses. Apologies if this doesn't make sense. Regards Sherid -
HI there, How do high school credits get applied to a student doing BJU DVD through Grades 9 - 12. Not in all subjects. We are looking at using DVDs for Science & History. Many thanks Sherid
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Apologia's Science Pathway
CookIslandsMommy replied to CookIslandsMommy's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
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I am trying to find out the pathway for Apologia Online classes. Which grade do they generally start with and which order do the classes go in? Thanks in advance :) Sherid
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Hello, DD11 is in Year 6 and I have been doing some planning and working out our pathway towards college. The last few days I have been working through Literature courses. This is what I have come up with - please offer any guidance as this will be the first time we are going through high school (and also the last :)) Grade 7: Lightning Lit (Grade 7) + Elegant Essay Grade 8: Lightning Lit (Grade 8) + Window to the World Grade 9: Excellence in Lit: Introduction to Lit Grade 10: EIL: Lit and Composition Grade 11: EIL: Am Lit Grade 12: EIL: British Lit Is it possible to try and work in alternative book titles in EIL? For example I would love to include Lord of the Flies into our 4 year sequence. Is it possible to try and apply the essay type assignments to other books? Is it also possible to try and do this pathway without any IEW courses? DD11 is currently doing: - WWS Level 1; - We do our own writing compositions, based on our history program each year - currently this is World HIstory and she is able to write historical fiction, diary entry, persuasive essays, information reports (research), procedural texts, news reports etc. She is comfortable writing between 1200-2000 words for each. - CLE Language Arts 6 - Progeny Press Novel Studies I would have preferred a Christian based Lit program but from the research and for what we are looking for -we are more interested in whole books, rather than selections. I am also very happy with the idea of essays being included with the Lit program. I am nervous about some of the book titles as DD11 is more sensitive and I would never have thought we would be going the ways of the classic books and Shakespeare but here we are! Regarding college prep and usual american course progression (we live in the Cook Islands) - when does grammar finish? We do CLE LArts. My DD is mostly self paced and self learned. The depth of grammar in US is huge compared to what I learned at school. So I am pleased she is being taught something of greater depth than what is offered here or previously. What generally happens with geography and history progressions? How do you all avoid double ups or overload with essays in both say history and lit? We had planned to start joining in BJU's DVD progression with history. I am not sure what essay type work is involved in these courses. We were planning on doing with BJU: G8 American Republic; G9 Cultural Geo G10 World History G11 US HIstory G12 American Govt. For maths we use CLE, an online program and will be adding in Chalk Dust DVD's - I am hoping we will eventually move towards the high school progression with Chalk Dust. We were also planning on following BJU science dvds progression as well. We will also have to add in other subjects like health, enterprise, cook islands social studies, P.E, VIsual Arts and Cook Islands Culture. If you have any advice and guidance I would appreciate this. Warm regards Sherid
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Writing with Skill OR CAP Writing & Rhetoric
CookIslandsMommy replied to CookIslandsMommy's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
Thank you so much! I have made the decision to go with WWS! Many thanks! -
Writing with Skill OR CAP Writing & Rhetoric
CookIslandsMommy posted a topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
If you had to pick one of these over the other for Garde 6 onwards, which would you pick? - do they both cover writing narratives? - for those of you who have done either program, what did you find worked well or did not work well? Thank you -
This is question for anyone that has used BJU Heritage Studies Grade 6. (Teaching from the Teacher's Guide) I am looking at using this. For those who have experience with HS 6, roughly how long does each lesson take? Are the review lessons easy to make for homework rather than taking up a whole lesson - how long would the review lesson take? Also how long do the tests in HS 6 roughly take your students to do? I am trying to plan my schedule for our upcoming year (we are in Australia). Thanks in advance :)
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Hi there, The College we are interested in for DD offers Dual Credit (College Now) courses for High school students starting Grade 7. They only offer a special pricing for the dual credit papers you do in the last year of high school. So...if we do papers randomly from Grade 7 onwards, then we would pay a higher price. - We are still trying to find out (we have emailed them) what the prices are for online papers without this "special" price. We are thinking (because it looks like the degrees by the time our daughter gets to college, with the past increases as evidence for future increase...that her degree will be around $60k per year. Totalling $240K, but the time she finishes. This is just crazy!! So we are trying to work out whether we can do this or not. I am so glad we are preparing so far in advance. Assuming we took a whole year off after her high school finishes, and she spends 1 year doing online classes.... then...in the years prior Grades 9 onwards (perhaps)...she can do a few papers here and there to make up the total available online courses that will benefit her degree to 13 papers she would have completed before starting college officially. Meaning it looks like it would save us 1 year of fees. (Depending on what the online courses cost) For those of you that have done Dual Enrolments while doing high school - how much is too much for a high schooler? - Is it better for us to do as many of these dual enrolments in the gap year after high school b4 college? - Is is better to get more scholarships if she does AP papers or dual credit papers? - Is there any point in doing an AP Maths Course, in high school - that gives college credits - BUT do not look like they will form part of her degrees? Like Calculus isn't on her Early Childhood Degree, so if we did it, wouldn't this just be a waste of time? We could do lots of AP papers, that are useful and do have college credits for the last few years of high school, give us better scholarship options? We are non Americans, so all this college prep is really crazy new to us. Please be patient with me :) I am being very organised because making the right curriculum choices, including online courses in the near future will hopefully benefit this process of making the college cheaper. For example...she is currently in Grade 6, doing CLE Maths but I watched the Chalk Dust Basic Maths course - and she has already done the things he presented. Perhaps we will be able to jump ahead in Grade 6 with their Grade 7 course. For those of you who have done Chalk Dust - does this help with college credits? Have you found it easy to "sell" on the transcript as an Honours or AP course? I would appreciate any help Regards Sherid
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Hi there, We are needing to pick an extract from a book, for a speech competition DD10 is taking part in. I have spent the last few days trying to come up with good choices, but I am having brain fog. It is 2 mins and under...we just need to pick an exciting, descriptive passage in a book. If you were going to pick a book for your child...which one would it be? Thanks in advance