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​Any opinions on the following books? Planning unit on explorers of New World.
​Walk the World's Rim
​The King's Fifth
​Pedro's Journal
​Daughter in 7th grade in the fall and is dyslexic. I will likely be reading these books to her, so I want to read the best one(s). What do you think? Is one better than another? Are they all good? Is one slow going but ever so worth it? Any different lit suggestions?
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Yes, good idea. I ususally think of Pinteret for recipes I guess. :)
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I guess from the lack of responses here that my topic is too broad. How about any ideas for explorers and navigation or 13 colonies? Hands-on, notebook pages, etc? Surely someone has done this time period with their dc and blogged about it? Thanks everyone.
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Can anyone point me to resources that flesh this curriculum out? Dd finds the Veritas Press cards and worksheets dry and boring. I've done this time period several times with other dc, so I already have great lists of books that I love to go along with the year. What I need are lots of hands-on activites, visual aids, and projects for my 7th grader (who is also dyslexic--very slow reader, terrible speller, no grammar skills but actually likes writing as long as some creative element is involved.)
I also have SOTW vol. 3 that I'll probably be supplementing quite a bit with. Any blogs or websites that might help me make this time period interesting for her?
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Great question. I haven't been on the boards in a long time, but I came back today looking for exactly what you've asked. My dd (12) is dyslexic, so I'm looking for anything to help her succeed in the middle school years. She's come a long way, and I too would suggest looking into Don Potter's website. The information that I found on his website turned learning to read into something positive for my dd. We now use All About Spelling. Spelling is her worst subject second only to grammar. Anyone have any suggestions for a good grammar program for a dyslexic 12 year old who basically can barely remember to capitalize the first word in a sentence and put a period on the end?
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Jean, thanks so much for all your help. This is so weird, but I do think we see something different on our screens than you see. I wonder if it has something to do with how we signed up (parent vs teacher?). Not sure.
That being said, I think I kind of now have things set up the way I want. I finally got the correct missions to show up on both of my kids' homepages (dashboards?). Unfortunately I have no idea HOW I did it, since I tried so many different things! *sigh* But I do have it working, at least for now.
ABQmom - it does sounds like you are your DC's coach. I did figure out the Make a Recommendation thing using the Khan PDF, but that PDF *assumes* that you already have your child in a class. Have you created a class, and added your child to it? I had to do that *first*, and then I could use the Khan PDF to send a recommendation.
I think this might be how you can do it without having your kids in a class first:
When you first log in, does it put you on this page: https://www.khanacademy.org/parent ?
If so, go to your name on the far right top and look at the dropdown menu there. My menu options are: Profile, Learning Home, Your Students, Your Children, Settings, Help ,Logout. Is that what you have?
If so, click on Your Students.
The next page that appears is https://www.khanacademy.org/coach/dashboard
Across the very top I have Khan Academy logo, then Subjects dropdown menu, then a Search box, Home, Notifications, then my name menu.
Just below that I have another set of tabs that are: Dashboard, Manage Students, Student Progress, Skill Progress, Grid, Activity, Real Time, Programs. Is that what you have?
If so, click on Student Progress.
The next page shows the same top menus and tab list, but under that it has something that says Class with a dropdown menu beside it, and then Mission also with a dropdown.
Click on Class to see the dropdown, and choose All students.
Scroll down on that page and in the lower left quadrant is a list of your students by login. Click on the student to whom you are wanting to send a recommendation.
That students information now shows up on the lower right quadrant (across from the list of names). There is also a link there for Make a Recommendation.
Have to admit I don’t know much about making recommendations since I just want my kids working on whatever is next in their mission (since we mainly use Khan for review), but does that help you at least be able to do it if you want to?
This is it!!! This works for me!!! Oh my word, thank you, thank you, thank you!! I thought I was going crazy.
:hurray: :hurray: :hurray:
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Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure this out. So, I followed your directions--I still see no place where the word coach exists. I see the Khan logo--clicked that. Nothing. So then I looked around more and found a place where it said your child needed to add you as a coach to his account. So we started to do that, but I noticed that on his account, I am listed as his coach. I've also been getting e-mails for the last couple of weeks explaining his progress, etc. I even got on a different computer today to see if my laptop was just having a problem. Still nothing. Thanks Jean for your help. I appreciate you taking the time. I guess if I don't figure it out, I will need to find something else for math. Sigh.
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Are you signed up as a coach? At the very top of my Khan page I have: the Khan academy logo, Subject (drop down menu), Coach (in green), Search etc.
I think you can add yourself as a coach by clicking on the Khan logo and then where it says coaches on the top right hand side.
Well, I thought that I was; however, I see everything you've explained BUT the word coach. I will look into what I've done wrong--hopefully that's it! It's gotta be, right?
:001_smile: Thanks!
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coach - student progress - (student's name) - right hand side : make a recommendation
Hmmm.... Okay, so I go to my name in upper right hand corner. A menu drops down and I click "your children". The next screen should have "coach" somewhere to click? I don't see it. :confused1: If I try clicking on son's name first, I still don't see the word "coach" anywhere that produces what I'm looking for.
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I am a bit frustrated again tonight. I cannot for the life of me figure out how I made a coach recommendation! I've done it twice now, but for some reason, I can't do it again like I did before. I'm clicking on my name, then "your children", but there is no place that I can see to go from there successfully. I'm sure I'm just missing something. Can someone help? I've read the directions from the Khan PDF, but they don't match up with what I am seeing on my screen. TIA.
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So, you go to the tab that says Progress. (Across the top there are the following tabs: Profile / Badges / Progress / Discussion / Programs).
Then underneath, sub-tabs show up: Skills / Coach Recommendations / Videos / Activity / Focus. This is where you get all your info.
Skills should show up as the default after you hit Progress.
On the Skills page, there's a horizontal bar chart across the top that gives you an overview of how far he's gotten in the Challenge - How many he's Mastered vs. Practiced, if he's Struggling in anything. Below that is a list of topic areas (for example, MIssion Foundations, Intro to Algebra, Linear Equations). If you click on the little arrow to the left of each larger topic area, it expands so the whole list of individual topics show up. The topics he's worked on that day (or over whatever timeframe you've chosen to view) will be highlighted in dark blue, with the total number of questions attempted and how much time he spent on each topic to the right. If you click on one of the dark blue highlighted topics (they are hyperlinks), you will be brought to a page with a bar chart showing how many problems he tried and how many he got right/wrong, as well as whether he used a hin or watched a video. Then, if you click on one of the bars, it will bring you to the problem itself, show you what it is, and what answer he gave.
Coach recommendations can be given from a few places. There will be a link on the upper right of each bar chart like the one I mention above - unfortunately it does not automatically recommend the topic you're looking at (I think it should). It brings up a list of every darned topic Khan has, even ones not in the challenge (??). Use Ctrl-F to search for the topic you want to recommend. You can use the Coach Recommendation tab to track how he's doing with them.
Activity gives you a bar chart with how much time he's spent on Khan that day or over whatever timeframe you've chosen to look at. Unfortunately, there's an ongoing bug so that today's time either doesn't show up or is wildly inaccurate, so I look back a few days to at least see the past. I have reported this, but it persists.
Focus is the little pie/donut chart showing how much time he's spent on each subject he's attempted that day (or timeframe you've chosen to look at).
Badges are indeed just for motivation, but if you click on the Badges tab here, you can see exactly what the badge was given for (5 in a row correct, Persistence on a topic, etc.)
Dd always does as many Mastery Challenges as it will let her, then picks topics till her time's up, which I've set at 15 min. for practice/review. It was more over the summer when we weren't doing regular math.
hth!!
Ok, so Monday is here and were are working on Khan again. Sigh. I do not understand about the horizontal bar chart--I see the colored bar chart and numbers when I hover over them, but I have no idea what those numbers mean. Also, I get how to view the problem he worked on and got wrong, but I don't see his answer anywhere. You had stated that it showed the answer he gave? I can't find it. This program is either not very user friendly, or I'm just slow. :) Does anyone else find Khan hard to figure out?
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Matryoshka,
Thanks so much for all this detail. I am currently working through your descriptions, so I may have more questions, but I wanted to say thanks!
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As Matryoshka said, you have to get 5 in a row correct. If you do, they will put you up a level. Then you get a chance to prove your knowledge in a mastery challenge. If you get those problems correct, then you will be leveled up. If you don't, then it will put you back to the previous level to practice some more. If you level up, it will keep asking you similar problems (but with a slightly higher difficulty) until you actually hit mastery. There are 4 levels in all (practice, level 1, level 2 and mastery). I require my kids to do all mastery challenges available (if any) and then (depending on the child and their ability) two or three new skills.
Hmm... So, are the mastery challenges optional? What do you mean when you say you "require" your kids to do them if available? My ds won't do anything I haven't required. Ha!
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Are you signed up as his coach? You can definitely see what he's gotten wrong and right, by problem, including what his answer was. It will track back in a focus topic over a large number of problems. You can also see exactly which kinds of problems he's worked on that day (or you can select longer time frames), individually and there's also a kind of pie chart that shows how much relative time he spent on each topic. You can also give him a "coach recommendation" for working on a topic (I usually recommend things my dd has had trouble with - she has to then get 5 in a row right. This usually gets her over the hump).
If you are signed up as his coach, tell me what screen you're looking at and I should be able to point you in the right direction. If you're not, go do that first. :)
Yes, I am his coach. Okay, so I see now the problem he did by hovering over the bar graph. But, I don't see his answer or what the correct answer is--just the problem. I see whether or not he got it right or wrong....
I don't understand what you mean by "track back in a focus topic..." Sorry! I feel so illiterate!
Ok, I did see the pie chart, but now I can't find it again. I've been looking at the "active summary" page. How do I give him a coach recommendation?
Also, what do those badges tell me? Or, are they just for the student for motivation? And, I see energy points? What are those?
Thanks for taking the time to help. I feel like a dummy!
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So, I have my son started on Khan Academy Algebra thanks to the help of this board. Now, I just don't understand how to track his progress. Any helps on how to figure this out? I see the activity summary, but I don't know how to use the information. "Oh, good job son. You got 13 badges today." or "Good job son, I see you are struggling with 1 skill, leveled up in 13 skills, and need practice with 3 skills." What does any of that even mean?? I'm lost because I can't see, for instance, how many he got wrong and what the mistakes were. Will Khan move him to practice those skills he needs practice in. What do I do in the meantime? This is definitely a learning curve for me.
Another question: How much time do you all expect your children to work on this daily? My ds isn't self-motivated in math. He will need me to say, "Do this for X amount of minutes every day."
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I would like to start using Khan Academy Algebra I for my ninth grade boy. We signed up, but I cannot find anywhere that tells me how to use the site effectively. My questions are things like, what is the scope and sequence he will follow? How much should he do each day in order to make the best progress? Etc. I feel like I am just looking at bunch of information that I don't understand and can't find anywhere that explains it all to me. My son feels like he is doing a bunch of busy work on the computer with no real direction--just an endless supply of math problems being thrown at him.
How do you all use this site? How did you figure out what to do and how to progress? How do you use the site mainly--as a supplement or as your main curriculum? Can it be used as the sole source of Algebra instruction?
Thanks for taking the time to help.
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My husband is planning on teaching a speech class to a group of 10th-12th graders this fall. He is looking at several programs, but really wants info about Abeka's book--Speech for Today. Has anyone used it? What all does it include? Did you like the program and why or why not?
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Is this all they are reading for 11th grade? If so, I'm not jumping up and down about it. It doesn't strike me as a very substantial list for 11th graders. Nor am I jumping up and down about it as a list to send them off into the world with a better understanding of life or others.
I guess it depends on what the goals are for these girls, where they are now. But even if they were slower readers who aren't going to college, I'm not sure I'd spend time on the books you have. I know some of them are very popular, but they mostly leave me cold and bored.
If you want substantial then you keep Heart of Darkness, Huck Finn, and A Tale of Two Cities. If you want to learn about others keep Heart and Huck.
My list is just the books we are considering so far--very much in the working stage and not a final one by any means. If you have time, I would love to have more specifics on why you would be left "cold and bored". Definitely don't want the kids feeling that about our lit year! Others aren't liking Heart of Darkness--what do you find appealing about it? If you have time...
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I am working on a literature list for my girls who will be entering 10th and 12th grades this fall. They will be reading these in a co-op setting so there's no rhyme or reason to which books we are looking at---just that we need books the kids will read but haven't read before.
I need opinions and input because I have read only a couple of the books I'm thinking of using. The kids don't like "gross" stories, yet they don't want to be bored. I'm trying to balance the list out between uplifting stories/depressing ones and hard to read/easier to read. What do you think? What would you change? Eliminate? Keep?
These books are the ones I'm leaning more heavily on using:
1. Watership Down
2. Til We Have Faces
3. Huck Finn
4. The Yearling
5. Tale of Two Cities
These books I really know nothing about:
6. Farenheit 451
7. Heart of Darkness
8. Murder at the Cathedral
9. Out of the Silent Planet
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Thank you so much everyone. There are some great ideas here that I have not yet tried. I'm going to print all these ideas out and start using them. I knew I could count on the hive! Thanks again to all who have replied--very helpful.
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My littlest is finishing up her third grade year. She struggles with the reading process. She has really come a long way and improves every day just a bit, so I am grateful. She still has to sound out so many words that reading fluently is a problem for her. She isn't doing nearly the amout of backward reading and reversals that she was--just occassionally now she will still reverse "b" and "d" or "was" and "saw". She also does some of what I call lazy reading---"then" instead of "when" or "a" when the word is "the", or "there" instead of "where". She can go back and correct those things when she realizes the sentence makes no sense, but the whole process is so slow!
Any suggestions for something I might use or do to help her fluency? I would guess that after this year, she is reading on about a 2nd grade level.
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We're doing Poe too. The Raven plus some short stories. I found these online...
http://www.neabigread.org/books/edgarallanpoe/teachersguide02.php
Figuratively Speaking utilizes excerpts from a few of Poe's poems (offhand I remember The Bells, The Raven) to discuss literary terms. Perhaps you could use it as a springboard to analyzing his other poems?A couple more Poe-related resources:
Thanks for these links!
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We did The Raven.... Wrote out the text and marked it for meter and rhyme, found alliteration and consonance/assonance, interesting word choices, etc. But then we did some interesting followup stuff too.
We compared it to a rewritten version without the letter E in A Void (Georges Perec), and talked about how much of the sound of the poem was retained even with very different words... We watched a youtube of a Simpsons Halloween episode with Bart as the raven (LOL).... We read a paper Poe wrote about his writing process, called "The Philosophy of Composition", and we read a critical (very critical) essay by T.S. Eliot called "From Poe to Valery".
I thought it was a good poem for discussing word choice (especially with Poe's self-analysis and Eliot's criticism), the significance of the sound of the poem (with Perec's rewriting), and issues of performance (The Simpsons). The performance discussion continued with other poems (Allen Ginsberg does a terrible job reading his own poetry!), and the overlap between poetry and song lyrics (Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen).
It's not the world's best poem, but it's well known, widely discussed, and accessible.... and I just like it. :)
Thanks for the info!
And, I know, I like it too :)
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Does anyone have any ideas about how to teach his poetry? Any helpful resources or ideas for projects or ways to analyze it? I'm drawing a blank.
Walk the World's Rim and other explorer books
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Thank you Lori D. for your thoughtful helps!
I have not heard of Morning Girl. I'll check into it. Thanks!