Thank you so much for this information! We have the 1st edition which has no reference numbers anywhere. I didn't want to purchase the 2nd edition if it was not going to help resolve my son's frustration. Thank you for taking the time to respond! Laurie

Could you please tell me if the solutions manual has the lesson reference numbers for each problem? In the Advanced Mathematics solutions manual they are listed in parentheses right below the problem number. Thank you! Laurie

Not using this, but I'm also interested! My ds would like to try this next year and I'm still on the fence about purchasing.

No, ds hasn't read them all. He has read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. We will certainly look into the rest of the short stories/novels. He wouldn't want to watch the DVD before reading the story, it would just ruin the effect of a good story! Thank you for the reminder! Laurie

Great! I'll check this out. Give your dd a big thanks for me!

Thank you for the heads-up!

Wow! With such an positive response towards Jeremy Brett, I have ordered The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to start, and placed the other sets in my wish list! A big thank you to all who replied! Laurie

I appreciate everyone taking the time to respond. I'll start by searching for the series with Jeremy Brett. Thanks so much for all your help! Laurie

My ds has really enjoyed Sherlock Holmes stories and I would like to purchase a set of DVDs but do not want excessive adult content. Any ideas? Thanks! Laurie

I don't have littles, just high schoolers now, and I'm not running a home business, but I certainly have days when I long for those elementary years! I knew the basics and still managed to effortlessly learn more alongside the kids. What a fun time! My spouse helps by cheering us all on, he's my sounding board when I'm stressed and overwhelmed, he's the taxi cab for sports and field trips, and now he's helping with driving instruction, but he does not teach the regular courses. We also don't outsource such as co-ops, ect. but we have used German Online and private Japanese lessons. As for staying one step ahead... I'm not! I really wish I could but some (most?) of the material is very progressive and not something that one can just jump into in the middle. Mostly I have my students "teach" me to bring me up to speed a bit and then we can puzzle through together. Not perfect, but doable. This post doesn't offer you any helpful advice, I just want you to know that you are not alone. Like you, I find there are only so many hours in my day and I can only wear one hat at a time!

My family uses Sonlight curriculum so the literature is broken down each year - American Lit, World Lit, etc. For help with analysis, you might want to look at Teaching the Classics. http://www.centerforlit.com/

I give 20% to daily work and 80% for tests. The daily work gets full credit as long as the lesson has been completed and any errors have been reworked and corrected.

We have used Apologia for Physical Science, Biology, Chemistry (we included the MicroChem kit), Marine Biology, and Advanced Biology. Next year we will use Apologia for Physics. We find the material to be very user friendly. HTH!

My sons were grades 10 & 12. We completed the study in one school year. Reading/study time approximately 1-2 hours per week depending on the reader. Time for work on projects, reports, etc. varies depending on what the student chooses. IMHO not an overwhelming study, but certainly a high school level - full 1 year course. Completely adaptable with the list of various activities to choose from. If you have more questions, ask away and I'll try to answer them for you. HTH!

Under the Quick Download section click on "High School" for the samples. It will bring you into a pdf file over 200 pages long. The sample pages for Gombrich would be pp. 175-179 -- Table of Contents for the syllabus and a sample lesson.

I have both syllabi. Last year I ended up using Hewitt's. I preferred Hewitt's because it was more of a guideline; seemed more flexible or adaptable. Hewitt breaks The Story of Art into four sections/one section per quarter, and offers lists of projects/activities, writing assignments, reports, etc. for the student to choose from. Also there are quarterly tests. No answers for the tests, but there are quarterly goals listed that are helpful for reviewing the material. Oak Meadow is broken down into 36 lessons - lessons 35 & 36 being a final exam. The lessons are more specific as in: Read chapter xx and complete the following assignments. The assignment content may include: fill-in the blank, vocabulary, questions, sketching assignments, etc. No answers are provided as the syllabus was written for the student to mail in their work every two weeks to an Oak Meadow teacher. There is a sample lesson on Oak Meadow's web site. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing The Annotated Mona Lisa, so I can't comment. I can tell you that my sons really enjoyed Gombrich's The Story of Art. HTH!

Colleen, I don't post often so bear with me as I'm feeling a little out of my element! One thing that I have really appreciated with SL's LA is that the some of the assignments may seem simple, informal even at times, but they really get the kids thinking. For my students it's these simple, informal assignments thrown in-between the essays and research reports that really make a difference. In the past we have had assignments asking simple questions such as: Why did the author started the story at this particular point? Would it have mattered if he/she chose another time or event to start the story with? Even though we did the above type of assignment long ago, just yesterday my ds came to me to discuss the current book he is reading and why he figures the author chose particular people and events for the starting point of the book. Not sure if this is the best example for what I'm trying to say, but when my son brought this up yesterday I thought of this post. I guess my point is, the assignments are interesting to my students so they internalize the methods to use later on their own. This type of thinking/evaluating just becomes a natural process. To me that's a bonus! I'll stop rambling now and go back to my lurkdom! Laurie

SL's LA has been adequate for my family. I have done some tweaking depending on my students needs at the time. But I feel I would do that with any LA curriculum. Since the LA is included in the upper level Cores, I would suggest allowing a little extra time to look over the LA material. Then you can evaluate whether or not it will meet your family's LA needs.

I've done this curriculum dance also! This is our 11th year of homeschooling and I have used SL for nine of them. When we first started high school I also started looking at the many, many wonderful choices. After driving myself and my family crazy with curriculum information overload, I asked my high school students what they thought. Their choice -- stay with SL! My youngest is now in 11th grade and I can say in hindsight that it was the best choice for our family. So... have you asked your children what they would like to do?

Lynn, I've just started inputting information for my students. What I like most is the ease of use. This program meets my needs/wants - a program that I could plug in the basic information and easily print out a professional looking transcript. I also have Homeschool Tracker Plus but found that my method of recordkeeping required playing with the program in order to produce an appropriate transcript. I do, however, love HST+ for keeping track of other info. HTH! Laurie

I just installed TranscriptPro. You can see sample pages at their website. http://www.edplus.com/transpro.asp

I really enjoyed this! Thanks so much for posting.

Student New Daily might be helpful: http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/ Also, there is the Christian Science Monitor. They have online articles or you can subscribe with the Educator's Discount price. http://www.csmonitor.com/

I also ordered the sample DVD. After watching, my ds who doesn't usually enjoy creative writing decided he would also like to try this next year. Thank you for posting about this program!

We used this last year with my sons in 10th and 12th grade. They loved this book! Very informative and an overall great read. You may be able to get a feel for the book by checking it out on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. The ISBN# is 9780714833552. The Hewitt syllabus included quarterly tests and various suggestions for projects, writing, etc. Definitely a year-long course. HTH!