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I dn't know anything about it, but look up the company that does Visual Latin. I just got an e-mail about Their program "Economisc for Everybody". I think it is DVD based, gets good reviews, and is on sale.
Do report back!
I just looked at this and it looks awfully simplified....or am I expecting too much for a high school course. I've never taught high school economics so I'd love a more experienced homeschooler's review of the samples.
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I really don't want to use Notgrass or something totally textbooky. I want the kids to enjoy the subject and not find it totally boring. Does anyone have any other ideas or any comments about Economics in a Box? Thanks
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I've never heard of a hotel room that had 4 twin beds. :001_smile: I would also have expected two doubles or queens for 4 people.
I agree.
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I am drowning in black leggings and white t-shirts, but that is small potatoes.
My dd had to wear powder blue, no skirt, no shorts all year Monday through Friday for 4 class periods. What was the director thinking! Do you know how many girls had embarrassing moments this year?!?! And all the boys were in black leggings. So not fair. Ugh!
BTW. my son dances also but VERY recreationally. He enjoys it but I can't say his father supports him.
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My dd used to go to two summer intensives each year and if she didn't get merit scholarships, we'd be living in a van down by the river. :D
To tell you the truth, I'm not all that keen on her going away at all. I have always (in a very matter of fact. outspoken way) tried to talk her out of dancing. Well, I should say I tried to talk her into other things. I just hate the fact that dancers are pushed at such a young age (to go away for the summer, to go away for school, to dance more and more). Plus I worry about her health, her self image, and quite frankly it irritates me severely that she is SOOOOOO smart and such a hard worker and I would rather her do a traditional college path. So yes she has had scholarships (even for her year around) but I'll take closer to home over a scholarship any day. In fact, I'd pay double to have her stay home!
OTOH, she has really had a hard time with the fact that she had no science class this year and that 2 girls left because of eating disorders. She has been actively online (without any push from me because I finally gave up the fight) looking at UMBC for Engineering or Physical Therapy. She actually asked me to take her to the CC for the entrance exam, took it, did great on it, and is registered for 3 classes for fall. I just hope she doesn't change her mind! :001_smile:
Congratulations to your daughter!
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My daughter was at an arts high school this year but this is what we paid before this year. FYI- tuition at Baltimore School for the Arts was $4600. She was also accepted at UNCSA for high school but she would have been living on campus and it would have been $25,000 a year!
How much do you pay for your DC's ballet lessons? How long are the lessons? How many lessons per week? This depends on the age. My daughter was taking 4 ballet classes a week by the time she was 9 plus jazz and tap. By the time she was 11, 5-6 ballet classes per week. Typically 10-11 weeks of classes are approximately $150 per class.
Is there an annual registration fee or something similar? How much is it? one studio no, the other $35
Who teaches the early levels (say about 10 yo and younger) - older students or a trained adult? Trained adult
What do you pay for costumes (or costume fees)? Do you keep the costumes?
Not for Company performances but yes for her class pieces. Ordinarily $60 or so each.Then there are the pointe shoes. $75 a pair and she would go through them in a couple of days when she was in partnering roles like Clara and Giselle. My daughter will be leaving this weekend for summer intensive at American Ballet Theatre and thats $1000 a WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!
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dd 11th, dd 10th, ds 7th, dd 3rd, and ds k. Everything is a little up in the air right now because my oldest went to school this year (an arts school) and although she did fantastic, she doesn't like the wasted time and she has finally fallen off the fence about whether to pursue ballet. So she registered for 3 classes at our local community college last week (Eng 101, and Psych 101, and a gym class). She will be doing math and Chemistry at home.
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We are using the Teaching Company DVD's (Early High and Late Middle Ages) as a spine and adding literature. So far my plan is to read and study Confessions, Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Macbeth, Dante, ... I'm hoping to teach my daughter to take notes from a lecture and assign writing assignments. I looked at the guidebooks for the DVD's and they are very complete. I watched one lesson and it is awesome.
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I like the lessons so far (we are only finishing unit 2). The topics are appropriate for the age group and it keeps my kids' attention. It does annoy me that "he" is not capitalized when referring to Jesus. But that is my only complaint so far.
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Memories are now flooding back....On more than one occasion for Christmas and birthdays she did not get any presents. Either she was too demanding in what she *had* to have so I bought her nothing . or. she was too ungrateful with what she received so I returned everything. Yeah, we had some very tough years. She's 18 now, though, and such an awesome kid. There's hope!
Good advice! We did this with my dd...not the Christmas presents but stopped paying for dance lessons/ youth group retreats, driving her where she wanted to go, giving her money for things, shut off the phone, etc. It took 2 months and she was cured. Sometimes we (even as adults) don't realize what we have until it's gone.
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Perhaps you mean the TCo course called The Western Literary Canon in Context? Great stuff for lit geeks ; ) but potentially confusing for those not yet exposed to the great works of Western lit.
That's the one! Okay, I'm going to have to rethink that one. I really need hand holding...but I'm motivated. So if any of the experts have any suggestions on some good resources...I'm all ears.
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We've used Omnibus without doing all the books (although we did more than 6), and Omnibus 2 is very good. The text contains a section for each book with an introductory essay followed by reading assignments and "sessions" (Discussions, recitations, writing assignments, activities, etc.) based on each reading assignment. You may have to skip questions or assignments that assume knowledge of another book, but I haven't found that to be a problem. There is a teacher CD which contains the author's answers to each of the questions and I found this very helpful--kind of like bringing a 3rd person into the discussion. However, you should be aware that Omnibus discussions will focus mainly on Worldview. There will be very little, if any, literary analysis. I'm not classically trained either, so I don't really know what all goes into a true "great books" discussion, but Omnibus may or may not hit some of those questions, so I sometimes use The Well-Educated Mind, which gives more general questions to explore depending on the genre of the book (no answers though, obviously.)
If worldview is what you want, and you already own Omnibus, it could be an economical resource. However, if you're looking at buying Omnibus new, you might want to consider price. At $100 for the text, that's about $17 for a guide for each book. There may be less expensive options.
Thank you. That's helpful. I'm doing the Odyssey and Illiad over the summer with the Teaching Company dvds but that would gett wuite expensive to purchase for all of the books. Think, think, think
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I've gotten such helpful answers to my other questions, I'm going to ask one more. We plan to study at least 6 of the books covered in Omnibus 2 while we use The Teaching Company Middle ages DVDs as a spine. I'm not trained classically at all and need some help leading the Great books discussion. It seems like Omnibus might be an economical way to have a "guide" for the books that we will cover...even if we don't use it as our main curriculum. Has anyone else used Omnibus as just a literature guide to cover some of the books? Is there a reason why I should buy 6 other guides instead of just purchasing Omnibus 2....and if so, what hand-holding helpers do you recommend? Thanks you again for all of your help!
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We have used Harrison Short History of Western Civilization (the appropriate chapters) in addition to the lectures. As I wrote in a previous post, we did not bother to align reading and lectures.
We also did not align the literature selections with the lectures. I would find this very hard to do, especially since we never know how much time we are going to spend on which work of literature - some really catch DD's interest and she wants to dwell, some she just reads and moves on. I am not sure that it is time well spent to worry about matching too closely.
For Dante, we have used a separate lecture series form the Teaching Company, and spent a lot of time.
Would you recommend TTC Dante course? I was actually looking into purchasing something from TTC for a couple of our literature suggestions. I think the course I was looking at was called Literary Cannons.
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...did you use another spine (like a book). I just got these in the mail and they look awesome. We will be taking advice from some posters here and adding some great books for literature. If anyone has used this series as a spine and can comment on lining up Beuwolf, Dante, song of Roland,
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,, Canterbury Tales etc with the dvds, I'd love that. Or if anyone has any other advice on how you scheduled/used them.
Thank you so much for all of the helpful input.
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You know the answers you will get on a homeschooling board. ;) I'm sorry you are going through a difficult time.
I agree!
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So maybe I'll try to match some of that up with the DVDs. And I'll start my research on the literature and history suggestions. I definitely want to do a timeline of some sort. I'm now wondering how I can easily include geography, which is horribly overlooked in this house. Thank you all for your suggestions.
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I was going to include HO because that is what I was considering for my 7th grade son. It includes outlining and short writing assignments, timeline assignments, and geography....which tends to be lacking in this house. I like the literature suggestions! If I don't use the HO, I'm afraid there won't be any "assignments" for their reading. I just can't figure out how to pull assignments from watching the DVDs unless I watch all of them ahead of time (which I know is not going to happen). If we watch them and take notes, I guess I could have her summarize. I'm feeling uncomfortable about her not having something to read for history...but I'm hoping someone will ease my mind about that. I was going to include Shakespeare because History Odyssey goes into the Renaissance. So what I'm saying is, if I use the DVDs as a spine and have her take notes and use the literature selections, what else should she be doing? rambling....
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I'd like to combine my history hating 10th grade dd and my history loving 7th grade ds. I purchased the Teaching company dvds ....Early, High, Late Middle Ages and we will be watching them and learning to take notes from a lecture. I was thinking of doing History Odyssey Level 2 Middle Ages and adding/ switching a few of the literature selections for my dd (full Shakespeare etc). Is that enough? If not, what should I add? And if anyone has beefed up HO level 2 for a high schooler, what did you add?
BTW, we will probably be doing IEW Middle Ages also. Thanks!
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....that IEW was the most effective. My daughter just entered school this year at Baltimore School for the Arts as a 10th grader. She is in Honors English. Last week she was telling me how much she remembers from IEW when she has to write a timed essay in class. By the way, we only did a full year of IEW for 2 years...SWI-A in 4th and American History in 7th. I just bought SWI-B for my 12 year old son. I hated spending the money but it works and the kids like it.
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I'll take a stab at this. We've used Apologia General twice already and the 1st chapter is the hardest according to my children. Also, the first half of the book is "general science" and the second half is the human body. Because this is traditionally a 7th grade curriculum, I would split the book in half and only do the first half this year. I'm doing that with my son this year (after learning the hard way with my older two). Then you will have plenty of time for the material to sink in and you'll have the time to make it fun. It's very easy to find extra hands on activities on the internet or the library. Just slowing down will help immensely.
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I work in a rehab and therefore see lots of elderly. There are many people in their 20's I know that couldn't tell you which party the candidates are affiliated with unless there is a D or an R next to the name. So in the same sense, we have to give these nursing home residence the benefit of the doubt. And trust me, most family members don't even bother to visit, much less take their elderly demented relative to the voting booth. After 15 years working with this population, I really can say this is a non-issue.
Before dh's grandfather died he was living in a nursing home. He was lucid enough to enjoy an occasional outing, but was struggling a lot physically and mentally.He was a life long Republican voter. His daughter's husband "Ted" came to town to work on get out the vote programs for the Democratic party. From several states away. "Ted" took dh's grandfather to vote and was quite willing to help him cast his ballot. Later dh's grandfather told my mil that he'd voted, and that he was pretty sure he'd voted Republican, but he wasn't really sure because "Ted" had been helping.
So I guess that it was appealling enough for "Ted" to go to the effort of taking a 70 year old who had voted Republican since Eisenhower to the polls as part of his Democrat voter efforts.
DH's grandfather didn't live to vote in another presidential election. And what were those who suspected supposed to do? Request that charges be filed against a family member?
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Every 17 year old I know has a driver's license so I can't see how it is that difficult. My BIL got out of jail (traffic offense) moved to Maryland from Florida and got a photo ID very quickly with only his birth ceritficate, social security card, and one piece of mail to prove Maryland residence (he used a personal letter). A married woman (using her married name) would need to bring her marriage licence. How is that unreasonable?
According to PennDot (PA), these are Homeland Security requirements. It is a real PITA to get a photo ID or a driver's license these days. -
Living in Illinois, I can't help you, but sheesh- I fell over when I saw how much they charge for room and board!
Yes! Over $3000 for room and board. I almost stopped breathing when I read it also! You would think the place was in New York City or something! There is absolutely no way she can go unless we find a host family. She is so hopeful that someone will be willing to host her for the 5 weeks!
If you have used the TC lectures to supplement a Great Books study...
in High School and Self-Education Board
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We did the Illiad over the summer. We listened to the lecture first and then read. I purchased the book on audio cd's (which are abridged but not like a normal abridgement. Whole books were left out so we read those books separately then followed along with the CD with the sections it covered). Now we are doing the Odyssey the same way except the audio book is not abridged. I really wanted my kids to love this time and when we tried to read it aloud together we just couldn't get into a groove with it. But we are all enjoying the auio book. I don't usually use audio books. I love the teaching Company lectures! It's made the study so rich.