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In my local high school the 9th graders who are not going to progress far in science take integrated chemistry and physics (basically physical science), then they take biology in 10th grade. The more advanced students skip ICP and go straight to biology, chemistry, and physics.
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Thank you all! I went ahead and scanned my signature and put the image in the signature space on the transcript.
Now to lie awake at night for the next six months and wonder if I ruined my kid's college chances by messing up in some way on the counselor recommendation or something. Lol.
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I compared the topics to the ones covered in my copy of Foerster Algebra 1 and the topics are almost identical. I would say that it definitely covers all the topics of a rigorous algebra 1 program. It definitely covers quite a bit more than Jacobs Elementary Algebra, which is not advanced, but not behind.
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I just did it this weekend. I found this blog post very helpful; it walks you through step-by-step.
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I have my daughter's transcript completed and ready to upload to the common app. I assume I am supposed to print out a copy and sign it first? Then scan it in? And upload a jpeg? Or do they just want the PDF file and they don't care about the signature? Or am I supposed to convert it to a different format after scanning in a signed copy? Or....
There is not enough coffee in the world for this on a Saturday morning.
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Lantern English has a research paper writing class. 8 weeks online, only $60. My oldest hasn't taken that specific course, but she has taken a couple other writing courses with them.
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I don't know of a list, but Columbia College of Missouri (where I got my B.A.) offers dual enrollment courses for $75/credit hour, both online and in person.
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In the state of Texas it is every public school. From the Commissioner of Education's letter:
QuoteUnder TEC Section 29.916, school districts are required to allow home school students the opportunity to participate in PSAT/NQMST and Advanced Placement (AP) testing that each district provides enrolled students. The statute also requires districts to notify the public via website or local newspaper: of the dates of PSAT/NQMST and AP tests; that home school students are eligible to take the test; and the procedures for registering for such tests. This public notice must be posted or published at the same time and with the same frequency as the notice given to students attending the school district.
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12 hours ago, RubyPenn said:
Thanks! I did email RR over the weekend and asked if the Christendom program should really be done as a whole and I was told the lectures give a good overview of the books that are read and I can use them with another curriculum. Maybe the unit you are doing is a little different? I am still trying to figure out what to do. I wish they had more samples videos up than just the introduction. That would help me decide.
The unit I am doing is a literature unit, not a history unit, so I am sure that makes a difference. You could try to align the MP literature with the lectures in OWC, but I am not sure how that would work...for example, MP schedules the Divine Comedy over one year, but OWC does it in one quarter. If you did the MP workbook for it, that would mean doing what MP considers one English credit's worth of work in nine weeks - plus the time it takes to watch the 12 lectures in that unit.
MP and OWC are both very solid options, though very different. I would just pick one and go with it. Or just add some of the OWC videos to your study - not the entire year's worth.
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On 1/16/2019 at 8:49 AM, RubyPenn said:
Yes, so would it work to watch the lectures, but do MP history and literature from the same time period? I'm sure the most ideal thing would be to do OWC as a whole, but I'm just trying to figure out all my options. I've only looked at the one video they have for Christendom, which is the introduction, so I can't tell if what I'm proposing will work or not.
My oldest is doing one unit of OWC this year (the Philosophers) and I don't think what you are suggesting would work very well. The lectures are an in-depth discussion of the assigned reading. The student would have to do the reading assigned for OWC in order to get enough from the lectures to make it worthwhile.
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Next year my middle child (10th grade) will be doing earth science using the AGS textbook and lab book. I have no idea what my oldest (12th grade) will do for science. So far she has taken environmental science and biology, and is currently taking chemistry. I know physics is what is typically taken next, but she has zero desire to study physics. She loved her biology class at FundaFunda Academy, so she may end up taking the biology 2 class there if we can't come up with another science option.
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If you prefer to drink bottled water, you can preorder cases of bottled water to be waiting in your room when you board. That would probably be easier than filling your refillable bottle with a cup every time. They do have stations with water (and lemonade and coffee) set up all throughout the buffet area, so it isn't hard to get a glass of water every time you want one.
I use a lanyard to carry my Sail & Sign card, but I don't wear it around my neck - I loop it around a belt loop and stick it in my pocket. You will have a safe in your room where you can keep your wallets, passports, etc. (just remember to bring a gift card or something with a magnetic strip to use to get into it). I only carry my Sail & Sign card, camera, and the gift card for the safe around with me on the ship. I bring a crossbody purse to use at the different ports to carry money, my Sail & Sign card (that is the only thing that will get you back on the ship), my driver's license (for ID), a camera, and a photocopy of my passport.
Wal-mart sells sunglasses that go over your prescription glasses if you think clip-ons won't work with your frames. They also have a variety of clip-ons that work with different sizes of plastic frames, if that is the problem.
You definitely want to practice muster drills with your son at home, and not just to desensitize him to the sound of the alarm - you want him to understand that the sound means to head to the correct muster station. I would create a muster station on a deck or porch and practice going there (every person that is in the house) when the alarm sounds. Put up signs inside the house for different muster stations, pull up a recording of the alarm on Youtube, and practice going to the correct one (it is listed on your boarding pass, so you should have it already). You can even put a strip of tape on the deck or porch that is your muster station and practice standing on the line shoulder-to-shoulder when the alarm sounds. I would practice muster drills daily until you leave.
Just as an FYI, I am pretty sure kids are given a wristband with their muster station listed on it when they check in that has to stay on their wrist for the duration of the cruise. It is a good thing since it will help a crew member get him to the correct muster station in the case of an emergency, but it might be an annoyance on his wrist.
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I either pass things along directly to someone that can use them or I donate to Goodwill. I used to work at Goodwill and I have seen firsthand the help it provides. The goal of Goodwill is not to provide inexpensive items for people with lower incomes to purchase (I used to get chewed out at least once a week by people with that misconception) but to fund training centers to provide education and job skills training for people with disabilities, people with a criminal background, and people with other barriers to employment. I always recommend people visit a local Goodwill job training center and see what the real mission of Goodwill is.
It makes me sick to my stomach to hear the argument that a person won't donate to Goodwill because they don't want to fund the CEO's jet or high salary or whatever. Refusing to donate only hurts the job training program in your local area, it doesn't hurt the CEO. Someone local - a veteran, someone with a disability, a displaced homemaker, someone with a criminal record - is the one who is directly affected. They will lose out on the job skills training, the boost in self-confidence that comes with being employable, and the income from the job they could have had. According to the Goodwill website, of the $5.87 billion in revenue in 2017, 87% ($5.1 billion) went towards programs (job skills training, education, etc.). The CEO earned approximately $700,000...slightly more than 1/10,000th of the total revenue.
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I did it for seven years. All she needs to know is that it is a very sedentary job, and it is very boring. People very rarely search online for really exciting things, it is all sports scores and the latest news on the Kardashians and how to solve math problems and where to get a flat tire fixed. I often had to grit my teeth and force myself to log in and work.
I finally quit when my kids were old enough I could leave the house for a few hours each week to earn money. Cleaning houses pays better and allows me to be moving around and not sitting still.
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The best book on parenting teens that I have read is Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour. The author not only has extensive experience counseling teen girls, but she genuinely *likes* teen girls (as opposed to tolerating them as so many adults are prone to doing, lol). She enjoys walking them and their parents through the teen years and into adulthood, and that comes through in her book. She is very reassuring about what is normal behavior in teen girls and how to deal with it as a parent, and she also points out unhealthy behavior that needs the help of a professional.
I had a number of light bulb moments while reading the book, but one of the biggest was when she pointed out a tactic that many teen girls employ - telling a parent all about a huge problem that is totally freaking them out; and once the parent begins stressing over the problem the teen goes on their merry way, no longer freaking out because the parent is now doing all the stressing and worrying and problem-solving for them. One of my teen girls totally does that!! The author gave strategies for the parent to use to let the teen know that the problem still belongs to the teen, but the parent is willing to be a sounding board for ideas the girl has to solve the problem. That leaves the parent able to sleep at night instead of staying awake stressing about a problem that isn't theirs, and the teen learns the adult skill of owning a problem and learning how to work to solve it instead of passing the worry and stress off to someone else.
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BYL 8 is meant to be a FULL history program, a FULL science program, and a FULL literature program. The year my oldest did it we only added math, Latin, Bible, a semester of digital design, and a gentle online writing class. And it was a very, very full year. There is no way we could have done BYL 8 with any more English (it contains plenty of vocab and writing assignments), science, or history courses in addition to it.
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18 hours ago, Targhee said:
Another request I saw today was for a high school art history class, needs to include assignments and grading, and be free and online. I don't even understand how the dots are not connected that SOMEONE is working to make that happen, and should be compensated for it.
I saw that one (or an identical request if the one you saw was not on facebook); she went back later and edited it to add that she wanted a German class as well. ? I refrained from commenting since every comment in my head was probably more snarky than the admin of the group allows.
I have been trying to wrap my head around the thought process that leads a person to think that public school teachers are paid to teach and homeschoolers that teach other people's kids are not. Why one and not the other? It doesn't make sense.
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The class is brand new this fall, so you won't find any reviews on it yet. I am sure the instructor will be able to answer your question if you contact her.
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I used the Get Smart grammar program from Grammar Revolution with my middle child in 7th grade, and she did great with it. It was a complete program with no extra fluff, and the lessons were far, FAR shorter than AG. After she completed it I did not think she needed any further grammar instruction.
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I find it is helpful for the student to have their own book after the first couple books. Some of the assignments (in the third book maybe) involve crossing out unimportant sentences in order to create a summary, and the student routinely annotates the text in the upper level books and would not be able to use the teacher's guide since sample annotations are already made in the text.
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I ordered their middle school ancient civilizations curriculum several years ago, and it was probably my biggest homeschool purchase mistake. Getting them to even ship it to me took repeated emails from both me and the Homeschool Buyers Co-op, and they lied about having shipped it after getting tired of our nagging (the shipping date was on the box, and it was dated weeks after they claimed to have shipped it). The curriculum is virtually unusable outside of a classroom - half of the assignments involve questioning classmates on what they think about a topic, and then the student writes what they think of their classmates' answers. It is very, very repetitive...the assignments are almost identical in every lesson, with only small changes based on the topic.
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They just redid their courses this year, so I don't think anyone will be able to answer your question based on their personal experience. Looking at the syllabus for the class, it doesn't look like there is any literary analysis in the class at all. It looks like it contains some rhetorical analysis, and then the student has to use what they learned about rhetoric in their own essays. I think all of their literary analysis instruction has been moved to their literature courses (which are brand new).
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W&R is plenty; I do not add any other writing programs to it. It starts off gently, but by the end of the third book the student is writing an entire story of their own (and doing outlining at a level that is normally expected of a logic-stage student), and the fifth book can easily take a full year if the end material is used. I don't start W&R until 4th grade (and I stretch the first book over that year), so I would expect that as it ramps up it will begin to take considerably longer with a 2nd grader. If you do add anything, then I would go with something easy like Just Write to give his brain a break...W&R is heavy on developing thinking skills.
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Math - finish MUS prealgebra, begin MUS algebra 1
Science - AGS Earth Science
English - Power Homeschool English I, W&R book 9, Megawords 4&5, online Shakespeare course
Social Studies - Power Homeschool US History part 1, When I Was a Child US History book 1
Foreign Language - French 1 with Global Goose Languages online course
Fine Arts - Exploring Art Media
extracurricular - piano lessons, choir, special effects makeup class, community service club
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Looking for writing curriculum that's simple to use
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I think Wordsmith Craftsman would work fine for what you need. It covers a variety of types of essay writing as well as writing skills needed for adulthood (business letters and reports, taking notes, letters of support or apology). I am using it with my senior to polish her essay-writing skills and to cover writing that she has not done before (the business writing section and the critical essay). I do not find it remedial at all; it is definitely high school level. We are doing it in a semester, though; next semester she will be working on research papers and literary essays.
Jensen's Format Writing is much less wordy than Wordsmith Craftsman. If you need a straight, just-the-facts presentation, that is what I would recommend. I should add that my experience using it is with the original version, not the new edition from Masterbooks - my version has cleaner and less cluttered pages and no tests.