I feel like the oddball. We did our science labs at home. Glean from this what you can. ignore the rest. My phd chemist husband still insists that our kitchen is a "real laboratory" at high school and under levels. We have a sink for eye wash. A shower is in the bathroom if needed. aprons for lab work. safety goggles were in the "kits" that we bought. They wear shoes in lab. We clean up. We're using amounts and strengths of chemicals that are generally regarded as household use. And for physics we use stuff for home use. Biology: we bought a microscope. We bought a "kit" of lab equipment that was designed to go with the text we picked. Hubby didn't do much to help with science class as he works full time. (There were a few times that I asked him to help them with homework, but for the most part, I was the lab partner.) Usually I was the lab partner who was lazy so my children did the work. I'm also the "dumb one" in my family and don't have advanced degrees in sciences. Our oldest is double major electrical engineering/computer science. She ended up fine in college with required physics and chemistry classes. She knew that when it came time to write lab reports that you follow the template from the professor. She knew that there'd be a "lazy partner" in some class and she'd have to deal with it. She got all A's so far going into 4th semester. I realize that's not the kind of answer you were looking for. I know in my area co-ops and group schools for science are very popular and people pay about 400-500 a year for someone to lead the class once a week and do labs and send them home with homework. Maybe there is stuff like that in your area. (edit to define kit: in this context, it simply means a pre bundled box of real lab equipment from a science supply store instead of purchasing each item ala carte. It does not mean discount retail christmas toy)

Julie in MN said what I was going to say about Notgrass is 1 year program on its own. MFW does a full year of ancients (where they only use part of notgrass volume 1 and some people don't even think notgrass is a big portion of that ancients MFW year) and another full credit of world history using Notgrass and a whole bunch of other stuff as Julie said. But yes.. as "just history", Notgrass by itself is very reasonable to do in one year's time. It is 150 daily lessons (that includes the every 5th lesson of Bible.) I'm using notgrass (2008) that way with my youngest. She has autism. I read the chapter to her to accommodate her special needs. On the vast majority of days, it takes me 30-40 minutes at most to read the lesson out loud while she follows along. We pause when we get to a review question and answer it. (I have that book open as well). Some of the questions she just points and reads the answer from the text. On other questions, I have her write down the answer so she has time to process it. I help her turn the question into a "fill in the blank" statement. I have to accommodate that she struggles with writing answers as well. Even doing that with her special needs it is not overwhelming at all. We have 20 maps that we plan to do over her course year. She is doing a timeline project as well. On the map days, that has taken longer but it all works out if I plan for it on Fridays. So, that's why I'm comfortable saying most regular needs high schoolers could do this independently and it's done easily in a year. The only reason I mentioned about mfw and 2 years was so that you understood why it might be hard to find used copies of the 2014 edition. It's a part of 2 of their years and they'd be finishing up soon.

Looks like new has a fixed price. The new edition has only been on market for less than 2 years. People who are using it with programs like MFW aren't ready to go used market because it's used over 2 academic years. That could have an impact on used sales for a few more months. I don't know if you're on facebook or not, but I think there's a used sale swap group for MFW users. Maybe someone there is ready to sell? or you could get the 2008 edition. I know the test/quizzes were slightly changed by how the quizzes are printed. (it'll say History, or Bible, or Lit in new.... old version, it was History/Bible on same quiz and the last 2 questions were always from the "every 5th lesson" But the 2008 edition quizzes? you just remove the last 2 questions from each quiz to remove the Bible quiz. And the longer exams? When those questions reappear you don't count it off, or you could do extra credit. Also, there might be one question on a literature book. such as "the cat of babustes was a symbol of __________" well, I thought I'd just not do that question, but my daughter (who has never read the book) guessed it correctly because of the cover of the book. giggle. I didn't count off if the question wasn't something covered in history but covered in literature (such as the question about the play julius caesar) From looking at the samples of the exams and quizzes in 2014 edition, I recognize almost all of them as the same questions in 2008 edition.

Here's link to info on the differences in editions of notgrass. I have the one with the "non spiral binding" but before 2014. In other words, black and white photos instead of color. http://www.notgrass.com/notgrass/exploring-world-history-2014.html My oldest and middle dd used this edition as part of their mfw curriculum. Youngest is using it as stand alone (with the maps/timelines to give her more to interact with). From the description linked above I didn't see a need to get the newer version with changes in column formatting. Some stuff was added in most modern times. (edit to add) I'm not sure how much without comparing table of contents a little later. Color photos. Other things that were added are available as downloads on the link I gave. I'm guessing they were thinking if families like mine already have the older edition and just wanted upgrades, then the big ones were there to order. Hope that helps a bit as you consider what to purchase.

The 2 chapters (video segments) are shown like this in the table of contents of the guidebook. (and cover about 45 minutes of video for all of it. Intentionally done as basics or essentials of the topics. The guidebook is mostly a script of the video and there are probably samples of something out there to give an idea of how much text is on a page) MANKIND..................................................................79 1. THE BRAIN.............................................................80 2. THE FIVE SENSES ...................................................81 3. THE SKELETAL SYSTEM.........................................84 4. THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM .......................................85 5. THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM ..................................85 6. THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ........................................87 7. THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM (IMMUNITY)...................89 8. THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM (HORMONES) .................89 9. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT .........................................90

(adding my experience this year with doing notgrass just for history even if the question was answered ) With Notgrass, it's easy to just the history. That's what I'm using with my youngest. There are parts in the Bible lesson (which is every 5th lesson) that show up on the quiz, so we make sure to read through that but it's not a big deal so far. Some parts the history and bible history are connected enough that it's like the scripture is "primary source document". Example, the unit on life of Jesus has readings from Gospel of Luke as a primary source, and then growth of church history as world history there is some reading from Acts. The literature is quite easy to skip. We're reading the lesson, answering the 10 or so questions. Have quiz on Friday. Since I had timeline and map from previous students we are adding that in for her as well. And I have a "picture based encyclopedia" also from older children (DK history of world) to add some pictures and color. ps: In my example, I'm talking about the edition printed prior to 2014.

Algebra: don't rush. finish with understanding. Biology: my oldest barely remembers biology. She retained long enough to pass a test in high school. Never needed bio again in college (she's engineering major). I would not plan on stopping now and picking up a half semester later for a product that you don't know if it will be there or not. Finish enough to call it a regular class. Get some books or videos to supplement the topics you are doing. If the tests are tripping her up, some people switch to some mom made tests on yahoo group. (I can pm you the link). Add in some field trips especially as spring begins to bloom.

Agreeing with mschickie that it is Alg 2 and Advanced where the Geometry credit in Saxon 3rd edition comes from. There's not a lot in Alg 1. That's on their FAQ and that was our experience as well. Here's that link to the Geometry credit edit: the link didn't go directly to the FAQ page.... hold on... How can a high school student receive a geometry credit on his/her transcript when they use Saxon Algebra 1 (3rd Edition), Algebra 2 (3rd Edition), and Advanced Math Geometry concepts are introduced in Saxon's early textbooks, but the heart of the geometry course is embedded in Algebra 2 and Advanced Math. Students who complete Algebra 2 have taken the equivalent of one semester in geometry, but they will need to complete Advanced Math in order to complete one full year of Euclidean geometry. Because Advanced Math is a rigorous book, it is most often completed in three or four semesters. Students completing Advanced Math will have taken the equivalent of one year of geometry and one year of trigonometry and advanced algebra. For those who prefer to spend a full year studying geometric concepts, we now also offer the Saxon Geometry homeschool package. - See more at: http://www.hmhco.com/shop/education-curriculum/math/homeschool/saxon-math-homeschool#credit We preferred having a year of proof based and did add in jacob's geometry between alg 1 and alg 2. That's just our preference. Oldest did great on math ACT and is doing braggy rights in college. (She's engineering.) Yes, if you need to slow down, you can. My middle daughter benefited from adding Jacob's. She is the type who did 87 and alg 1/2 b/c she needed more time. Not as math person as big sis is. no, don't switch to 4th for geometry seems to be what I hear from others. Not the same author. stuff like that. Don't know if that helps or not on the decision. Yes, some people do Advanced over 4 semesters.

MFW worked really well for us. My oldest used it all the way from 2nd - 12th. She was well prepared for college coursework. Enjoyed the lesson planning... helped her to plan her own days. Enjoyed real books (well, ok mostly... ) It wasn't perfect where everything was this awesome fit, but it worked out. I think we were getting burn out in the last two years of bible stuff. The personal finance course felt a little like something was missing, and other parts were "wrong time of life" (seemed like it assumed too much life experience in the one book to be making sense). So that course turned out to be the one big mfw dud in her decade of using them. I know we had to add a bit of extra editing and tutoring in composition for her. That was her area of struggle. But she was prepared enough to get A in college composition as a freshman. The 12th grade econ course was helpful for being ready for lots of readings at once in subject and having discussion time once a week. That was really helpful in a humanities course her freshman year. The style of tests in the BJU history in MFW helped her be ready for that style of test in another gen ed requirement course. She learned enough in literature analysis to "clep out" of her gen ed literature requirement. I know others who want "more" than MFW offers in english. Ok. We didn't need it. But she's engineering person. Used their math, science recommendations too, but you can easily use "whatever you want" in that while using mfw. So that's my kid with genius brain. My average middle child who has some special needs learning struggles has also done well in mfw structure. We add audio books when needed to help her with struggles. And for writing assignments met more than once a week. She can pace herself and still have time for her art class and jewelry making and even volunteer time at animal shelter. I've felt like I've had plenty of answer keys to fake my way through grading and evaluating and having feedback.

If I recall correctly and am looking at the same items on RR, it's a matter of "which edition". The ones on RR that says grades 4-6 and are in "limited availability" is the edition before it was called "focus on middle". when rs4k went to version 2, they expanded a little bit on grade levels. I don't recall the details of first edition vs current. But some changes happened in the middle school stuff. It's just been a few years and I don't remember details and it's not on their site easy to find. Another product line to consider could be some of the science sets from Master Books. http://www.masterbooks.com/homeschool-curriculum/subject-sets/science They have some astronomy and other categories that are designed for 7th-9th. You'll want to look at the samples of the PLP (parent lesson planner) to see the worksheets and such. In my opinion it could be done independently by a student who is used to that. Most of the courses (in that age group) are done over the whole year at 3 days a week. They list it as half credit for those in high school 9th grade.

More than a decade ago we used the stuff that Ellie linked to. It was a miss in our science household. I thought it would be great from reading about it and seeing it in person at convention. Brought it home to use with our oldest in 2nd/3rd grade. ** My dh holds a phd in chemistry and he wanted to do science at home. I can remember it was the first time he spoke up and said something about anything I had picked to use. As an adult, he asked "please can we stop using this before our children hate science?" It's losing the fun and joy of science at the wrong stage of learning. So, we stopped those books. I sold them to someone long long ago... and these days our oldest is STEM major. She learned to think. I know my dh's opinion may not be well liked. But he didn't mind the idea of cookbook first, then let them play around and try new things. He wasn't really developing his own stuff (non cookbook) until much later in schooling. But I wanted to share our experience with that product. Hope it goes better for others than it did for us. and hugs to OP. I'm adding my agreement that Fulbright's tone and attitude in her books is a turn off. However, we liked the other aspects of the book enough that we could just gloss over it. Sometimes I've even exaggerate her attitude with melodrama and then say "I hope she didn't intend it to sound like that." My point is that we downplayed that aspect in the fulbright books. Yes, it irked us too. My dh really was irked on it as even though he leans YE, he did not want that attitude presented about others. You asked on God's design series from AiG. I haven't seen the most current version of those to know if the tone has changed from 2nd edition much. But surprisingly in the Animal Kingdom book it wasn't as strong as Fulbright. sure, it was YE, but the attitude wasn't there that I remember. I'm not sure however, how the zoology book of fulbright (which I didn't use.. I used her botany and astronomy) compares to AiG animal kingdom in terms of co-op and year long and having enough material. We had fun with AiG animal kingdom at home but used World of Animals to supplement. (just look at mfw's ex1850 page for what I'm talking about there....) edit: ** at that long ago convention the author of that program told me that his book 1 was to be used at that age. I don't know what he recommends these days on those levels.

I've used twice so far. First time was a long long time ago when my oldest was in 2nd grade. (It was before mfw wrote Adventures so we started with ecc). Like it a lot. continued with their stuff for long time. Did ECC again when oldest was 7th grade and middle gal in 4th. And next year, looks like my youngest (who has special needs) might use the fun stuff of ecc as supplements in a semester of her modified high school credit in geography. I have the odd experience of using it back when it was just written for 2nd-6th grade, and then also the experience when the jr. high stuff was added and the science book changed.. likes: structure, but yet flexibility to do which craft we wanted and to not feel like it had to be fancy blog worthy craft. The sameness (using same patterns in each country) worked for our family. I get it that isn't the case with everyone. It just felt doable. Back in those days, I liked going to library to get books. the read alouds were fun and enjoyable a few tissue box moments with those. warm fuzzy memories years down the road.....(oldest is in college now, middle in 11th grade.. ) lots of good memories of oldest and middle playing songs, being silly, making terrarium (as rainforest) and decorating felt square to dress up our stuffed animals for "carnival". I have to link to that picture. giggle. http://board.mfwbooks.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=161&start=50#p65898 oh yeah, I also have good warm fuzzy memory of how youngest (who has autism) connected in school time with her sisters on the memory verses. in ECC they were doing Matthew 5 : 14-16, and in mfw Kindy, youngest had her Bible words of Jesus is the light of the world. And when older two were reciting verse, youngest grabbed her memory card. It was neat moment in homeschooling for us. more of a God thing than an mfw thing, but still.. I'm old and it's my warm fuzzy memories. dislikes: for my youngest, even going into 9th grade, it's too much! I'm giggling a bit b/c I saw a thread a little further down the board about what is out there that's ecc but lighter. However, it never felt heavy with my other two. hmm. odd huh?

Another way to use notgrass for just history credit. This is similar to how others are doing it. But with my youngest, I need a basic course. She has some disabilities so we need basic high school that I can read to her without me getting tired from reading out loud. I have notgrass from older children doing mfw. And the notgrass we have is the previous edition. We are reading the lessons, answering the review questions, doing the quizzes. Mostly we're skipping the every 5th lesson in Bible, but being the lead teacher of the class, I know in our edition there are usually 1 or 2 questions from that lesson, so we answer that review. Example was the unit we did yesterday where 2 quiz questions were from "English" and "Bible". I taught that info as a side box. Obviously in the ancient times, more Old Testament history is part of the world history so it will feel like Bible history in there too. We are adding basic timeline for youngest. And Map work. I'm using a blend of World History Map Activities (which we had from previous use of notrgrass via mfw) and Map Trek Sampler. And some picture style encyclopedia for extra (whichever ones we had on hand from our mfw high school stuff). Our edition of Notgrass was printed prior to 2014 and the history credit is listed as "do the lesson readings, In Their Words reading, review questions" and quizzes. The essay/projects and literature were part of English credit, and that's not what this student needs. And for most part it's easy so far to leave out the every 5th lesson (except as a teacher summary side box for what might show up on the test.) One way I did that was knowing there was a Cat of Bubastes question on quiz, so when we were reading on Egypt, I picked up the book and said "oh, this fiction book is about...." But we didn't read it. So far, as a basic course for my special ed student, this is working out. Right now the first section in ancients does feel like review for her as she grew with Bible stories. But we're not doing "bible class" with it.

Hoping you get more current experiences. I think they are in their 4th year. I had free subscriptions the first two years they were in business. (some weird special that was run at a conference or something) They have added a lot of classes since then. I don't remember a lot of details about it to contribute to the conversation. Mostly wanted to suggest that maybe the best way to see if the style of online read and video and do a lot on your own is to do the $1 trial month. ( and if it doesn't work, cancel.) I guess I wanted to make sure you knew about that option. If I recall correctly, the classes were self paced and self graded. Content on stuff I looked at was not super rigor level but more of regular level. I don't recall specifics. And there are a lot more classes from when they started. I know that wasn't that much help.

I have the ones ehtelmertz is talking about. (ooh.. I could sell!) but here's a link to Rainbow Resources for HIG for US/3rd edition edition 6A http://www.rainbowresource.com/proddtl.php?id=009641 and 6B http://www.rainbowresource.com/proddtl.php?id=009642

I just tried to follow the link above. I went there, and clicked on the "sample" link on that product and it went nowhere. (some error code saying access is disabled) but, if I scroll to the bottom of PHP site, there is a link to all samples that was working including WWS so if the link above doesn't help, try this https://peacehillpress.com/samples/

Uh, how much? uh.. I'm thinking..I'll pm.. Regarding the last question, as of right now, they aren't selling the reading selections except for the novel used (Night.) Instead, you go online and find a pdf of it. Then you can save or print to work off online. I printed so we could mark the selection as we read. underline. I found everything with quick google search. inside the book, Stephens gives some general help on how to find the stuff. But links change all the time. As far as I know there isn't an anthology book with these short selections. Regarding content and age appropriate for 10th. I do think it could be used with 9th grader and not feel too young in selections. Obviously for some students it could. But in general, that's the biggest thing why it wouldn't be used for much younger than 8th grade. The selections aren't younger.(edit to add: back in a discussion about the webinar when EIL was released, there was some question if it could be used with younger than 8th.. because of topics in the selection, I personally would want to have my children older to be more mature in the discussions. I can't imagine my super genius mature oldest would have gotten the most from the selections in grade 7). But for 10th, is the window gone? Hmm. I think the poetry section is high school interest level (Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Tennyson). Well, ok there is one Shel Silverstein, but it's ok to have one thing in there younger. (The one about Cythnia what's her name who didn't take the garbage out.) and it serves a purpose to teach rhyme scheme. The novel would be definitely be ok in 10th. I know I was in 8th grade when I read Anne Frank. and my oldest was 8th for Hiding Place (and again in 10th). So this novel is along those lines. Some of the characters in the fiction selections are that age. The non fiction sections. I can't see why they would be too young for 10th. One of the things you might do is to look on the EIL website at the titles and then find the pdf's out there. Or I can PM you the links I used. Scan through it and you know your child. Is that something in a semester from now that she'd go “really mom?†Are the questions too easy though? Some of them might be.Some stuff like plot line... where's the action building.. blah blah.. Doesn't matter on that stuff. But there is also a lot of putting it together on your own. So an 8th grader's answer to the same thought question would not be the same as the thoughts of someone a little older. That would be the case with the personal reflection and reaction. Some of the story have a lot of heavier topics such as Stop the Sun. I think the story would be better processed by a 15 or 16 year instead of a 13 or 14 year old just because they have more life experience to understand war, and mental illness out there. I could see using it for 10th grade student who has not had much direct literature analysis before. And I could see this being added in this year in her 9th grade based on how you said the essentials in writing 8 is going for her if she doesn't have a literature study going on much. I imagine that the 9th grade stuff will be more of the same, just with different selections.

I have it. . If I had a student in 9th grade, and grade 9 was not available, I think the EIL 8 could be used easily for literature analysis. I bought it with idea that I might be able to use parts of it with my youngest this year in 8th grade. She's not up to "regular" level of reading/listening material, so it was a stretch to use it. I'm going to look and see if I"m shared more on the first semester and copy it here or something. Or maybe get some thoughts together. Is there something specifically that would be helpful to hear about?

tagging on with storygirl's post... in WHL, the vocab of literary elementary gets touched on. Again, whatever mfw did was enough to get my college kid what she needed to get credit by exam for general ed in literature , and she passed with A in english composition. (she's a engineering major, so that's cool stuff for her) oh, if it matters, it was the analyze/interpretting literature clep. that's all she needed for general ed requirement in her degree. in WHL: when they write their summaries, they do a focus on an literary element. So in one novel, you focus on character and discuss those things and another novel you get another one. Then at end of year, there is a small unit with surface coverage of the vocabulary of analysis and that comes from Writer's INc. Keeping with the mfw style of stuff in elementary when lit terms where done in writing strands, students get it covered, but not the way all publishers do it. The Iliad stuff is in the daily lesson planner in ahl, not the literature supplement. Definitely a "personal response" style in that daily writing. good for being ready to bring it to the table at conference each week. well, ok. that's how it worked for us.. maybe for others it wasn't like that.. edit to add: and of course, add more if the need is seen. (but that applies to any thing in homeschooling, right?) for my middle gal, she needed more direct instruction in writing and editing. and little drill in grammar with easy grammar book 9 grade, done over 2 years.. just enough to keep sharp.

giggle. The good thing on that american lit guide is that it's just one part of the whole. A few weeks are enough to make me scream.. then right when that happens, we get to set that book down for about 17 weeks in the schedule. It's been much easier to deal with that resource the second time around when I saw it as a way to have collection of shorter writings in one place. My oldest was very glad when she got to college and saw their clep options for literature. So the summer after freshman year of college, she did a couple of practice tests, signed up, and passed. yippee! Such a contrast to the experience my middle child had to the book. Something about knowing what it was like for oldest gave us permission to be snarky at home when needed. I have a much longer list of the details of what we did to to make it work better this time around. It's on another forum out there. but I'll link to this work in progress post of mine over there if it would help someone over here with ideas. The thread won't make sense if you don't have the book though. http://www.homeschoolreviews.com/forums/1/thread.aspx?id=121168

If you're talking about the American Literature Supplement in US1, that is not a smarr based guide. It is based on some of stobaugh's materials. Mostly that supplement will have longer literature selections for American history timeframe. Some essay/critical thinking questions. Has the shorter than novel length readings. includes stobaugh's take on his opinions and interpretations of stuff. It does include appendix material for improving essay writing, but it is a reference resource for that and not assignments to do as direct writing instruction. (its presumed you just spent 2 years covering direct instruction so you just need to work on refining your skills.) I know my oldest daughter ended up deciding to never take a literature course in college after using stobaugh based lit guide. She instead took and passed clep analyzing literature exam and her college accepted that for general ed requirement. Just something overall was a big lifelong turn off from his opinions and she knew she couldn't stand the thought of listening all semester to a professor share only one perspective. yikes. so that influenced me to make sure my middle daughter knew she could politely have other thoughts and opinions than the ones stated in there. Overall, it's nice to read the selections, and do the assignments. She hasn't had nearly the negative reaction that her older sister did. I tend to think of the American Lit Supplment more along the lines of a textbook approach to supplement the novels. That's not a bad thing.

agreeing with above, and adding some info. from the sample links above, I'm not seeing samples of the Literature section of the supplement. In AHL, that part has vocab, recall questions, critical thinking questions, and essay topics for 3 of the books used in AHL. Those books are the condensed epic of gilgamesh, Bulfinch's mythology, and Odyssey. Although this link goes to sample of what the Smarr literature section is like overall, it goes to Tale of Two Cities (but mfw doesn't use this specific one). In spite of a sample of different book, you probably can still get a good idea of what kinda of information and questions are in the books that are used. http://www.smarrpublishers.com/samplettc.pdf and then back to the link Amy shared above, you can click on the vocab quizzes to get an idea of those as well. back in a moment....

I'd use the live chat option since that is open as I'm typing... and just ask. or go to Contact us. in the selections, pick pre purchase questions. in the textbox, ask the question: How can I sign up for your email blasts with the newsletters and other info? that's what I did a while back.. hope it helps :)

I keep hoping someone else will be first to reply while I'm typing. I'm trying to answer in general ideas because I haven't used that specific program. and I am not an authority on this stuff. Just sharing what I've experienced and learned from our cover school and other sources. If the high school student is working at capacity and at ability, but using materials below chronological age/grade level, it is still going to be a course that you give the credit. There are different levels of "English 9" in group schools. Same thing happens in home schools. I would want to have some literature in the course. I don't know the specific program you asked about if they include it. From a quick online glance, there seems to be a grammar book and composition book. In college, if a student is taking a remedial English class, it is most likely that class is not part of the degree program. But that's not the same thing as high school.That might be what you're thinking about can't give it credit. But in high school, if a student needs to work on basic skills, it's still a course in their high school. Some people in brick and mortar schools will have paid tutors for their child in outside hours, and that would not show up. So you could do a regular class and use remedial stuff on the side to strengthen skills. In terms of college bound student, yes, you want to be in high school materials and push a little here and there. not sure that is incompatible with 9th grader is a little behind in grammar/composition skills . You still have a few years to go. You'll work on test prep. If you think your child may need more direct instruction in grammar and basics of composition while in 9th grade, you use materials at her level written in mind for covering the topics. If Bridgeway's english class is high school level to cover the topic, it is still high school level if the student is in 9th grade and using it. I know that's a hard concept to understand as I'm still dealing with that for my youngest. She'll be in pre algebra in 9th grade. She'll have that as credit. We're using a book written in mind for 9th grader who are in pre algebra. She is not college bound due to special needs and not on the highest side of autism spectrum. Are you looking at getting ideas of other products that could do basics of grammar at grade level 9 as part of an overall build your own course? I'm assuming that you have done something for grammar up to this point. Easy Grammar Ultimate grade 9 might fit the bit nicely. It will take a few minutes each day. hoping others will chime in. but that's been my understanding in all of this. My youngest is probably way more remedial than yours. She will get credit for stuff but isn't college bound. Middle gal needed to use easy grammar ultimate on the side while in regular 9th grade stuff. and needed lots of help with composition.

in the grades 2-8 programs, yes, book basket is related to history and science, sometimes music/art history as well. It's organized by weeks. For example, Johnny Tremain is historical fiction set in time of American Revolution, so that book will show up in book basket list when that topic is studied. The list will have fiction, non fiction. think of it as a big ole buffet to enjoy. Also, they share a little bit of info about the book and maybe some age/grade suggestion. If there's something to have a preview heads up, they'll include that as well, (example.. this book will discuss this belief system, so preview for that). The classics list is less detailed. It's basically grade level novels and stories. It's a separate list. Not always related to history/science/bible/etc topics. goes from early readers to about jr high. Since they have so many books on those extras, they encourage library use to keep costs down. Certain books have an asterisk next to them. People without good libraries nearby sometimes will hunt for those asterisk titles in the book basket list on amazon or other used books options and have a book or two per week. I have good memories from when kids were younger about having my rolling cart filled. I was so much younger. if you try it, I hope it works out for you like it did for us. My youngest has so many learning challenges with special needs, I struggle getting mfw to work for her. I hate shopping. I'm not looking forward to making my own lesson plans for her. I felt quite secure in having a lesson plan to buy and done for me. plug and chug and got it done. enjoyed life. mostly.