My boys took WHA's Geometry with Leslie Smith last year. We all thought the class went very well. In fact, my daughter is taking Algebra I with Mrs. Smith this year because geometry went so well. We would highly recommend both her Algebra I and her Geometry courses! ETA: No experience with Chemistry, yet, but my boys did take WHA's Biology course with Mrs. Owens last year, and that, too, went very well. I had planned to sign my daughter up for the same course this year, but it now requires Chemistry as a prerequisite. My boys are signed up for WHA Chemistry for this coming year. We choose WHA because we had a good experience with their Biology course last year and because I did not want to use the Apologia Chemistry text.

Not OP, but addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division through 13, or maybe 15. Ask the Essentials tutor for the best answer for your group.

I'd say very is an adjective in that sentence, too. Very can be used as an adverb when it modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. However, in this sentence, it modifies "bottom," which is a noun. A word that modifies a noun is an adjective.

Yes! I wish I had penciled in the SAT Subject test dates for three of the classes my oldest took last year in 9th. I didn't think of it until toward the end of the year, and by then we had already scheduled a vacation. They missed the SAT Subject tests that they could/should have taken last year. Now they've got four subject exams and at least one AP exam this year, two of which would probably have been better taken last year. And the usual disclaimer...... Having/not having SAT subject exam scores is not the end of the world, but they are one outside verification of grades that our family would like to have.

On the WTM Academy home page, there's a tab at the top, "Preview Our Classes." Click on that and you'll go to a page where you can select whichever teacher you want to preview to get a feel for how the class operates.

nt Got the answer. Thanks!

For my three, it was a seamless transition from LfC A & B to Wheelock's.

This looks like a great series. I haven't come across it before. Thanks for posting!

Does she need two credits of lit next year? If not, you could aim for one English credit with the work that is typically expected in a high school English course--discussion, analysis, essay/longer paper. Pick the books you really want to get into and use those for the credit. Let her enjoy simply reading the others. You can add the books she reads for fun to a reading list with her transcript. It might actually be more impressive to see a solid Eng credit _and_ an impressive personal reading list than two credits of "assigned reading."

This was our path through AP Latin/Latin Readings.... 4th grade: Latin for Children A 5th grade: Latin for Children B 6th grade: nothing (DSs tried to audit an online LfC C, but it was tedious just listening to a recording of a live class, so we dropped it. For my dd, we tried moving to Latin Alive 1, but that was so dull after having already done LfC A & B that we dropped the class after a few weeks.) 7th grade: Wheelock's first half (Lukeion Latin I online) 8th grade: Wheelock's second half (Lukeion Latin II online - this is where my dd currently is) 9th grade: Lukeion Latin III (readings-survey of Latin authors) 10th grade: Lukeion AP Latin/IV (readings - Vergil's Aeneid, Caesar) I was surprised at how smoothly the transition went from LfC A & B into Wheelock's. If I had it to do over again, I'd have had my children do LfC A & B in 5th & 6th grade and then start Wheelock's in 7th. LfC A&B were more than sufficient prep for Wheelock's. ETA: I had two years of Latin in high school, waaaay back. Then I took Joanna Hensley's Latin in a Week crash course as a refresher. It was enough that I was able to help my children with LfC A&B and the first half of Wheelock's. We did use online classes, though, because I wanted to make sure Latin actually happened. I could definitely have taught LfC A & B, but having an experienced & knowledgeable Latin teacher for Wheelock's gave my students a much better foundation than I could have given them with my limited knowledge. Once my boys hit Latin III and IV, I gave up even trying to keep up!

We did not use the CC Challenge levels. Challenge A is 7th grade, iirc, so you might get more feedback from people who have BTDT if you post on the Logic board, or possibly on the high school board?

The CLE Grammaire Progressive books (beginner, intermediate, advanced, "perfectionnement") are my favorite grammar books. No frills. Find the pages on the topic you're having trouble with, do the exercises. Reprise and Ultimate French Review and Practice are also good. I like Reprise better.

My daughter and I are enjoying some of the lectures in "Turning Points in American History" alongside her US history course. That's our latest find. We enjoyed listening to some lectures from Rufus Fears' "Famous Greeks" alongside the reading she was doing in Plutarch's Lives. We like Rufus Fears's focus on biographies as a way to study history.

Harari? It was discussed in this thread.

AP French at eLycee was mentioned on another list. Does anyone have any experience with eLycee?

Not sure where you're located, but sometimes they have local parent workshops, where a Circe instructor teaches the course to parents so the parents can teach LToW to their own children, and/or student writing workshops, where a Circe instructor teaches students directly and parents observe. I found those to be invaluable. I was able to take some of what I learned/saw and use it immediately with my own children even though we didn't do the full-on LToW curriculum that year. I don't see anything now , but keep an eye on the event calendar on the Circe site for upcoming workshops. You can also contact Circe and ask about organizing a workshop near you. If there are a number of Classical Conversations groups in your area, there might be sufficient interest. Any CC tutor who is supposed to be teaching LToW should take at least one of the workshops. (Just a disclaimer.... I have no association with LToW or CC! I'm just a random parent who got some very useful ideas from the LToW workshops. )

Not sure where you're located, but sometimes they have local parent workshops, where a Circe instructor teaches the course to parents so the parents can teach LToW to their own children, and/or student writing workshops, where a Circe instructor teaches students directly and parents observe. I found those to be invaluable. I was able to take some of what I learned/saw and use it immediately with my own children even though we didn't do the full-on LToW curriculum that year. I don't see anything now , but keep an eye on the event calendar on the Circe site for upcoming workshops. You can also contact Circe and ask about organizing a workshop near you. If there are a number of Classical Conversations groups in your area, there might be sufficient interest. Any CC tutor who is supposed to be teaching LToW should take at least one of the workshops. (Just a disclaimer.... I have no association with LToW or CC! I'm just a random parent who got some very useful ideas from the LToW workshops. )

We haven't taken any online LToW courses ourselves, but there are online LToW classes at Circe, the writers/publishers of LToW, and at Coram Deo Tutorials.

These are both great, Arcadia! Thank you!

My dd is in 8th this year, doing Dolciani Algebra I. She did well the first semester, but she's finding it much more difficult this semester. She can manage if I sit with her and work through everything alongside her, but it is very frustrating for her. I'm thinking of having her work through Foerster's Alg 1 text next year in 9th, or possibly Dolciani's Alg I again. I just can't see slogging our way through 4 years of math in high school, and it will be a slog if we try to push on without first conquering and feeling successful with algebra I. She'll also be a young 9th grader, not turning 14 until October. And, she is humanities-minded, at least at this point, so there's no rush to Calculus in 12th grade. Just don't see much downside in another year of Algebra I. Hope it turns out to be the right choice.

CTY = John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth WHA = Wilson Hill Academy (Classical Christian)

My daughter may be studying Euclid's Elements with a Great Books provider in the fall. (Students who take this provider's GB II course are also required to take the Geometry course there, using Euclid's Elements.) I just ordered the text, but haven't received it yet. Would it be mostly sufficient to check the "Geometry" box? If it's not, has anyone seen anything mapping Euclid's Elements to a more traditional geometry text, preferably Jurgensen's, since I'm somewhat familiar with that one? Maybe we could do the traditional text alongside the EE class. My dd is not mathy; her interests are in the humanities. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth if I tell her she has to take an additional, traditional geometry course besides the one using Euclid's Elements. Thanks for any thoughts!

Then it sounds like you'll be just fine with TPS French courses. The observations of Cosmos and madteaparty are probably the best advice for you since it sounds like they're in the same position as you. In our experience with online classes, the TPS French courses have been some of the most Christian. Works well for us, but I can see where they would not work for others. They are good classes, though, and, if they work for Cosmos & mad, maybe they'll work for you, too!

Roadrunner & Loesje, What levels of French courses are you looking for? And I assume you're looking for secular? We're Christian and we've been very happy with the TPS French courses. It does seem that there is some level of interest in a strong, secular French program, though. I've been trying to convince a couple of providers to start a full-on French program, but they're both relatively new and are more focused right now on covering the basics well. My students have been working online with an excellent, native French tutor, in addition to the TPS classes. Right now, she only tutors individually online, but she may be interested in pulling together small group classes, if there's enough interest and if she can find a suitable online classroom platform to use. yvonne

Their AP French course is new this year. Previously, they offered an "AP Supplement" that a student could do along with the French 4/5 lit-based course. This year, it's an official, full-blown AP French course in and of itself, specifically covering the various themes expected for the AP exam. It meets for an hour and a half, twice a week. So, no, we don't have any experience with it. However, I would expect that, like a literature-based course, an AP French course would necessarily involve a lot of discussion, and it's likely that, at a stalwart Christian provider, that discussion would be be done through the lens of a Christian worldview.