I've been able to find all our favorite instructors at Wilson Hill Academy. No idea what happened in upper management to cause such a mass exodus from VP to WH and others.

Bay leaf trees are super easy to grow! It's one of the few things we've planted that we haven't managed to kill. Yet.

Ugh. That's a little tacky.

Wilson Hill Academy is having an open house/informational meeting this evening, Thursday, May 7, 8-9pm EST, if anyone is interested in finding out more about their course offerings. Mr. Etter, head of school, was going to be presenting, but he is ill, and Todd Lowery will be filling in for him. In addition to their junior high and high school level clases, they have added some grammar level classes: science, math, and language arts classes for grades 5 and 6, and Latin classes using Latin for Children A-C. (I am not affiliated with WHA. I'm just a very satisfied parent of three students who have taken courses with many of their teachers over the past several years! ) From their site: *************************************************************** Wilson Hill Academy Open House for Prospective Students Thursday, May 7, 2015 8 - 9 p.m. ET Please join us as our Head of School, Teachers, Students and Parents present the mission, philosophy and firsthand experiences of Wilson Hill Academy. The link for the presentation can be found here. If you have a question, please send it to contact@wilsonhillacademy.com or use the Contact form on the website.

Wilson Hill Academy is having an open house/informational meeting this evening, Thursday, May 7, 8-9pm EST, if anyone is interested in finding out more about their course offerings. Mr. Etter, head of school, was going to be presenting, but he is ill and Todd Lowery will be filling in for him. In addition to their junior high and high school level clases, they have added some grammar level classes (science, math, and language arts classes for grades 5 and 6, and Latin classes using Latin for Children A-C. (I am not affiliated with WHA. I'm just a very satisfied parent of three students who have taken courses with many of their teachers over the past several years! ) From their site: *************************************************************** Wilson Hill Academy Open House for Prospective Students Thursday, May 7, 2015 8 - 9 p.m. ET Please join us as our Head of School, Teachers, Students and Parents present the mission, philosophy and firsthand experiences of Wilson Hill Academy. The link for the presentation can be found here. If you have a question, please send it to contact@wilsonhillacademy.com or use the Contact form on the website.

Wilson Hill Academy is having an open house/informational meeting this evening, Thursday, May 7, 8-9pm EST, if anyone is interested in finding out more about their course offerings. Mr. Etter, head of school, was going to be presenting, but he is ill and Todd Lowery will be filling in for him. (I am not affiliated with WHA. I'm just a very satisfied parent of three students who have taken courses with many of their teachers over the past several years! ) From their site: *************************************************************** Wilson Hill Academy Open House for Prospective Students Thursday, May 7, 2015 8 - 9 p.m. ET Please join us as our Head of School, Teachers, Students and Parents present the mission, philosophy and firsthand experiences of Wilson Hill Academy. The link for the presentation can be found here. If you have a question, please send it to contact@wilsonhillacademy.com or use the Contact form on the website.

Meaning that studying for the SAT would have resulted in a higher score? How much studying is your daughter doing for it? I know SWB suggests it in the WTM, but I haven't really been after my boys to study since I went in cold and did fine. On the other hand, that was years (decades! *sniff*) ago.

Thank you, thank you, Four!! It works! I am sooooo slow to catch on to these things!

My daughter & I were just reviewing that rule in Rod & Staff English. :)

Hi, Not sure where to ask this, but ... on my iphone, if i click on a thread, it opens to the next new post from where I left off reading that thread. Is it possible to set my desktop to do the same thing? As it is, on my desktop, I read a thread. Then, if I see that there are new posts on it the next day and click on the thread, it just opens to the very first post in that thread and I have to scroll down to find the last post I read and pick up from there. Not a big deal, but thought I'd ask. It's probably either not possible or totally obvious how to do it. :) Thanks!

A, an, and the are articles, a subset of adjectives. There are two types of adjectives: limiting and descriptive. A, an, and the are limiting adjectives. I haven't run into the "determiners" term much so can't help there. A compound sentence, like the one you have quoted, includes two or more independent clauses. Those independent clauses are often joined by a comma and conjunction. However, if one or both of the independent clauses contains commas, a semicolon is used to join the two independent clauses. In your quoted sentence, there are two independent clauses: "At the birth of her first little child the queen rejoiced very much, and forgot the little man and her promise" and "one day he came into her chamber and reminded her of it." There is a comma in the first independent sentence so that may be why a semicolon was used to join the two independent clauses.

I meant that if I had started with Minimus and SSL and ... countless other Latin for young children programs in 2nd grade and 3rd grade and then GSWL as a more solid beginning when the kids hit 4th or so and then LfC A in 5th or so..... we'd all have been tired of it. ("My name is yvonne and I'm a curricula junkie. I have every Latin program known to man, kiddie through college, on my bookshelves. Still. Because you just never know...." LOL I am so pathetic.)

Found it.... From the CB site, it sounds like there is a way to only send specific, individual SAT subject exam scores. But I guess different colleges could require that any and all SAT subject scores be sent. I know it's not uncommon to require any and all SAT scores. I wonder how common it is to require any & all subject scores. "Select which scores you want to send to your score recipients Score Choice gives you the option to choose which scores (by test date for the SAT and by individual test for SAT Subject Tests™) you send to colleges — in accordance with an institution's stated score-use practice. If you decide not to use Score Choice, all of your scores will be sent to your recipients."

Not a curriculum, but to improve understanding of spoken French, and possibility to increase fluency, if you have some background in French, the two of you could watch some of the short, simple French cartoons on youtube like Petit Ours Brun. The words are fairly clear and distinct. The sentences are simple. The vocabulary is pretty clear from the video. (Some people like the French Caillou segments, but I cannot stand the squeaky, annoying voice of the French Caillou. You really have to strain to make out the words.) With Petit Ours Brun, you could pause the video, repeat the sentences, and replay. Younger ones seem to pick up a lot from hearing the language in the context of the video.

I bought Minimus intending to use it in 2nd grade, but couldn't bring myself to do it. Even then I thought "Why bother?" I'm so glad we didn't get bother with Latin earlier than 4th grade. Not only would it have been completely unnecessary, but it would also have burned us all out on Latin before we got to the "good stuff." My three started with Latin for Children A in 4th grade and LfC B in 5th. My boys did about a third of LfC C in 6th; my daughter did no Latin in 6th. (Started Latin Alive but it was a flop. Might have been more the teacher than the text that flopped, though.) They all went on to Wheelock's in 7th with VP/Lukeion. The LfC A-B turned out to be excellent, and more than enough, preparation for Wheelock's. Doing LfC C would have been a waste of a year for kids who had the maturity and self-discipline to start a high school level text like Wheelock's. If I had another child coming up, I would probably still do LfC A & B in 4th and 5th and then move to Latin 1/Wheelock's in 6th so that the child would be on track to wrap up AP Latin in 9th grade. I don't see any point to starting Latin before 4th grade at the earliest. It would probably work almost as well to wait until 7th or 8th and jump directly into Wheelock's, assuming the child has a strong foundation in grammar and is a diligent worker.

Loesje, the workshops are completely different from the semester or year long courses in terms of goals and level of expectations! They are intended to be informative but more casual than the hard core Latin and Greek classes, or the history, and writing courses.

I know you can do that for AP scores, can you select which SAT subject exam scores to send or not send to colleges? If you send one SAT subject exam score, will all subject exams that a student has taken also be sent?

This exactly. I know I could design an AP course syllabus and ultimately get it approved. I would learn a ton about the subject in the process. (That's why it would be so much fun! :001_smile: ) I also know that, even with the absolute best intentions, there is no way I could actually follow through on implementing that beautiful syllabus. We'd be headed down one rabbit trail after another. It would all be good, and it would all be learning, but it would not be following that syllabus. I envy those of you who can make that transition from planning to implementation!! When I have successfully implemented some smaller scale plans, it is the most rewarding feeling. Teaching at a brick & mortar, one would be more constrained by the syllabus because there's more outside accountability. But, as you point out, an approved AP syllabus doesn't mean a b&m AP teacher will hold the students to the level of expectations indicated in that syllabus. Theoretically, that would come out in the AP test score. I tend to go the other way and think that, ultimately, there is no way to objectively substantiate a course's content. The only true, objective means of validating any student's course of study (in a b&m or in a home school situation) is some sort of standardized test (SAT/ACT/SAT 2/AP/IB/etc) where all students are evaluated against the same standard, AND/OR a portfolio of actual work for those students who "don't test well" in general or who have a bad test day or who have studied material outside the normal range of high school/college topics. (I have one student learning ancient Greek. Other than a high score on the NGE and possibly a placement test at individual colleges, there is no standardized test or way to prove that he's mastered more material after three years of Lukeion classes than a student who has spent three years studying Greek with Hey, Andrew levels 1-3. ) This is the bottom line, I think. There's no way we as home schoolers know how any one college is going to evaluate our students and it's probably best to do what we need to do to make the transcript as comparable to a b&m transcript as possible. Having that "AP x" designation on a home school transcript, although it does not guarantee anything about what the student actually for the course, is one of those details that may very well matter to some/many/all of the admissions people who are looking for what they would normally look for on b&m transcripts. The homeschool2college thread about whether or not to put any "mommy grades" on a student's transcript was interesting. On the one hand, they don't really mean much objectively since one parent's idea of an A can be completely different from another's. On the other hand, it sounds like you need to have grades listed not only to be eligible for scholarships but also because some colleges will assume a "C" or some mediocre grade if no grade is indicated.

Yes Dolciani for pre-algebra, algebra 1, and algebra2. PreAlgebra: An Accelerated Course, 1992, by Mary Dolciani (ISBN 0395591236) They also use the Jurgensen geometry text. Dolciani was listed as an author on the older editions of the Jurgensen geometry text, so I would think the geometry text would fit in well with the rest of the Dolciani sequence.

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There's one home school group in our area, as well as a 3 day a week "hybrid" home school/school school, that excludes anyone who has anything to do with any sort of public charter, etc., even if one agrees with their statement of faith. Apparently one's politics trump one's status as a Christian. I think this attitude is due to the hype and pressure from HSLDA. One of these days I am going to write a letter to Mike Smith/Farris at HSLDA and ask him if he realizes the damage the HSDLA is doing to the community of Christian home schoolers by pushing for the separation of the "real" home schoolers from the "public schoolers at home." He must really believe private home schooling is at great risk if he's willing to drive a wedge in the very community he supposedly supports. I can't imagine he and the HSLDA would do/say some of the things they do if they were out in the field where they saw the damage.

Could there be copyright issues for someone emailing you a chapter of the text?

UC's a-g requirements can be filled in a few ways. The best way to see what the options are for a particular subject is to read the a-g info on the UC site itself. From that linked page, it looks like ASL is indeed an approved "language other than English" that would fill the "e" requirement. It also looks like the only way to get a-g ASL credit would be either to take an a-g approved high school class or to take a CC/college ASL class. As I recall, you are with a charter. If you want an ASL class designated as a-g on your "official" transcript from the charter, you need to ask your ES what a-g approved options the charter has. They may have a local vendor who offers an a-g approved ASL class, or they may have a list of approved online vendors who offer a-g ASL classes. You can try the UC "a-g Course List" search site to see what approved a-g courses are offered by schools/online vendors. Type in your charter's name and see if they have an a-g approved ASL course. If you want to do a-g ASL independently, you could check online vendors that offer approved a-g classes to see if any of them offer a-g ASL. Some online vendors that offer a-g approved courses are UC Scout, BYU, Apex, but I don't know if any of them offer ASL You could look them up on the search site linked above to find out. Good luck finding something that works for your students!

I'd love, love, love the planning, but I'd never be able to transition to actually doing. And I can't grade my boys' papers well enough to do them justice and help them move forward. I am super grateful for Lukeion's AP Latin class and PA's AP courses for the future. Good luck to you! I hope you find an already created syllabus you can use!

LNM = Latin for the New Millennium