That's brilliant. Yup--I could do that. I'll apply to College Board if we opt to finish out AP. Holy moly--I can't thank you enough.

It's a high school class. We're doing it next year although it's a step back for my rising junior. There is a teacher's manual and looking at it--it definitely offers a lot of information. I'm glad to have bought it. Every week has a writing assignment but they also give a lot of their input on guiding the conversation. I just finally started looking at it yesterday.

Yes... and it's agony. Contenders: Math - He could do pre-calc but he would rather do statistics and I think he would be fine either way. He decided on pre-calc. English - Already completed AP Lit & Comp but "Incomplete" for the spring semester due to COVID anxiety and timed writing. Not sure whether to have him do AP English Language or let him do the Oak Meadow "Hero's Journey" and find a writing instructor to support that. Science - AP Chem at home. Not sure if he will sit for the exam. If he doesn't, we'll transcript it as Honors Chem (but syllabus has been approved by College Board, so we can do it as AP) SS- US History - I will be teaching this to a group on Outschool using Zinn's "A Young People's History of the United States". Foreign Language - After 2 years of Lukeion Latin and honors on the NLE, he wants to drop Latin 😵 and switch to Italian (our family is in Italy and we've been able to visit, but he can't communicate with them). I just feel like he needs some kind of consistency on his transcript. 😕 Accounting - I'll be teaching him this. It's a feeling out for possible future work (even if only a bookkeeping side hustle) I'm feeling a bit anxious that these aren't nailed down yet. I'm also mildly freaking out about his "Incomplete" grade for spring in AP Lit (he got a B or B- for his Fall grade). He has other good grades for the spring (AP Human Geo, Latin 2, an Anatomy & Physiology course at the local college) so it's clear he's not a complete screw-up. But he has horrifying test anxiety and the increased practice timed writings did him in. I also really need to find a writing "tutor" that's willing to follow the Hero's Journey curricula because that's really what he'd like to be doing for ELA this year. Also--input on doing Algebra 2 and then Stats--bypassing the calcs? He can do calc, but he's really interested in stats. I don't even know where to find a good stats course. Derek Owens doesn't have it. He's not a fan of AoPS (I didn't check if they have it).

I have been a middle school coach for 4 years and am a new high school coach (but have been prepping for that for the last 18mo). I also attend a coaches clinic in AZ with coaches at both levels from all over the country. This will TOTALLY depend on how the team is run; and to some extent--how the program is run in your state (which differs rather wildly across the country). The more time they put into their events, the better they'll do. The high school kids are working at a college level of material if that helps. There are some events that will come easier than others; and the build events often take more time and some money (for materials unless your team provides everything). For the builds, some of them destroy the build at a competition and therefore require a new build for each competition. Find out how many competitions the team has per year and what they supply. My team has lab boxes for the chemistry/lab events but no build materials. It can be a great experience!!

Ninth grade was seriously misery. We were finally trying to "do real school" vs. letting ds do mostly what he wanted (since he had always been pretty academically motivated on his own until 8th grade). #fail But I feel like it was a great "learning" year for he and I in terms of what we need to focus on and how to get things done, so #win. He is seriously all over the map in terms of future goals. He's traditionally been my STEM kid and now it's theater and costume construction and writing. 🙄 ELA: AP Literature at PA Homeschoolers with Serbicki Math: Pre-calc Not yet firm on where. Mr. D, Derek Owens, IL Virtual and Time4Learning are all actual contenders Science: Conceptual physics taught through the coschool I run using Modeling Instruction. He's already done bio and chem but not using this instructional method (which results in a much more thorough understanding--so he might actually do chem again with me this way next year) Social Sci: Gov't using Great Books Three Branches of Gov't through the coschool I run PE: Clueless. We totally bailed on this last year. He'll either do swimming and/or marital arts. Arts: Possibly through the local HS if we can make the schedule work. Theater Arts or studio art. Honestly, we can probably bang out a year of credit via summer instruction in this dept. Foreign Lang: Latin 2 with Lukeion for legit credit and Italian with Rosetta Stone and home practice (relatively useless, but lots of overlap with Latin and Spanish; and relevant for our family as we have relatives that still live there and we are on year 2 of however-many-we-can-pull-off of visiting). I feel like 4 years of Latin would fit this bill if he went to college. Am I "off" on this one? Electives: Intro to Logic with CLRC (his request). I'm not sure we could do any more than this with everything else. Extracurricular: Science Olympiad team (we know he'll take on cryptography, but not sure what other events) volunteering at the Humane Society lots of theater including (hopefully) some working on costume construction We're actually going to start really documenting his extra-curricular stuff and look at what fits as a transcriptable credit vs. what's developing him as a human.

Okay... so a lot of this is changing now that the year is upon us and things have shifted into place (and out of place). We are moving him to Rhetoric level based on some evaluations and feedback that say he's not really working and we got into an amazing boys-only lit and nature program that will meet once/week for 3 hours. That also ate up our lab science money (his choice to use it where we did). Yeah... so... that. Schedule

I've looked everywhere I can think of including a search of this forum. I have a would-be 2nd grader and we are doing FLL level 1 because she's never done anything formal with grammar, etc. The book has 100 lessons and I'm just wondering what they expect in terms of pacing because I'm guessing they assume it is done in a single (school) year? I looked at Lesson 2 (poem memorization) and it threw me. I suspect they assume that working on poem memorization in tandem with other lessons because there is notation for poem memorization review during the next two lessons. If you followed a typical 32 to 40-ish week school year, That means 2-3 lessons/week. Am I "off" here? I was hoping to move her though it a bit quicker to catch her up but I'm not seeing that being a possibility. I have some question as to why someone opts for FLL vs. Queen Homeschooling's Language Lessons (so help me I have confused these two for easily 3 years).

GAH!!! Mine is going to be a 7th grader, too, and I feel so loosey-goosey right now. Thankful for this thread. Here are the current plans: Math: He ends an online accredited (likely common core) Algebra 1 course this summer and I'm wondering if we should redo AoPS Algebra 1 during the year before moving onto Geometry or Alg 2. Writing: Currently finishing SWI-B and will do Rockets, Radar & Robotics through the summer and then IEW's Elegant Essay through a co-op for the fall (per his current SWI leader's suggestion). Returning to RRR for spring if we don't do Fix-it with the co-op. Language Arts/Literature: We're likely to stick with TOG Y3 for literature through an online co-op for discussion, but he is also doing a Dystopian Literature fall semester class online and a Literary Analysis week-long summer camp for middle schoolers. History: I personally hate history and he really just enjoys Socratic dialogue for anything--so we will do this through the TOG Y3 virtual co-op along with the literature. Science: Taking an in-person Saturday morning course that will give him a year of lab science credit (biology in fall, chem in winter, earth science in spring). Of course, this assumes he manages the classroom and the workload well for the fall component. If not, I'm seriously clueless. We're finishing Apologia Physical Science now with a group we do labs with every 2 weeks. Maybe we'd go back and do General Science. He also has an 8-week online class specific to microbes because he'll be doing Science Olympiad again next year and there is a potential microbe event on next year's schedule of events. Foreign Language: We need to get back to regular French and Spanish; and find outlets for conversation. Using Rosetta Stone for both so far. Latin: We have never done latin and i have no idea where to start with a 7th grader with no background (other than 2 years of Rosetta Stone French and 1 of Spanish as some kind of baseline). HALP?!?! Logic/Philosophy: I need to find something for this and I'm considering Art of Argument but not positive about it. Geography: Considering Mapping the World with Art. World Cultures and Relgions: I feel so strongly about covering this with my kids next year and need to figure out how to do it with both a 7th and 2nd grader. I own Build Your Library's 7th Grade curricula and Sonlight's old "F" with the EHE plus a book on World Religions. I'm wondering if I could somehow meld all of that together. Others: Gavel Club Martial Arts for PE Science Olympiad Boys Choir possibly Civil Air Patrol but I'm not sure he'll have the time.

I'm reading through all of these posts taking notes on what we haven't already found for my 11yo that doesn't care to be an astronaut, but wants to be somehow in astrophysics. Finding science to address his level AND his immature 11yo mentality is HARD. I just bought (secondhand) Apologia's Exploring Creation with Physics which apparently comes with a teaching DVD. You might want to check into that. Much like Space Station, I'm just allowing mine to double up on math and science. His shorter term goal is to get into the state math & science academy... but only so he can go work at some space-related facility afterward. He's still too young for Civil Air Patrol, but has already started Scouts. I also looked up my local high school's textbook list for astronomy and physics and bought them online cheap. I'm going to go through each unit and make a Pinterest board for each unit with links to take him to online resources for the unit content. Last, it's not cheap by any stretch, but if you're desperate--Northwestern University has a Gifted Learning Links program that is facilitating learning at a distance for advanced kids. Sometimes they run ones that are very science-y. They run in-person programs in the Chicago area and the in-person programs have been worth every penny (but again, not inexpensive). Once they have finished Algebra II, they can take Astrophysics. And they can reside there for the 2-3 weeks of camp for an additional cost if you don't live in the area.