My youngest son is going into the 9th grade and we are going to use Apologia biology. He requested to do biology. Chris in VA I was wondering what you used for environmental science and physical geography and astronomy? My oldest son does not want to do physcis or any of the advanced Apologia courses so I think this might be a good alternative for him. thanks

I used total health with my oldest in 9th grade and I am going to use it this fall with my youngest who is going into the 9th grade. It can be done in a semester. I have the hewitt sylabus that I use with this. HTH

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My oldest is going inot the 11th grade this fall and he plans to work with his dad for a year after graduation and then he says he will attend college after that. My husband and I would prefer that he go straight to college after graduation but he is one of those kids that you cannot force to do anything. We tried to push the issue with him and it just made him all the more determined to do things his way. So we have backed off and have decided to let him choose his own path.(even though this is hard for us)

My youngest son will be in the 9th grade this year and I am going to use All American History with him . I will also be using alot of extra reading and he will write papers ,take notes on his reading do map work, timeline and lots of other extras to flesh it out. I am going to add American Lit. to this. he will read apporx. 8-10 books for the Lit. part and will write various papers to go with it. HTH

What my boys have/are doing fo rffelectives: 1.Carpentry-1 credit(my husband is a construction manager/homebuilder/remolder and he and the bouys are doing alot of remodeling work and my husband is getting them some books on different aspects of carpentry) 2.Computer science-1 credit 3.music appreciation- 1/2 credit 4.art-drawing and art history study-1 credit 5.bible 6. Understanding the times -1 credit 7. Spanish-1 credit 8. Greek- 1 credit 9. I Kissed Dating Goodbye with the dvd and study guide-1/2 credit 10. Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace- not sure how much credit for this one yet. This is a sampling of what we have or are using for electives. HTH

My son will be taking the following classes in the fall: Bible-read daily/Starting Points/different religions History-Beautiful feet Science-Apologia Biology Math-Algebra-not sure what Language Arts- finish Hake Grammar and then grammar will be done with his compositon/IEW US history/English From the Roots Up Art-Artistic Pursuits Foreign Language-Spanish in a co-op/rosetta Stone Hebrew Computer Science class Swimming(we have a pool so this will be his P.E.) Literature-American Literature at the co-op(I will be teaching this class) I know there is more but this is all I can think of right now.

will be getting some sort of math/science oriented degree in college. Thanks

I have way to many books that I think my son would enjoy for American Literature(I literally have pages and pages). So I need to narrow the list down. What are your not to miss books from each of these authors? William Faulkner John Steinbeck James Fenimore Cooper Ernest Hemingway William Golding Washington Irving Nathanial Hawthorne Thanks

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Does the curriculum have a place where it talks about the literature read or does the student just read the books and then as the parent you just discuss the book with him? Thanks

I was just looking at this on their website and looked at the examples. i must I was impressed with what I saw. I was wondering if anyone has used this program and what your opinions are of it. thanks

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9th grade son will : Bible/theology-daily bible reaing and study, Cornerstones Starting Points(leaning toward this for theology) history-will study American history with his older brother this year and then we will go back to ancients after that. We will be using BOb jones US history textbook as a starting point and will add in Sp Western Civilization book, primary source documents, literature for the time period and various writing assignments. Science-Physical Science maybe Apologia just not sure yet Math-Bob Jones Algebra 1 or MUS Algebra 1 Language Arts- IEW, literature american history and probably using something like the WEM, grammar is something I am not completely sure about as of yet. spanish-Rosettat Stone PE- basketball with our homeschool co-op? Electives: Computer Science, carpentry, health using Bob Jones text I think this is about it. When I write it out it it looks like we will be doing plenty this year. Now to get my 11th grade sons planned out. :lol:

First we are Southern Baptist and my son states that he does not want to change denominations. His reason for wanting to study theology is to gain a better understanding of the Bible and other religions in order to be able to defend his faith with confidence out in the world. Thanks for all the suggestions. I have been looking at cornerstones Starting Points curriculum and am leaning heavily toward that. Thanks:)

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You stated in a post to my highschool question that your child was working on getting their ham radio license. Could you give me some info on this? My son is really interested in doing this but I hav no idea where to get the information for him or where to start. thanks

this fall. I have no idea where to begin. Any ideas anyone? Thanks:glare:

study specifically. Thanks:001_smile:

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of the American People. Since that time my old compouter crashed and I have not been able to find it. I was hoping that someone on here might have that website bookmarked. thanks :D

I am starting to plan for my sons 11th grade year. Last year for 10th grade history we used ABeka. It was easy and since I was working full time it fit the bill. However, I am no longer working and would like to branch out with history(sons favorite subject) but there are so many choices. I am thinking about Sonlight, Biblioplan,TOG, Paul Johnsons A History of the American People to name a few. I have even thought about using the WTM suggestions. Would love to get others opinions on the above mentioned curriculums/books. Also how do you add in papers for them to write about? DO you use a prepared literature program or something else? I would also love it if you all could expand on your literature program with your highschoolers. Thanks so much for taking the time to read and respond!! :confused: :001_smile:

Beautiful Feet guides. I think that there is so much in the Beautiful Feet guides that personally I do not see that it would be reasonable to try and combine the two. It just seems to me that you would waaaayyyy more than you could reasonably cover. JMO:)

Has anyone used the Uncle Eric books and guides for their childs gov't/economics? If yes what is our opinion of using them for this purpose? thanks :confused: