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  1. Thank you all very much! There were some great ideas that I didn't even think of. The more I think about it the more I think it would be a great class for life skills. Thanks everyone!
  2. I'm thinking of putting together a class full of basics that we should all know when we are out on our own. For example, job interviews, budgets, how credit scores work, social networking and how it can hurt/help you, study skills, car maintenance, etc. Right now it's just an idea I'm playing with. I'm curious, what would you of wanted to know before you were out on your own? What challenges did you run into that would of been easier if you knew a bit more first? :lurk5:
  3. Some people seem to agree that if the child is doing high school level material they can count that as a credit. In our state, you can only count it if it was in the grade prior to high school (8th grade). There is a caution with colleges who might want to see 4 credits of say science. Some will count it if it's before and some will only count it if it is during 9th-12th. I would say to count the grade if it was high school material, but have extra in that area. For example, if your child took Biology in 8th grade. I would count that as a credit, but I would give them 4 more years of Science just to be on the safe side. The child then graduates with extra credits, but still everything required in those four years. Just my two cents.
  4. Thanks! Glad to hear others do the same thing. We work very hard, but we have our own system that doesn't always seem to be the norm.
  5. We don't use pass/fail on anything except PE. For health, we did projects that can be easily graded. I find if anything can be graded then that class should have a grade assigned to it.
  6. well, looking into it, I think we decided to go with A Human Odyssey as the spine of our class. It's not like the dc haven't done world history. Just not on a high school level. We like to use different books to help add to our history and will be going to museums, watching documentaries, and doing other world classes. Thank you for your input.
  7. There is a great book that put the transcripts fears to rest for me called College-Prep Homeschooling: Your Complete Guide to Homeschooling through High School by Chandra Beyer. It has general information about how to do transcripts and put together class descriptions with a lot of their own examples. It gave me a piece of mind as I read it and highlighted areas that I thought were important. This was our second year in high school and at the end I reread some of those highlighted portions and found it to be very helpful all over again. I most important thing I can stress to you is have faith in yourself. You have been doing this and I found that it really doesn't change too much. You advance your teaching as you have every year. The only thing is make sure you document it. I found homeschool tracker to be very helpful in getting it down. It will keep track of grades - weighted or not and time spent. It's pretty basic and once you have the hang of it very simple to use. They even have a yahoo group for it for resources and lesson plans that others have put together and share. I think it was a one time fee to download and then you get free upgrades for life. There is another program called edutrack (I believe) I hear it's about the same if maybe some bonus features, but last I heard you have to pay each year. I'm not sure if that is true, I can only really say about the homeschool tracker. Take it one step at a time. First find out what is required for graduation and what your state laws are. Take a look at some colleges and see what they say they require. Even if dc are not sure where to go, just to get a feel. Start with the core classes and add from there. Best of luck to you and remember 'breathe'. It's very overwhelming, but you will look back and think, "Gee, that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be"
  8. Yeah, the more I look at it the more i'm thinking I need two full years. I have not seen the notgrass but i'll check it out. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks again
  9. Hey there, I think you can do some much with a health class on your own. Just think about what is important to know in order to take care of yourself, your food, and your hygiene and incorporate that in with hands on and reading as well as projects and trips For example, you could do a healthy eating portion - go over nutrition information and what each category means. Set up a menu for a week that will be nutritious. Have them shop for the ingredients and see if they can remain in budget. Take out some healthy cookbooks from the library and have them learn how to cook the food. Try to find out why they are more healthy. Talk about how to take a favorite not so good for you meal and substitute healthier ingredients. Offer them a opportunity to create their own healthy meal. Investigate sugars and how that works with body.. there is a great cookbook called sugar solutions - the recipes are yummy and we lost 15 pounds just cutting out sugar in our diet without cutting out the taste. Have them make a presentation or invite guests over and have them make the dinner. Lots of ideas just for eating. take any area and just expand on it. Good luck and hope that helps
  10. I'm hoping for a little guidance in this area. I'm trying to set up my classes for next year. My dc will be in 10th and 11th grade and they do the same course work for most everything except math. We did two very comprehensive years of American History and now we plan on doing World History this year. We also will be doing a World Literature class this year. Next year are plans for American Government and Economic to tie in with the election and our Accounting class. My issue is I can't decide how to handle the World History class. I'm looking at western civilizations and world history. I've looked at a few text such as speilvogel but I'm not sure which way is better or how much of a difference the two courses would be. Is there any World History book you suggest? I'm trying to squeeze as much as I can in one year, but our other classes will be world based so I'm hoping that will work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
  11. Thank you both for the information. I am just in the planning stages of putting something together - as ds came to me a few days ago and talked to me about it. He really never showed an interest beforehand, but it does mesh well with his personality. I did think of contacting my local courthouse about trials and being able to make a day of sitting in one. I'm not all about the book, but do need to have a spine of sorts to go along with field trips. I'll look into the mock trial. I had thought of that, but I'm not sure of how to find out more about them as I live in the country and it is a bit difficult trying to find areas that do it close by.
  12. My ds has started to show an interest in being a lawyer or some sort of aspect in the criminal justice area. I was thinking of making an Intro to Criminal Justice class to see if it is something he would like to learn more about. Has anyone used 'Criminal Justice - A Brief Introduction' by Frank Schmalleger? How did you like it? Or does anyone have any suggestions as to this path that I could do? Thanks a bunch
  13. You might want to check with a local newspaper or tv station and see if they have any tours. You could start the class with a field trip to see how it all starts. :001_smile:
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