I'll preface this suggestion by noting that I am not American and don't know what your transcripts normally look like--but could you roll together all of the things and call it a course entitled something like "Pre-professional Skills for [X-Job]," comprising training in firearms skills, water safety, and equestrian pursuits? I have no idea if that's appropriate for the situation you describe--but it would get the desired career area up front and centre in the name of the course. Just a thought...you're very nice to do all of this for this young woman.

Adding a couple more WWII books my kids enjoyed: Michael Morpurgo's An Elephant in the Garden Jill Paton Walsh's The Dolphin Crossing And a Depression-era book they liked: Rachna Gilmore's That Boy Red

Mine liked Shirley Hughes's Hero on a Bicycle and Michael Morpurgo's The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (I've not read these myself, but my kids are fairly sensitive and weren't bothered by them). Also Brian Doyle's Angel Square might work for you (it's set immediately after the war, I think--Christmas '45). Dust Bowl books--do you know WO Mitchell? His Jake and the Kid and Who Has Seen the Wind are the quintessential Canadian kids' books set in the Depression.

Yakov Perelman's Physics for Entertainment in two volumes is worth a look; we enjoyed those. He also wrote Physics Everywhere, Mechanics for Entertainment, Amazing Experiments for Young Physicists, among others I haven't seen. These are old books--a hundred years old and more--but entertaining (as advertised!) and with a lot of good material in them. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Yakov+Perelman&search-alias=books&field-author=Yakov+Perelman&sort=relevancerank Some of his books are available at archive.org; here's one: https://archive.org/details/physicsforentert035428mbp

LOL, NL is far from everywhere! Even in Canada, even in the Maritimes! That's partly what makes them so interesting--Newfoundlanders are a special breed. (UNB in Fredericton is only about 6ish hours driving time from you, though, so at least some of the Atlantic provinces are closer!) I'll stop nattering now--but it has been fun poking around websites looking at things! I hope she finds some good places to apply to, and that she'll wind up somewhere where she'll feel really happy and fulfilled. Best wishes--

One more idea (I'm just nattering away in the background here.... :laugh: )--out of your driving range, but still sort of your general neck of the woods--Memorial University of Newfoundland has excellent anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics departments (and music as well, which you'd mentioned earlier). In fact, the archaeology programme is likely one of the best in this country. There's a tremendous focus on marine studies, they also have a campus in the UK so good opportunities for study abroad, the school is a good size, St. John's is a picturesque small city (though it helps if you like winter...)--an idea?

I thought of another possible Canadian option for you, Matryoshka (I don't really know any American schools, so can't help you there): University of New Brunswick-Fredericton has anthropology and archaeology. I think it's about 9000 students and the city is about 85,000. It looks as though it should be within your travel distance radius, more or less (I don't know where exactly in Massachusetts you are), and even the international tuition appears quite reasonable (it's 7000 for Canadians, and internationals add about 8500 more--all in Canadian dollars of course, so in the neighbourhood of 12K US if the exchange stays around 78 cents). There look to be plenty of residences, too. There are some good options in Halifax, too, but that is getting to be outside of your optimum driving distance. Just another idea to toss into the mix! ETA: Is she still interested in linguistics, too? If so, another idea: Glendon College (has linguistics, but not anthropology) in Toronto (the drive is a little long, but Boston to Toronto should be easy on train, plane, etc.) is a small college in a huge city. It's associated with York University, which is gigantic, but one can choose to do all one's courses at Glendon (a separate and lovely little campus, with its own residences), or choose to take advantage of some of the courses at the great big university. One can also do one's degree in two or three different languages of instruction, which is a neat feature, I think.

Susanna Braund's translation for Loeb has been well-reviewed: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2004/2004-11-26.html (I always look at BMCR for reviews of Classical translations; they haven't steered me wrong yet!)

It's so nice to see you here, Michele, and to hear all your wonderful news! I'm so pleased that your boys are doing so well.

http://www.petersons.com/college-search/concordia-university-000_10003238.aspx Would this help? I'm not sure how accurate this site is (I've not seen it before); I will root around a bit and see what else I can find. Montréal is such a fantastic city; it would likely feel the most "exotic" to her, too, which might be a bonus! (Also in Montréal is McGill, of course, but it's a good deal more difficult to get in--it still might be worth your time to investigate, though.) ETA: https://www.concordia.ca/content/dam/concordia/publications-reports/docs/US-Viewbook-2014-2015.pdf is the viewbook for US citizens. Page 14 has the American-system equivalents to required admissions standards. Not sure if that helps... There won't be an SAT range published anywhere, I wouldn't think, since Canadians don't take those exams, and courses graded on percentages are graded differently here, too, so a chart like the one above might be the most useful, perhaps.

Thought of one more, especially since you mention her liberal/social justice interests: Trent University (Peterborough, ON); medium-sized primarily undergrad institution in a medium-sized city; has anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, but no music. https://www.trentu.ca/undergraduate/departments.php http://www.trentu.ca/undergraduate/howdoiapply_homeschooled_001.php homeschool admissions; international admissions: http://www.trentu.ca/international/

Well, Canadian universities are kind of all over the place in terms of homeschool admissions (homeschooling is far less common here, and some of the post-secondary institutions don’t really know what to make of it yet). Some places are not interested in homeschoolers at all (forget Queen’s, for instance, and the Alberta schools aren’t easy either, I hear). It depends on both the school and the programme; certainly arts will be an easier homeschool admit than science, almost anywhere that takes homeschoolers. This is a dated but still useful website: http://www.universityadmissions.ca/homeschoolers/ One thing to be aware of in terms of admissions here is that extracurriculars, volunteer experience, and so on, are not typically considered in admissions decisions. Admission for schooled students is based almost solely on grades (since several provinces have provincial exams, it is very straightforward for admissions to know what a 93 in English 12 from Alberta or BC "means," if you see what I mean). Homeschoolers are thus strongly encouraged to give admissions something that they can straightforwardly compare to the schooled students’ grade 12 average (doing grade 12 at school, taking AP courses or SAT2s, taking community college courses, etc.). International admissions (for schooled students, I mean) rely more on standardised test scores than course grades from school (since they don’t know what a 93 in English 12 from <insert middle-sized US city name here> High School "means" in the same kind of way that they know that for Canadian schools), so my gut feeling would be that if SAT plus SAT2s or APs are sufficient admissions criteria for US school students, they would likely be viewed favourably in most places for US homeschooled students, too. (I teach part-time in a Canadian university, but don’t have anything to do with admissions, of course.) For a general overview of universities here, you can try the Maclean’s special issue or the Globe and Mail report on universities. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/canadian-university-report/ So...some universities within your driving radius will be in southern Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, PEI, and Nova Scotia. There’s a good mix of types of schools in those places (though another difference between thee and we is that there are very, very few private post-secondary institutions here–a few Bible institutes and seminaries and that sort of thing–but by and large, we really don’t have the equivalent of your private schools here). So, a few suggestions to get you started (all public schools): Large urban school with anthropology and/or archaeology, linguistics, and music: Concordia in Montréal (it’s an English university, by the way): http://www.concordia.ca/ (Home); http://www.concordia.ca/admissions/undergraduate/requirements-international.html(int’l admissions page); http://www.concordia.ca/admissions/undergraduate/requirements-canada.html#canadian-residents (Canadian admissions page, but has homeschool admissions requirements at the very bottom). Women’s (sort of) liberal arts college: Mount Saint Vincent in Halifax (it’s actually co-ed now, but was a women’s school for years and the percentage is still skewed heavily in favour of females); it doesn’t have linguistics or music, but does have anthropology (http://www.msvu.ca/en/home/programsdepartments/artsandscience/sociologyanthropology/default.aspx ), and also an interesting-looking interdisciplinary cultural studies major. There are several other universities in Halifax (King’s, Dalhousie, St Mary’s), so there may be opportunities to do some work on other campuses as well. International admissions page: http://www.msvu.ca/en/home/beamountstudent/internationalstudents/AdmissionRequirements/default.aspx Small, very well-regarded, rural-ish liberal arts colleges: Mount Allison (Sackville, NB) has anthropology and music (https://www.mta.ca/programs/anthropology/ ) Saint Francis Xavier (Antigonish NS; has anthropology and music; http://www.stfx.ca/faculties/arts/ ) Medium-sized research university: Wilfried Laurier University (Waterloo, ON), has anthropology, a big archaeology programme, excellent music school, no linguistics http://www.wlu.ca/home.html# . Hope that helps a little! PS One more item of note: at the moment, our dollar is worth 78 cents US. If it stays that way, that’s already a decent slice off the top of the final bill! Edited to add a link.

I wonder if she'd be interested in any Canadian schools? There would be several within your driving distance, and I think even with international tuition, the price should be less than many American schools.

I don't know LL, so don't know where his Latin is, but here are a couple of things we liked (I tried to put these more or less in order from easiest to hardest, but it has been a long time and I don't really remember well enough): http://www.minimus-etc.co.uk/minibookpage/minibooks2.htm http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Latin-through-Mythology-Cambridge/dp/0521397790 http://www.amazon.com/Mater-Anserina-Poems-Children-Edition/dp/1585101931/ref=pd_sim_b_18/192-2482433-1635356?ie=UTF8&refRID=0FXYN4T136R1P3H888RJ http://www.amazon.com/Young-Romans-English-Latin/dp/0865166706/ref=sr_1_1/192-2482433-1635356?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427886240&sr=1-1&keywords=rose+williams+young+romans http://www.amazon.com/ESOPUS-HODIE-AESOP-Dorothy-Maclaren/dp/B000KW8XES/ref=sr_1_1/192-2482433-1635356?s=books&ie=UTF8

Have you seen the Perfection Learning Latin books (they have several series; maybe the most suitable might be Latin is Fun and/or the Workbook in Latin)? I've been hearing about these for years but have never seen the actual books; the samples look like they might work for you, perhaps. http://www.perfectionlearning.com/latin

Ancient and fun (my kids loved these): Lucian satires http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Satires-Lucian-Norton-Library/dp/0393004430 William Hansen's anthology of ancient Greek popular literature http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Ancient-Greek-Popular-Literature/dp/0253211573 Menander, Dyskolos http://www.amazon.com/Plays-Fragments-Penguin-Classics-Menander/dp/0140445013/ref=sr_1_3/180-9560143-3976001?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427552737&sr=1-3&keywords=menander Aristophanes, Acharnians and Peace http://www.amazon.com/Four-Greek-Plays-Kenneth-McLeish/dp/1853995835/ref=sr_1_1/180-9560143-3976001?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=142 Theophrastus, Characters http://www.amazon.com/Theophrastus-Characters-Herodas-Fragments-Classical/dp/0674996038/ref=sr_1_2/180-9560143-3976001?s=books We're all about fun here...

I used Arthur Frackenpohl's book years ago with some students, and it worked well: http://www.amazon.com/Harmonization-at-Piano-Arthur-Frackenpohl/dp/0697043932

No, I didn't. We just used the book, so I can't help you out with a review of the Math Without Borders part. Did you see the review at the Math Mammoth website? ETA link: http://www.mathmammoth.com/complete/geometry_guided_inquiry.php

I'm sorry, I don't know; I did think I'd remembered people from here buying some things from Kolbe without being enrolled, but my memory may be faulty.

The NCERT math books could be added to the integrated math post. http://ncertbooks.prashanthellina.com/

I think the Math Without Borders man made an arrangement with the authors to distribute it as an e-text, but I'm not completely sure. It looks as though Kolbe still has some in stock. Just as an aside--we loved this textbook!

Ah, then bouquets for Joan aussi! It really has been such fun; French textbooks are beautiful.

My kids enjoyed several books by Roderick Haig-Brown, and several by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford). Another thought: Wylie Blanchet, The Curve of Time. Would the Fabre Souvenirs Entomologiques be interesting for you? We've read some of it in French, but I don't know how good the available translations are.

Thanks, raptor_dad! I'll look for that.

Seeing raptor dad's mention of Wallace Stegner reminds me of lovely Ivan Doig; you might like This House of Sky or Winter Brothers (well, I love them all, but those two might be closest to "natural history").