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  1. Has anyone here put ABRSM practical and theory coursework on their student's high school transcript? I'd love to know what you did. Any experiences with preparing for AP Music when using the ABRSM curriculum? ABRSM = Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music Tia
  2. Would anyone like to share experiences preparing for the AP English Lit/Comp exam or teaching AP English? Has anyone actually used the new IEW book? Thinking ahead to next year, I'm trying to decide whether to go all-hog and design a curriculum to submit for the course audit -- or to just facilitate a well-planned study group for my 10th grader and some of her friends.
  3. Fellow lurker, here. This may or may not help in your situation -- but the advice I've gotten about preparing homeschool transcripts for college applications includes this nugget: you don't have to show dates for each course. So, for example, you can show high school level work even if it was taken in the equivalent of eighth grade; just as you can show it for a student who takes a fifth year of high school.
  4. DD is very excited about taking the AP US History exam this spring, and has been making plans to take others in her next 3 years of high school. She likes challenges and is motivated by having choices. Boy-oh-boy, it's going to get ugly when she realizes she can attend only one college at a time.
  5. God willing and the creek don't rise -- all the way to college! Loving the first year of high school at home, despite the challenges (which are all about having enough time to do it all). Provided we can pay the bills, quality of family life is the most important thing for us, so we'll keep homeschooling.
  6. If you're just exposing your daughter to Spanish (not plunging into a four-year high school course or studying for a College Board exam, say) and you don't speak the language, then I'd recommend Rosetta Stone for a nice, self-guided introduction. The version I have is Latin American Spanish. Eventually, if she gets serious about Spanish, she should know the "vosotros" form, even if we don't use it much in the Americas; and a literate person will of course read Cervantes and all those other guys, who were Spaniards, and so be exposed to their idiosyncrasies (forgive me, Spaniards). But using Latin American materials should be fine. There's so much good stuff out there! Tia
  7. Wow -- the turn-around was incredibly fast. College Board approved my syllabus, so my daughter and her fellow students can use the AP designation on their transcripts this year if they wish (whether they take the exam or not). To piggyback on related threads from this spring (thanks for tagging, Joan), completing an audit is NOT necessary for teaching or learning AP material; and some colleges might not care about the course title as much as they care about a College Board exam score. But the audit process was worthwhile for me, in that it clarified my thinking about several aspects of the course, and even led me to improve some methods (beefing up historiography, for example). The label is a nice extra. And the paperwork did not kill me. So, consider this a word of encouragement for those thinking about doing a course audit, at least for this subject. Tia in Virginia
  8. To revive a summer thread at midterm season, how do you like the TC lectures so far? I've been using them as a supplement to Brinkley's American History: A Survey (12th ed.) for AP US History. Love them. Each of the professors has a different style, which is actually a bonus for practicing lecture note-taking.
  9. Leonor's advice seems to have worked for me: after considerable fooling around to no avail on the College Board site, I found my solution in this thread. I typed "Home_School" in the organization/affiliation box, and marked VA in the state box. Then I was good to go. Working on my syllabus format now -- thanks! Tia in VA
  10. I have the main book and Student Workbook right here. Looks like the workbook doesn't have any additional materials that aren't contained in the larger book. You may know that each chapter (movie) in this course has 22 discussion questions, 3 essay questions and some extension activities for honors level work. In the workbook, the 22 discussion questions are presented with enough space that a student might write responses underneath; in the teacher's version, there are no extra spaces. The second half of the teacher's book contains a final exam with answers and a Teacher's Guide with discussion and notes on every discussion and essay question. I have not used these books yet, but think it will be very handy to have the separate versions. I'll be able to look over materials at the same time my daughters do; and I won't have to paper clip together certain pages and request that they not look at those. Since they'll be sharing the workbook, I don't expect they'll write inside it.
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