Ok, thanks. My DD took it at her school on April 12, so hers probably isn't ready yet. Glad your daughter did well!

From which testing date?

We used Math-U-See Geometry this year, which has the teaching on a DVD. My freshman son likes it a lot.

I don't think "boring" fits with Jane Austen. You may not like the romance aspect, but she is very funny.

"Homeschooling High School: Planning Ahead for College Admission" by Jeanne Gowen Dennis. ETA-This is on Amazon.

The sooner you get him independent, the better, IMO. In a few short years, he is away at college and completely on his own and he needs to know how to keep his life together without mom nagging at him. He may need to sink a few times and deal with consequences, but better that happens at home than on his own. I would sit down and have a big conversation with him about it. Ultimately, it's his life and he has to decide what's important and what's not.

Most colleges do not need 4 years of math, science, or history, unless your child is going into any of those; 3 years is good. I use our local school districts' requirements as a guide but don't follow everything, just make sure what the colleges want.

Easy Grammar might work. They have workbooks & TM's for each grade level. It's pretty inexpensive, too. They also have Daily Grams, review books after mastery has occurred.

I guess every school is different. Our local PS high school started this year giving the PSAT to both 9th and 10th graders for practice. So my homeschooled 9th grade son will be taking it with them in April. They gave me no problems.

Either of those would be fine. My non-science dd is taking Physiology next year for her senior year. Most colleges only expect 2-3 years of science.

Did you try homeschoolclassifieds.com? Lots of used curriculum there.

At the PS here, Earth Science is the 9th grade science class. At the Christian school we took our son out of at the semester, Physical Science is the 9th grade science class. Either is a fine high school class. The PS here requires EITHER Chemistry OR Physics to graduate, but not both. For her 4th year science at the PS next year, dd is taking Physiology. So my dd's high school science sequence is: 9th-Earth Science; 10th-Biology; 11th-Physics; 12th-Physiology.

You could read Michael Pollan's books, "In Defense of Food" or "Omnivore's Dilemna". Or Nina Planck's "Real Food".

Sister Wendy Beckett has an American art video series.

Tapestry of Grace has history (with maps and timeline), literature (with vocabulary and writing), church history/Bible, fine arts, government, and philosophy. They have a 4-year rotation so you could use it all the way through.

We use Tapestry of Grace (which I wouldn't suggest using for only one subject as it would be costly, but you could) BUT I always thought Mystery of History looked good and would've used that if I just needed a separate curriculum.

I found a few free online personal finance courses...moneyskill.org and foolproofteacher.com, practicalmoneyskills.com. As far as the math involved, I have no idea, but at the local public high school here, they require 4 years of math to graduate and have several options for senior year math for the non-math kids, of which personal finance is one. So assigning a math credit for that shouldn't be a problem.

I would suggest a personal finance class. Dave Ramsey has one but there are others. This is a graduation requirement for our homeschool.

"Sense and Sensibility" is my favorite Jane Austen. The Crucible The Scarlet Letter The Old Man and the Sea The Great Gatsby A Shakespeare comedy The Scarlet Pimpernel The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings series The Lord of the Flies Our Town

I would suggest Tapestry of Grace. We are in our 6th year with it and love it. It has the history, literature/writing, and Bible/church history (also fine arts & activities, and government and philosophy, though you only need to use what you want.) I get a lot of books from the library, though I have also picked up some books from used book sales and Anazon over the years. There are discussion questions for history, literature, and Bible for the kids (and outlines for you to lead discussion). Timelines, maps, important people lists, vocabulary. It's nice because all kids using it are studying the same thing.

We have successfully used Tapestry of Grace for 5 kids (7 years apart between oldest and youngest) going on 6 years now. I don't believe it's exactly meant for all the kids to have all their classes together, but to be studying the same time period at the same time. So everyone's history, literature, church history, fine arts, geography is all about the same time frame (say, Ancient Rome) but they have different books to read and assignments, according to their level. Makes prep a lot easier on the parent. And you may combine ages if you want, if they are close in age, but you don't have to. So yes, it has been entirely do-able.

I would go with The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.

We also love the Middle Ages here. I wouldn't skip any of those but if I absolutely had to choose, I'd skip Sir Gawain b/c I think that would be the easiest one for my kids to read on their own, as a leisure read, without a lot of exolanatiin and analysis.

Here is one article I found: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/04/16/advice-students-so-they-dont-sound-silly-emails-essay

Yes, politeness and respect are required! An email is to this generation what a letter was to previous generations.