I'm afraid I disagree with that last bolded bit. Pick the correct taste. Since we've been on a Milton bent, pick the first book of Paradise lost not one of middle ones near as I can tell everyone likes the first book.

It is possible you would have more than the two transcript's Sue indicates if you have any outside transcripts, you might wish to include those.

I posted this on a thread that was trying to compare several course in US history: Several years ago, I specifically reviewed John's notes for the topics I was familiar with and found they were pretty much useless. While they might sound good to folks who don't know much about history, they quickly reveal he doesn't know much either. He makes errors like the one given above where he gets facts wrong, but he also misses huge problems in Hakim.

Thanks ladies. I'll check both these out.

I think your kids have given you the reason the school doesn't use texts. Instead I'd show them the Khan videos and if needed get specific help

I don't understand this response. Can you elaborate on why you say it? Is it cost of buying the instructional manuals to help you? If so buy the Well Educated Mind and use that.

Okay, let me come in with different ideas to give you more to think about ;) What you are proposing is a survey course, most survey course will not delve into novels. Instead they'll read short stories, drama and poems. Further while both Austen and Dickens are popular, when I took literature classes neither commanded a lot of attention or rapture (frankly none, although I expect Miss Austen's popularity in recent years has resulted in some Austen focused classes). So for a non lit child I'd consider jettisoning both. Hersey on a home school board, but there you have it. Further, I am not sold on the idea that you must read complete works. Most college survey classes use Norton anthologies for survey classes. Milton won't be read in full nor will other long works. Shakespeare is about the only author who gets a full read of his works. So again, be realistic, a taste is better than nothing. An intriguing taste might also be better than a long dull meal. On Shakespeare I'd suggest one of four great tragedies or Henry V. I'd propose them as plots to him and let him choose. If he won't then I might consider doing Henry V and King Lear and beginning with political questions that the plays raise. Is it wise for a ruler to divide his kingdom among heirs by how much they say they love him? Is Henry's war just? Both these plays will impart some wisdom in human relations and politics. I'd then fill in with short poems. Yes, the early ones will be love poems, but you point out the theme of almost all these "love" poems has to do with the woman doing what the man desires. Marvel's To My Coy Mistress might be filled with lofty images and metaphors, but it is also filled with lust. Sneak some more Shakespeare in to show how he stands the petrarchan sonnet on its head. As you reach the Romantic poets you'll find new themes arising: how alone many of these poets feel in a chaotic world that too is a teenage theme. And one word of warning, while Frankenstein might sound like a breeze to read, it is not. The monster reads Milton and reflects on him. So don't start with it thinking walk in the park. Further, I'd also say I would not read it until you've tackled the younger Romantic poets. Shelley was living with two of the greatest when she wrote it. While it may be a criticism or warning of technology it is also a response to their stance and world view.

I love Tapestry, but I want to point out some hitches in your plan. First, I see no reason to start with D level. Unlike math, history and literature can be tackled by any adult with an active mind. You won't get hung up because you don't know what the English Civil War was or some other piece of information. Tapestry does tackle one or two real works of literature in the D level in years 3 and 4 but not many, if you want you can cherry pick those out. If you think D will get you a broader over view of history then I would suggest buying the actual Tapestry materials and just reading the teacher's notes in history. You could do that in one year and get a succinct overview of all of history. And if you purchase the DE version, I expect that wouldn't run you a lot more than four years of D level books will. After that I would encourage delving in on subjects that intrigued you first. For literature, you could try the Well Educated Mind which will give you a guide to works of lit. Again, I would suggest reading that book first and then cherry picking. If you would like to use the Tapestry works then I'd encourage you to get those Tapestry materials as well because unlike with history some guidance in literary analysis would be wise. This plan could fit neatly with the overall history plan I suggest above.

A pure art school might be, but an art department doesn't admit students to a full college except in the rarest exceptions (I once knew someone who got into an elite school based on her talent playing the flute, was quite candid about the fact she would have been turned downed otherwise, BUT most students, even with art talent, must go through the normal admissions process).

Here's the manual they offer for the supervisors of the PSAT: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/psat-nmsqt-supervisors-manual.pdf and the proctor's guide: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/psat-nmsqt-associate-supervisor-proctor-checklist.pdf Neither mentions outsiders in the classroom.

I think before you make decisions about science, you and she should spend some time looking at where she will likely want to go when she leaves high school. You may find that some of those destinations will require some hard science. This doesn't mean you have to use a grueling honors or AP test with your dd, but it may mean you'll both have to soldier on into science including real things like biology and chemistry. If that need becomes clear, repost here and ask for helps to make science more interesting. I'm afraid I'm of the group that thinks science should be interesting (and in the end I am not really a science person).

If it is easy to do and relatively low cost, I don't think it could hurt.

My dh has an iphone that his business provides. He likes to send me photos in emails, but for some reason the iphone names every single one of them "photo" this makes for a tedious saving and renaming process since they each need a new name. I'd really like him to have a way to transfer these photos to me easily, probably through the cloud. I use Amazon's cloud service which would be great. I know iphone has some kind of cloud service, but we must have a super simple way for him to give me access. He is not a tech person at all and he won't perform a million steps to do this because it won't make sense to him.

So, what, in your opinion, does she need? Because memory work with a foreign language is pivotal. I don't use VPS but my son does take Latin online. His class does have a working system and they have home work and quizzes each week, so he has had at least that compared to your dd's class, but if she needs more she may have to come up with more on her own as that is the nature of the foreign language beast.

They have posted off and on on a high school list I'm part of and used to have a horrible article about foreign languages, quite prejudiced in tone. They were finally removed because they only posted their link once a year and were considered spammers.

Private schools? Have I asked this before. Ds is going to our area's elite private school because they had an opening. Turned out to be cheaper than the classical Christian school we went to last year.

Amazing, but not surprising!

This is why I thinking posting the school's name publicly is helpful, even if they never change due to posting, it gives others a heads up about attitudes and then they can decide to skip a school or be prepared to deal with the issue by having their arguments ready instead of getting caught flat-footed.

Hey! I wouldn't call Yale a small LAC either!

Read great literature, buy Susan's talk called "a plan for teaching writing" (its in the store that sponsor this forum) I suggest you get the middle school and high school talks and if needed giver her a rapid course in the middle school outlining skills. Then, write, write, write. Okay, I admit, I cheat, I am lazy and use Tapestry of Grace for our lit analysis. It is as good and in depth as what I had in college in lit classes.

UNC-CH has always not allowed people to return as undergraduates (at least until you are a senior, something I am kind of looking forward to). However, they used to not allow minor degrees and undergraduates could only get double (and in some rare cases) triple majors. I actually experienced the whole marked down of credits thing when I took part time classes at UNCG years ago. I had a double major from UNC, the state's flagship, but while I got a lot of hours to transfer, the usefulness of those hours was pretty small in terms of filling specific requirements.

Please post the name of the school.

I'd put it down as an activity.

I have some questions about this story, First there is the reference to an incorrect test for law school admissions (GRE is not used, LSAT is). I assume you, Angie, may have mixed this up. If you did not, then that is fishy, as well. But in looking at US New's rankings, the law school at William and Mary is not ranked as far as I can tell which makes me wonder about it as a destination (the college itself is ranked #32 so it doesn't seem likely they overlooked the law school). My dh's law firm does recruit in the same geographic area but does not recruit at William and Mary (the recruit at UVa, Duke, Wake, and UNC for instance).

Personally, I'd jettison the online school and just set up at home classes with an eye to taking some cc courses in the spring.