I'm trying to decide what will fit my daughter best for high school language arts and history. She completed Writing with Skill 1 and is halfway through Writing with Skill 2. In 9th grade she did MFW's Ancient History and Literature. Last year she di MFW's World History and Literature. She struggled both years to write the essays. I want her to finish WWS 2 and do WWS 3 over the next two years. She will do MFW's 11th grade program in the fall. It looks like she will be doing a lot of literature analysis and very little writing. Since WWS is considered middle school level, I'm wondering if I need to add a high school level writing program. I've been looking at IEW's Elegant Essays, Classical Rhetoric through Stucture and Style, U.S. History-Based Writing Lessons. I'm also looking at Beautiful Feet History through Literature for 11th and 12th grades.

I'm so glad you posted this question! I've been trying to wrap my brain around this for the past couple of weeks. If you are on FB, here is a recently created group for Charlotte Mason High Schoolers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/273906839607975/

I highly recommend listening to the Read Aloud Revival Podcasts. I think they will really help you.

https://allinonehighschool.com/

I don't think there are placement tests. Did you look at the samples of the books? https://peacehillpress.com/samples/

I will be using MFW Creation to the Greeks, which includes SITB, in April. There are 2 to 3 lessons scheduled a week. The challenge lessons are not included in the schedule. HTH!

Sorry for the multiple posts. I was using Tapatalk for the first time. I kept getting an error message that my comment wasn't posting. I don't know how to delete them. :(

If your child does state testing, you should check with the monitor as to whether or not he allows calculator usage on the test. If your child is used to using and cannot use a calculator on the test, he may not be able to finish the test in a timely manner. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If your child does state testing, you should check with the monitor as to whether or not he allows calculator usage on the test. If your child is used to using and cannot use a calculator on the test, he may not be able to finish the test in a timely manner. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If your child does state testing, you should check with the monitor as to whether or not he allows calculator usage on the test. If your child is used to using and cannot use a calculator on the test, he may not be able to finish the test in a timely manner. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If your child does state testing, you should check with the monitor as to whether or not he allows calculator usage on the test. If your child is used to using and cannot use a calculator on the test, he may not be able to finish the test in a timely manner. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If your child does state testing, you should check with the monitor as to whether or not he allows calculator usage on the test. If your child is used to using and cannot use a calculator on the test, he may not be able to finish the test in a timely manner. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Doesn't this dictionary have a thesaurus? Did you not find if sufficient?

Is this it? http://www.amazon.com/Websters-American-Family-Dictionary/dp/0679458018/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1403920719&sr=8-3&keywords=American+Family+Dictionary

Thanks. I'll have to look into that.

What I actually did: 1 load of laundry - It's still in the dryer. Does that count? Grocery shopping Books to PO Went through a box of books that came today. Spent way too time on FB Dinner/Clean kitchen Asked for 4 hours worth of work to do over the weekend, so I had to make sure scripts downloaded and I could understand them. Going to work on that now.

Mop floors/clean bathroom Laundry Pull weeds Grocery shopping Package and label books and take to PO Grade schoolwork that I've been avoiding for the past 2 months Dinner Collapse

I'm torn between LLATL and Essentials in Writing for my 5th grade boy. I used FLL 1-4 and WWE 1-3. We got halfway through WWE 3 and decided not to go any further. He's not ready for WWS though, so I bought LLATL purple and Essentials in Writing 5th grade. I'm looking for pros and cons of both programs.

What dictionary and thesaurus do you recommend for a 10 year old in 5th grade?

You didn't mention which SOTW book you are using. Some of the chapters in book 2 are long IMO. Are you doing the Q & A and narration as well? What about the activites? My son really enjoyed those when I had the time/supplies. I didn't use R&S spelling, but when talking to the reps at AAS, they recommend spelling 5 days a week. No grammar? What do they do at co-op?

Invest in a Rockcrok or a Deep Covered Baker from The Pampered Chef. You can make meals in 30 min or less in the microwave.

Can anybody help me edit my classified post? For the past two weeks, every time I try to edit my post, I get logged out and I'm not allowed to save my changes.

My dd is in Algebra I and just took Test 21. She's averaging 85% on her tests and I grade leniently. She misses at least 8 problems on her daily work and it's because of careless mistakes. She averaged 90% in 7/6 and Algebra 1/2, so I wonder why her percentage has dropped. She basically was basically self-taught for 7/6 and Algebra 1/2 and I was allowing it for Algebra I until I got tired of her missing over half the daily problems. I've been teaching her for the past 4 months. Her daily work has improved a lot, but her tests only slightly. She seems to grasp the lesson, ie. she can tell me how to do it. When we go over her daily work and tests, I have her find the mistakes and do it again, but sometimes I have to show her how to do the problem. Should I be concerned or just keep plugging along? Candmforever, did you get Algebra Antics or something else and has the situation improved?

Hope is the word, I think it depends upon your dd's maturity and interest level. Does she know how to take notes and write summaries based on her notes? Can she use a thesaerus and dictionary on her own? What is her reading comprehension level?

This is my dd's Week 36, WWS 1 compostion. She is 13 years old. Since nanomedicine for cancer is currently being developed she only used the Scientific Description topos. The assignment is supposed to be 1,000 words. She only has 665. What could she add to make it longer or do you think it's complete? What is nanotechnology? Nanotechnology is technology on a nano-size scale. Today, many researchers are using nanotechnology in medicine. They are mainly using it find a cure for cancer. There are many different things scientists are working on. Some scientists are making quantum dots that will stick to cancer sells and will glow when in light. Others are using hyperthermia therapy, which will zap the cancer cells with heat. There are scientists that are creating immune machines that will find cancer cells and destroy them. Researchers are also working with iron oxide nanoparticles to be used in MRI imaging. Shuming Nie, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, is working with quantum dots to help locate cancer. Quantum dots are beacons, about 10-nanometers in size. The beacons are made out off gobstoppers, which are “nanomatryshka dolls.â€[1] The beacons received the name quantum dots because at the center of the probe is a small dot, about 5-nanometers in diameter, called a quantum dot. He coated the quantum dots with a Velcro that sticks to cancer tumors. When the quantum dots are placed under a light they glow. As an experiment, human prostate cancer was injected into a rat, along with the quantum dots. An x-ray was then done of the rat and compared to an x-ray of another rat. The diseased rat’s x-ray was glowing where the cancer tumor was. “A bright orange…glow emanated from the point where they had injected the human prostate cancer.â€[2] Researchers are trying to use hyperthermia therapy to destroy cancer cells. “Hyperthermia therapy raises the temperature of diseased tissue, such as cancer tumors, to kill it off.â€[3] Gold nanoparticles are being used for hyperthermia therapy because gold is efficient in for changing light to heat. The two types that are being used the most are gold nanorods and nanoshells. Gold nanorods are small, solid gold cylinders. Researchers use different sizes of nanorods so they “can change the wavelength of light that the nanorods absorb.â€[4] Nanoshells are spheres made out of silicon dioxide and are covered in gold. Different thicknesses of nanoshells absorb different wavelengths of light. The heat from the gold nanoparticles will zap the cancer tumor and destroy it, almost like a laser. The National Cancer Institute is working on making nanomachines that will find, identify, and kill the cancer. After the virus has been diagnosed, a doctor can program the immune machines with medicine and send them into the bloodstream. When the immune machines have released all the medicine, they will decompose and leave the body with the other waste. Immune machines can also be used to identify and destroy cancer cells. “Destroying every cancer cell will cure the cancer.â€[5] Experiments were done and the nanomachines worked exactly like the scientists thought they would. MRI imaging is an important part in identifying cancer cells before they become tumors. MRI machines use the hydrogen atoms in organs to get an image of them. Researchers are looking for a way to make MRI imaging clearer by using nanotechnology. To enhance the MRI image, they are using iron oxide nanoparticles. In theory, the iron oxide nanoparticles attach to the cancer cells and the MRI machine would focus on them. The image would be of just the cancerous organ not all of the organs. “You get a better MRI image if paramagnetic nanoparticles are attached to the object your imaging.â€[6] In conclusion, nanotechnology is becoming an important part of trying to find cures for cancer. Though researchers might be doing more, the government is shut down right now so not all of the information can be found. Quantum dots are helping to find the cancer cells. MRI imaging is being improved to have a crisper image. If the MRI image is crisper, cancer cells can be seen easier. Hyperthermia therapy kills the cancer cells easily, without killing other cells too. Immune machines are programmed to find, identify, and kill just the cancer cells so, like hyperthermia therapy, other cells aren’t killed in the process. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]