Liza Q
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My oldest daughter's name is Katharine. I read that it came from Katharos = Pure in Greek. There are lots of spellings.
Her name is actually Katharine Elizabeth - Pure Gift of God.
Has someone suggested Hannah? Also means favor/grace.
My youngest daughter is Hannah Louise - I meant it as gracious warrior.
I love naming babies!!!
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Musee de la Civilisation. Loved it! We ate at a lot of wonderful places, but I can't remember the name of any of them. There are so many great places to eat so you won't have a problem there. I use Trip Advisor.
Thanks!!
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I/m PMing you.
I haven't read a contemporary romance in ages but it's nice knowing up front that it's on the PG side. I've had some bad experiences!!
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If your hotel is near Old Quebec, you may not need to use the city bus at all. Everything is within easy walking distance. You could take a horse-drawn carriage for fun if your feet get sore, though!
We're staying in Old Quebec so we're planning to walk around. But the walk out to the Musée national des beaux-arts is longish so I am planning a bus ride for that.
I have Rheumatoid arthritis and, although I'm feeling pretty good these days, I always plan defensively by rationing my walking and having either a late morning or an early night. Now I limit myself to a few miles a day with plenty of breaks; I used to be able to go a lot harder! If I have a bad day we can do one of those hop-on/hop-off buses for some sightseeing or just sit in a park for a few hours.
Here's the hotel - someone recommended it to my daughter and it looks charming!
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Are they modern or historical?
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Yeah....I considered that but I'm not sure if we'll take it often enough. We're coming in Friday afternoon and leaving Tuesday morning so we would need the 5-day pass. But we'd have to take 4+ roundtrips to make it worth it (single fare cash is $3.50, each round-trip $7). Right now I am using Google maps and planning a bit. The maps on the RTC site won't load for me right now.
But thanks for looking! It might be worth getting a pass just so we always have the bus as an option.
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Lol - we're not driving so hopefully I won't have to worry about it at all.
But we are planning to use the city bus and I was wondering if anyone knows how you actually pay on the bus? The website mentions needing exact change but I don't know if that means change or bills? I am sure the info is on the website but I can't find it!!!
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I'm going to Quebec over Labor Day with one of my older daughters. We're staying in a little hotel in Old Quebec City and we're planning our trip. We're pretty excited!
Definitely old Quebec City. There is an awesome cultural museum there that I loved. There are a time of small hotels there, but we stayed in the Marriott. I loved it there!
Which museum was it? We'll only be there 9/1-9/5 so we have three days to sight-see. I want to see a minimum of one old church, one great museum, and one fort or battlefield, as well as walk around a bit and just enjoy the old buildings. But there are a lot of museums/churches/forts to choose from!!!
I am also looking for ideas for inexpensive breakfasts and nice but not $$$$ lunch/dinner places. I'm sure we'll get some recommendations from the hotel but it's always nice to get a personal rec. I am heading to trip advisor next. Maybe something will catch my eye. And I would prefer not to eat at any chains while we're there. At home I generally save $$ by eating at Panera Bread/Chipotle/etc instead of a charming cafe, but I'd like to do the opposite while I'm away.
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We used Clover Creek for Physics last year and are going to be using The Potter's School Pre-AP Chemistry this year. Most of the other online classes I considered did not fit into our schedule. There aren't many reviews of TPS classes here so I am a little nervous. I have a friend who has used a lot of their classes, but not for science. So I am hoping that it will be a good experience. The teacher seems very nice.
But. The Novare text for this class does assume a solid grounding in Physical Science. I would not have felt comfortable with my son taking this class after Biology...but that may be because he wasn't looking for a challenge in Science until he took Jetta's class. He isn't much interested in Chemistry but is willing to take the harder course because he knows it will be good for him.
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First I plan on paper and I like to use a spiral notebook to keep it all together. When I am ready, I make a 36 week table on Word for each subject. Then I make a master table, with all the work I want to assign organized by week. Certain subjects have primary work and secondary, if we have enough time, work. I put in the weeks we will be off and just leave them empty. It's a lot easier now that I use some online classes, since I will just use their syllabus and fill in whatever they assign.
For example, I just looked at the week of November 13-17.
Math, Chemistry, Research Paper: online classes.
Government: Read Chapter 15. Do review. Discuss with Mom. Choose one prompt for a timed essay and write it. Read Article of the Week (I will email these to him but I haven't chosen them yet - I want it to be current). Discuss with Mom. We would drop the current events if we needed to drop something. (This will be the same all semester - we just do the next chapter)
Reading: Moby Dick Ch 78-89. Discuss with Mom (I'll be reading along).
Music: Guitar lesson. xxx pages in Music History book. xxx for Music Theory (I'm still planning this class!!) This can also be dropped during a busy week - well, not the lessons, as it is a .5 credit course and I'm spreading it out over the year.
Career Planning/Life Skills: Assigned reading. Discuss with Mom (another one that I'm planning right now and will spread out over the year)
Other: Yoga.
At some time on the weekend before, I will take that information and use it to give him a Weekly Checklist. Since he is a senior this year, I will be expecting him to manage his time pretty independently, so I won't be telling him what to do each day. In the past I would break it down by day for him.
When I was planning for 4, it was a lot harder lol. But I did it the same way. Nothing was written in pen or printed out until right before we started the week. But the whole year was planned. And we've always worked a bit over the summer in order to have a cushion during the school year.
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One of my daughter spent a summer in Kassel, Germany as part of her German major. I can't remember it even coming up!
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It will be my final year, too.
I'm looking forward to reading some great books with my 17yo and enjoying him as an almost-adult. He's definitely not a little boy anymore!
I'm looking forward to my 18yo starting at the CC and working! I am cautiously hopeful that it will go well.
I'm looking forward to heading to Quebec (can't figure out the accent) with my 24yo in September for some mother-daughter fun. She's my museum/history buddy.
I'm looking forward to our first holiday season since my 26yo got married....at least, I am keeping a positive attitude and hoping that it all works out lol!
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OK - actually, there is a definitely a discussion of sexuality. I think it's appropriate considering what actually happens in The Odyssey. But I'm glad that I found them as I may use a few for my son, who is 17 and will be a senior.
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Crash Course had Lit videos - here is the one for The Odyssey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4jk5kavy4
I had never seen these but I've seen some other Crash Course videos and, while irreverent, I doubt that they are too focused on sexuality. ETA: At least, not more than hitting on what is in the text. As in, if my son is old enough to read The Odyssey, then I think he's old enough to watch this. But ymmv.
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How old is your son? What grade is he in?
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The thing with outsourcing - they can't make your child do the work either. A child can get behind in an online course and you may not know until your child has already failed a test or turned something in late. Then you would still have to go back and check and probably start checking regularly anyway.
I find that outsourcing saves me from having to teach/explain/review lessons, check/grade homework/tests and edit/grade papers. That's great as it saves me a huge amount of time and also gives my child a better education, though that's a different topic. But I still need to stay on top of my kids to some degree or the actual work might not get done.
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I wonder if maybe a retired homeschool mom in your area would do it for you?
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Basically, exactly what RootAnn said!
I do think that if my younger two had been my first two, it would have been very different - much more difficult. Personality has a lot to do with it. But by the time they were in High School, I was fairly experienced.
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She definitely had a diligence deficit towards the end to drop that much-- I think because she was so comfortable with her grade (as she supposed it to be).
Well...even if I did not choose to stay with the C I would not raise the grade too much. Diligence deficit = lower grade.
I think I would also consider her age. Is she is a 9th grader I would have had lower expectations than if she were an 11th grader.
And I would consider a few more things. Did handing things in late give her extra time to study? Was it a Math class, in which things are either right or wrong, or an English class, which may be more subjective? Were the assignments tests or essays?
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FWIW, Jann's corrections are always clear and easy to understand!
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I used LLOTR with my son for 9th grade. He did 2 years of Global History so the transcript read Global History and Geography 1 and World Literature and Composition 1 for 9th, with Global 2 and World 2 for 10th. For 11th we had US History and American Lit and Comp.
But. For his senior year we are doing lit and comp with no definable theme. It's The Odyssey, Moby Dick, The Brothers Karamazov, some extra Shakespeare - 2 more plays and several sonnets, and some other poetry and short stories. Basically, it's "Stuff he chose from a list of what we didn't fit in to the first 3 years of high school with some poetry and short stories because Mom is mean. Plus writing because Mom is really mean". Not a catchy title!
So I've renamed it all English I, English II, English III, and now English IV. I might perhaps go with Literature and Composition 1-4 instead. Not ideal....but I think it will be an excellent year, which is what really matters.
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Apparently she misunderstood some deadlines, partly because she didn't always remember to adjust for our time zone when times were posted.
Whether or not you adjust her grade....this seems like a red flag. I can see this happening during the first quarter, when she was just getting used to it, but the final quarter? Enough to lower her grade that much? Was it like this all year or did it start suddenly? Was something else going on? Any executive function issues?
If it really was all due to deadline issues due to misunderstanding, I would be planning to be on top of the deadlines myself for any online classes next year. I
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Thanks so much!! Obv, I was worried for nothing.
Sent the payment and so happy to have saved lots of $$$!!!
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if you enjoy reading romance novels...
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Is it a series? Should I read your older books first?