Ressurecting the thread to hijack it :D My son got 740 on the world history exam. He intends to be a history major. He didn't study for the exam. This is a good score, but ... would he be better off studying and taking it again, for a better score in his intended subject? Or is it just fine and we should move on to other things?

Believe me, it's not ready :)

THis is our Christmas Eve movie, too :)

We are big fans of both Ticket to Ride and Dominion. I personally love Ticket to Ride. Both would fit your requirements nicely.

Thanks, Martha! I am on that list, as a lurker :)

Thanks! Yes, my students are pretty comfortable reading Familia Romana, which we are just finishing up. I will check out the resources you mention.

In 5th grade, with no learning disabilities, I wouldn't worry. I know you feel like time is running out, but really, you have *plenty* of time. All my kids have hit bumps. The math road has not been smooth for us :) My oldest took an entire year to do Singapore 3A, a book which generally is meant to take half a semester. He then took a year and a half to get through algebra I. But for all his slow spots, he's hit spots where he's been able to sail through more quickly and catch us up in terms of time. My current 5th grader struggles some with math. We are having to do extra work on times tables. He's working about a year behind in math at the moment. I'm not worried though - this is my 3rd child so I know that we've got time. We will just keep working at it, steadily. My advice is to just keep working steadily. Make sure he's solid on his basics. Look around to see if a different math curriculum might be a better fit for him. Don't let high school spook you - it's still four years away and *anything* can happen in those four years. :)

Me, too!

We plan to use Lingua Latina: Roma Aeterna. It begins with heavily adapted text, and moves into less adapted text and then to original text. I don't really know what I'm doing, so if anyone has anything to add, positive or negative, about Roma Aeterna, I'm all ears.

Did your scores stay about the same from year to year? If they went up, how much did they go up? From casually looking over posts it seems like most scores stayed about the same from one year to another. I thought that was interesting - I expected to see a bigger jump between soph and junior scores.

I see that on OSU's site they say there is special pricing available for homeschoolers. Do you happen to know what that is?

If my kids are *strongly averse*, I will let them work with me on an alternate plan. They would have to make their case to me, along with reasonable options. But unless they are strongly averse, I am planning for four years of Latin. However, my oldest did "Latin I" in 8th grade, so he'll finish "Latin IV" in 11th grade. After that I'll give him the option to go on in 12th or not. He has has done three years of Greek (he'll have at least one high school credit in Greek). He's dropping Greek after this year and we'll do a modern language, along with Latin, for his last two high school years. He plans to study history in college. My 13 year old will probably not take Greek past his 9th grade year. But we're still planning on four years of Latin. He plans to study engineering in college. Our goal is to read original works, and to (hopefully) have some facility with conversing in Latin. So - it's very important to me, but it does require some buy-in from the student.

I prefer "shall." :)

Done :)

Those are *exactly* the things I've heard from angry homeschoolers. Most often I've heard the complaints about isolation, and educational neglect.

I did. I found a great deal of speculation, conspiracy theories, and a little hysteria - lots of assertions, but no hard evidence for such a claim. Oh, well.

Funny that Texas is rated as less free than Virginia. Having lived in both states, I disagree ;-) Golly, Bill, I had no idea that the John Birch Society was funding the Tea Party. Got any links I can research that with?

Economic Right (5.0), Social Libertarian (-3.28). Same as it ever was ;-)

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Asking for a friend ... thanks!

Honestly, I find that SWB's WWE helps my boys get past this. He needs to learn to start small, and to be guided through *how* to summarize his ideas, step by step.

Welcome back! As others have said, many of us old-timers check in from time to time. I'm re-reading "A Wizard of Earthsea," to prep for using it with the high schoolers next year as we discuss medieval thought.

He teaches upper-level math, and computer science. All I have to do is get them to algebra :)

I've never seen it like that before, but I'm going to guess. Notice that all those words *except* "peccatum" have a stem that ends in an "i." So "imperium" in the nominative becomes "imperii" in the genitive. My guess is that perhaps some forms of Latin drop one of the "i's?" That's all I can figure. I've always seen it: imperium, i (meaning the genitive would be imperii) peccatum, i (meaning the genitive would be peccati) etc.

After Henle II, I'd start reading original works. Or, perhaps you could look at the 2nd volume of Lingua Latina: Roma Aeterna. But if she's through Henle II she's covered all the grammar, and has done good bit of Caesar, IIRC. definitely a reading program.