CLEP, or SATII subject exams. :)

But those TOG classes *are* world history. Ancient and medieval history - both are world history. The OP could always retitle them as World History I, or Ancient World History; World History II or Medieval/Renaissance World History; American History, and Modern World History. My son's transcript will likely end up with these designations: World History I World History II American History I American History II In reality, those will all be chronological Great Books courses.

By by using the phrase "it has been marketed as," I'm guessing the OP is not using her own syllabus, but an approved one in an outsourced class.

Do you have a copy of TWTM? You can read the Rhetoric Stage Great Books section. She talks about writing and literature in that. But also, there are mp3s of her talks for sale on the Peace Hill Press website. They are fantastic!! They will put your mind at ease, and make you feel that high school literature and writing is really doable. She has one on literary analysis. TOG Rhetoric literature is comparable to my college lit survey classes. It really is. I'm in awe of people who do it. We are not going to cover nearly as many literary terms as TOG will, but I'm okay with that. I think I only knew basic literary terms, and NO literary analysis when I went to college. And I majored in English :lol:

You could always do the credits by semester - .5 credit modern world history, or American history, whichever; and .5 credit ancient world history. Or, you can do a subject transcript and not mark out the courses by date. Then on the transcript you'd just have Ancient World History, Medieval World History, Modern World History, and American history, with no dates. No, you do not have to do the literature worksheets. You should discuss the readings, though, and have your son write about them. You might check out what SWB has to say about high school writing and literary analysis. TOG literature is fantastic. However, it's also packed full, very busy. You can stick to reading/discussing/writing.

Not TOG. Those are protected in a special way, and their current copyright doesn't allow them to be used on a Kindle or iPhone or iPad. But the WWE PDFs, or any other PDF lesson plans, yes.

We've done this before, and there was no stench. I kept it in the garage, and double-bagged. I used LOTS of salt, and washed it with wine before packing it in the salt. I also put a great deal of cinnamon and some other spices in with the salt. It didn't smell at all. I was amazed!

This was our experience. Math was not going well until we switched to LoF. We are using it as a stand-alone program. My oldest has finished beginning algebra, and will be doing the geometry book this year.

I am teaching myself Latin, and reading ahead for high school. It's back to Herodotus for this week. Since my high schooler will do biology this year, and since I have never had a biology class, that will be a learning experience as well :D

I figure if it's on Facebook, it's public and meant to be public knowledge.

Many, many years ago, I did a term at Oxford. I remember being told that the students generally have an extensive book list that they are supposed to read over the holidays, and that no one does. We had assigned reading, and an assigned paper, to complete before our term began. However, it was a program for American students in Oxford, and so I don't know if such assignments are typical for the normal students.

I think it depends on what kind of job they're going for. Certain jobs look for prestigious degrees/universities. But many lower-level jobs just care that you have a degree, any degree. Still other positions want specialized degrees, and don't care whether you've gone to an excellent liberal arts college, or a school that specializes in only that kind of degree (more job training than what we traditionally think of as college).

LOL, Okay, good. I was a little worried that you had lost your mind :lol: I second the homeschooled teen idea, or college student.

My husband's been saying this for years, lol.

I don't get a sitter, but my kids are older. For 8 and 5, yes, I'd either get a sitter or have them in some supervised program. That is younger than I'd be comfortable leaving them at home alone.

They'll start off high school studying Latin and Greek for credit. At some point we'll drop one of those (likely Greek) and do a couple of years of modern language study. My oldest is leaning towards German, while son #2 is leaning towards Spanish.

So, if you've blown the whole handwriting thing, and now you have a rising 9th grader ... Would you make him do cursive practice? (He never writes in cursive of his own choosing.) Or would you settle for just making him write more, to get/keep his hand in practice?

My bank has an iPhone app, and I can do anything on it that I can from my computer. Plus, the iPhone has a regular web browser on it. It cannot run Flash, so you cannot do anything with a website that requires Flash. You can't download things from the internet onto the iPhone, so keep that in mind. But yes, I can pay my bills, manage my bank account, surf the web, read/send email, and shop from my phone.

Oh, I didn't realize I could select multiple results until I voted! I chose Early Modern, but really, only my high schooler will be doing that time period. Everyone else will be studying ancients. My 7th grader will be doing a regular WTM cycle of ancients, while the younger two will really just do Rome all year.

This closely matches how I feel about the issue. I had a similar upbringing to you, as well. Mom would drop us off at Sunday school, but we almost never talked about religion or faith at home. I was hungry for it. I asked to go to church. I tried to pray at home. My parents were not at all comfortable with talking about religion, though. To this day I don't really know what they believe. They call themselves Christians, Methodists, but it's a very nominal thing. I did feel a pull to raise my kids in some kind of church community, and so we tried the UU church for awhile. For various reasons, it ended up not working well for us.

"When" doesn't really make sense for us. This will not make sense to the Christians here, but I am not concerned that my children share my belief system. Yes, there is a set of standards and morals to which I am raising them, but those standards and morals do not require them to believe in my Gods. We discuss our beliefs all the time. We guide the kids to find the answers they seek, but they will most likely find different answers than I did. I have no problem with my kids becoming Christian, and would support them in doing so. However, conservative religion (not just Christianity) is tricky for me because many of them have a problem with my beliefs. I would hope that my children, should they choose such a path, remain respectful towards the beliefs of their parents, and choose to surround themselves with people who could share that respect.

I think Leanne Ely has a study on nutrition. I've not seen it myself, though. I know you can find it on Amazon, with reviews.

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Wow! Thank you!!

Thanks. My younger two would really benefit from a workbox or workbox-like system, I think. They'd thrive on it. My older two are very independent in their schoolwork - which is great! Except that, as you might expect, the subjects they like are far more likely to get done than the ones they don't care for as much ;-)