We used Hewitt Homeschool's British Medieval Lightning Literature and Composition.

We are using Level 2 for high school. Level 3 was tooo much history for my daughter.

We "deschooled" for almost a year. But what he didn't realize is what he was doing WAS school. Example: He played a lot of the games Pharoah, Zeus, (I'm forgetting the others)...so when we started ancient history he knew so much about egypt, greece, and rome already. The admissions was actually pretty easy. We went on registration day, handed over our transcript and their form...they then sent us to a different room to sign up for classes...he was only signing up for one so it went very fast...that was it. Our transcript was just a simple one page form with no course descriptions and they have not ask for any as of yet. He had taken the ACT back in 2006 and made a 26 on it. He chose not to tell the school of his AS, his choice. No he does not live on campus, he is not ready for that yet.

Where did you get tests for the SE series?

I am also looking for lesson plans for these books. I have got some ideas on how many times a week and such but still looking for lesson plans.

Thank you for this!! If only more people in the world felt this way!!

This is the question I was going to ask!

Tami, can you tell me what the lesson plan states? I have the books and the workbooks, but did not buy any of the teacher stuff. $$$ Thanks

Our journey started with us pulling him out of 5th grade. He has Asperger Syndrome. It took a while of deschooling for him to love learning again. We have always piecemealed our curriculum. When we found TWTM, it fit my son perfectly. He loved logic! We took time to figure out what he wanted to learn and how he could learn that subject best. He found out he NEEDED a lesson plan. Once he had that, he could deviate from it if need be, but he had to have that "plan of action" first. I also found out I am the same way!! I feel I have learned just as much from our journey as my kids have. So anyway, we have loosely followed and tweaked TWTM since 2003. Things we learned along the way: Always talk to your kids about what they want to learn, not every math problem has to be done, be flexible, be flexible, be flexible.

I plan on using Science Explorer this coming year (January). When I get the books (Astronomy, Animals, and the two chemistry ones). I plan on finding hands on projects to go with them. So like using them for a spine.

We are coming to the end of our year. So I am actually only now planning for next year. We usually start some time in January. My youngest is severely dyslexic so we are in the process of figuring that out. I knew it, in the back of my head...I mean he is almost 12 and reading at a K level, but now we have the "official" diagnosis. Time to get my head out of the sand! So for new year... My 16 yr old.....???? My 11 yr old...Science Explorer Series (Animals, Astronomy, and the two chemistry ones).....????

Well one of my babies...ahem...I mean my 18 yr old started college this fall. Got his first test back and he made a 99. We never thought we would even be here (he has Asperger's) but here we are!! It turned out his class ends at the same time as his friend and she drives him to work after they have lunch. So he has the comfort of that. I am so proud! (can't show it too much or it will be "aww mom!" LOL) :lol:

We did Spectrum Chemistry and really loved that everything was right there (except the gallon of water). We only found that same one reference. It gets hard but my science minded son enjoyed it....my daughter not so much but she had not had algebra yet and all the math part was hard for her so she did only half of the book but did all the labs with her brother and a friend. Our favorite was when we made a liquid glow (short but sweet). Cathi

I went to the website and it looks like the have audios of the current edition (the book being read...my son is dyslexic). How different are the editions? Does anyone know where I could get the older editions and the audios to go with them? Cathy

I am really wanting to buy these. How did it go for you? I would like to get all of them. What else did you get to go with it? How did you do lesson plans? I have searched for lesson plans for them and have came up empty handed. Thanks for any help.

Math: Teaching Textbooks History: History Odyssey by Pandia Press Critical Thinking company Those off the top of my head:glare:

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So many of you are done and planning! OMG!! This has been a hard year for us so far...my niece was in a severe car accident and spent a month in ICU, my husband's mother passed away, my good friend's mom passed, and my other friend just got out of the hospital. I have bought nothing, no forms, no plans, nothing. We school year round and usually have everything planned out (roughly) before her birthday...uh that was mid May! Luckily she is still finishing up this year so ....breathe!

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Love Stephen King. Started reading his books when I was a teen and have collected and read his books ever since. My husband does not care for him...he's a Dean Koontz man. Like DK but love SK!!

Would those of you that did course descriptions mind sharing them? I know ours will be different (from different resources and such). But it helps me to get lots of examples. Cathy

We live in northern denton county.

plus there is REAL Science from Pandia Press http://www.pandiapress.com Same people who do History Odyssey Cathi

I am really surprised at all of your answers. First my oldest son did Key to Algebra for algebra 1 and then went on to do Teaching Textbooks Algebra 2 and is now about to be in Pre-Calc. I have given my kids input in choosing their courses all along. They both plan on going to college, so they know what they need to cover to do that. I tell them they need to take a math, science, and english every year but what kind is up to them. My oldest is graduated. My daughter is just turning 16...she is doing algebra 1 right now. She started TT but is not getting algebra so we are going to purchase Keys To and see if that helps. I am also going to look into the Life Of Fred too. For science she has picked Biology but is on the look out for a high school level zoology. For history she has did History Odyssey level 2 but is now doing Social Civics. She does not like History but most colleges she has looked at require atleast one year of social studies and we talked about it and I told her she needs to know about how our government works and so she is doing the 1/2 credit government, 1/2 credit economics. For english she is doing poetry (right now she is devouring every poetry book she can get!), Shakespeare (was working through his complete works on her own with watching a movie of the play or theatrical version of each and sometimes reading a book adaptation of it...we are now looking at the Lightning Lit Shakespeare too), and writing. She has recently finished world lit, british medieval lit, and easy grammar plus. She is realizing she needs more vocabulary help, so we are looking for a program for that. She is also almost done with her "Intro to Business" course. I am not saying your ways are wrong. Just trying to put out there a different point of view. Cathi