I have been following this thread and just googled the National Endowment for Humanities. There are so many great things there. It is going to take hours :) my plans incorporating this material. Really good ideas! Thank you!

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We did the writing. Skipped some weeks. Usually when none of the topics appealed to the dc's which made things start awful. Rather than suffer I had IEW topic books that I substituted either that day or the next. Lol

Well you managed to convince me to put this one on hold! I read his "The Professor and the Madman" earlier this year and learned many fascinating things. Hope you have a safe and enjoyable journey with lots of good books!

Just asked DD's opinion. She does not think she could do the whole book over the summer but says the last part of the book is quite advanced. Probably at least the second quarter. She thinks getting through the first half of the book is possible and would make the course easier. I have the book put away but can find it if you need us to look at the table of contents etc.

Another BA in Accounting and Economics.

We have always done at least two programs. I always used Sinapore and Abeka. I think Singapore and Saxon would work well together. I generally used them simultaneously without making any effort to match up. If we had a "brain block" in one program and the other was doing something similar soon we might stop one for a week or two. This did not happen often. Generally we did math for about 1 hour a day with a break (another subject) between the books.

Dd has been enjoying a very old and cheap Lial's Applications in Calculus. Our library had a copy so we even got to try beforehand. :) She also has done LOF Calculus which she thought was a great introduction to Calculus so it might be good for a summer intro. She is very comfortable with the basic concepts thanks to the LOF book and is rapidly moving through Lials. She also has Stewarts but hasn't really started it. She is fascinated by what Calc can be used for so wants to finish with Lial's first.

Cat -- I will continue to pray for your husband. :grouphug:

I finished a few more. Some were quick reads others I have been working on for awhile. Hidden in Plain View (a Love Inspired) by Diane Burke -- A detective who grew up Amish goes undercover to protect an amnesia victim who is Amish. Enjoyable. The Dark Monk by Oliver Potzsch -- The second Hangman's Daughter book. This one has a Templar connection so I liked it. Love Overboard by Janet Evanovich -- One of her first romance novels. Written before the Stephanie Plum books made her famous. Quick funny read. I found several of these in the e-library. Kissed by Crimson (Midnight Breed) by Lara Adrian -- Enjoyable. I am currently reading Inferno by Dan Brown. Really good so far. I had planned to reread Dante's first but was lazy an read wiki instead. For those of you who are wondering the wiki is enough. The references have all been well explained so far.

Thank you for the links!

We used the Body Book combined with Janice Van Cleve's Let's Play and find out about the Human Body. Our neighbor, a high school bio teacher, was amazed at how much they understood.

Fix-It is not stand alone imo. It is a great program that can be used for years. Good value.

I have that syllabus too! We used portions of it but not the whole thing. There really wasn't much detail and other curriculums were easier to use so I drifted away. Oddly enough I just looked at it online last week. Much more detail.:) Nice schedules. Solid curriculum choices. I actually just recommended it to a friend with an eight year old as an option with scedules.

My Dd loves these! She also really enjoys Agatha Christie with Tommy and Tuppence being her favorite detectives. She recently read P.D. Jame's sequel to P&P "Death Comes to Pemberly" and really enjoyed it. One last idea are Mary Stewart books. Dd just finished "Moonspinners" which is a romantic mystery set in Crete in the 60's. Great pleasure reading. We have the Merlin series by her also but have not started on them yet.

My Dd15 started the year planning to participate in the book a week. She has kept her list up but hasn't posted in months. So here it is from the start! 1) Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers 2) The Last Dragon Slayer by Jasper Fforde 3) The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Forde 4) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Bradley 5) Beauty and the Beast by Jenni James 6) Sleeping Beauty by Jenni James 7) Awaken by R.H. D'Aigle 8) The Hollow Bettle by Susannah Appelbaum 9) Lady Almina and the Real Downtown Abbey 10)Seraphina by Rachel Hartman 11)Wildwood by Colin Meloy 12)The Tasters Guild by Susannah Appelbaum 13)Fairest by Gail Carson Levine 14)Death Cloud by Andrew Lane 15)The Merchant of Death by D.J. MacHale 16)Oliver Twist by Dickens 17)The Shepherd of Weeds by Susannah Appelbaum 18)Starlighter by Bryan Davis 19)Warrior by Bryan Davis 20)Diviner by Bryan Davis 21)Liberator by Bryan Davis 22)Power Play by Ridley Pearson 23)Beyond the Reflection'sxEdge by Bryan Davis 24)Eternity's Edge by Bryan Davis 25)Nightmare's Edge by Bryan Davis 26)Ever by Gail Carson Levine 27) Squire by Tamora Pierce 28) Peter and the Sword of Mercy by Barry and Pearson 29) The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Bradley 30) Robinson Crusoe by Defoe 31)The Enchantress by Michael Scott 32)A Red Herring Without Mustard by Bradley 33)Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by Bunyon 34)The Swiss Family Robinson by Wyss 35)Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde 36)Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers 37)Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James 38)Walden by Thoreau 39)The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde 40)The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart 41) I am Half-Sick od Shadows by Bradley

Stacia -- I am so sorry. I agree that you need a good light movie! :grouphug:

I am in the northern UK and canned black beans whick ds loves are hard to buy at stores. For years I had to stock up when we were in the South. They are cheaper through Amazon and we don't have to find room to carry them home from a holiday. Easy to delay the shipment if I don't need them yet.

I reported the spam in pp. I finished #81 Alone by Lisa Gardner. It is the first in her DD Warren series. It was enjoyable. Also finished #82 The Charm School by Nelson DeMille. This was a reread from the late eighties when I had a love for Cold War spy thrillers. This book certainly fit that description. Lots o f Soviet KGB intrigue set in the American Embassy in Moscow primarily. Provides an interesting fictional storyline to MIA's from Vietnam War. Enjoyed it but really long. Also started and will probably have to abandon(ebook return that I have only read a quarter of) "The Last Days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA: the book that inspired the dig". It is very interesting but a slow read. Everything that is known about his last five months written here. I have already learned what I started the book for so.....a tomb in our village Church is being renovated, when it was opened for the repair two extra bodies were found. The DNA indicates Richard III's cousins. I wanted a clarification surrounding them.

I think it depends on the definition of combining. :) We have always combined the basics for most subjects other than math. Writing assignments are never the same although the information taught is the same. When they were your children's ages they both did SL but dd also did a substantial portion of VP because she adored seatwork and her wiggly little brother was doing great if he listened to all the SL. ;) I still tweak their assignments in together courses. The advantages of doing coursework together are great imo. First they have someone else doing the same thing -- a bit of family solidarity. We get to spend more time on things like field trips because they benefit both children. The same thing with documentaries and movies relating to classes, everyone can enjoy them together. Some topics both children do not enjoy so they work individually. Dd loves languages. Actively working on four currently. Two years of one foreign language with Ds will be a struggle. Ds love computers and programming dd does not. The most important thing to remember when combining is to remember they are two different students and will do things very differently. Obviously my dc's are much older but when combining dd has always needed more rigorous assignments.

My ds has commented on the triple....in the past. He found it a bit odd. Felt bad for something that was not normal. So he noticed it because it was odd but no other type of reaction.

The kids and I have done a whole bunch of formal curriculum since we started home ed. I am a bit like you and have never not tweaked a bit. Our favorite home ed time ever was the year we just used the library for everything except math. They were 7 and 9. We learned so much. I would not worry a bit. Just make sure you write down the book info so you can find it later!

I was just wondering about her yesterday. I feel so sad. I will pray for her family. She will be greatly missed.

I just visited this website. It is amazing.....even has a potentially great economics course. Thank you! :)

Ds read the first one at 11 or 12 and had seen the movie first. He absolutely loves it and is currently reading the rest. The other day he came out with a quote/one liner out of the book which he really does not "get" and I hope he forgets. I didn't react at all in hope that he forgets because it wasn't much fun. Plus I could not expain then, I was just lucky no one else was listening. That is the negative some of those one liners definately are not great out of mouths that young andthat clueless.