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    If you've used "Classical Writing: Aesop" program by Gustilo/Jaqua, please come on in

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I will be starting Aesop for the fifth time in the fall. I really think Classical Writing is excellent...it does have a bit of a learning curve, but it is so thorough and, in my experience, produces really great writers and thinkers.

     

    I have completed up through the Diogenes level with my high schoolers who then transition to AP writing at the local Classical charter school. So far, they have all transitioned seamlessly and received 5's on the tests.

     

    What I appreciate most about CW is the method of building copia through synonyms and grammar change. (Most of this takes place in Homer, and is when I see amazing growth in my kids' writing ability.)

     

    There is plenty of built in review through the workbooks, which I love. I initially intended to choose my own models, but with five children soon realized that was more work than I was willing to do. The models in the workbook are varied and interesting.

     

    Let me know if you have any specific questions.

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    2015 College acceptances - is this where it goes?

    in The College Board

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    OK, we can add an acceptance to University of Utah. But, unfortunately a rejection from USNA. My son is handling it really well. It has proven to me just how much he has learned and matured through this stressful process. At this time he plans to re-apply next year. Now to decide what  the best choice is for the 2015-16 school year :-)

     

    So, to update:

     

    Accepted:

    Texas A&M

    University of Colorado at Boulder

    University of Arizona (Honors College)

    Virginia Tech.

    University of Utah

     

    Rejected:

    USNA

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    Moms with teens or older kids -- when did you take more shortcuts in the kitchen?

    in The Chat Board

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    I definitely take more shortcuts now with three teens and an 11 and 8 year old...but it is primarily because we have more money now. It was not financially possible to purchase packaged foods and take-out when the kids were little. It is much more so now. I still make most things from scratch (soups, chilis, roasted chickens four at a time, and even homemade waffles - I cook them once a month and freeze), but I stock up on granola bars and cheese sticks and yogurts and things that can be grabbed and stored in a backpack during long practices, all-day track meets, horse shows, etc. 

    Good, but inexpensive HS Ancient History textbook

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    I'd ask at the school itself. Only one (of several) in our area wants more from homeschoolers than the standard course description, and that one is only concerned with science. They probably wouldn't even bother to look at the TOCs otherwise.

     

     

    FWIW, my DS using Spielvogel's Human Odyssey is reading Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, and such this year. His Great Books literature covers challenging reading and difficult vocabulary much more thoroughly than any history text could. My objective for his history course is to give him a thorough coverage of history. HO and the GC lectures accomplish that.

     

    Western Civilization by the same author is college level.

    Agreeing wholeheartedly with SilverMoon here. My oldest two are exceedingly competent readers (perfect scores on the critical reading portions of both the ACT and the SAT) and learned a TON from SWB's "History of..." books, because the objective was learning history, not being challenged by the reading level. I expected intelligent conversation regarding the reading, and thorough, intelligent writing about the reading, but I didn't require the reading be complicated in and of itself. That is what literature is for.

     

    Also, only one of the six colleges my son applied to this year required course descriptions and they asked that they be "brief." So we have never needed the TOC for any school.

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    Anyone else get tired of repeating curriculum with multiple children?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    YES! I am on my fifth go-round in Phonics Pathways. I'm nearly done with it, and I will be dancing a happy jig when I'm totally through with that book!

     

    As for other curriculum, it doesn't bother me as much to be going through Saxon math, or Rod & Staff English, or Spelling Workout, or...

     

    But that Phonics Pathways! Ugh!

     

    (Not to say it isn't a great program. If it weren't, we wouldn't still be using it!)

    I just finished Phonics Pathways for the fifth time! It is a fantastic feeling when that last word is read!!

    Would you expect an airlines to compensate you for this?

    in The Chat Board

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    I'm not sure everyone is upset with no seat assignment. I know I like it better and choose it over other airlines if the cost is similar. In general I like Southwest better than other airlines. There have certainly been enough times I've had seats pre-selected on other airlines, then not gotten those seats anyway for one reason or another - and of course - paying extra to change a seat if one doesn't like the one auto-assigned.

     

    I suspect it's pretty self-selecting. Those who like open assignments choose it and those who don't choose other airlines. My mom just had her first Southwest flight ever a couple of weeks ago and told us she really liked it too. To each our own.

    My husband flies 2-4x per week and we fly as a family 5-6x per year. Southwest gets our business almost all the time. We prefer the open seating, and their customer service is unparalleled in our opinion. I always just assumed that people who didn't want open seating chose one of the many more expensive airlines with reserved seating.

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