My dd13 will be in 9th grade this fall, my 14yo ds will also be in 9th grade. I'm really not sure what to use with her for English, Religion or History. She hates history, especially ancient history. :glare: So I don't know if I want to use MFW AHL (which I'm using for ds), which revolves around history. That and the fact she's in the gym (gymnastics) for 25 hours+ a week and I don't think she has the time it would require. She doesn't have to stay on ancient history with us because she doesn't participate in most group activities because she's gone in the afternoons and does her work independently in the mornings. We're doing Civics/US History this year and we did World Geography prior. English is one of her favorite subjects. I'm not going to do formal grammar this year with them, they've had it for 7 years now. :tongue_smilie: We'll review next year and 11th. I do want to focus more on Writing; just practicing, she knows *how* to write a paper but she needs more practice. I want writing to come from reading, exps. A research paper on the author of the book she's reading, Persuasive essay on something going on in the story, etc. I've been looking at Oak Meadow 9th grade but I haven't heard any reviews on it. Religion, we're Christians. We're currently using R&S Bible and like it so we may use it but I'm always looking for something we might like better ;) Any suggestions? :bigear:

Lori D, Thank you so much for all that information! We already school year round and we're scheduled to start this in June, we start new things slowly adding them in. I don't think this seems like more than we're doing now, but I have no idea. I still have lots to think about, thanks for your help!

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My 13 & 14 year olds are rising 9th graders and I'm starting planning.. My ds is 14, this year we did grade "8.5" we could have started 9th grade but we decided it would give him the advantage in highschool. His birthday is in Mid-November and our cut off date is Dec 1st. I'm so glad we did! It gave him the time to prepare for highschool and mature alot. He wants to be a history teacher . He absoulutely loves history. :D I think he'll do MFW Ancient History & Literature, I already bought it :tongue_smilie:. We've used some of the Teaching Company Lectures and he loves them, would it be to much to add them in? He's likes some science topics (Chemistry & Physics) but we need to get through Biology, which he doesn't like at all. I was looking into Shepard's Biology. The biggest aspect that I like about it is the lab dvd's. We can do some of the labs but watch some of them too. Anyone have any experience with it? He does not like math at all and sometimes struggles with it. Last year we did Teaching Textbooks Algebra 1 and this year we're doing Life of Fred Beginning Algebra. I'm looking to switch to something else for Algebra 2 or Geometry. Which one should he take first and any suggestions? My dd is 13 and will be 14 in November so she's a younger 9th grader. She's a gymnast and easily spends 25 hours in the gym practicing. I'm not sure what to use with her. She loves learning and reading but most lit based curriculua take more time a day then she can spend on the subjects. She currently wakes up at 7 does school work until about 12 and then goes to the gym until about 4 comes home does more school work eats dinner and then crashes. She could do MFW AHL but I think that would take to much of her time. She's doesn't really like history so I don't know if I want to have english & bible revolve around history. I know we'll use AoPS Intro to Geometry and I'll probably have her do the same science as ds but I have no idea what to use for English, History or Religion. Then there's electives. We're going to continue with Latin. We also are going to do P.E and Health. My dd does yoga and works out in the gym for gymnastics, Ds does work outs and conditioning for soccer and hockey and can I count that as P.E? For Health I was thinking I'd use MFW's plans for both of them. Then there's whatever co-op classes they want to do and have time to do. If you read through that thank you! I'm kind of freaking out about highschool. I need to :chillpill:. If you have any suggestions to any of the questions above I'm all :bigear:

I'm planning (well starting to) highschool for my oldest two, It feels like Kindergarten all over again. :willy_nilly: The only I know we're using next year is SOTW, MCT LA and MM. No idea about anything else!