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  1. Thanks for all the replies! Great help and food for thought!
  2. Thanks for your reply! Very helpful:) My desire is to read it all, but I know there may be times when it is not possible. For R, we will be meeting with one other family for discussion- just 2 students. I am curious, in your virtual co-op have you done the teacher training ect. to be a sponsored group with the new Tap program. If so, what has your experience been like with it?
  3. I have used Tapestry for 6 years. This past year I only used it for Dialectic and younger, and my 9th grade son took an integrated humanities class online. So, this year I am considering using Tap R with him for 10th grade, but I want to be realistic with my time commitment to it as a teacher. If you lead lit. discussions, do you read the book or just the notes. With D I have always tried to read the book to lead discussions, but with 4 kids and a child in both D and R I am not sure I can do all the lit. reading. I know I don't have to read the history for discussion, just teacher notes. I would love to read it all if there were more hours in a day:) Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
  4. I just signed my kids up for writing classes at the Harvey Study Center. You can check them out at www.harveycenter.org.
  5. I don't have the newest edition, but I am teaching it to 2 of my kids plus 3 others this year and it is going well. We meet once a week, and I assign homework to be done between meetings. The program works well for this type of set up.
  6. Did they remove the compare contrast essay at the end of the year? The old book is 36 weeks.
  7. My son has taken Saxon Algebra 2 DIVE online class with Dr. Shormann this year. He still watches the DIVE lessons during the week digitally, but has to submit his homework and has class once a week where they take quizzes and ask questions. He can also email Dr. Shormann anytime with questions. It has been a great fit for us. He will take the Advanced Math Class in the fall.
  8. In the 4th edition Teacher Manual they use a thesis from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to write an essay as an example that is used throughout the book assuming that most people will be familiar with it. This essay is used throughout the year to teach and add all the new concepts learned as an example in class. For the new essays the kids write, they can use whatever literature or history they are currently studying. It is a nice way to integrate. No specific literature is necessary.
  9. I have not gone through the whole program yet, but this is my second year teaching it. I had a 6th and an 8th grader when we started half way through the year last year and decided to go over the material we covered last year again this year for the sake of the younger one. I have the fourth edition and would definitely recommend getting the newest version. I love LTOW, but the old Teacher Manual definitely could be made more user friendly, which I believe they did with the new edition. As far as prep for me goes, it usually takes me about half an hour to 45 minutes once a week to prepare, watching the video and taking notes. I spend 30 to 45 minutes once a week presenting the new lesson to my kids. After the lesson, during the week my kids are pretty independent with the assignments. They complete an essay about every three weeks which is the way the program is designed. I like that they can pick topics from our literature or history studies. There is plenty of support for questions on the LTOW yahoo group. I know several of the Circe online teachers post there and answer questions regularly.
  10. My 8th grade son is using the Memoria Press guides to complete Henle 1 Units 1-2 this year. It has gone well and I want to continue in high school next year, but I don't know what would constitute a full year of high school Latin credit starting with Unit 3. I have heard that completing through Unit 7 would be Latin 1, but what if he starts with Unit 3? Do I just have him complete as much as he can and go by hours to figure the credit? Thanks for any thoughts...
  11. It will not ruin your kids to wait a year on history! Your idea about the famous people and notebooking sounds good. Others had mentioned starting SOTW and that was going to be my suggestion if you wanted to do more formal history. With the CD's it would really take the load off you. You could even stretch it out for 2 years if you wanted to. I adore history and find that I am better about getting the things I don't enjoy done so I can get to history. But that is just me. If it is a stress for you, let it go. Character training and then the 3 R's are most important right now. Pray...
  12. :iagree:I am so with you! I have such a hard time getting through them and we have never finished a book in a year (we have used 3 of them)! I love the info in them, and my kids adore them. But they just take us SO long. My girls in 3rd and 5th grade will be doing one this year and I am hoping they can do it more independently and together- we shall see!
  13. Colleen, So glad you brought this up. I too got the idea of hand drawing maps from CC materials, but was unsure how to use them with our TOG maps. Thanks Hunter for joining in and sharing your combo wisdom. It is much appreciated!:)
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