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    Smarr Intro to Lit and IEW Ancient History

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted · Edited by Wendy in ME

    I forgot to talk about my transcript plans. Of course I have no idea what I'm doing, so please chime in.

     

    Ancient Hitory - 1 credit

    Geography - 1 credit

    Traditional Logic I and II - 1 credit

    Latin - 1 credit

    Violin - 1/2 credit

    PE - 1/2 credit

    Math (I don't know what to call it yet because DM is so integrated - 1 credit

    Honors Earth Science - 1 credit

    Intro. to Technology - 1 credit (both sciences with be at the school)

    English (I'm lost here. Please advise me.) I'm thinking 1 1/2 credits for IEW, Smarr, and maybe 1/2 R&S 8 as grammar review.

     

    He will do History, geography, logic, Latin, math, earth science every other day for 90 minutes x 36 weeks, intro to tech. everyday for one semester 90 minutes, English (lit, writing, grammar) every day for 90 min. x 36 weeks, violin will be 1 lesson per week with 45 minutes of practice 5x wk, and PE is sort of unscheduled. Does this all make sense.

    Smarr Intro to Lit and IEW Ancient History

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    Posted · Edited by Wendy in ME

    I came here asking for advice, and I have always loved your posts. Please tell me why you want to talk me out of IEW ancients. I am struggling with this child. Thank you so much for taking the time to try to help. As far as IEW in the past, it was more of a planned to do with the student directed videos. With the 4 boys I struggle to find the right balance between what I can teach to each child and what they will have to do on their own. Obviously the littles take more mom time than the older ones, but I don't want to neglect the olders either. I thought maybe the student IEW would be a good compromise but it seems like we weren't productive with it. This year was a struggle for us for non-school related issues anyway. I have such high hopes for next year that both my 14yo (15 in Dec.) will not be so easily distracted and I will also be more focused. I feel like we really have to get serious now about some things while at the same time keep some fun and interests. Anyway, I'm rambling now. I am open to any and all advice from btdt moms. Thank you!

     

    Wendy

    Smarr Intro to Lit and IEW Ancient History

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    Thanks for the input. I know that the ancient history IEW is a bit young for him, but he is pretty weak in writing. I thought it would go well with our history and not overwhelm him. My hope is that the Smarr will provide the high school level of lit analysis and writing that he needs. I think the Smarr writing lessons are scheduled only after reading the books, so I can probably work it out so that he is only working on one assignment at a time.

    9th Grade Plans

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    Thanks for mapping it out for me . . . hmmmm . . . this is really what I wanted to do in the first place . . . I may have to send a box back to Sonlight after all. I received the Mapping the World with Art last week and he was drooling over it and so excited, but I had really purchased it for his older sister and brother. I think I need to take that excitement and run with it! Are you going to give a credit for Bible also? Now I'm getting excited about the possibilities.

     

    I am thinking that I will not give him a Bible credit because his schedule is pretty full. He will do all of the Bible assignments as scheduled but I don't think that alone constitutes a credit. I had thought about adding one of Carrie's suggestions but I just don't want to overwhelm him for his first year of high school. He is already going to earn 9 credits next year. I really think you should go with your gut on this one. We will have to keep in touch during the year if you do end up doing CTC with your 9th grader.

    9th Grade Plans

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    Janet, here is what I am planning. He will do all of the CTC scheduled notebook pages with narrations for the extension books daily. Carrie suggests 2 oral, 2 written, and 1 notebook page with illustration per week for the extension books in addition to the other notebooking. The added reading that I listed will be just read and discuss. I am planning to have him complete all of the Mapping the World with Art with the additional reading for 1 credit in geography. He will be working on it for about 90 minutes every other day for a total of 130 hours. I will also give him 1 credit for ancient history done on the opposite schedule. Basically I just divided up all of the additional reading into 36 weeks so we know how much additional reading to do each week. The geography program is already divided into 30 lessons with three parts: reading, map drawing, and an activity, so it is pretty easy to schedule. Everything else we are using for the year is also separated into lessons. I have all of the resources on my shelves now, and it all looks great!

    9th Grade Plans

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    Math: Discovering Mathematics 3

    Latin: Third Form or Henle

    Logic: MP Traditional Logic II

    Literature: Smarr's Intro to Lit.

    Writing: IEW Ancient History-based Writing Lessons

     

    Geography: Mapping the World With Art along with The Book of Discovery and The Great Explorers of the 20th Century

     

    History/Bible: HOD CTC along with The Archaeology Book, Unwrapping the Pharaohs, Josephus, and Plutarch

     

    Science: public high school honors Earth Science

    Fine Arts: violin

    PE: Cross Country, Track, and something at the YMCA for the winter

     

    Aside from PE and violin, he will do 4 subjects a day for 90 minutes alternating days. This will actually give him about 130 hrs per class but not overwhelm him with lots of things to cover each day.

    Smarr Intro to Lit and IEW Ancient History

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    Writing is my son's weakest subject. He is very mathy and very black and white. He loves to read but not to discuss or write about literature. We will be doing a bit lighter ancient history and geography in order to focus on some writing skill. He does not need separate grammar because he excels in Language on all of his testing. He is also continuing on to his 5th year of Latin. My question is this: will these two programs be too much writing? Our plan is to alternate days with 90 minute sessions. He does better with fewer subjects per day for longer periods.

     

    Thanks.

    Plans for Next Year

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    Here is our first ever high school plan:

    Math - Discovering Mathematics 3

    Latin - finish Second Form and Third Form if it is out, Henle if it isn't

    Logic - Traditional Logic 2

    English - IEW Ancient History Based Writing, Rod and Staff 7, DITHOR w/ high school level books

    History - HOD Creation to Christ w/ addition of Unwrapping the Pharaohs, The Archaeology Book, Josephus, and Plutarch

    Geography - Mapping the World With Art w/ addition of The Book of Discovery and Great Explorers of the 20th Century

    Science - public school earth science and intro to technology (our schools do not do biology until 10th)

    Fine Arts - violin

    PE - cross country and track

    Perhaps we should officially welcome parents of rising 9th graders. Check-in here:

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    We will have our first 9th grader next year, and I am pretty nervous about it. He is "almost" on the aspie side and a very black and white child who is very easily distracted. He is a math and science whiz, but he struggles with any gray areas such as literature. He loves to read but not to discuss or write anything even remotely resembling an opinion. We will be continuing with some things that he is very familiar with such as Discovering Mathematics 3, MP Traditional Logic II, finishing Second Form Latin and moving on to Third Form if it is ready or Henle if it is not. He will go to the high school for science and to run cross country and track. He started playing the violin this year, and he loves it. He will continue with his lessons next year. He is a perfectionist and tends to get very stressed out when he gets behind. Our history, Bible, and literature will be a bit unconventional for this board. He will be working through HOD's Creation to Christ program along with Mapping the World With Art. I have added some HS level reading per Carrie's suggestions. He will read The Book of Discovery and Great Explorers of the 20th Century along with his geography and Unwrapping the Pharaohs, The Archaeology Book, Our Young Folks' Josephus, and Our Young Folks' Plutarch along with history. He will work through Rod and Staff English 7, IEW Ancient History writing lessons, and DITHOR with HS level books for language arts. We are trying to play to his strengths and not stress him with his weaknesses.

    Can I see your 9th grade schedule?

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    TOG 4

    Discovering Mathematics 3

    Third Form Latin

    Traditional Logic 2

    Violin

    Public School: Earth Science and Intro to Technology (our school system does biology in 10th)

     

    Our plan is to have him spend 2hrs/ day on TOG, 1hr/ day on math and violin, and do Latin M,W,F and Logic T,TH for one hour with the weekends set aside to get a jump on the coming week's reading. This is essentially what we are doing this year for 8th. We are simply continuing on in all the same curriculum.

    S/O So if you do school at night, what do your dc do during the day?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted · Edited by Wendy in ME

    8th: grader reads, goes to ps for science, chess club, mechanical advantage club, cross country or track, and electives (art, music, gym) He also chips away at some of his loose ends as well as his daily chore.

     

    6th grader: He sleeps in, likes to cook a large, hot breakfast for himself and his younger brothers, cleans his mess in the kitchen, completes his daily chore, independent reading for an hour as well as any other required reading for the day, destroys the kitchen again with whatever he decides to try to cook for lunch, cleans that mess, then he gets started on his school work around 1pm. He does the things he can do on his own at this time because this is when I work with the younger boys until about 3pm.

     

    At 3pm, I take break for myself. (I spend my morning doing whatever chores need to done) Oldest ds gets picked up from extracurricular activity at 3:30 and then I start dinner prep so we can eat early. After the dinner mess is cleaned, I make coffee and hang out in the school room with the older boys for their instructional time with me. I work 12 hr shifts, and I don't get home until 9pm on work nights. I am very slow to get moving in the morning. (Ignore the early time of this post. I had trouble sleeping last night.)

     

    I forgot to add that the little boys spend their morning doing creative things. We have a no screen time rule during the week, so the occupy themselves with playdough, water paint, drawing, puzzles, math manipulatives, and browsing through books. I consider this time to take care of all the extras that they would be doing at a "real" school. Their academic time is streamlined into 2hrs in the afternoon.

    School at Night?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    I often spend the time from 7-9 with my older boys working on school things. DH is home at the time, dinner is done, and the mess is cleaned. DH reads and bathes the younger boys and keeps them occupied, so this time is very productive and quiet in the school room. We get a lot done. We have to approach things a bit unconventionally because I work 3 12 hr shifts each week. I am actually only home 3 week nights, so we also work a bit on Saturday morning and sometimes on Sunday afternoon after church to get a jump on the week. I love our quiet evenings in the school room. We have great discussions. I also just wanted to add that as much as I have tried, we are NOT a morning family. It is pointless to even try to get anything done before 11. They all read from 10-11 quietly, and then I get started with the little ones. Go with what works. Isn't that one of many reasons we homeschool?

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