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  1. Thanks so much, Sebastian! I appreciate your comments. I have been teaching in a co-op setting for a few years now, and I've discovered many of the same techniques you have, in terms of requiring drafts, nixing extra credit, and so forth. Great idea on purchasing all the books! So you ONLY used Windows to the World that year, without an additional writing text? Was that sufficient writing instruction? We do meet every week, but I can understand your frustration with just meeting once every two weeks. I already feel we should meet twice a week!
  2. Thank you! It seems like the Rulebook is more of a logic text , which is important, obviously, but we can only complete so many things, and I would like to be efficient. (I know that's a run-on! :001_smile: )
  3. Does such a thing exist, or does one have to cobble together various books about body systems? It seems like everything is geared for the very young or the high-school pre-nursing student. This is for a group of sixth-through-eighth graders, so they can handle some complexity but don't need a real A&P book yet. I don't care for Apologia, alas.
  4. Can you tell me what you're using for Anatomy and Physiology? We're having a hard time finding materials that aren't too advanced (high-school and college level). Thanks!
  5. I'm teaching Language Arts to a co-op next year, and my now-eighth graders will be in high school. Yikes! I emailed the IEW folks, and they responded that a ninth-grader might use Speech Boot Camp, The Elegant Essay, Teaching the Classics, and Windows to the World all in one year! Would using the Jill Pike syllabus for Windows eliminate the need for all that stuff? Sheesh. I have looked at The Elegant Essay before, and I don't care for it all that much. I've taught at the college level, so I'm hoping to move my rising high-schoolers away from some of the IEW stuff which is fun for younger students but not so great in college: catchy openers, decorations, etc. This year, for 8th graders, I used Lightning Lit., made up my own IEW-based papers on various topics (some literary, some not), and also used Paragraphs for Middle School as another view (from IEW) on style. I had considered using either Lightning Lit. or Excellence in Literature next year, while working through The Lively Art of Writing or some other writing text. I know The Well-Trained Mind recommeds A Rulebook for Arguments and The New Oxford Guide to Writing, though it's hard to imagine how to implement those for a class. The Rulebook is so short! Any thoughts would be most welcome! Thank you!
  6. We just started home schooling 2 years ago. At school, my daughter had the Singapore Math in Focus series. Our first year of homeschooling, we used Right Start because of the group we were with. Last year, we used Saxon 6/5. She does well in math, but I'm worried about all this switching. Math Mammoth is all the rage, but it stops at Level 6, right? So, I'm wondering if I should just stay the course with Saxon or switch. We do have a Mathematical Olympiads team also, which provides us with some variety, math-wise. Has anyone done a comparison of what each curriculum covers or leaves out? She did get a little tired of the Saxon pattern, but in my limited experience so far, everything gets old after a while, so I'm not super worried about that. Thanks!
  7. Thank you! Sentence Composing for Middle School is very obviously laid out, with like 33 "activities." It seems like you'd just do one per week, if you wanted to do the book in a year. The Paragraphs one isn't quite so obvious.
  8. Thank you! I did print out the teacher's booklet. All it said about scheduling was, "You can do it one, two, or three years." That didn't seem super-helpful to me, since I was hoping for a week-by-week schedule. I could break it up myself, but it's useful when someone else has already done it, accounting for lessons that take longer and so forth. The sequence they suggest in the teacher booklet is to do Sentences in 6th grade, Grammar for Middle School in 7th, and Paragraphs for Middle School in 8th. They also list an option of stretching out Paragraphs over two or three years.
  9. I am trying to plot out a week-by-week schedule, using Killgallon's Paragraphs for Middle School, and I'm wondering if anyone else has done so. It seems like a lot to do the whole book in a year, if you're doing another curriculum as well, but maybe I'm wrong about that. We will be doing Writing with Skill 2, some literature study-guide-type things with writing assignments (just a few--maybe 4), plus Killgallon. (We'll also have grammar, spelling, and reading of other books with narrations). So, two questions, I guess: 1. Is it too much to do the whole book in a year, with these other things, too? 2. Has anyone plotted out a weekly schedule that I can steal? Thank you!
  10. Thanks! I had seen your helpful post about TIP before. It's so hard to choose curriculum. As soon as I find one thing, someone says, "But have you heard about this?" Then I second-guess myself. I was hoping to hear all the alternatives in one place, so I could sort it out. I will check out Thinkwell. It wasn't too much to do two curriculums?
  11. My 6th grader is finishing up Jacobs' Algebra this year, so we want him to move ahead with Geometry next year. I'm considering the Duke TIP course, and I'd like to know if anyone has used it. I bought Jacobs' Geometry AND the Jurgensen text the TIP course uses. The TIP course is appealing, because I'd like to have a little more interaction with him on the topics. When I tried working through the Jacobs lessons with him, it was just kind of annoying and slowed him down, but now we have very little interaction, except for corrections, so our interactions are frustrating. Basically, I'm leaning toward TIP/Jurgensen, but I'd love to hear other options. He needs something that is challenging and proof-intensive. He doesn't have trouble grasping math concepts at all. Thanks!
  12. My 6th grader is finishing up Jacobs' Algebra this year, so we want him to move ahead with Geometry next year. I'm considering the Duke TIP course, and I'd like to know if anyone has used it. I bought Jacobs' Geometry AND the Jurgensen text the TIP course uses. The TIP course is appealing, because I'd like to have a little more interaction with him on the topics. When I tried working through the Jacobs lessons with him, it was just kind of annoying and slowed him down, but now we have very little interaction, except for corrections, so our interactions are frustrating. Basically, I'm leaning toward TIP/Jurgensen, but I'd love to hear other options. He needs something that is challenging and proof-intensive. He doesn't have trouble grasping math concepts at all. Thanks!
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