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    High School Japanese

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    My 9th grader is also using Irasshai (with text/workbook).

     

    Bee Happy - can you share the movies and readers that your dd uses to supplement?

     

    This is one of the readers. There are other volumes as well. 

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1482373343/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1482373343&linkCode=as2&tag=daycarel&linkId=42OIBIOGZT5A563Z

     

    We also picked up books entirely in Japanese from Half Price Bookstore. She likes to pick them up and try to work her way through them. 

     

    She watches a ton of (age appropriate) anime. Here is a list of movies she's working her way through: http://www.imdb.com/search/title?languages=ja%7C1&title_type=feature&num_votes=10000,&sort=user_rating,desc

     

    Hope that helps!

    Movies as Literature/Course Title

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    Thanks, Lori.

     

    There are quite a lot of movies and we are reading the novels that go along with them (when available). We aren't simply doing a compare and contract...I have complete study guides for the novels with activities, tools to analyze, discussion questions, etc. Each movie/book will take at least 2 weeks to complete (working daily). Closer to 3. 

     

    In my oldest daughter's previous (outside) English courses, she read about 3-4 novels over the entire year along with some writing and received a whole credit. We are set to read 7 novels, a short story, 2 plays, some poetry. You still don't think it's enough to call it an English course? Or to even qualify for more than half a credit? I was thinking the reading and analyzing alone with essays and Time4Writing would be enough for an English credit. 

     

    Edited to add: Thank you for the other suggestions. We already have Windows to the World. Haven't looked at The Lightning Lit and Comp.

    Normal teen behavior? What should I do?

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    Normal. I went through something similar at the age of 15/16. My parents wanted to go and I did NOT. I spent the whole trip there (to Texas) writing about how unhappy I was in my journal, writing notes to my friends (no cell phone in the 90s) and being completely miserable. I couldn't wait to get back. I had no anxiety about the trip, just didn't want to miss a thing at home. 

    High School Japanese

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    Forgot to mention, we also purchase Japanese readers and she watches movies in Japanese. Many say the language is difficult, but if they are really interested they will pick it up quite easily. My daughter says to her, it makes more sense than any other language. She speaks Japanese all day. Even my toddler is starting to speak it. 

    Schmoop online courses?

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    I've tried them. We are actually using US History for a 9th and 11th grader. Also signed up for American Literature. 

     

    The content is good. (These are definitely secular courses)

     

    They give you a course intro and then a unit intro. They have a short lesson for each chapter, which is basically reading (there is a ton of reading!). Then they have additional readings, which may be biographies, diaries, and other online resources. Most of them are on Shmoop, but some are other sites. There are activities that go with the readings. May be a comic that you analyze, essays to write, a short Shmoop type video, etc. Lots of writing (rubric is included). I mostly have my daughters answer aloud, because they could easily be answering 5 different essay questions per subject each day. You could also just pick and choose which ones to answer. 

     

    One thing to note is, I wanted to create classrooms on the site. Meaning, we all can read on our own screens, and they could complete the lessons right in the site. There are WYSIWYG text boxes for each assignment that can be submitted. The submitted assignments end up in the backend of the class where they can be graded by the teacher/parent. Students will be able to access their grades in their own backends. It also makes it so that the student can have their own account without the teacher notes. Another benefit is that they can mark the readings complete as they do them. 

     

    I learned the hard way that you have to pay for each student. When signing up, it never mentions that. It just says that you can invite your students to your course. When I invited my daughter, she was going to have to pay $80 for the course. (1 semester). I was upset and contacted them. Especially once I found out that public school systems typically pay less than 10$ for the entire year per student. 

     

    I contacted them and they were working on some sort of deal for me, but haven't worked anything out yet. For now, my students log in with my info and complete the assignments in Google Drive. They share it with me, I print it out, correct and hand back for a final version (if necessary). We are no longer using them for American Lit (got a refund) because it was so much writing and it's just really much easier to do it within the site, which we were unable to do). We picked up something else for English. 

     

    HTH!

    Movies as Literature/Course Title

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    We've decided to give Movies as Literature a chance this year. We plan to use it with the extras (reading novels when available, comparing and contrasting, watching and analyzing related movies).

     

    Any idea what I could call a course like this?

    We are doing the writing in the course, plus some writing from Time4Writing. I thought Literature and Composition, but it seems a bit plain.

     

    you think this can even pass as a regular English course?

    I'm doing this with my 9th and 11th grader. 

    Potentially New Ohio Law on Homeschooling

    in The Chat Board

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    Perhaps that was their first intent, but Teddy's father stated on Facebook that he understands the wording of the bill, and that it proposes that all homeschoolers be subjected to interviews and home visits. He says that we should be willing to give up some of our privacy for the goodwill of all children. 

     

    Bull.

     

    This bill will not help children. The abusers will put on a smile and get past the one or two interviews each year. Ridiculous. 

     

    This law is really a shame. If you look at the Teddy's Law website, it's clear that the group is wants a law which makes removal of a child from public school difficult if that child currently has an open child services case. In other words, to prevent would-be abusers from removing at-risk children from daily interaction with mandatory reporters.

     

    http://teddyslaw.org/

     

    girl expelled, charged with felony, at local school

    in The Chat Board

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    Why do people keep saying stuff like this? We know she knew it would explode because she CREATED it! Do you think she just randomly got the idea to put this stuff in a bottle and see what it would do? The fact that this is an extremely popular "prank" right now is a total coincidence and she knew nothing about that?

    OF COURSE there may be children and teens and even adults who have never heard of these bombs, but obviously she HAD heard of them, or else why would she have made one?

    Logic, people. Do you really think whatever website, friend, YouTube video she got the idea from just said it would make some pretty colors or something nice to drink? The whole point in making it is that it would explode. Is there really any high schooler today who doesn't realize that exploding something on campus is a bad idea that will probably get you arrested?

    I can believe that she didn't know it was a felony. I can believe that she didn't intend to hurt anyone. I do not believe she didn't know it was wrong and probably illegal to make a bomb on campus, and I do not believe she didn't know it would explode.

    I think a felony conviction would be ridiculous, but I think expulsion is completely reasonable.

     

    I said it because it was my opinion. Why are people on this forum so combative? It's my opinion, and my reasoning, and it need not make sense to you. If someone dared her, or asked her to do it, it doesn't mean she KNEW what would happen.

    girl expelled, charged with felony, at local school

    in The Chat Board

    Posted

    Please understand what a felony conviction does to someone's life. It's not good.

     

    I would also like to say that I had NO clue, and neither did any of my children, that mixing these items would create a bomb. Color me stupid I guess...but if I didn't know...and my teens didn't know...why should I assume, she knew? I'm a firm believer in using it as a lesson. Have her talk to other kids about the dangers. Suspend her for a few days. Felony charges? No.

    Which Math for a non-Mathy student? ALEKS, Thinkwell, or Saxon?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    All of my kids are using Saxon and love it. They aren't "mathy" at all. My oldest is in Algebra 1 and when I tried to switch her, she pleaded with me to let her use Saxon for the rest of her high school years. They self-educate with Saxon. Reading the lessons, working the problems, checking the answers and then going back to rework any wrong problems until they get 100%. They've been doing this for years and seem to enjoy it.

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