Glad it worked out for your son. I was just going to say, that getting adult teeth pulled is very different than children's teeth, but I'm happy there was no need for any pulling at all.

I'd really like to do both. Has anybody else? Do you know if it would be easy to line up the concepts, or would I need to jump around? Or should I just do them as two seperate programs, and not worry about if the concepts line up at the same time? Thanks for any info.

I agree, there is a lot of extra time scheduled into LL, so I don't think you'll have time getting through the book before summer, even only doing a 4 day week. She really spreads out some of the reading time, that you could possibly condense and you may not end up doing everything. We certainly only did some of the workbook pages. It is a fun book to read.

Thanks. Do you mind if I ask, what you are having her do with the text? Are there questions in she is answering, or is she just outlining? Will you have tests or do you feel discussion is enough? I just ordered the DVD so haven't received it yet. Are there notes/questions etc. that come with it? Thanks again!

Has anybody found a specific history curriculum that lines up well with it?

Have you looked at IEW's Linguistic Development through poetry memorization program.

that offer literary discussion/analysis, of some classical or popular books, with or without assignments.

has anybody heard, read, experienced that one is thought of as better by colleges?

Thank you all, I just received the book today and am now off to join the yahoo group:-)

Does anybody have a line-up of any sorts, of books to read with it?

schedules, comprehension questions etc.? I see the book does have some projects for each chapter, but was just wondering if anybody had anything additional to add to it. TIA

I agree with this also. We have been using it for 2 years now, and it is definitely thorough in grammar. It actually can take a fair bit of time to complete a lesson if you have your children do all the written exercises. We do 4 lessons a week of but did add in a seperate writing program that we work on, on the the 5th day.

Was it Home Economics? That's what we called it when we took it in school a long long long time ago.:-) quote=Hazelt"nut";452493]Someone or many someones talked many months ago about including sewing, needlepointe, etc . in their homeschool. Ya'll gave it a name...but I can't remember what you called it so I can google up some info. It wasn't crafts..maybe something about handmade..anybody remember? Sheryl

For a group, "Secular" means not requiring a statement of faith and usually open to anyone of any faith or lack of faith..lol. In curriculum it means it would teach from a non-religious viewpoint. You would have to add your own beliefs in if you so choose.

Honestly I'd perhaps speak to some students that have gone to the university your son is interested in. My oldest who went through public school and was not particularly strong in grammar or English has managed to achieve A's in all of the first two year's English classes in his Computer Science discipline at a high ranked state university. I'm using Rod and Staff 7 this year with my 9th grade dd and I know that it is going much deeper than anything my ds learned in public highschool. If you are both struggling I would definitely take a break and then maybe talk to a few who know what's required in your area. My dh is an engineer and couldn't diagram a sentence to save his life....lol