Great list! Thanks!

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I'll be thinking about which (of many) stories I could share. Meanwhile, I'll just say that Mr. Jones's blog post strikes me as more of the "homeschoolers aren't properly socialized" garbage we've all heard ad nauseum.

:iagree: And for the record, since someone labeled Macon as "southern GA", it isn't. People around here are offended when their area is referred to as "south GA". I live about 45 minutes east of Macon, and it's central GA, just 90 minutes south of Atlanta, but a good 3 hours from the GA/FL line. As for not being "important", as someone also said, Macon is the largest city in central GA. It's not a big city, but it is definitely not rural. Anyway, there has been quite an uproar over the superintendant's plan to teach Mandarin in the Bibb County schools. He calls it the Macon Miracle. The plan, as well as the man himself, have been very controversial. http://www.wearepolitics.com/1/post/2012/2/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit4.html

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a chronological list of 19th century literary works, American & European. Does anyone have a list or a link to an online list? TIA!

:iagree: The local private school gives the PSAT in 9th & 11th, and they give the PLAN in 10th. I don't know what the PS does.

:iagree: except that I do grade labs. I require lab reports, and I grade those. I count tests as 65% and labs for 35% of the final grade.

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EK loved the Dear America series for girls, and she also read some of the My Name is America series for boys. Each book is a fictional journal of a boy or young man who lived during a particular time period. I would suggest reading one of these from each time period as well as a classic piece like Johnny Tremain, for example, which I know your ds has already read. Here are the My Name is America titles (for boys) available--the ones I know of, anyway: The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce: A Pilgrim boy, Plymouth, 1620 by Ann Rinaldi The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot, Boston, Massachusetts, 1774 by Barry Denenberg The Journal of Augustus Pelletier: Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804 by Kathryn Lasky The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 by Joseph Bruchac The Journal of Jedediah Barstow: An Emigrant on the Oregon Trail, Overland, 1845 by Ellen Levine The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846 by Rodman Philbrick The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: A Chinese Miner, California, 1852 by Laurence Yep The Journal of Rufus Rowe: A Witness to the Battle of Fredricksburg, Bowling Green, Virginia, 1862 by Sid Hite The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863 by Jim Murphy The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, Nebraska and Points West, 1867 by William Durbin The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy, The Chisholm Trail, 1871 by Walter Dean Myers The Journal of Brian Doyle: A Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874 by Jim Murphy The Journal of Finn Reardon: A Newsie, New York City, 1899 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant, Hibbing, Minnesota, 1905 by William Durbin The Journal of C.J. Jackson: A Dust Bowl Migrant, Oklahoma to California, 1935 by William Durbin The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 by Barry Denenberg The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 by Walter Dean Myers The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948 by Walter Dean Myers The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty: United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968 by Ellen Emerson White

It makes me cry too! I have to change the channel when that one comes on. Here's a Kit Kat commercial that's similar to the one I've been seeing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9CNZHVzDSE

Thank you, Angela!

I'm talking about the Young Explorers book, not the high school course. Are there any online printables?

I am particularly interested in decaf hazelnut, medium roast. The Green Mountain brand has decaf hazelnut, but I've only seen it in light roast. Thanks!

Praying!

I have no idea what the local PS reads, but in our homeschool, one of EK's assigned books last year for 11th grade was The Scarlet Letter. I think the themes are appropriate for older teens. This year (12th), she will read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle (among many other works) as she's covering American History 1800-Present. We never read these before because when she was younger, we used BJU Reading, and those stories weren't in the readers. I'm giving serious consideration to having her read The Great Gatsby this year too. ER never read that one in our homeschool, but he said that when he got to college, most of his classmates in English had read it in high school, and there were references to it in English class discussions.

I had the same teacher for both 11th & 12th grade English--which was 1976-1978, so they've all run together after all these years--but I know we read Beowulf and Canterbury Tales and a lot of Shakespeare in those two years; we also wrote quite a few essays and a research paper. We read Hamlet, MacBeth, Othello, and King Lear. Apparently, the teacher only liked the tragedies. ;) I did read some of the comedies in college, though. I'd had another teacher for both 9th and 10th grade English, and we read a lot of short stories and poetry (I remember Rip Van Winkle, The Lottery, and The Rocking Horse Winner and lots of Edgar Allen Poe), and we also read The Pearl (Steinbeck), The Good Earth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Huckleberry Finn, The Light in the Forest, Tobacco Road, The Crucible, Brave New World, Twelve Angry Men, and Silas Marner. We also did a lot of creative writing, but not essays. In 8th grade, we read short stories and also a few novels. The only ones I remember are Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Gift of the Magi, and The Ransom of Red Chief. From 7th grade, I the only things I can remember are August Heat, The Most Dangerous Game, and lots of poetry. I remember Robert Frost in particular.

This is where we are too. EK is covered by Medicaid until she turns 19, but the rest of us have no insurance. We opened a Care Credit account just before ER had his wisdom teeth removed in July. The cost was $1900, and I am billed $60 or so per month. I also need dental work done (root canal) and that will be added to our Care Credit balance as well.

...the one with all the people crunching? Arrggghhh! I think it's bad manners to crunch into food without closing your mouth first. This includes chips & crackers, not just KitKats. Surely I'm not the only one who finds this disgusting. Right?

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Your dad was a wonderful man, and it's obvious that you loved him deeply. I lost my dad almost 11 years ago, and while it was incredibly difficult, time has eased the pain. I pray that your pain will diminish over time as your memories give you comfort.