Biola University My kids attend there, specifically Torrey Honors. Great program! Great school! Great environment! Great community!

I am a native Spanish speaker and looking for a Spanish curriculum to use for teaching high school Spanish classes - Conversational, 1, and 2. Any recommendations? Thanks Sylvia

My only additional comment is 451 for junior high 1984 for high school Due to content.

Biola Torrey Academy http://youth.biola.edu/academics/courses/torrey/ Excellent! Meet 2x/week, about 1 1/2 hrs. each Tutors are Biola Torrey Honors Graduates

Yes, I know of one who went to UC Berkeley. Don't have any details. Most that I know who have attended there go through community college first.

My ds uses Aventuras from Vista Learning at the local community college. All homework is done online. He likes it. Sylvia

Around here in the public schools Alg 1 is typically done (and many times expected) at least in 8th grade. If student is ready for Alg 1 in 8th, I would have him take it. Even if he doesn't plan to go into Science/Math field, he can get done with math much sooner in high school, i.e, Algebra 1 - 8th, Geometry (or Alg 2) in 9th, Algebra 2 (or Geometry) in 10th. This is what he needs to have completed to do well in PSAT. Maybe that's all the math he'll do. He will still complete three years of math. It leaves more room 11th and 12th to pursue other areas. But if not ready, as mentioned, don't do it in 8th. Sylvia

We have used Torrey Academy for 5 years now. Plan to continue using. Rigorous, challenging to the students. My kids love it and I have heard many other kids love it. It's not all consuming because they count only for history/English/Theology/Philosophy. Student has time to do other core classes and activities. My kids have so enjoyed it that they get consumed by choice. This has been one of their passions. They have loved it so much that oldest dd went on to Torrey Honors and my Senior plans to do the same. Sylvia

I had my ds either read those books independently or read as he listened to the audio. One of the two audio books (don't remember which one) didn't follow the book exactly. It skipped some parts, but he just read those parts and then continued listening where it picked up. But that method was a life saver last year as he approached those big books. Sylvia

You can try the audio versions of those books. Amount of reading is doable even for those who don't like reading much. For those who do, use the supplemental list. My ds doesn't like reading that much but he did fine. We used audio for some of Iliad and Odyssey. We are using World this year and we still love. My ds really likes the history/bible part. We like that it is all planned out and my ds can work independently. He likes having his plan and checking it off as he goes. It's a great combination of books -- Christian and Great Books list. We like that student and parent read OT in AHL and NT in WHL. So far, we have been very pleased with the balance of the subjects and workload -- not too overwhelming. Happy with MFW :) Sylvia

Yes, we have used Torrey Academy from Biola for years. It's been a success around here. They are classical courses. I guess they would be an alternative to the Great Books courses out there. Sylvia

I thought Biblioplan did this

Art Appreciation: Basic Texts - The Annotated Mona Lisa Music Appreciation Basic Texts - The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers by Julius Johnson Classical Music 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music by Fred Plotkin hth Sylvia

The World History and Literature uses Writer's Inc, if you are familiar with that. So when the writing is assigned, the corresponding pages of Writer's Inc. are assigned. These pages give the instructions for type of writing, i.e., letter, literature response, research paper, etc. You use the rubrics in Writer's Inc. to help you grade the papers. The literature analysis is in the British Literature component for those readings and the Notgrass History has questions for the other books. Not a lot of analysis though. Sylvia

My dd used CP in 9th grade when she was in public school IB. They called it Conceptual Physics on the transcript. Sylvia