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    Would you let you high schooler do this? At what age?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    Not a problem here, either. At 16 I had a job 30 minutes from home that ended at 11. My dad didn't want me on the road after 2 a.m. since that's when the bars closed and unsafe drivers more likely on the road.

     

    My curfew on weeknights was after work got out (musical theater, in case you're curious what job for a teenager would be so late) and 2 a.m. on weekends. My responsibility and trustworthiness matched the privilege, though.

    Help Organizing Sonlight 300 (please? Pretty please?)

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    I haven't read the SL forums. I went over there, but since I'm on a Jan-December timetable, they all seemed to be at a place I wasn't, so I stopped reading.

    We got the correct binder tabs, J likes the core book and is learning plenty. I do agree about the lit analysis, so occasionally I dig out a bit more information, but I don't find it a big deal. After rescheduling the books, which took me about an hour, I'm finding it very open and go for us. I don't know, perhaps my standards are just lower.

     

    So, Sandra, how did you reschedule the books?

    Help Organizing Sonlight 300 (please? Pretty please?)

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    We will use Core 300, but am supplementing for grade 10.

     

    And this is what is so frustrating! I was lured by the subject matter covered in SL 300, the scope of reading, and the (assumed) organization. I was seeing it as something a high schooler could do primarily as a self-learner, something we expect by the sophomore year. My current sophomore in particular needs more hand-holding than others, so all this prep on my part rather defeats the purpose.

     

    Bummer. Guess I know what I'll be doing all summer.

    Help Organizing Sonlight 300 (please? Pretty please?)

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    We are on week 27 of Core 300---and I have not found an 'easy' way to organize this yet! We are also using the older spine for history "20th Century Day by Day" because dd found the Visual History book ridiculous at best. The Lit Q&A, IMO, contain little to no Literary Analysis which I am sorely disappointed about because this core has been revised and updated! I LOVE the SL reading lists---but the high school Cores are severely lacking, especially when compared to other programs like TOG, MFW etc. There are discussions going on right now over at SL about this complete lack of proper direction and organization of the IGs to make this program not only REAL high school level, but open and go for student and teacher. SL is listening, but it doesn't seem like they have any real plans going on to improve this 'problem' that SL'ers have been bitterly complaining about for close to 5 or more years now. The LA assignments are fine if you have a student who is already an accomplished writer who needs no further guidance or instruction. For the Literature Study Guide there are Introductory Comments that summarize a story, give some insights about author/time period, or just say read and enjoy. Some mapping that you have to figure out, some questions like "Where does the story take place?", "What is the conflict?", LOTS of simple recall and not much true analysis---and the answers are right there at the bottom of the page. In fact, the author of this guide states at SL that deep analysis of books is for college and if you want do study a few books in depth, basically put your kids in a CC class! No kidding.

     

    Sorry to sound negative on SL, especially considering I have every Core now and love the books. But I am sorely disappointed with the complete lack of depth for the high school Cores so far. I can't believe how SL is totally missing the boat on sucking so much good info from all the books----or even just a few! :glare:

     

    This it totally, completely, and utterly discouraging. I was looking to SL to be a plan I could present to my 10th grader and just oversee it. There are 7 other children in this house who need my oversight ;)

     

    So... would anyone be willing to share any work/planning you've already done to enhance SL 300 so I don't have to reinvent the wheel? Please?

     

    ~Kendra

    Help Organizing Sonlight 300 (please? Pretty please?)

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    This will be our first year using a Sonlight Core. I'm looking forward to it, but I've gotta admit that I don't think there's an easy way to organize the binder so that my son can use it with as little daily direction from me as possible.

     

    I love the weekly schedules and plan to follow them, but if my son has to flip back and forth between sections instead of having everything right there behind each week's tabs, he might be tempted to throw the binder at me ;)

     

    Complicated by the fact that the nifty "how to organize your IG binder" video on the Sonlight site shows the sections color-coded ("the yellow pages are science", etc.) but Sonlight 300 pages are all white...

     

    Further complicated by the fact that I'm assuming they sent me the wrong binder tabs since mine say "read-aloud study guide" and I'm not thinking Sonlight 300 has read-alouds...

     

    So, this is a plea for help from anyone who has hit upon a logical way to organize their IG.

     

    Thanks!

     

    ~Kendra

    VP Omnibus III users... a little help, please :)

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    My son is supposed to debate the question "Was Sherley a just man?" this coming week for an impromptu debate, but I switched the order of his reading and he hasn't read Of Plymouth Plantation yet. We're scrambling; he's read the intro from the textbook and I'm reading through to make sure I can help him. Additionally, our oldest son did the same debate two years ago, but his memory about the whole thing isn't so great.

     

    Can anyone give me some insight? Did your child write a summa essay answering this question? Could he or she point us in the right direction, at least in terms of where to read so my son can get a firm grasp on the issues?

     

    Thanks!

     

    ~Kendra

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