Jacob's Human Endeavor does indeed have that deductive and inductive reasoning section at the start

Marking this for future peeks because I probably need asynchronous solutions later.

A valid point, while there are additional benefits, these may be had through alternative subjects (and probably better). Albeit the whole package may not be had any other way. I disagree somewhat, while I believe there are some crossover benefits to other subjects (logic, vocabulary-etymology, Latin derived languages, grammar, etc), that may make the study of those subjects easier/faster, but no matter how much Latin you study there is no way you will learn logic from it, unless a text on logic in latin is included in your latin studies.

George Orwell: Animal Farm and 1984

I disagree on the Minimus, no burnout on that one I think would be possible, unless one attempt to convey the same content as Wheelock's through Minimus. Now plugging away on Lingua Latina and Athenaze (Greek).

Second the Analytical Grammar opinion. I wish I had gotten it earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_Maximus

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In my dreams, maybe. ;)

Following

Euclid's Elements maybe?

Just read and try to figure out the meaning

I only got some theme-based ones. (Ancient History and Medieval History) Seems to be working pretty well even if I am bot a literature person, nor are my kids, except reading quite a bit. I suspect maybe it would be even better if I got the full package, but I also have the Writing With Style course that I am using for the eldest one.

I started using it, but ended up jumping ship and going for Writing With Style and some IEW. Probably because I had a little difficulty seeing exactly how the pieces fit together and felt I had to jump into the unknown.

Well, you could probably incorporate the following book by Ha-Joon Chang (Teaches at Cambridge University, England) He also has a somewhat longer book, that includes his take on many different schools, that may be of interest, but it is not a textbook. http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Users-Guide-Pelican-Introduction/dp/0718197038

Has anyone used these guys?

You may want to read Aristotle on Friendship http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.8.viii.html As for grade level of this text it is a bit of hit and miss, but on my personal references it is somewhere between what my 12 and 14 y.o. would do, but that does not tell anything about grade levels.

I don't think there is. In order to provide a balanced program I suspect you would need to put it together yourself with pieces (books) from each main school of economics. Keynesianism and Chicago are the main ones today, which can be supplemented with Marxian and Austrian. Introductory texts for each should be easy to find I believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economic_thought Alternatively if what you want is just to avoid free market views I would drop Chicago and Austrian and just do an introductory text to Keynesianism maybe supplemented with Marx (Optional)

Currently using it and must say it WORKS. Grammar is finally starting to sink in. (Personally language arts are my weak side, and grammar was mostly absent in my own schooling except 2 years of German, so it does not require previous knowledge on part of teacher ;) )

We use Roget's 4th edition. The gold standard thesaurus as far as I am concerned.

Agree with that and with your other observations.

Only book on outlining I have come across is The Principles of Outlining by Margaret Ball from 1910, most altenatives seem to be workbooks only. Free from https://archive.org/details/principlesofoutl00ballrich

I am aware of that, but you also point out the reason I will try to avoid meds if possible. It is someone else's brain.

May sound silly but the most helpful thing I ever did was to eliminate internet, or more specifically use OpenDNS to block everything except schoolrelated sites until they all finish everything they need to do for the day. Not using meds, as the situation is not completely out of hand and is improving as they get older.

Lots on archive.org from the 1800s. Search for "logic" and pick the one you like best. ;)