Got all of my books and thought I would post the answer to my question and the ISBN numbers of the books I got. 2009 High school edition student text with the roller coaster on the cover - no answers - 9780133647495 2009 High school edition teacher's edition - same as the student book but with answers in an additional sidebar as well as other helpful hints and tips - 9780133647501 2009 High school edition Concept Development Practice book - no answers - 9780133647303 2009 High school edition Concept Development Practice book teacher's edition - identical to the student version but with all the answers printed in red - 9780133647518 2009 High school edition Chapter and Unit Tests - answers in the back - 9780133647563 Hope this is helpful to someone!

My daughter wants to do World Geography next year in 9th, and I really like the Build Your Library 7 book list and approach, but obviously I will need to beef this up for high school. Has anyone done this before? Anyone have suggestions of what I could add/ change to be able to give 1 credit in geography? (I'm not looking to use the LA portion of the schedule, just some of the readers for extra reading.) I've seen the Oak Meadow geography course, and I know it would do what I'm asking, but I really don't want to pay for a second curriculum if I don't have to. Thanks in advance for your help!!

I'm in the process of planning the labs to go along with Conceptual Physics and was wondering how many labs/how many hours of labs makes a course into a lab course? I've googled and searched to no avail. Thanks in advance for your help!

So I've gone ahead and gotten a student book, teacher's guide, concept development book with its teacher's edition, and a test bank. I got the 2009 edition, so I'll update once I receive them on what kind of answers they all have. Thank you all for your help!

Ah, I see. For some reason I thought it had come out last year. I figured it was older since all the books it uses are not as recent with their publication dates as I would've thought for a curriculum all about modern topics. Thanks!!

So are all the answers to the text in the teacher's edition, or just select ones, or none? Also, does the Concept Development book even need an answer key? I'm not even sure what kind of problems it has in it. I've seen that there are teacher versions of both the Development and Problem-Solving books, so I'm guessing full answers would be in there. Thanks for your help!!!

I promise I searched for this but came up dry. I'm trying to buy the books I need for Conceptual Physics, specifically the high school edition, though I would guess they were all similar, and was hoping someone could tell me which books have answers in them. Are there answers in the back of the student book? Do I need to get the Teacher's Guide for answers? Do any of the other supplements come with answers, especially the tests? Thanks for your help!!!

Just wondering if anyone has used either one of these (they are the same) and what you think about them? The topics are all ones that my future 7th grader is interested in, but I don't want it to be too simplistic. Thanks for any input you can give!!! Link for reference: https://www.bookshark.com/level-7/science/science-7-package/

Thank you all for your ideas and help. I think I'm getting a grasp on what I want this to look like. Between your ideas above and putting my Google-fu to work, I think I have a pretty good list of fun activities/assignments to give. My plan at this point is to have one bigger project/activity per unit, with shorter assignments (worksheets, mapping, summaries, etc.) along the way. Now I just need to organize and plan it all!! I've never created curriculum before, always just bought stuff, so this is new territory for me! Thanks again for all your help!

The two pages a week aren't polished writing assignments. They are meant to be more creative things, like a map of the region she's studying, a drawing of a god, a brief outline of a major historical figure, an illustration of a myth--that kind of thing. Sorry I wasn't more clear about that. I'm trying to steer clear of lots of writing because she really hates it and already has another class for writing.

We definitely have this on our list to do! I'm really excited about it!

Those are all good ideas! Thank you! So how often she should be doing these types of things? Right now we have about 9 units planned, so would some sort of larger project per unit be a good amount? That works out to about one per month. I feel like this should be easy to figure out, but my brain is just not working! Thanks for your help!!!

I'm putting together a Mythology course for my daughter for this next school year when she'll be in 8th. I've got a fair number of resources--books, videos, activities, etc.--but I'm clueless about what kind of output to expect from her. I'm worried I'm either going to do too little or too much, and I'd really like to use this course to get her ready for beginning high school work. So far I'm thinking about requiring her to create 2 pages a week for a binder, one page on a historical topic and one on whatever myth we're working on. I'd like to have some writing assignments, but she will be taking a writing class though Write at Home, so I don't want to overwhelm her as she is a VERY reluctant writer. Maybe some sort of quarterly project? I'd love ideas for other kinds of output that are still grade-level appropriate. Thanks for any help you can give! TL;DR - What quantity and types of output should be expected from my daughter for a history course in 8th grade?

Thank you so much for those! Glad it wasn't just me going crazy trying to find them!

I'm planning my school for the year, and went to get the investigations and worksheets for CPO Science, and the website looks completely different and I can't find them. :( Can someone direct me to the link where I get the supplemental material? Thanks so much!

I guess I'm worried if I don't fill the year with quality writing she won't be in the right place for high school. I would love for a BW class or two to do the trick. Would that really be enough?

My daughter is the oldest and hence the guinea pig with curriculum in our house. Her writing instruction has been all over the place and not terribly successful, to be honest. Writing is also the subject I have the hardest time teaching, so we will be outsourcing writing next year for 8th grade. I'm looking for suggestions for the best classes that review the full span of things she needs to know before heading into high school. I've been eyeballing the classes at the Potters School, probably English 1 or the Narnia class, or the classes at Write at Home. I'm not terribly interesting in the WTMA classes since WWS was one of the failures here. She's a whole to parts learner, not parts to whole like WWS. I think Bravewriter could be a good fit, but there's no way I can pay for a full year of their classes, and only taking one or two would leave me filling in the gaps myself, and she is VERY resistant to me directly teaching her. I'm trying to stay under $500 for the whole year. As an idea of what we've done so you have an idea of her level: 3rd - WWE3, 4th and 5th - IEW, 6th - WWS1, and 7th - Moving Beyond the Page (though she's pretty much done zero writing with this curriculum this year). If she's chosen the topic and likes it, she's pretty good at getting words on a page, but assigned non-fiction is like pulling teeth. She has no sense of structure and flow in her writing. If you ask her, she will definitively state that she HATES writing. TL;DR - Any ideas/suggestions for outsourced writing classes that review everything a kid needs to know before high school would be greatly appreciated!!

Thank you all for your suggestions! I've got a bit of research to do. I remembered that I had a couple Ellen McHenry units that she hasn't done yet, so I may have her do one of those while I figure out the rest. That'll buy me a few weeks.

My daughter has been doing Moving Beyond the Page for science and it's pretty thoroughly killing whatever kind of interest she had in science before. It goes far too in depth for her history/LA loving heart. We want to drop it and replace it with something that allows us to basically just check the box as done. So what 7th grade level science do you know of that is more reading than experiment based and fully planned out without too much parent effort needed? Something self grading (online?) would be nice too, but beggars can't been choosers. I guess I would love it if the content was engaging enough to not just feel like busy work, but again, beggars.... Please tell me you have the answer!! Thanks! :)

Thank you for your advice/help! I guess I get frustrated in that I can see where the failings are but I don't know how to fix them. I think pretty much every writing curriculum we've used at this point has been incredibly dry and boring, which could be why she hates writing. I love the look of the Don't Forget to Write books. They look fabulous! I think I need to be willing to let go of what a writing curriculum should look like and do my best to just make it fun and make sure she's getting words on paper. She had to write a parable for one assignment in MBtP and wrote a page and a half single spaced typed without much of a problem. So when she has something to say she can definitely say it. When you say "make sure she understands structure," what do you mean by this? Is this just topic sentence, supporting points, conclusion type stuff? What would you use to make sure the basic skills are in place or to check if they are? Thanks again for your help!!

All of your suggestions have been great, thank you!!! I hesitate on EIW since I have used it in the past with my son and didn't feel like it covered enough. It felt light and like there wasn't enough repetition for things to stick. But that was the 4th grade level so maybe the higher levels cover more? I do like the look of WriteShop and Jump In, so those are definitely on the short list. The idea of outsourcing is appealing, but schedules and cost (and all the Bravewriter classes are already full anyway) are holding me back. I promised my daughter we'd try one more unit of MBtP before we ditch it since she was really excited about it, but I'm feeling fairly certain that it is not for us. It's nice to know I have things lined up to fall back on. Thank you again, all of you!!!

I have a couple issues with outsourcing. One, it doesn't help me understand how to teach writing better, and I really want to know how to help my kids with this, though this shouldn't keep her from getting the writing instruction she needs. And two, the cost. I'm not against it, just haven't done much research into it. Which Bravewriter course would be the right one for 7th grade? I looked at the website, but there were lots of classes listed and I got lost. :) WriteShop also looks like it might be a good one. Very hand-holding! Thank you!! It would be simple for her to diagram her sentences because they all look like this: "The book was good. The main character was fun." Rambling is definitely not an issue here. :) I actually started doing writing the WTM way with my son this year, doing outlines and summaries, but I struggle to implement it properly. It just doesn't feel like enough? Maybe? We've already changed to something else with him as well. I think it was having to dwell on history and science longer than we normally would. Having a separate writing curriculum changes up the subject more. We have dabbled in Killgallon in the past as well, and it's a good series, I just don't think it's a full curriculum. Definitely supplement. I will look at Writing Strands, though I've seen so many negative reviews on that I've never actually considered it. But at this point I'm open to anything! Thank you all for your help!! Off to research some more!

My oldest has been my homeschool guinea pig from day one, and this has especially been the case when it has come to writing. I write well, but I am a complete failure when it comes to teaching it. I find it impossible to explain why the words my kids use don't work right, which leads to all sorts of frustrations. So now I have a 7th grader who will declare, "I hate writing," about anything and everything that involves the written word. I know she has beautiful words inside of her because they come out here and there, but most of the time she completely freezes up and her writing is horrendous. Here are the programs we have used so far and what we liked/disliked about them: K-2: Public school 3rd: WWE3 - She HATED dictation. This was a huge fight and we barely finished the year. Though now she is pretty good at oral narrations. 4th: IEW SIC-A - This actually went pretty well, though she hates watching the videos (as do I). She would rather read instructions than have to watch them. 5th: IEW SICC-A - This also went well, but I decided it was time to be exposed to a different style of writing after 2 years of IEW. And after the fact I can see that none of the decent writing she did with IEW has transferred over to other writing. The style is just too unlike "real" writing. 6th: WWS1 - We made it through the year, but we were both a bit lost through the whole thing. There were too many trees and not enough forest. I couldn't figure out what the plan behind it was, and I've read WTM and listened to the lectures. (I've since done A LOT of reading about writing and I get what it was all about now, but that doesn't help in the past.) I know she didn't pick up any skills that she will be able to apply later because she didn't understand the point of all the little bits she was learning. 7th: We've started Moving Beyond the Page 11-13, but one unit in and I'm ready to drop it already. The writing assignments, the few there have been, are vague and have no direction. She's just given a topic and set free, and she doesn't know where to go from there, and I don't know how to help her. So now I'm looking for something new. We need something whole to parts that is step by step explicit instruction with lots of hand holding for me. She needs something to build her confidence and give her skills that are easily applied to all writing situations. Does this exist? Please tell me you know just what I need! Thanks!!

I just finished reading Engaging Ideas by John C. Bean, and I love the way he words and structures his writing assignments in order to encourage more critical thinking from students. However, this book is geared towards college professors. I can see that these types of assignments would be excellent for kids in the rhetoric stage, but what I'm wondering is whether these kinds of writing problems can work for kids in the logic stage as well? I'm imagining something like this: We've finished reading a section in SOTW (we're on book 4) and instead of having them narrate back to me, I assign a writing problem like "You work for a newspaper based in New York. Write an article that will explain to the people back home what is happening at the front in the war." Or we just finished talking about forces and motion in science: "Your sister wants to ride on your handlebars down the steep hill on our street. Use what you learned in science this week to explain why this might be a bad idea." (I just generically made these up; I know they're not very specific or fine tuned.) Are these kinds of problems expecting to much from logic stage students, having to work with audience and voice issues at the same time as considering content? The book offers many other types of writing assignments other than just explanation type questions, some I know are probably too much for logic stage, but I think others could work. However, I don't want to mess with the wisdom of the WTM method if adding assignments like these will just complicate matters. If you've read this book, how have you applied what you learned from it? Have you used any of the methods in the logic stage, and how? I would love to discuss any other elements of the book that you have found applicable to homeschooling!!

Thank you all for your input! I'm leaning towards the problem, solution, problem, solution method, but we'll see how it goes once we start. This will be a learning curve for my daughter coming from CLE, so I want to make it as smooth a transition as I can!