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    Don't want to be bogged down again so ??? on our 10th grade

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    My daughter's schedule this year was a tad hectic if some of you remember and I am trying to curb that a bit.

    However we are struggling with where to keep things lighter. We read and discuss a lot. We do take field trips when we can but this will be my first year at full time work again so it will be a bit more difficult. We completed art and music this year so except for reading about it and for fun, or to go along with an assignment we are not worrying about that. Am I missing anything or adding in too much again? This is also fairly loosely planned as sometimes we jump off the deep end into a subject for a specific time period.

    Right now we have:

     

    Geometry 1 credit
    Spectrum Chemistry 1 credit

    Lukeion Latin 2 1 credit

    German with Rolling Acres 1 credit

    Muse on the Loose for ( fall semester) with Lukeion (Greek) with English Credit

    English 1 credit

    Lit with English Credit

    HOTAW Ancients 1 credit

    A & P 1/2 credit ( fall semester)

    Botany 1/2 credit (spring semester)

    Car care 1/2 credit (spring semester)

     

    Karate

    Exercising

    Dog 4H

    Dog Training/Stewarding/Dog Club

     

     

    Science change for next year : Chemistry ?'s

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    My daughter has now made a slight change and would like to do chemistry instead of physics next year now.

    So, we are evaluating some different courses.

    What I am looking for is an open and close book. For labs we decided to follow the Illustrated chem labs.

    So looking for opinions on families who have used

    Chang's : does this have a teachers guide that is easy to find and get my hands on?

    Spectrum : It appears to be thorough with a usable teacher guide but is it?

    I thought Conceptual but it seems almost too easy???

     

    Any thoughts of assistance for me. I have read through all of the chemistry link and often but now need some extra detail if possible.

    My daughter has potential plans to go into a STEM field.

    Thanks!

    Let's see your 10th grade list for next year

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    I've never heard of these before.  Have you used them in the past?  What do you think of them?

    :)

    Hot Lava Mama

    My daughter LOVES/ADORES whatever other glowing adjective you would like to put in there Lukeion Latin. However this will be her first other course through Lukeion.

    Well, she is signed up for some short summer courses through Lukeion as well but she is very excited so I am pleased.

    Let's see your 10th grade list for next year

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    As of right now(still subject to change or add to) our 10th grade fall semester will be

    Apologia Physics

    Lively Art of Writing

    Lukeion Muse on the Loose Greek

    Geometry

    Lukeion Latin 2A

    Intro to Oil painting/Acrylics and colored pencils

    The Art of Argument

    Possibly another archeology course

    History ancients

    possibly Spanish or back to german, not sure which

     

    spring semester

    Apologia physics

    Geometry

    LLFTLOTR

    Lukeion Latin 2B

    Music history, by time period (possibly jazz)

    Anatomy and Physiology

    History ancients

    foreign language

     

    for extras dog 4H, dog training/showing, karate, volunteering

    also will take courses online with courser/MIT,etc

    Possibly overdoing English in 9th: would like advice

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    I believe I confused a few so here is an example of my daughters time on a daily basis. I "feel" she is doing too much. Since we cannot cut out any of the classes in their entirety I was looking to drop what I feel is an extra component. She is not in the car enough to listen to audios and cannot at home anymore. She has no trouble reading and retaining the information but is spending AND needing 9 hours to complete everything and then sometimes it is still not enough. She works 6 days a week and sometimes on Sat. as well to make up something. She is a hard worker with a strong understanding of her work. She is not having difficulty but I want her to enjoy her life as a teenager and not just work all of the time. I believe Renaissance Mom got it and is

    telling me the info I was hoping for :) Her reading the class texts is not counted as part of her lit at all but her 2 separate lit courses and reading separate works for history and her electives is:

     

    English

    -R & S

    -LLFTLOTR

    -Lit list

    now from these she will do white ups, papers, essays, poetry or speeches. Sometimes powerpoints, brochures,etc

     

    Math

    -Jacobs Algebra

     

    Science

    -Miller/Levine Bio + labs

    and write ups from labs, vocab lists and creative writing with the vocab lists. sometimes pp, brochures,etc

     

    History

    -American History

    write ups, reports, speeches, etc.

    -Lit reading from the time period. Poetry, Great works,etc

     

    Gov.

    -American Gov.

    mainly essays and speeches. reading of documents

     

    Latin

    -Lukeion

    -reading about roman history outside of class for studying for NLE

     

    Art

    -Fine Arts

     

    Music

    -History of

     

    Archeology Class

    -elective online and personal reading from the textbook. outside camp over the summer

     

    Equine studies/Animal Husbandry/Nutrition and Physiology Course

    -elective online and reading college level texts, testing, papers, brochures, pp ,etc from me

     

    Excavating English and reading about history of languages

     

    Karate(speeches)

    Dog training(reports & speeches)

    4-H (reports, book work and speeches)

    Possibly overdoing English in 9th: would like advice

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    As of right now I believe we are overdoing our English.

     

    My daughter is 14 years old. Doing ~ 9th grade work

     

    In her English we are working on Rod and Staff, Literary Lessons for the Lord of the Rings and the extras with it,

    a separate Lit reading list with written/oral reports and discussions to go along with books and to

    cover the speech section of our English grade.

     

    Our main issues stem from "I believe" the fact that we all enjoy reading. So she is doing reading in

    History, English, her Electives(which right now is 3) and Latin.

     

    It just seems like I am despise saying this....too much reading :(

     

    Is there an avenue where I can lighten the load of reading mainly in the writing of the transcripts?

     

    Will covering reading in history be enough for lit to go along with the LLFTLOTR?

     

    Thanks all, looking for any ideas here! Am I missing something here or overdoing it?

    Planning alternative high school experience...equine/animal science oriented

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    Just as a side note here. Veterinary Technology is much different than Veterinary Assistant. In Canada or the US you must be licensed/registered or certified in almost all places to work as a Veterinary Technician, legally performing the tasks allowed to us by law. Veterinary Assistants legally are allowed to do much, much less.

    There is high math and science requirements in the field of veterinary technology.

    Most Vet Technology degrees are a minimum of 2 years sometimes 3 if a student cannot keep up, then state boards or Canadian boards. You can also get a Bachelors @ some schools but most Vet Techs will go on for higher learning as specialists. Normally if you pass your specialty boards it does not increase pay but makes us happy as many who stay in this field really do it for the love of the work.

    We are also paid very poorly in the field with a low rate of benefits. Most benefits will range in the area of scrub allowances, ce coverage(if we are lucky) and a small animal discount. Long hours with an unflexible schedule. A high rate of burn out.

    I am a LVT/CVT who also teaches Veterinary Technology @ a college and still works in practice and homeschools.

    Any parents (or students) taking MOOCs presently?

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    Sorry, have not updated my child info. my daughter is 14 years old now. She is only having to put in ~ 1.5 hours - 2 hours per week right now for it. The video lectures take ~ 1 hour and reading through some of the text is extra helpful but has not really been needed yet. The instructor has a great Scottish accent so some of her pronunciations were a bit tricky but my daughter figured it out without me. Really, I think it is a very good quality course!

    However, I will be adding into the course when it is done to create a full elective course. I think it is well done and a great intro class. and I teach Equine nutrition. I actually recommended the course to my students who want more info on Equine nutrition. My class is many different species of animals. So some of my college students are using this course now and enjoying it as well!

    have you ever hosted a Flat Stanley?

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    We took the one we hosted to a obedience dog show, to the vet clinic where I work and had the doctor give the Flat Dog an exam(got that picture). and dog training class.

    We hosted a flat food meal.

    Hiking in the woods, mushroom hunting and to karate.

    Those were just some of the things that we did.

    9th grade reading list

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    Here is one of my daughters reading lists for this year:

    She has 2 others which I have hand written and did not feel like typing yet :p

     

    1) Autobiography of Ben Franklin

    2) Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman

    3) Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

    4) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    5) Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

    6) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

    7) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    8) Animal Farm by George Orwell

    9) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

    10) Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

    11) A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

    12) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    13) The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

    14) Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, etc by Edgar Allen Poe

    15) 1776 by David McCullough

    16) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

    17) The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

    18) The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

    19) The Simarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

    20) The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien

    21) The Authorized Biography Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter

    22) Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien

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