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My dd just got her ACT scores and her PLAN estimate of her ACT score was good. She scored at the upper end of the estimate.

It looks like they are free for prime members and $3.99 or $2.99 for regular members.

Thank you for sharing

This is how our school district does it, although I don't think they count outside work hours.

Sorry, nothing to add, this just makes me laugh. My son is determined to invent the Enterprise and Star Fleet Academy

My dd did PAC Biology and Anatomy in one year, which is 8 books. We started late as that was the 3rd biology program my dd tried. The books are very quick reads and the question worksheets afterward are quick as well. We do an outside enrichment program, so my dd does her work from me in 3 days a week. She was able to do 2 lessons a day to be able to finish in a year. If I remember right it took her 1 - 1 1/2 hours to do the 2 lessons. My dd is not very academic or rigorous, she is a get it done as easily as possible kind of child. I would imagine that you could easily do the 2 years of American History in one. If I remember the quizzes and tests are extra days. There were 3 quizzes and 1 test per booklet. Which would average to 6-7 lessons/quizzes/tests per week. My concern would be that the 2nd half, last I checked, hasn't been released yet. Only the 1st half that you have has been released. So a possibility would be to do the program you have for the 1st semester, and then do something else for the 2nd semester to cover the more modern history.

For ALL, I simply grade it as right or wrong. If it is wrong, ds must fix it. He gets a check mark when he has finished with each section to my satisfaction.

Ds is in 7th and doing WWS. We usually only do 3 lessons a week due to coop. I also have ds do a narration paragraph and an outline (1-2 level) for history. For science, he is in a coop and has some writing weekly, usually a report or lab write-up. His other subjects have small amounts or writing, but these are his major assignments. I do have to constantly remind ds of the time limit. He tries to complete an lesson every time he starts one. And sometimes the lessons are long. So I have had to limit him to 30-45 mins for WWS. If he is really close to finishing, he will, but there are days that he sits there for 1 1/2 to 2 hours trying to do an assignment. And we are working on being able to set it aside after the 30-45 mins and finishing it tomorrow.

SWB has said (I believe on the hs writing mp3) that a typed, dbl spaced page is 250 words. But I have found that my dd tends to average 300-400 words per page. I would imagine it depends on word length, and she uses shorter words.

Could you put percents on the transcript instead of letter grades? Then the college could assign the letter grade they want to figure out the gpa.

I will be doing LLfLotR not this coming year, but the following. So next year we are ending with the Hobbit. My oldest will be using this book for her guide Discovering Literature Hobbit Guide My other two will be using this guide Memoria Press Hobbit Guide Don't know how it will work, but that is our plan.

Thank you

I have seen that if you have the older version of Literary Lessons from the Lord of the Rings, you can get by with just the teacher book. But with the newer edition, you need both books. What is the copyright date of the older edition? Thanks

Personally, I feel that if your child is lacking in the skills, or bricks, that WWS teaches, use the book to teach them. In the linked answer above, from SWB, she says that even if a student had just gotten through 4 levels of WWS, they would be prepared for freshman comp in college. You can't expect a child to write essays just because they are high school age and should be doing that now. Nor can you rush them through 2 programs at once, WWS and another for essays, to play catch up. If they aren't ready, they aren't ready. And rushing through programs isn't going to help. However, you have to understand what your child is actually capable of. For example, I would have loved to have my oldest go through the WWS books, but she is in 11th grade, and the amount of time it would take would not be a good pay off for her, and she would only be able to get through 2 levels. But since we definitely missed some of the bricks with her, I am condensing the ideas found in WWS, and working with her on those skills, with the essays that she is writing. She is older and can handle that. I started my 7th grade son on WWS this year, and he will be going through the program for 4 years. His last year with WWS he will be in 10th and I intend to add in Rulebooks for Arguments that year, as suggested by SWB in that long thread. Followed by other rhetoric books in 11th and 12th.