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Ideally, afterwards dd would be prepared for the SAT US History subject test.
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Has anyone put together a US History high school credit with living books? Ideally it would be secular, but I can adapt a curriculum if needed. Or do you have a text book spine you really loved?
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I have just redone my wardrobe with skirts from Darn Good Yarns. They are these gorgeous wrap skirts made from recycled saris. They are fair trade, environmentally friendly, beautiful, reversable, and feel so so soft. I wear them with simple solid color t-shirts and always look nice (I think). I am totally in love. You don't know what you are going to get-they call them mystery skirts. Anyway, a little more hippy than the other suggestions, but I wanted to share my new comfy obsession. LOL
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We are doing the exact same programs and I am also unsure about this. Thanks for asking the question!
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So we could never read all of these books or sources, but here is a list I've compiled from the resources above and my own finds. I'll narrow it down later! 🙂
1. Great Course: Cultural and Human Geography
2. Great Course: Geological Wonders
3. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (Australia)
4. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington (Australia)
5. Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson (England)
6. The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks (Micronesia)
7. Africa: A Biography of a Continent by John Reader
8. India Calling by Anand Giridharadas
9. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
10. From Here to Eternity by Doughty (death rituals around the world)
11. Prisoners of Geography
12. Canada Year By Year
13. Sisu: The Finnish Art of Courage
14. North: How to Live Scandinavian
15. Me Talk Pretty One Day (France)
16. A Year in Provence
17. Persepolis (Iran)
18. Reading Lolita in Tehran (Iran)
19. Cool Japan Guide
20. The Girl with Seven Names (North Korea)
21. The Family Romanov (Russia)
22. Breaking Stalin’s Nose (Russia)
23. Born a Crime (South Africa)
24. War Brothers (Uganda)
25. Illegal (Ghana)
26. Kampung Boy (Malaysia)
27. Being Canadian Documentary
28. Jig Documentary (Ireland)
29. I am Malala (Pakistan)
30. He Named Me Malala Documentary
31. The Breadwinner Movie (Afganistan)
32. The Underground Girls of Kabul (Afganistan)
33. The Birth of Korean Cool
34. The Land I Lost (Vietnam)
36. Seven Years in Tibet
37. Red Scarf Girl (China)
38. Revolution is Not a Dinner Party (China)
39. China in Ten Words
40. The Corpse Walker (China)
41. The Ocean of Churn (Indian Ocean)
42. Land of the Seven Rivers (India)
43. West With the Night (West Africa and the Atlantic Ocean)
44. Travels in Siberia (Russia)
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Thank you LoriD for your question ideas!!
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Doing something not traditional is always so nerve wracking (for me anyway!). I want to do it well! My hope with this idea is that really interesting books would engage dd deeply, although it may cover different topics than a standard geography course. I will go forward with the idea, and will think more about how to get good discussion questions. I'm thinking I should read/reread the books at the same time so we can really discuss then together.
Lori, if you still have them I would love it if you would repost your ideas for discussion questions. Those were super helpful!
Farrar, thank you for those book suggestions!! They look AMAZING!!
Thank you both for taking the time to talk this out with me.
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Thanks for the feedback Lori! I did mean earning 1 credit over 2 years! Thank you for your thoughts on rigor and the big questions! It looks like maybe a textbook is the best path and we throw in a few non-fiction books to spice it up.
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Thank you so much for all the ideas and responses! I'm sorry if I was confusing! In my head it all made sense! LOL My dd is 13 and in 8th grade. I am trying to plan a geography high school credit that she would earn over 9th and 10th grade. We have a small geography club we do already and I would like to expand on that format where we learn about a country for a month (reading aloud a middle school level book with an overview of the country, watch documentary/movie, and cooking a meal) and then give a power point presentation on a specific topic. This month, for example, dd13 did handicrafts of Pakistan for her power point presentation. I would like to beef that up with high school/adult level engaging non-fiction books to make it a high school geography course (one book a month). Over the two years we would cover 16 countries. Does that sound worthy of a credit?
Thank you for all the book recommendations and lists! I will be poring over them! Please add any others you think of!
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A few of the books I have in mind so far... I don't know if enough books exist to do what I am imagining.
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (Australia)
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington (Australia)
Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson (England)
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks (Micronesia)
Africa: A Biography of a Continent by John Reader (not familiar with this one but used in BYL)
India Calling by Anand Giridharadas
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
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Wow!!! 20 years ago!! So thankful for you and all the time you take to share your knowledge and experience with others. You add so much to this community!
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So I am marinating on the idea of doing a full credit geography course with primarily living books. Has anyone done this? We do a small monthly geography club where each month is a different country. The kids do short powerpoint presentations on a topic for the country. As an example, this month my dd13 is doing a short presentation on handicrafts in Pakistan. So I'm thinking of building on this structure and making it a credit over 2 years. Each month she would read a living Book or memoir for the assigned country, watch a movie of available, make a dish or two, and then give a presentation. At some point I might add one of the art based geography programs. What do you think?
Also, any suggestions for living books about specific countries? I organize the club so I can pick the counties based on book options! Lol
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We are using Foerester Alegbra 1 with Math Without Borders videos and are extremely impressed.
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Not a website, but what about Critical Thinking Company's Understanding Algebra 1? My DD is doing Forester's Algebra 1 now, and is using Critical Thinking's Prealgebra book as review to keep things fresh.
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Dd13 is in 8th grade and earning two credits this year (algebra 1 and Spanish 1). If I plan on awarding credit on completion of the text or program, should I still track hours?
Also, how do you track your students hours? My parents signed me up through Clonlora for high school and I had one sheet for each month where I could write down the time I spent on each subject each day. Does anything like that exist I could purchase? I like hard copies. Or what other methods should I consider? What was easiest for you?
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ByGrace3, that is very interesting! Thank you so much for responding! So maybe I will leave it then. I looked at her homework and it did involve ideas that it would be useless to explain to her in Spanish since she doesn't know any Spanish yet, so it seems clear that it would have to be at least a little more English than Spanish to start.
With HSA you can have as many lessons as you want to pay for. They suggest 2x a week which is what we are doing, but ramping it up is always an option. I took 3 years of college Spanish, but don't feel able to help or supplement at all other than find videos etc. online that reinforce what they are learning in the class.
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Holding you and your daughter in my thoughts Scout.
Melissa, I love the name Clover! Congratulations!
Math Teacher, I hope the storm is less intense than expected and you keep your power.
Today we are starting our 2nd official day of school for the year. In reality, we have been doing half of our work all summer because we were home anyway. Today will be the first full day though, and I hope it goes ok. Dd13 is starting 8th, and, as always, each year is more intense and there is always a stressful transition period of 2-3 weeks at the beginning of the year.
Also:
discuss our will, crochet, make dinner, call doctor, pharmacy,sweep upstairs, plan movie group, play in the river, and movie group.Edit to Add: Will call doctor and pharmacy tomorrow.
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Thank you both! My older daughter's class did focus on more complicated concepts that would have been difficult to explain to her in Spanish since she is an absolute beginner. so maybe that is where the teacher was coming from. I will talk to the teacher at the next class though and ask about bumping up the Spanish component. What a strange thing....
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My dd13 and dd9 started HSA today. They both seemed to like it, but I have a question/need some feedback. They had two different teachers. They both asked on a scale of 1-10 how much Spanish we want them to use when speaking to our child. I is completely English and 10 is completely Spanish. Dd13 is doing Spanish 1 for high school. She went first and her teacher suggested to start at 2 and in 2 months go up to 4. Dd9 went later and her teacher was horrified at the idea of starting at 2 and said we should start at 5. I called customer service and they were friendly but unhelpful. So, which perspective is right? Neither child has any previous Spanish experience.
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4 hours ago, GoodGrief1 said:
Well, things have probably changed a good bit since 2013, but I can tell you that my daughter got into Grinnell that year with a special package that paid for her visit there and provided a significant scholarship. No APs or honors, but she had been an exchange student to Turkey and is from a geographically distant state. Her grades were okay but not stellar. She had a perfect verbal SAT score but math brought the total down to just okay range.
Your daughter and I sound very much alike! LOL I was also an exchange student, no APs or honors, had an almost perfect verbal SAT, and crappy math score. Apparently admissions at my college had a couple of meetings about me because my scores were so inconsistent, and homeschooling was so new then. What organization did your dd do her exchange through?
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9 hours ago, 8FillTheHeart said:
Also, check to see if dual enrollment is limited to CCs. My kids have dual enrolled at state universities bc our local CCs have not been ones I have wanted my kids to attend.
This is a good point. I think he was referring to CCs. We don't have a state school near by so have been planning on dd doing several CC classes for DE. Now we may rethink that... Maybe just do 1 or 2 to give her some classroom experiences, but mostly focus on at home or online classes?
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So I talked to Kenyon's admission office today and got some interesting information. He said they put a lot of weight on course descriptions for homeschoolers. For outside verification they value ACT/SAT scores first, SAT Subject Tests or AP Tests next, and dual enrollment is a very distant third. I have to admit that surprised me a little!
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Thank you 8FilltheHeart!
I guess we would be looking at less selective schools then. In my mind (my child will have an opinion eventually lol) we are considering schools with around a 25-40 % acceptance rate like Oberlin, Grinnell, Kenyon, William and Mary, pr the University of Richmond. A state school's honors college is also a possible goal.
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Congratulations!!! What a sweetie!!!!
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Living Book US History
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EKS, thank you! That is a good point regarding using a spine. I will look into The American Odyssey! I am putting together a living book geography credit, but with that I am less worried about gaps. For US history I want to make sure I hit all the big points. In the younger grades we've spread US history over two years. Doing it in one year for high school seems so condensed!