What kind of chart? Would a spreadsheet be an appropriate choice?

Are you in my neighborhood? I live 30 min from there.

Thanks. I'm still looking for titles to include. We've started with Peter & the Starcatchers. We saw the play in NY and loved it and we'll be doing some comparing to help make up for it being a kids book. However, she really likes the book and is reading beyond what I ask of her for the first time in ages. So far so good. I have already removed a couple other books from my last list though after pre-reading, so I'm still looking for ideas. I've added Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. My oldest is autistic spectrum and after pre-reading this, it made the list. Seabiscuit and The Help are in too. As long as I can stay one book ahead of her, I'm good, but if anyone has read any of the books on the list and wants to help me rule them in or out or has favorites to add to my pre-reading list, please feel free to chime in!

I don't use it, but my understanding is that TT2 is much closer to the standard scope and sequence for high school algebra, while the original was missing quite a bit. If I were going to use TT, I would get the current version.

The only thing I'll comment on is the math. If MUS is working for her, stay with it through pre-algebra. Their pre-algebra is not at all a typical program, but rather is a year of filling gaps that their elementary series has left. If she has done MUS for awhile, don't leave it until after that. I'm trying to decide if I should say this or not, but I'll go ahead. Gently: your schedule for her looks like a nice solid 8th grade year. Everything is very, very light for high school. She las LDs and so does my oldest and I get that. I don't know what her goals are. If she is planning to go to college, you might consider discussing calling this 8th grade so she is ready for high school level work when she starts high school. If she is not planning on college or is planning on CC, then this isn't an issue. Your plan is balanced, contains everything is should and if it meets her where she is, it is a good plan.

My curriculum won't do you much good because much of it is no longer available. Child 1 9th - Second half of World History started in 8th. SL Core H + Speilvogel's History Odyssey 10th - American History 1 - NROC + American a Narrative History 11th - American History 2 - NROC + America Past and Present (liked this better than Narrative History) 12th - Government - Notgrass; Pscyhology - SL Child 2 8th - American History 1 - see above 9th - American History 2 - see above 10th - Psychology - SL 11th - Government - CC Neither of my kids have even the vaguest interest in history, so we were purely get it done.

I wouldn't put Geometry in 9th if you are going to have Algebra 2 in 9th. However, there is no science there, so I would definitely list the Biology. You may end up wanting to do his transcript by subject instead of by year so that 9th grade is less noticeably light.

Instead of copying them, asking them to take notes on 2 part paper where they can just hand her the copy after class would be easier. That is what ds's disability services does for note-takers. She could offer to provide the paper.

I've only spent a few days in Vermont and wouldn't move there for the same reason that the OP won't move to CO, it is just too far from where we are, family, etc. However, dh and I are considering CO or WY. We'd like to move to a colder climate. We like cold and hate heat. We also love mountains. So for all those same reasons, if I lived on the east coast, I would consider Vermont. It is beautiful and I can see it being a wonderful place to retire, whether you were able to snow bird or not.

I get that it works for your friends and I understand the benefits you are seeing. You asked for the perspective of introverts and you got it pretty unanimously - torture! Our entire family is introverted. Dd least so (I used to think she was an extrovert, but that is only compared to the rest of us). Dh and ds are extreme introverts with me in the middle. I always required lots of family time. The kids and I spent a lot of time together during school. In the evenings we played games, we watched movies, we read aloud, we spent time together. However, my kids also regularly retreated to their rooms. If we didn't all have a way of escaping now and then... let's just go with it would be bad. OP if you try to implement a similar rule, I would suggest that you have break times. An hour before dinner, an hour in the evening an hour in the morning... whatever works in your schedule. Have several times during the day when it is acceptable to get away and recharge. Otherwise your introvert will be exhausted and cranky at the end of every day and not able to enjoy the time they spend with you. Giving them recharge time will improve the quality of the time that you require be spent together.

There probably are not state laws regarding dual enrollment. Here in MO, it is school by school. The local State U, the CC and several private colleges all accessible through DE locally each have a different policy for age, testing, etc.

I had a box that listed high school level course taken prior to 9th grade. It was just a list. I didn't create course descriptions, include grades, or include them in GPA calculations. They were just listed in case someone wanted to see them. I would list Calc and Chem on the transcript in that same way. I only listed the ACT composite, so I agree with that choice. I did have all my course descriptions and they submitted with the transcript, but the one page transcript was right on top, so whatever the school wanted, it was there and easy to find.

Ds who received accommodations for testing through ACT and College Board and has accommodations in place through disability services at his University, has NEVER had medical testing. Do not let other's experiences intimidate you. He has had testing through the public schools and we did have a Psychologist prepared to write a letter of support, but that wasn't even needed for the college. High school, grades, etc are not part of the picture. Only if there is a disability present and what is needed to accommodate. The college may be able to refer to those they work with often in the area or know about any local university resources. We were told the CC in our area is super easy to get accommodations through. A referral letter from the Psychologist has apparently worked before and he would have given that after just a couple of hours of reasonably priced testing.

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I always printed my own. I don't have the link I used anymore, but it was one that I could set the color of the lines and the spacing. I made different grids for each kid and printed it whenever I needed it.

Me too. Letting go of the one who left for college last week. Also helping dd improve her ACT score so she can graduate a year early and head off to college next fall. sigh

This. Go meet with disability services. They can tell you what if any documentation that she will need to be able to make the request through them. We have found disability services to be super friendly and helpful. I promise they won't bite. Every college will have a different set of requirements to get services, so no one here can tell you what she will need. She just needs to make an appointment and go. It might be more than you are willing to do to get the documentation, but it might also be very easy. Try.

We don't teach grammar in high school.

If you have the TM for Miller Levine, it has 3 paths, a remedial, on level, and honors. Honors uses the whole book. On level left a few chapters out I think and remedial leaves out even more. It seems Pearson has killed my online access so I can't look it up for you though. Since both my kids are finished with Biology, it isn't worth it to me to try to go through their tech support to get it back. :svengo:

You don't have to do this, but we do. We do almost all our classes in semester blocks in high school. That means we do roughly 2 hours/day for 1 semester for 1 full credit - just like a CC course. It does make it easier to balance CC courses to keep the workload more even throughout the year. I think it actually a bit outside the box to do that. I don't think most people do, but it works for us. I can't tell you what to do. Either way works, but what you are saying does make sense. :)

Me too. I bike (around 30 miles) twice a week. I walk and workout regularly. I love hiking, gardening, playing with my dog and am quite active. I am also significantly overweight, My blood pressure is typically 100/60. My resting heart rate is in the high 40s. I'm healthy and fat.

I wouldn't jump into MUS at Algebra 2. Take a look at TT. Lial's is nice approach too. See the pinned math thread.

I think it depends on what you have covered before. With my oldest, we dropped the Ecology unit. There was nothing in it that we hadn't done in 7th grade life science. Dropping the human anatomy section works, but I can't think of anything else that I would think of as optional for a standard scope and sequence. If the rest isn't doable, I'd choose by interest or by what she has already studied.

My oldest was an early riser. He got up at 6:00 every morning until his senior year. That year we changed it to 7:00. The first two years of high school dd got up at 7:00-7:30. This year we've made it 8:00. She has been a competitive gymnast since she was 5. Now she also has a job at a local pharmacy. We could never do late afternoon school, there were other things to do and places to be. Getting up late just didn't work with that. I've always tried to fit their schedules to them though. I don't think what time other people's kids get up matters at all. What matters is what schedule works best for your family.

I agree with Kiana. Treat it as two subjects, no coordination needed. Geometry is VERY short. 45 min. a day will easily finish it in a year. A second trip through a light algebra program should be quick too. I would do them at different times each day, not one after the other so that they don't mix in her mind. Geometry does have some Algebra review. You could give it a month's head start - or not.