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  1. because I was thinking of using their chemistry. They were very kind and recommended a place where I could buy labs. One was the same used with Apologia chemistry--microchem kit. The other was from http://www.labpaq.com. I didn't end up doing chemistry that way though--found a class for my dd.
  2. Tough decision to make. Here's our story: We decided to bring our dd home just before high school and dd was not happy about it. A few months into the first year of high school, she talked to some of her friends who had gone to local ps. After hearing their stories about school, she came to me and said "thank you! thank you! for not having me go to ps" She is now almost done with her junior year and is happy and engaged with life. I don't think she would have been that way if we had sent her to ps for high school. That said--there was a period of adjustment where we had to deal with her depression, etc...
  3. If you're doing the teaching company dvds --that can serve as a good spine for the course so I'm not sure you will need history oddessy--especially if you read some high interest primary sources or adaptations of primary sources. Here's a list to consider: Early Christian Lives (Book of early medieval saints' lives) The Dream of the Rood Beowulf song of Roland Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Pearl Selected Canterbury Tales (some of them are a little riske--so read them before you have your kids read them). Sir Thomas Marlow's Morte d'Arthur Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene Most of these are high interest and hae enough battles for ds and enough romance for dd (if your kids are anything like mine).
  4. I'm also considering thinkwell and would love to hear what people have used with it.
  5. It is a complex system whose syntax structure will build on what she already knows from Latin. In addition, because it is different from romance languages she is already familiar with, this will expand her knowledge of the variety of languages in the world.
  6. The reading level of most college history textbooks is not college level -- and there are some good ones out there that also bring in East Asian history. Voyages in World history for example
  7. and i also have the student solutions manual. here is a similar problem from the 9th edition with the explanation from the student solutions manual. | 2q-1 | < -6 "There is no number whose absolute value is less than a negative number, so this inequality has no solution. Solution set null"
  8. 80K in loans!!! wow. I really would like her to come out with as little loan as possible. But if the connections are worth it... we'll have to see.
  9. I'm glad to hear the positive reviews and that the instructor is clear and engaging. We had a rather neg experience with trig/precalc this year in the program dd is in--clarity has been an issue.
  10. So we're considering thinkwell calculus for my dd for next year. Has anyone used it? what do you think?
  11. A History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer--good solid and built around stories -- good detail but interesting --the best for someone teaching themselves. Traditions and Encounters volume 1 Voyage through world history volume 1 (This is the text I'm using with my world civ 1 college students next semester) Ways of the World volume 1 (Used this with college students this semester) Go on amazon, search ancient history textbook and see which books will let you look at tables of contents.
  12. I have dealt with remedial students in tutoring and i would say that for everything the best way to go is "bite size" and high interest. I'm not familiar with the math texts, but for grammar I'd start with something that will show him what he already knows and has picked up--for example depending on what his reading level is something like "Phunny Stuff" where he corrects someone else's grammar -- just going by ear might be a good thing. You could read the selection with him as it is written and ask him what seems to be missing and go from there. "Eats Shoots and Leaves" is another text that has a lot of humor in it. This might sound a little strange, but I think that reading joke books (clean ones) and getting him to see how a lot of humor depends on mistakes in grammar would help him get that aspect of communication. I would hesitate at starting out with a grammar book that lays out the rules--let him get a sense of grammar in other ways and then bring out the grammar book and point out how what he's been learning in other ways has rules. (By the way, Grandpa should be reading the grammar book all along so that he can make sure that the grandson is picking up on the grammar clues in the humorous material). My experience with remedial students is that humor goes a long way to helping them learn and catch up. As for history and science, yes start him reading about it!!! but again, bite sized. The web has lots of reputable websites that have short passages about science and history that are high interest and are written at about a 3rd to 5th grade reading level. The more and more interesting subjects that you get him to read about the more his curiosity will be peaked and he'll want ot learn. But bite-sized and short until he gains more skill and confidence. Hope this helps and my thoughts are with you ... its a doable road, but not an easy one.
  13. I was wondering if little or no mail signifies a lack of interest or support or what?
  14. What you are saying about the financial aid confirms what we've been thinking -- that as an out of state applicant, we probably could not afford the school no matter how much my dd wants to go there.
  15. I am curious what kind of communication that applicants usually get from other colleges. When I applied to colleges (a ga-zillion years ago) the only communication I got was either acceptance or rejection letters. Is it different now? Did she try to communicate with them?
  16. I know from talking with college students at other schools taht this kind of culture is not uncommon--its something I've been talking with my dd about. I do appreciate the heads up specific to Duke.
  17. Davidson does have an Admissions Counselor who deals with homeschoolers. Was that the case six years ago?
  18. I homeschool through a psp and we're using cc classes and also a educational service through a local university.
  19. Hi, My dd is interested in some schools in NC, VA, and RI and I wondered if anyone has had a child attend one of these and what the experience was. What was the admissions process like? How was the financial aid? and what was the experience while attending? College of William and Mary Wake Forest University Davidson College Duke University Rhode Island School of Design / Brown University(okay not southern) ruth
  20. Thank you! I appreciate the response. I am a little concerned about these schools (2 of which my dd is very interested in) because there seemed to be a lot of ignorance and or hostility toward homeschooling. Have you are anyone else encountered that and if so, (and your dc wanted to go to that school) how have you handled it?
  21. We went to a college information meeting for some of the colleges my dd is interested in and asked the question "Are there any extra forms that homeschooled applicants would need to fill out?" The response from the admission representatives was a mix of more SAT subject tests and explain to us in detail what your education was like so that we can compare it to a more traditional education. When a college rep says explain homeschooling, what kinds of things (for you experienced at college aps) are they expecting to be in there?
  22. So... my dd has switched letters and numbers occasionally, written her name backwards perfectly etc. when stressed. She has always been able to compensate for those issues though. So I just let her compensate, thinking there might be a little dyslexia there, but its not something to do anything about. Recently, these issues have increased --she's taking trig/pre-calc and chem and she can explain the concepts to me, but get's frustrated with the work and regularly switches numbers, makes basic math mistakes due to number switching or thinking she wrote down one thing when she wrote down another etc. (I've watched her do her math and I've seen her put a number down switched but tell me, even after looking at it that the number is correct.) Her level of frustration is high at the moment and I am wondering if I may have done her a disservice by not getting her evaluated for dyslexia. I'm not quite sure what to do. Could this be a form of dyslexia? How can I help her?
  23. My dd needs to see the big overarching concepts and understand the whys and wherefores of them (the whole) and then apply them. To do things the other way produces frustration etc. Unfortunately, most math textbooks do not teach that way --rather pieces of concepts are taught and the student is then expected to build them into a whole. She is college-bound and she will need the math and physics for what she is interested in. Does anyone know of a curriculum that could help us get through Calculus and Physics?
  24. So I'm thinking about this a year out --my dd will be a junior next year. I wanted to know if any of you who have graduated a child did a junior/senior year project with them. I like the idea as presented in WTM and as I've seen at a public school in my area, but i'd like to hear from people who have actually done it. How did you set things up? what did you require? How did you evaluate the project? Did it take the whole year? What was valuable about the experience? What would you have changed?
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