Our state has an outdoor education PE credit which includes the state's boater safety course, a hunter safety course, a series of ethics discussions, an environmental impact awareness unit (of outdoor sports in general), and a certain amount of hours doing outdoor activities - anything from hikes to bird watching, archery to ziplining to rockwalling, swimming to kayaking, paddleboarding to surfing! Mine doesn't like sports, but loved all the outdoor adventures we took!

Not sure what grade we are doing, probably 10th. :confused1: Math: Algebra 2 (TT) English: Online English 2 Science: AP Bio (Campbell) & AP Chem (Brown/LaMay) History: AP World (Strayer) Elective: Online AP Comp Science A She wants to do AP Psych, but we will probably hold off on that until next year. Foreign Languages, PE, and fine arts are all done.

The Boy in the Stripped PJs (Holocaust) had a shocking twist.

Good to know. I almost got that one because it has a decent website resource that's free.

That's great! Love to have mixed media in our learning. Thanks!!

Other than AP Guides and College Board resources, what would you recommend as supplements?

My daughter decided she wants to try her first AP course this Fall and wants to take AP Human Geography. This is not one of my specialities. Can anyone recommend a text for a successful course? Below are the recommended College Board ones. Pros/Cons? Domosh, Neumann, Price, and Jordan-Bychkov. The Human Mosaic: The Cultural Approach to Human Geography, 12th Edition. Fellman, Bjelland, Montello, Getis, and Getis. Human Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities, 12th Edition Fouberg, Murphy, and deBlij. Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture, 10th Edition Knox & Marston. Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, 6th Edition Malinowski & Kaplan. Human Geography, 1st Edition Norton. Human Geography, 6th Edition Rubenstein. The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, 11th Edition Thanks, Caroline

Berkin's Making America is a really well laid out text (highlighted vocabulary, key terms, places, excellent maps, etc) and easy to read, comprehend, and review. We used it at the university I taught at for years. When I first started teaching with it, I felt it was too easy of a read for academically advanced students, but soon found that getting the students to actually read and absorb the text was a huge step that the book really did accomplish! :D If it is your students' favorite subject you might look for something stronger, otherwise that or Out of Many would be good choices. With a good primary source collection, the spine is more framework and much less important! It's learning to analyze the themes deeply and write that is key to that test.

According to DD1's credits she will be considered 10th next year: Summer: Web Design (FLVS) Guitar (FLVS) finish Geometry (TT) Math: SAT/ACT prep focus - depends on how well the sample tests go after TT, then eventually move on to Algebra 2 Sciences: Honors Anatomy & Physiology w/ Lab (Fall) Honors Chemistry (Spring/Summer) AP Human Geo History: Ancients (adapted version of History Odyssey 3, Great Courses: Origins of Civilization, Ancient Rome, Odyssey, Illiad, & Anneid, and random Videos) Foreign Languages: Latin 3 (FLVS) & Spanish 3 (FLVS) Fine Arts: Intro to Clay & Pointe Ballet Logic: A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking, Morrow/Weston English: Edgar Roberts Introduction to Literature AP (due to heavy reading for HO, we plan to start, but do this slowly, spending 2 years on this book along with significant essay writing through IEW-based lessons and then eventually take the CLEP/AP)

Has anyone used the Old Testament/New Testament ones for a Humantities slant? We were looking to use it in two years (when we move on to Medieval) to provide a solid background/review for literary and artistic references, not for religious reasons (which the reviews obviously bash it for). I worked up my syllabus for Ancient History next year to include: History of Ancient Rome Origins of Great Civilizations Odyssey Illiad Anneid Really looking forward to it! We are actually focusing on Rome first because our last history program did such a poor job of it and she's starting Latin III in the Fall. We may consider adding in the Roman Emperors one if we love the first two on this list (any feedback on that one?). Also she is prepping for the National Roman Civilization Exam in March.

We just completed our first year of high school homeschooling. Starting to look at AP courses for the future. How have your children successfully prepared for these tests. We mix some home taught courses with others from our public online school. Looking at options for AP courses. 1) Wondering how we go about it on our own if we choose to do so? 2) We have English, Math, and Histories covered, and we found Lukeion was highly recommended for AP Latin. Any other great online sources for other subjects? Thanks!