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I think it depends on what you're doing with the literature. My list is probably much, much longer than everyone else's but for most lit books I just read them, sometimes map them out, and write a short paper on a related topic. If you want to do an in depth kind of study on all of those I'd probably split it over 2 years or list what's really important to you/her and keep the others for if she finishes early or wants to work extra.

There's a good thread on this here.

I think it depends on the subject. For the sciences most people I know take a regular year of them before taking the AP. With language as far as I know it's pretty standard to take AP as the 4th credit, like Latin 1, 2, 3, then AP Latin. Stuff like AP Art History and Psychology I'll just be taking without any prior high school course.

I didn't really see anything in that pdf that I didn't do in 7th grade besides a bit of the botany.

I've read on here and other sites that you shouldn't start 2 languages at once, and that makes total sense to me. But when is the time to start a second language? I'm taking MSA on a block schedule this year, so I'll be done with 1 credit by early January, and I'll be starting the second credit late January. Would the second credit (normally year, but as it's block I can get a credit a semester) of a language be too early to add on another language? The second language would be French and I don't really see any chance of me getting those two confused, but I don't want to overload myself either. I know what I can handle might not be the same as what everyone else can, I'm just wondering about peoples experience with this. I do need to decide soon because I have to choose my Fall and Spring semester courses at the same time.

Since it's college level, I'm guessing she'd need some background in it. With AP classes (which are supposed to be college level) they usually want you to have prior experience in the subject. I've been under the impression the point of dual enrollment is more to earn college credit/take more advanced things.

I used to read about kids going to college at 16 or whatever and get upset that I wasn't on track for that, but then I realized I was going to have more time to do the things I'm interested in/learn everything properly if I didn't rush it. So I get the appeal of graduating early, but I'd have her consider whether she really wants to do that or have more time for the extra sciences and more math, and whatever else. I ended up deciding I'd rather stay on the normal track but learn more advanced things. Of course what was right for me might not be right for her, just throwing it out there.

I don't know if you have a certain reason for having him switch in 9th, but maybe you could consider him doing that in 8th? Then when you deal with the majority of the entering stuff it'll be before you deal with your senior, and he'll have a year to get used to non homeschool that won't show up on transcripts.

I have a long list and some overlap, so I tried to sort them as well as I could. General books - http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com - online textbooks. college level but could be used by high schoolers. http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - more textbooks. I believe they're all high school/college level. http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/ - even more online college textbooks. http://www.gutenberg.org - lots of ebooks. these are free because the copyright has expired so the textbooks are obviously going to be very old, but it's still a great source for classics and some others. the majority of my literature list probably comes from here. https://librivox.org - public domain audiobooks. General online courses - http://academicearth.org - online college courses. http://www.saylor.org - has a college and k-12 section. I've been using the college courses for history and sciences and they've worked fine for me, but the k-12 section has things like Algebra and SAT prep. http://oli.cmu.edu - courses from Carnegie Mellon. https://www.edx.org - college courses from some great universities. https://www.udacity.com - online courses. Literature/Writing - http://vulgartodivine.co.vu/post/75054071930/this-is-a-masterpost-of-gothic-literature-a-genre - Gothic fiction masterpost with titles and links from the public domain. http://clevergirlhelps.tumblr.com - maybe not curriculum, but I love this blog. lots of great, specific writing tips. (warning: I have seen graphic writing about violence on here, so if that bothers you I'd be careful.) http://thewritingcafe.tumblr.com - more specific tips on writing. I really loved their things on world building. https://realtimeboard.com - an online whiteboard to plan your writing. you can draw webs, family trees, timelines, and insert things like documents/videos/photos. you can make notes and invite people to the board so you can edit it together. http://literature-map.com - great for finding reading recommendations based on authors you already like. http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/ - fictional world generator. http://elliemaytk9.tumblr.com/post/41760287372/ - more writing help. prompts, character development, etc. Science - http://ptable.com - online periodic table. http://www.refdesk.com/science.html - lots of science resources. http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics - short, easy to understand videos about physics and other sciences. http://www.sixtysymbols.com/index.html - videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy. Language learning - http://www.fsi-language-courses.org - free courses from the United States government for a long list of languages. https://www.duolingo.com - language app/website. I definitely wouldn't consider this an entire credit for a high schooler but I've done some of the French program and it was pretty fun practice. http://www.hellomylo.com - I haven't personally used this, but it's a free language resource for French, German, Spanish, and Chinese. http://www.latinwordlist.com - latin word list/dictionary. http://ryanestradadotcom.tumblr.com/post/20461267965/learn-to-read-korean-in-15-minutes - learn to read Korean in 15 minutes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ - language learning help. History - https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/ - medieval studies resources from Georgetown. http://clevergirlhelps.tumblr.com/post/77308379619/history-chronology-timeline-founding-of-rome - lots of resources about the roman empire. it's meant so you can write about it but could obviously be used for history. I mentioned her blog in the writing section, but she has this and other posts that have some cool history links. Arts - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hm/04/hm04.htm/#/06/World-Map - art history timeline from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.metmuseum.org/learn/for-educators/publications-for-educators - free art textbooks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://phannahtom.tumblr.com/post/79642249859/the-most-fun-a-poor-art-history-major-can-have - some pictures of places you can go inside of now with google maps. I believe there's a bigger list of museums and places you can go into but unfortunately I can't find it. http://www.musictheory.net - free music theory lessons I have tons of resources on how to actually do art like painting, drawing, graphic design, etc. but there the list is so long I figured I'll just give it if someone asks. Other - not free, but if you already have netflix and hulu plus (not sure about normal hulu) they have lots of interesting documentaries/films about science, history, art, language, etc. I have a whole separate profile for all the school related things I want to watch. if you don't have netflix it's $9 a month, which imo is pretty good with all the school stuff you can get + normal tv and movies. http://lizardpoint.com/geography/ - free geography tests. when I was in public school we called them map tests. http://www.ted.com - free talks on a variety of subjects. a lot are also available on netflix and I believe youtube. http://easybib.com - whenever I need a bibliography I use this. http://iruler.net - online ruler. http://documentaryheaven.com - free documentaries.

Calculus is a pre req for the PA courses because they're for AP Physics C. I don't know about the pre calc req.

The AP Physics B exam won't be offered in 2014-15 as it's being replaced, so I don't believe anyone will have any experience with it. I assume that's the one she would be taking as she doesn't yet have calculus. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/48373-apologia-physics-and-apsatii-prep/ That thread seems relevant but with the exam being split into two and covering more information the whole test situation is obviously quite different.

Late thank you for the comment about Iredell-Statesville schools by the way! I did a bit more looking as I didn't do much searching in that district anyway and found iAcademy which seems awesome and doable for me. I'm not really interested in a full virtual school, I just want to take some classes with the help of a teacher which NCVPS does offer. I'm going to learn Arabic and I definitely can't see myself learning that without the help of a teacher. The other resources also look helpful, thanks so much.

Thank you for your response :) I will be looking into taking some classes at CPCC when I can, but atm I'm only in 10th grade. NCVPS looks really nice but if you're not a registered public school student then it's $640 for a language course, which is really out of our price range. It'd be nice if NC did as much with this as some other states do.

I'd argue with that, most definitely. I've never heard of even being allowed to keep a copy of a final exam.

Are you looking for things that would be a complete course alone, or resources that would be used to make a class?

At the middle school I went to and the local high school the track most people I know are doing is: 7th - Biology 8th - Physical Science 9th - Biology 10th - Environmental Science 11th - Chemistry 12th - Physics or an elective science (or no science course as here only biology, an environmental science, and one physical science are required) Mine is: 7th - Biology 8th - Physical Science 9th - Biology 1 10th - Biology 2, Chemistry 11th - Physics 12th - Astronomy The 7th grade biology course was taken at the public middle school and was basic cell kind of stuff and human biology. The 8th grade physical science was homeschooled. I think these were a nice preparation for my high school courses. It might've been nicer to do the biology course in 8th so I remembered more, but that would be a lot of biology in a row and I feel like I would've remembered the bass c information anyway if I had a better teacher. I split my Biology into two parts because I'm doing a ton of work with it. The main thing I used for part 1 was called Introduction to Mollecular and Cellular Biology, and for the 2nd Introduction to Evolutionary Biology and Ecology. I'll end up with 5 science credits, at least 3 being w/ lab (not sure about physics and astronomy yet). It does depend on what math she's in. I know kids who want do to calculus based physics and don't have it before 12th so wait for physics until then.

This is pretty specific, but has anyone attempted to do/done partial enrollment in a NC HS? We're in the CMS district. I've heard of others doing this all over and when I searched it I found forms for Virginia and Florida, but as far as I can see North Carolina just lets the school districts decide. The CMS website has about a billion people's contact info and I don't even know where to begin.