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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. 

    Quick AP Question

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    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.

    Multiple languages at once

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    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. 

    Deep breath.....DD's 9th grade plans

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    Thanks for all the input, everybody.  I really appreciate it.  I do have a question about dual enrollment, though.  Someone up thread mentioned not doing DE biology when she hasn't had high school biology.  But I thought that was the point of DE, to take one CC course that satisfied the high school requirement, too.  Am I confused here?

    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. 

    Deep breath.....DD's 9th grade plans

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    She saw the recent article about the girl who finished her college degree just ahead of graduating from high school at 16 and decided that she wants to do that.  She's not going to make the college degree part, but I see no reason not to let her go for the high school part. 

     

    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.

    a free high school curriculum list?

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    I have a long list and some overlap, so I tried to sort them as well as I could. 

     

    General books -

    General online courses -

    Literature/Writing - 

    Science - 

     

    Language learning - 

    History - 

    Arts - 

    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.

     

     

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    Apologia Physics as AP Physics?

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    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.

    Partial Enrollment in NC

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    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.

    Partial Enrollment in NC

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    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.

    Science Schedule?

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    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.

     

    Partial Enrollment in NC

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    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.

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