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  1. I'm looking into Classical Composition as well, but we would also be starting "late". I found a schedule that lists the lessons you should cover and those you can skip to move through the program at a faster pace. I'm sorry I can't give credit to whomever created it, but I'll post it here for you. Maybe it'll help.

     

    "Good Morning,

    You've already received some good advice, and for the most part I would affirm what has been said by others. It can be difficult to skip stages in the Classical Composition program, but as already mentioned, you do not necessarily need to complete the early stages in their entirety. See below for an idea of what we think your student needs to accomplish in Fable and Narrative, in order to be successful in the later stages. There is also a list of lessons you could complete to cover the concepts listed.

    Fable

    ·         Need to gain mastery of the 3 Narrative components covered

    ·         1. Recognition

    ·         2. Reversal

    ·         3. Suffering
    Should be able to explain and provide examples of the various figures of description

    ·         Making flashcards of the definitions in the appendix could be helpful
    Must possess understanding of the three forms of paraphrase

    ·         1. Reduction

    ·         2. Inversion

    ·         3. Beginning in the middle
    Should begin formatting page properly, understanding punctuation, margins and paragraph breaks



    Narrative

    ·         Need to gain a mastery of 9 Narrative components covered

    ·         1. Recognition

    ·         2. Reversal

    ·         3. Suffering

    ·         4. Agents

    ·         5. Action

    ·         6. Time

    ·         7. Place

    ·         8. Manner

    ·         9. Cause
    Should be able to explain and provide examples of the various figures of description

    ·         Making flashcards of the definitions in the appendix could be helpful
    Must possess understanding of the three (new) forms of paraphrase

    ·         1. Condensing the narrative

    ·         2. Changing the viewpoint

    ·         3. Inverting the sequence of events
    Formatting should be continuing to improve



    Chreia and Maxim will require student to form 8 paragraph essay with clear breaks of thought between each paragraph

    Lessons to complete to cover the above material

    ·         Fable 1

    ·         Fable 4

    ·         Fable 5

    ·         Fable 8

    ·         Fable 9

    ·         Fable 20

    ·         Narrative 1

    ·         Narrative 10

    ·         Narrative 14

    ·         Narrative 17

    ·         Narrative 18

    ·         Narrative 20"

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  2. If you're o.k. with Christian curriculum, Rod & Staff English is excellent and very affordable. Abeka is also a good option. Both programs are thorough and systematic. Both were recommended in the earlier editions of The Well-Trained Mind. Rod & Staff doesn't cover literature, though, but it covers everything else on your list. Not sure if Abeka's English includes literature.

    You can see samples of Rod & Staff's English 9 here:

    https://www.milestonebooks.com/item/1-129-1/

     

    Here you'll find Abeka's 9th grade Language Arts here:

    https://www.abeka.com/abekaonline/bookdescription.aspx?sbn=380776

     

    Hope this helps. 🙂

     

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  3. The history spines SWB has recommended in the four editions of TWTM are the following:

     

    1st Edition

    A Short History of Western Civilization, Vol. 1, by Richard Sullivan, et. al

    A Short History of Western Civilization, Vol. 2, by Richard Sullivan, et. al

    The Dorling Kindersley History of the World by Plantagenet Somerset Fry

    2nd Edition

    Western Civilization, Vol. 1: To 1500 by Jackson J. Spielvogel

    Western Civilization, Vol. 2: Since 1500 by Jackson J. Spielvogel

    History of the World by Plantagenet Somerset Fry

    3rd Edition

    History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer

    History of the World, 3rd ed., by Plantagenet Somerset Fry

    A History of Asia, 5th ed., by Rhoads Murphey

    4th Edition

    Ancient History

    The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer

    SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

    Medieval/Early Renaissance History

    The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer

    The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer

    The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History by Norman F. Cantor

    Late Renaissance/Early Modern History

    The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century by Michael Burger

    Asia: A Concise History by Arthur Cotterell

    The Renaissance: A Short History by Paul Johnson

    America: A Narrative History, Brief 10th Edition, Vol. 1 by George Tindall

    Modern History

    Asia: A Concise History by Arthur Cotterell

    Europe: A History. A Glorious Chronicle of Europe, From Kings to Peasants, From the Urals to the Faroes by Norman Davies

    Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson

    America: A Narrative History, Brief 10th Edition, Vol. 2 by George Tindall

     

    Although not recommended in TWTM, we have also used BiblioPlan (https://biblioplan.net/), but it is a Christian curriculum. It follows the 4-year history cycle. Hope this helps.🙂

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  4. Since this was posted on the High School  board I'm assuming you're asking about teaching these subjects to high school level students. We outsourced the high school-level science courses my daughter took. Since she was planning to be an English major in college, she didn't take physics. There is an academy in our city, specifically for homeschooled students, that offers high school level science and math classes. For math, we use Saxon which is written to the student and meant to be done independently. I purchased the supplemental Saxon Teacher CD-Roms that she could used when she needed additional help. 

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  5. I highly recommend SWB's talk on writing. In it she describes the different types of writing and how writing should be approached at the  different developmental stages. In her opinion, all students need to learn expository writing, but not all students need to learn how to write creatively. Logic minded students, in particular, struggle with creative writing. She goes on to say most writing curricula is described as a "writing program" when in fact they are a "creative" writing program. This leaves many logic minded/engineer minded students feeling frustrated, unnecessarily.  You can find the downloaded MP3 here: https://welltrainedmind.com/p/a-plan-for-teaching-writing-grades-k-12-mp3/

    From there, you might consider starting with either Writing with Ease Level 4 or Writing With Skill Level 1. Writing With Ease 4 is for 4th or 5th grade, but Writing With Skill 1 assumes that they know how to write 3-5 sentence summaries of longer reading passages in history, science, and literature. If he can already do this well, he can jump right into Writing With Skill Level 1. All of her writing programs teach expository writing. If you decide to go with WWS, I recommend you adjust the workload assigned per day. For many lessons it seems to be too much to complete in a single day. I hope this helps.🙂

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  6. The following resources are recommended in the various editions of The Well-Trained Mind: 

    1) The Elements of Style 

    2) Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Research Papers

    3) They say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

    4) The New Oxford Guide to Writing (rhetoric study)

    You may want to read the description of each on Amazon to see which one matches what you're looking for. I will say that The Elements of Style is recommended for all four years of high school (to be read each year and referred to as needed) in all four editions of TWTM. Hope this helps.

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  7. In The Well-Trained Mind, SWB says the following, "Try to make a realistic assessment of how many books the student will be able to cover in the course of a year. Eight books is a minimum; twelve is better; eighteen is stellar." This is assuming a student completes the work recommended in TWTM (per book) or something similar: Book Context page, Book Notes, & a Composition. ☺️
     

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  8. If you want to your student(s) to study history following the TWTM method, the 4th edition of TWTM lays out an easy-to-follow plan. I read the section on "History & Literature in the Rhetoric Stage" and I took notes. I'll copy and paste the section of my notes that cover history, in case you don't own a copy of the book. This will give you an idea of the sorts of "output" you can require then you can adjust to fit your course.

     

    Great Books Study: History & Reading

    History and Literature Study in the High School Years 

         History study in the rhetoric-stage is idea-centered. During the rhetoric-stage, the student actively engages with the ideas of the past and present – not just reading about them, but evaluating them, tracing their development, and comparing them to other philosophies and opinions.

    * Goal – To develop a greater understanding of our civilization, country, and your place in time, stemming from an understanding of what has come before us.

    The History Study

    1)      Student should read a chapter from a readable narrative history.

    2)      Make a list of the most important dates in the chapter and write a sentence or two explaining why that date is important or why it stands out.

    3)      Write down the names of 2-3 important people with a sentence explaining why they’re important.

    4)      Write down 3-4 events that stand out.

    5)      List 2 events, people, or ideas student would like to investigate further.

    6)      Map work

    7)      Time line

    *** I only copied the notes related to the history study. I didn't include the notes related to the literature study.

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  9. I think dictation, as you're describing it here, is different from The Well-Trained Mind form of dictation. Dictation as you're describing sounds more like narration: the student reads or is read to, you ask a few comprehension questions, the student tells (orally) what they remember, in complete sentences; finally, the student writes down the sentence(s) they just told you or you write it down for them. Dictation as described in TWTM is as described below:

    "[The student] needs to learn how to visualize a written sentence in his mind and then put it down on paper. From second grade on, rather than putting the written model in front of the student, you will dictate sentences to him. This will force him to bring his memory into play, to picture the sentence in his mind before writing it down. Eventually you'll be dictating two or three sentences at a time to a student, encouraging him to hold long and longer chunks of text in his mind as he writes." (Writing With Ease: Strong Fundamentals, p. 8-9)

    The process is as follows:

    "1) Tell the student that you will read the sentence slowly, twice. He should pay close attention so that he can remember the sentence and write it down.

    2) Dictate the sentence twice.

    3) After you have repeated the sentence the second time, encourage the student to repeat it back to you. 

    4) After he  repeats it, tell him to write it down.

    If the student forgets the last part of the sentence, you can read it to him again. However, first tell him to read out loud what he's already written, and see whether he can then say the rest of the sentence himself...If you do have to repeat the last part of the sentence out loud, ask the student to repeat the forgotten words back to you before he writes. You are helping the student develop the skill of active listening as he writes, which will be necessary when he does his own original work later."

    This instructions are found in the writing curriculum Writing With Ease, Level 2. Hope you this helps.

    Lily

    P.S.

    To clarify, the sentences you'll be dictating are ones you choose from their daily reading (literature, history, science, etc.)

  10. This is one that Guest Hollow includes in their book list.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062730991/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0062730991&linkCode=as2&tag=ouloba-20

    You can view their complete book list here:     https://www.guesthollow.com/homeschool/science/biology/biology_books.html

    I you scroll all the way down, you'll see descriptions and links for each of the books.

     

  11. Hi there,

    My daughter will be studying Astronomy this year as well and she'll be using Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide. We'll be starting school the day after Labor Day so I'm working on a plan for the Astronomy guide and I can definitely share what I come up with. I have a couple of questions for you. This will help get a better idea of what you have in mind for your student's Astronomy study. Which edition of TWTM are you using (the older editions include a lose schedule you can follow)? Which edition of the self-teaching guide are you using? Finally, are  you planning to incorporate additional source readings in your child's study, as recommended in TWTM? Thanks.

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