This sample lesson shows the author's world view: http://www.oneyearnovel.com/samples/OYAN_Lesson_18_Textbook.pdf When my son did the course, there was quite a bit of Muslim bashing on the forum and a lack of tolerance for differences of opinion generally.

Here is John Suchocki's answer (the author of Conceptual Chemistry): http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=253084&highlight=suchocki

A People's History of the United States (Zinn); Lies My Teacher Told Me (Loewen).

My son uses the Ginger spellchecker program (we were able to get it through the Homeschool Buyers Coop at a discount). It is fantastic. http://www.gingersoftware.com/ Ginger also has a text-to-speech reader. Many textbooks come with a program, either online or on disc, which reads the text aloud to the student. And, recorded books are great as well (free from the library or internet, or purchased). The student can just listen or listen and follow along in the book. For composition/writing, you can modify assignments to help your dd grow as a writer. I'd suggest not comparing her to where she "should" be, but starting at where she is now. So, for example, if she needs to dictate her thoughts now, and work up to writing independently, that is just fine. If she needs to write five sentences now and build up to an essay, that's great, too. Here's my bottom line: if she is working every day on English and making good progress . . . that is her course. That is enough. Decide what your goals are--love of books? more fluency as a writer? able to construct a logical argument?--and go from there, rather than from a checklist of "must read" books or "must do" essays.

Dh just started using Microsoft Word to type problems for his geometry students. I found advice on use at The Math Forum @Drexel (we were having trouble making the line arrow directly over letters). People are using Word, Math Type and Equation Editor, so you may find some opinions/comparisons on that site. Here's the link: http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?...902&tstart=285 (cross post on high school board)

Dh just started using Microsoft Word to type problems for his geometry students. I found advice on use at The Math Forum @Drexel (we were having trouble making the line arrow directly over letters). People are using Word, Math Type and Equation Editor, so you may find some opinions/comparisons on that site. Here's the link: http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=970902&tstart=285

Here are a couple of links: MIT Splash: http://uchicago-splash.mit.edu/learn/index.html Chicago Splash: https://splashchicago.learningu.org/

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My older son also is taking CC classes next year. He's taking one class first semester and two second. He's thinking about staying at CC after class, finding a quiet spot and knocking off his homework right away. A homeschool friend who just completed CC always did her homework and studying during the hour or so gap between classes. It's a pretty efficient system. It's great that your classes are in the morning, so you have afternoons free for the rest of your subjects. Good luck!

Thinkwell Geometry is working well for my son.

Here are a couple more virtual dissection links (both free): McGraw-Hill Virtual Frog Dissection: http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_16/BL_16.html Miller and Levine's virtual dissections (look at lower right side of page for the links): http://www.millerandlevine.com/intro.html And I thought I'd throw in this link to McGraw-Hill's virtual labs: http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/ Hilary

You may already have these resources, but here are some free online classes: The Western Tradition (and other courses) at www.learner.org List of free online homeschool classes, by subject at http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/online_hs.htm#science Yale Open Course (check under Classics, English, History) http://oyc.yale.edu/ MIT OpenCourseWare Link for High Schoolers: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm NROC National Repository of Online Courses: http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/nrocdemos.html NROC Easy link to courses: Hippocampus site: http://www.hippocampus.org/ A to Z Home's Cool Free Resources links page: http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/materials/FreeResources.htm

I have Thinkwell Biology with George Wolfe on CD. It includes 7 CDs. Unfortunately, I don't have the original cardboard box, so don't have the ISBN. So, my set is complete and does not have an 8th disc.

Fascinating math website and videos (including one about Pi Day, in blog posts) by an artist with a very creative take on math: http://vihart.com/doodling/

Thank you *very* much for posting this. It's really helpful! Hilary