Thanks, Element!

Element..... do you find there are enough labs in the chemistry? Would adding a kit be too much?

My 7th grader does about three hours in the morning. She reads upwards of an hour before bed. And we do anywhere between 3-5 hours on weekends. She chooses to do science often in the evenings, for fun. She goes 20 hours a week to gymnastics practice. Lately, though, with choreography, it has been 23-25 hours weekly. We do a lot of car schooling too. We do a weekly co-op (Ecology, English, History) a weekly mythology class, a biweekly book club, and monthly science class. Her classes are World history, honors Biology, last chapter in AOPS Algebra, lit/ writing/ vocab/ Grammar, Czech 1, Greek, French.

DS will be 10th next year. DD will be technically 8th and will do Chemistry, English, and Czech with him. And AOPS math, probably Intermediate Algebra book, and Hakim for US History. Dr. Wile’s Discovering Design with Chemistry, with labs Teaching Textbooks- he is just finishing Algebra 2, then will start Geometry, then Pre- Calculus US History using Bill Bennet’s Three books, plus a free Hillsdale class or two English - homegrown Foreign language - Czech (my language) Music - his passion Geography - Maptrek, 1/2 credit Mythology - with National Mythology Exam SAT prep

Me too!

My 7th grader is taking a writing/ literature class at co-op. We are also going to do EIW 7 ... mostly for the videos, to fill in any gaps, and to help write the research report which she hasn’t done yet. She can churn out a good essay in an hour, so occasionally we do that as well. And she does the writing assignments in WWtW2.

My 7th grader is doing honors biology with her older brother, using DIVE. She is also doing Ellen McHenry’s Rocks and Dirt, and plans to do Protozoa. And taking a once a week Ecology class at co-op. And using science kits from little passports science expedition, and Thames and Kosmos. She cannot get enough science.!

Wow, thank you, thank you! 😀😀

OP here... Thank you Crimson Wife! Do any of these go deeply into things like different types of characterizations, -archetypes, moods, and themes? It ‘s hard to tell from a TOC and a few sample pages. We have used several literature guides from Memoria Press and now progeny press. We like them. But they feel a bit scattered to me. I’m afraid I will some key elements by using random guides. Sigh.

Thanks Kendall, off to research that one too!

Thank you, Lori D.... I will look into those!

Thank you! I will look that one up!

Does that exist? I am looking (for next year) at Essentials in Literature. But with the rest of our English plans (LoriD’s weekly timed essay writing suggestions, four literary analysis papers, poetry unit, research report, read aloud and discussion followed by essay/ project, gobs of reading, and writing across the curriculum) I don’t know where we would fit it in. But I want the kids (and me) familiar with all the terms of high school literary analysis. Figuratively Speaking has worked wonderfully here.... and I like the short lessons. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Basically I just figured out where the Hillsdale lessons fit into Notgrass. My son reads Notgrass. When Hillsdale matches up, he does that lesson (video while taking notes, readings, Q and A, quiz ). And so on. He is reading the literature with Notgrass too, so we have to adjust that schedule a bit as well. What we have looks like this... History 101- Western Heritage 1- Notgrass unit 1-4 2- Notgrass unit 5, 6 3- unit 9 4- unit 9 5- unit 10 with Caesar progeny press study guide 6- unit 11-12 7- unit 13 8- unit 16-17 9- unit 19 10- unit 18, 20 a tale of two cities study guide

We combine them with other readings and assignments. My son thoroughly enjoys them. There are many readings which are linked. I do think there is a book of the readings, or another book, which you can purchase for some of the classes. We haven’t though. My son has done Athens and Sparta, Constitution 101 and is now doing Western Heritage (while doing the readings from Notgrass world History ).

Yes. 😊 my daughter loves them. The second one is, in my opinion, the least good.

My 14 year old really liked The Time Machine. And we just started A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which he is really enjoying.

How about Little Passports Science Expedition? My DD 12 got the subscription from her grandma, and really enjoys doing them.

While sitting in high chair. "Mommy, go down, I need to go potty." At 13 1/2 months. That was also the beginning of her potty training.... Her first words were at five months. I had an inkling then too.

My DD likes the idea of their eyes being like cat's eyes, or snakes' eyes. Otherwise, she still says it make no sense. Lol. Thank you for your insight!

My son did the advanced version for 8th grade. Overall, I would guess an average of 20-30 minutes a day for days 1-3. Days 4-5 took longer... the major projects took days to build. If you are doing the intermediate version, you wouldn't be doing days 4-5 or the bigger projects though. My son liked it as much as he likes any science currently. I thought it was well done, the tests were just challenging enough, love the lab workbook. I do think it is worth the price!

My kids did the problems, then watched the videos, then did the exercises.... all on a giant whiteboard. Then the review and challenge problems were done in a notebook.

Ok, so here are the sentences..... "You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked- those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish- grey eyes!- as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment." And then at the end of that paragraph.... "But I had my hands on the climbing bars now, and, kicking violently, I disengaged myself from the clutches of the Morlocks and was speedily clambering up the shaft, while they stayed peering and blinking up at me..."

DD is 12. Eyes blinked like a light bulb..... interesting..... I'll tell her that maybe that's how..... or the author is human. Lol

Not sure where to post this, and I tried looking online but was unsuccessful. We are reading the Time Machine aloud. ... Anyway, at the end of chapter six, the Time Traveler describes the Morlocks as having "lidless" eyes. A couple of paragraphs later, as the Time Traveler is ascending the well, the Morlocks looked at him and "blinked." DD noticed this discrepancy. How can they blink if they don't have eyelids, she asked me. Honestly, I didn't even notice. And I don't know how to answer her. It bothers her, really bothers her. Does anyone have any insight? Maybe this is an obvious thing.... But I don't know. And if it didn't bother DD so much, I wouldn't really care. Lol. Help?