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    Tired of Tapestry - High School History recommendations?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    Hi, we are using Biblioplan year 3 for highschool (10th) this year. The companion alone is enough for highschool. He is also watching Teaching Company lectures and The American Heritage on Netflix. The companion is very interesting and covers World and American very thoroughly. Biblioplan Family Guide is very well done and easy to follow. My son uses it on his own. It also has movies and literature scheduled each week. Year 3 is scheduled by 6 units and takes 6 week each. The literature planning is done for you and all you do is choose which books for each unit you want to read. It don't take long at all. I purchase our books before each unit and use Glencoe Literature guides, which is free. Also, it is only three days a week. My son is also doing the Government scheduled in year 3 and he is enjoying all of it! We spread it out in 5 days and it flows very nicely. I was all ready to order Sonlight core 300 for next year to study the 20th century because he requested that core. But he informed me that he really likes Biblioplan and don't want to change. He says he learning so much and loves the Fascinating Facts in the companion. I have been where you are and it is tough.   Praying for you, Stacey

     

    I am trying to find those Netflix titles but couldn't. "Teaching Company lectures and The American Heritage on Netflix" Help.

    Tired of Tapestry - High School History recommendations?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    One of the things I have to keep in perspective is that we sort of have history overload after 5+ years of ToG. I do need "open and go", but I don't want us to be history majors anymore. Will MFW be a pre-planned ToG where my dc are spending a lot of time on history? Or is it okay to do Biblioplan just with their companion, without MOH for High School, just so my ds can refresh his American history and maybe study for the CLEP? And my 7th grader can read History of US, maybe?

     

    I don't mean to sound lazy or uninterested in a college-bound education. (I went to grad school at Stanford; if anything it's the opposite). But both my dc have already developed thirst and skill for acquiring knowledge (Right now they are watching a documentary on eels --their choice-- and we are on Christmas break) so at this point we really are just checking grad requirement boxes for my 10th grader and throughout prayer and assessments trying discover potential areas of specialization. I don't know if I'm being clear. Maybe I'm just worn out. (mothers of 10 feel free to roll on the floor laughing)

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    Tired of Tapestry - High School History recommendations?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    I am torn between Biblioplan and MFW, on several aspects

     

    -- Biblioplan seems much more affordable. A welcome change after 5 years of ToG

    -- Concerned that MFW US History in HS only counts for 1/2 credit. The credit is split between 11th and 12th grade?

    -- With Biblioplan it seems I could put both my 7th grader and my 10th grader in their Advanced level while MFW each student would need to be on a different track (doubling cost, I might add)

    -- MFW worldview stuff looks interesting

    Tired of Tapestry - High School History recommendations?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    I have used Tapestry of Grace for 5.5 years now. I am just pooped. It is a very rich curriculum, but I just can't keep up. I always feel behind. It takes the kids so many hours a week to do all the reading and answer all the history questions. And that is not even counting all the Church history and Geography. We are not even doing any of the Literature just because we can't fit it in. And I don't have the time to prepare so much stuff.

     

    Any recommendations on a substitute? I would prefer a Christian world view. I don't mind textbooks at this point. I just can't keep buying so many books and trying to remember to check so many others out from the library. I am looking for something they can mostly do on their own. I have two: 8th and 10th grades right now. 

     

     

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    Coding - Computer Programming for 9th grader - suggestions?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    Thanks.  The reason we are not doing "another science" is that ds already took HS Biology in 8th grade, but doesn't have the Algebra to take Chemistry yet, and although he could power through it, I want him to actually enjoy Chem.  

     

    My tendency is to farm out science.  I LOVE the subject, but don't love to teach it.  Any suggestions on alternate sciences that "can be counted as science" would be appreciated.  Especially if there is a curriculum I don't have to teach.

     

    I own D.I.V.E. Integrated Physics and Chem.  Anybody used this out there?

    Need Advice re: High School Science sequence

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    My son is going into 9th grade. He is finishing Apologia Biology this yr. because there weren't enough students to take Phys.Sci. So I am considering using DIVE Integrated Physics and Chemistry for 9th grade. I am assuming this is one of those conceptual physics and chemistry courses. In Texas it is recommended as one of the high school sciences for graduation.

     

    Then in 10th we would do either Chem. or Advance Bio. so we can CLEP. Anyone used DIVE IPC before?

    IEW vs. WWS for 6th grader -- Please help

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    [...] The times he got frustrated were because he didn't read the instructions. The instructions are VERY clear, he just didn't take the time to read them. That life lesson alone was worth the price of admission.

     

    There is a You tube video where SWB discusses WWS and how to use it. [...]

     

    :lol: It's funny, because SWB's video talks about how the kids never really read the instructions, and they come to you and say they can't do the assignment. She nailed it! If WWS can make my dc read and follow instructions, I'm in! Ha, ha!

    Teaching Textbooks users, do you use the books at all? or just the CD-ROMs?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    A tip i picked up here on the boards was to use a white board instead of paper to work the problems out on. My dd goes through so much paper figuring out math problems. She'll write really big and maybe get 2-3 problems on a page before she moves on to a clean sheet. Drives me insane. Definitely starting the white board Monday.

     

    Sandy

     

    Thanks for your response. Here is a way I have dealt with the need for paper for calculations. We use the back of paper that we've printed on one side and no longer need. We call this "recyclable paper" here at our house. Every mis-print, old completed worksheets, one-sided junk mail, fliers, you name it! If it is blank on one side and no longer useful, it goes on the "recyclable paper" pile, and we use it to print drafts of writing assignments, calculating math, drawing, sketching out plans for projects, report outlines...

    WWE 4 -- original sentence recall verbatim?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    One time his sentence had a list of items in it and he wrote them in a different order, but the items were all there. I let that go. I would also let it go if, like you said, it is only one or two words and the sentence has been improved.

     

    That's right. My son remembers his sentences well, but like yours, may change order in a list or use a better verb. This is the type of 'revision' that goes on. And it is not ALL the time. But I hesitate to encourage memorization and penalize a revision that results in a more elegant sentence, which is, after all, what we are after. No?

    WWE 4 -- original sentence recall verbatim?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Hi! I am using WWE with my ds. When the exercise calls for him to recall one or two sentences from his narration, do you ask your child to recall what he/she dictated to you verbatim? Sometimes my ds will change a word or two, many times resulting in a better-formed sentence. Should I require that he recall it verbatim as originally formed?

     

    Wouldn't you think it is an organic part of composition to come up with a thought and improve its wording (a little, I don't mean change the sentence) before writing it down?

     

    :bigear:

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