Thank you for sharing. This is very encouraging. My ds is currently taking Alg 1. We switched to TT when he was in 5th grade also (began with TT 6). Did your dd take Geometry also? Or did she do Alg I, then Alg II? Just trying to decide what my ds should take after finishing Alg I.

Thank you so much. This really helps! Kim

Thanks for the info. :)

If you set up a commonplace book, can you help? On the numbering of the pages, instructions say to write on pg 15 of the commonplace book "Progymnasmata Headers"....and then a few lines down, the instructions are to subdivide the section "Progymnasmata Headers" into separate sections and to write on page 15 "Encomium." So on page 15 should my son write both "Progymnasmata Headers" and Encomium? I'm wondering if its' a mistake and he should skip a few pages and write "Encomium" on page 17 instead. It probably doesn't matter, but since he's taking the time to write in the book in PEN, I'd like for it be correct since he won't be able to erase. He's a leftie and he prefers pen. Thanks! Kim

Thanks for the help!

Deanna, I am getting ready to begin Diogenes Maxim with my son, just waiting for it to ship from RR. Would you mind sharing how long a lesson takes your daughter? We have done Aesop and Homer A and B. I heard that Diogenes is a breeze after doing Homer so I am hopeful he can get his work done in 30 min or so. What was your experience? Thanks, Kim

I love it. Where I'd you get your pianos music stand? I have forever been trying to figure out how to store our piano music for 3 kids taking lessons. I don't have room for a bookshelf but I would have room for what is in your picture! Looks perfect!

We are in Skymountain and use TT. My son who will be in 8th grade will be taking Alg I next year for high school credit. TT is not listed as HQT yet on Skymountain's website, but it has recently been approved as HQT. However, it will need to be supplemented because it is missing some CA standards. From what my ES has told me, we can take ALEX to substitute for the missing standards. I don't know which standards those are yet. But that is what I have been told. I plan for my son to take Alg I and Spanish for credit next year. A student has to take two high school level classes at a time in order to be counted for credit in 7th or 8th grade. Keep in mind that HQT is not a-g. I have not read all of the other posts so this may have already been mentioned.

Very cool. Thanks!

I will try this! Thank you.

Great! Thank you!

Reposting because I posted this on the General Board first by mistake. My ds is currently in TT PreAlg. But we also use Fred as a supplement to TT. He ha done LOF Fractions, Decimals, and now Pre Alg-Bio. In Fred, in the past, he got stuck on the conversion factor explanation. We moved on anyway. But now we are at conversion factors again in LOF PA and he is not understanding the concept still. I am not very good at explaining it either! Does anyone have a link to an online video directed at middle schoolers or another site that might present it in a different way to help him get it? Thanks! Kim

Whoops. I meant to put this on the curriculum board. Sorry!

My ds is currently in TT PreAlg. But we also use Fred as a supplement to TT. He ha done LOF Fracions, Decimals, and now Pre Alg- Bio. In Fred, in the past, he got stuck on the conversion factor explanation. We moved on anyway. But now we are at conversion factors again in LOF PA and he is not understanding the concept still. I am not very good at explaining it either! Does anyone have a link to an online video directed at middle schoolers or another site that might present it in a different way to help him get it? Thanks! Kim

Thank you for your input. Now I gotta choose which one seems to be the right one. Hmmmm.... Is one more interesting than the other? Anyone know? Out of the two, Gen or Physical, which did your dc like best? I'm also looking for something he can do mostly independently. Thanks again. Kim

My son is currently doing Elemental Science Biology for the Logic Stage. I plan to also have him do McHenry's "The Elements" this year because I bought it a few years ago and we never got to it. He is in 7th. Next year I am thinking of switching him to Apologia since there is no Elemental Science Logic Stage ready for him yet. Plus, he will be in 8th grade and I want to get him ready for high school. If he were to use Apologia, should I have him do Apologia General or Apologia Physical Science for 8th? (I do not think he will be ready for Apologia Biology.) Since he can't do both Gen and Phys in one year, which of the two middle school Apologia's is more important if he were going to start Apologia Biology in 9th? Thank you in advance! Kim ds-13 7th dd-10 5th dd-6 1st

I'm interested in this too. We use CW and beginning in Aesop one of the editing steps is to check for varied utterances. I guess "varied" is the point? I dunno.

Thank you for sharing! We are in Homer A and just about to begin Homer B. I just wanted to say that I think your daughter's rewrite is wonderful.

My son has done TT 6 in 5th grade and TT 7 in 6th. He took the California Star test both years because we belong to a charter school. Both years he scored Advanced which is the highest level on that test. HTH Kim

Narrow Gate, I just want to say thank you for typing out this outline of Circe. I showed it to my ds yesterday and it helped him (and me) so much to see how you set it up. The process seems so much simpler now. Again, just wanted to say thank you!!

This is very helpful. Thank you so much! So it seems to me that we should outline the Scenes first as we have been doing up to this point. Then look at the scenes and group them into acts. Am I thinking right?

I am having a hard time distinguishing between Scenes and Acts. We are on Lesson 17 of Homer A and took the summer off which may be part of the problem:tongue_smilie:. We are at the part where we divide the narrative into Acts and Scenes. I've read and re-read the Core but I'm having a hard time distinguishing between the two. Part of the problem I think is that up to this point we have been dividing the narrative into scenes only. I wish there was an example of a narrative which had only been divided into Scenes in a previous lesson and is now further divided into Acts and Scenes. I think this would help me. Are the scenes just the sentences in a paragraph and the Acts the paragraph (one topic)? Could someone who is familiar with CW have pity on me and walk me through the difference between a Scene and an Act? have a feeling I'm overthinking it. Thank you. Kim

We live in California and my children took the STAR test last year. My ds was in 6th and dd in 4th. DS in 6th used TT 7 last year for his 6th grade, and TT 6 for his 5th grade year. He scored Advanced on the STAR test both years. Just wanted to share. (DD used Rightstart and also scored Advanced. We are switching her to TT 6 this year after completing Level E which is the same thing we did with ds.) Also, I should add that my son used to HATE Math. Math has not come easy for him. Maybe it was developmental or maybe he just struggled with Math. But once we added Rightstart in 4th and TT in 5th (we used MUS before) his understanding and scores improved. Now he thinks he's good at Math! He used to say he was terrible. :sad: Last year he used TT 7 alone. He will be using TT PreAlgebra this year. TT is working for us so far.! Kim

Thanks for chiming in! I just finished photocopying ES Biology for my ds and I ordered a microscope! I'm getting excited about the year now! Thanks so much, ladies, for sharing your words of wisdom here. I love these boards. I don't post very often but have learned so much from so many of you. Big thanks to SWB for these boards!!!!!!

Okay, this sounds good. One more question! (Again, thanks so much.) How did you come up with supplemental reading? Did you use WTM list or some other list?