Many of the WTM high school board members utilize the Great Courses (The Teaching Company) lecture series in crafting their homeschool courses. For my students, I know TTC lectures add a depth and a richness that I, as the teacher, probably could not achieve on my own. I count on coming to the board to ask for course recommendations and suggestions on how to best utilize the materials and am at times frustrated with the search when looking for what I need. What I propose is to create a Great Courses Master Class List with four separate posts at the top under this original one: history and literature, science, mathematics and technology, fine arts (music, art, architecture) and religion and philosophy. What I envision happening is that members would write about their favorite TTC course, talking about what they and their student liked about it, what subject they used it in, how they used it, and any supporting materials that they think might be useful. For example, if someone wrote about using Philip Daileader’s Early, High and Late Middle Ages series in conjunction with SWB’s History of the Medieval World book for the tenth grade Great Book work in TWTM, I would edit the post that contained “History and Literature†to name the lecture series and then the post number of the reviewer. Eventually, if a member were looking for suggestions for planning a year of ancient history using some Great Courses lectures, they could go to the thread, find the history/literature post, look under “Ancient†and see History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective #7, 21, 25. Post 7 would show that Swimmermom3 used it for a semester with an AP World History and thought it was great. Post 21 would show that Mtn. Teaching’s son got through the first 4 lectures and loathed the professor because of A, B, and C. (Sorry Mtn., I just used you as an exampleJ) Hopefully, you all get the idea. One other thought would be to maybe go ahead and post TTC priority codes and other offers here. Perhaps maybe list if you are looking for some particular courses. That way if Swimmermom is perusing Amazon or ebay and sees a good price, she can pm you. I may be getting ahead of myself too. Please let me know if you have ideas for making this a more useful tool. *For courses that members have used successfully with middle school students, please see Post #28. thru 17

80 Great Courses are on sale for 6.95 each at audible. (Through May 8, I think.) If you have an Amazon account, you can buy them without being an audible member. I'm not an affiliate, but I am addicted. :)

The Inexplicable Universe, a Great Course by Neil deGrasse Tyson is $1.95 today as Audible's daily deal. Sorry this is so late in the day. I don't get paid anything to say it. :) HTH Edited to fix a weird comma.