mom2denj Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I do not want to fork out the money to purchase curriculum for half a year. I have got Biology covered and I am planning on using Khan Academy to finish out Algebra 1. Does anyone have any ideas for English 1 and Geography??? Maybe something online? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibaker103 Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Have her read books available online or from the library, discuss them with you, and then write context papers, approach papers, and/or literary essays on what she read. For geography I use the Map Trek series and the Ultimate Geography timeline book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brenda in MA Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Have her read books available online or from the library, discuss them with you, and then write context papers, approach papers, and/or literary essays on what she read. For geography I use the Map Trek series and the Ultimate Geography timeline book. :iagree: Also, can you find out what her current teachers were planning to cover for the rest of the year and either borrow the books from the school, or get some on similar topics from the public library? Best wishes to both of you during the transition, Brenda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 http://www.amblesideonline.org/curriculum.shtml Free, just use your library.:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teachin'Mine Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 A great free source for physical geography is http://www.seterra.net/ For cultural geography, this book used is inexpensive and quite good. http://www.amazon.com/Glencoe-World-Geography-Student-McGraw-Hill/dp/0078606993 For English, make sure she's got the five paragraph essay down. Since the goal is to learn to write well, I'd let her choose some topics and make others related to literature - choose some books. Does she use a vocabulary workbook at school now? If so, just finish that. If not, I'd suggest using something for vocabulary. Worldly Wise 3000 has a site which is free. The words are pronounced, the definitions given and there are games to play to help with the memorization. http://www.wordlywise3000.com/ The books cost about $10 and might be helpful. HTH :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2denj Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 Thanks so much for all of the ideas everyone!! I am going to check out all of the resources that you have given me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Does anyone have any ideas for English 1 ... See if your local library has a copy of Lucile Vaughan Payne's The Lively Art of Writing ; it will give great guidance in the writing of essays. And, if your library doesn't have it, it's a bargain at $6.99. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingiguana Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 For English' date=' make sure she's got the five paragraph essay down.[/quote'] But once you've done that, you might want to have her write some essays that are not the five paragraph format. Writing professors at the college I'm at absolutely hate the five paragraph essay. They pretty much fail anything that's turned in in that format. Their feeling is that you write the essay that the topic demands, instead of trying to cram it into a certain format. However, the five paragraph format is likely what will do best on the ACT/SAT writing test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CupOCoffee Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Through another thread, I found these yesterday: http://www.glencoe.com/sites/alabama/teacher/languageart/assets/workbooks.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara H Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html The Power of Place Geography for the 21st century. This might be a good option for a free short geography course. It has 26 free half an hour lectures. We haven't used this specific course but we've used some other Annenberg courses and really enjoyed them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin in DFW Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 the Glencoe site for Alabama is great! They allow so much more access than most states. Thanks for posting that link. To the OP: on the Glencoe link there are other resources that can be accessed from the left side. There were some great math workbooks and other subject resources that could be helpful in planning for a few months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 the Glencoe site for Alabama is great! They allow so much more access than most states. Thanks for posting that link. :iagree:This is a great site, and they have many workbooks for the middle school grades too. Thanks for posting it! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2denj Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 A great free source for physical geography is http://www.seterra.net/For cultural geography' date=' this book used is inexpensive and quite good. http://www.amazon.com/Glencoe-World-Geography-Student-McGraw-Hill/dp/0078606993 For English, make sure she's got the five paragraph essay down. Since the goal is to learn to write well, I'd let her choose some topics and make others related to literature - choose some books. Does she use a vocabulary workbook at school now? If so, just finish that. If not, I'd suggest using something for vocabulary. Worldly Wise 3000 has a site which is free. The words are pronounced, the definitions given and there are games to play to help with the memorization. http://www.wordlywise3000.com/ The books cost about $10 and might be helpful. HTH :)[/quote'] Thanks so much for sharing these!! They are great resources and what I will be using for World Geography and Vocab! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2denj Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 Through another thread, I found these yesterday: http://www.glencoe.com/sites/alabama/teacher/languageart/assets/workbooks.html AWESOME!! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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