Perry Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 This will be dd's last year at home. We've been homeschooling WTM style since she was in first grade, but have mainly been doing English and History at home in high school, and she does everything else at ps. She wants to graduate with a diploma from the ps, so will go full time her senior year. That means I need to combine the 3rd and 4th year of the WTM cycle into one year. I'm having trouble deciding what to keep, because we can't possibly fit it all in. She took American History at the ps as a freshman, and will take AP Government next year, so I'm not going to spend too much time on those. Does this list look doable? Or is it way too much? Anything I should add or get rid of? Any major omissions? At ps: AP Physics (starts 2nd quarter, and the first few months are supposed to be easy-mainly a math review) Spanish 4 Anatomy and Physiology Precalculus (will be mostly review for her) At home: English: Paradise Lost- TC video lecture 1 day(video) Pensees- TC video lecture 1 day(video) Pilgrim’s Progress - TC video lecture 1 day(video) Candide - Voltaire 2 weeks Pride and Prejudice 4 weeks short story by Edgar Allen Poe (Cask of Amontillado?) 1 day Jane Eyre 4 weeks Scarlet Letter 2 weeks A Tale of Two Cities 6 weeks Les Miserables (film only) 2 days The Yellow Wallpaper 3 days The Awakening 2 weeks Great Gatsby 2 weeks Of Mice and Men 2 weeks Old Man and the Sea 1 week Fahrenheit 451 2 weeks A Good Man is Hard to Find 2 days To Kill a Mockingbird 5 weeks 2 weeks of poetry (Coleridge, Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, etc) The Elegant Essay (crash course -2-3 weeks) Windows to the World (rest of the year) History Spielvogel as a spine Mayflower Compact Common Sense The Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation The Federalist Papers The Constitution of the United States Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Democracy in America - deToqueville (selections) Intro to Philosophy Sophie's World with supplemental readings (First quarter) Any advice or opinions would be much appreciated. I am a math/science person and am way out of my comfort zone here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Does she need physics and anatomy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted August 18, 2013 Author Share Posted August 18, 2013 Tried to talk her out of Anatomy, but she really wants to take it. She definitely needs physics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Looks like a lot, but then, I think you may be overestimating the time you spend on some works. What do you want to do with four weeks for Jane Eyre and P&P each, and five weeks for Mockingbird? I find it difficult to see whether something is "missing", because I can not really discern the theme behind your literature selections. But then, I would not worry about that. I'd start at the beginning and see how far you get and how long everything takes, and make adjustments during the year. No literature course can be comprehensive, and the student can keep reading all his life and filling the gaps - the course only gets them started with some sort of foundation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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