learners4life Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I'm finished with the transcript. I like it with one exception: there are only 26.5 credits listed, with 2 of them being P.E. We decided not to include any of her music lessons, music theory, MTAC adjudication, etc, in her transcript because we will list it in the activities section. I felt this was more in line with what many non-homeschoolers do if they are taking private music lessons and participating in MTAC. Her course load of the classes other than P.E. is heavy, with 11 AP classes. However, I feel uncomfortable with the 24.5 credits of "real" subjects when so many public schools are doing block scheduling and getting 28-32 credits. There is one area that I shorted her. During both 9th and 10th grade, she did Year 1 and Year 2 of a Great Books online class. She did this in addition to her regular grammar and composition coursework that I taught. I thought it would be more straightforward to list them together so I entitled each year "English Language and Great Books" and gave the I or II afterward. For those unfamiliar with the Great Books courses, the reading is heavy, heavy, heavy, plus there were four papers due per year. So... my question is, of course, should I change this and list 6 Language Arts courses instead of 4? I don't want it to look like I'm padding the transcript, but, truly, there was way more work there than 4 units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Personally, I would list the Great Books courses separately and credit it as literature. FWIW, since I have a freshman. :001_smile: (However, my freshman is taking a great books course, and I understand about the workload.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlotteb Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I would most definitely list the great books as separate courses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLHomeschool2000 Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 I'm finished with the transcript. I like it with one exception: there are only 26.5 credits listed, with 2 of them being P.E. We decided not to include any of her music lessons, music theory, MTAC adjudication, etc, in her transcript because we will list it in the activities section. I felt this was more in line with what many non-homeschoolers do if they are taking private music lessons and participating in MTAC. Her course load of the classes other than P.E. is heavy, with 11 AP classes. However, I feel uncomfortable with the 24.5 credits of "real" subjects when so many public schools are doing block scheduling and getting 28-32 credits. There is one area that I shorted her. During both 9th and 10th grade, she did Year 1 and Year 2 of a Great Books online class. She did this in addition to her regular grammar and composition coursework that I taught. I thought it would be more straightforward to list them together so I entitled each year "English Language and Great Books" and gave the I or II afterward. For those unfamiliar with the Great Books courses, the reading is heavy, heavy, heavy, plus there were four papers due per year. So... my question is, of course, should I change this and list 6 Language Arts courses instead of 4? I don't want it to look like I'm padding the transcript, but, truly, there was way more work there than 4 units. Sounds like your daughter took what my daughter did. My question is--did you give it an honors designation? I can't figure out if it is honors worthy and that does matter for scholarship consideration for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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