mom31257 Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 I'm curious how parents combine classical education with meeting high school credit requirements, especially history and social studies. We are in GA, and at my husband's high school the students do 1/2 semester of Geography, 1/2 semester of Government, 1 full year of World History, US History, and Economics. I've just started learning about classical education and my dd will be in 7th next year. We did MOH (Ancient History) this year, but I was considering going to BJU World and American History for 7th and 8th to cover the rest of history before she hits high school. If I do that, I will use BJU as our foundation, but develop it beyond just the curriculum with things like lots of good historical fiction, etc. Thanks for any thoughts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli in TN Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 I just made sure I met all that TN requires and then the "extra" history counted as part of her electives. We combined our history/lit/comp/ in reality, but on the transcript I just listed them separately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 I did this, too, except for the geography. The history and literature and government were combined in reality, but I separated them out on the transcript. My son also had extra social studies and geography, which my son mostly did through travel with an added academic component (although everything meshed together beautifully and at the time, they didn't seem separate subjects). I had a catagory called social studies on his transcript, and one called English. I put the literature under English, and all the history and geography and other things under social studies. I didn't put dates on the transcript. I had a cover page in which I explained about how we accomplished the things on the transcript, why we mostly had no grades, and other things like that. The one college we sent it to had no objections to this. -Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 We did what Nan and Kelli did- just "sort it" so that it makes sense, add a narrative if you want to explain more.We've found for college, the schools are really interested in test scores more than transcripts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 As far as I can tell, my son's college was only interested in his CC transcript. That and the fact that his brother was already there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli in TN Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 We did what Nan and Kelli did- just "sort it" so that it makes sense, add a narrative if you want to explain more.We've found for college, the schools are really interested in test scores more than transcripts. For college admissions we just submitted a standard transcript from her umbrella school and the community college, as well as her ACT scores. She was accepted, no problem. But for this scholarship competition that is currently eating. up. our. lives. I did write a scope and sequence that included narratives about how we combined subjects and how we used college texts with no teacher support materials and how all of this made Sarah the coolest kid around and don't you people want to give her a full scholarship? Or something like that. I do think the narrative was the right thing to do, even though it was not requested, just to make her stand out a bit. Let's hope I made her stand out in a good way! I guess we'll know next month!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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