Quiver0f10 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 (edited) Forgive me for asking this again, but I am curious if anyone has anyone done this? I am thinking of keeping her in D level but adding some R level lit books on our own. Slowly work towards R level work as the year progresses and put her in R in 10th. What do you think? Edited March 10, 2009 by Quiver0f10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesloonybin Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 :lurk5: I have no advice. My plan is to do exactly what you described. She is just not ready for all R level work. I will be adding to the D level as well. Hope someone who has BTDT will respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Your plan would work fine. What good would it to to push your dd into the R level when she's not ready for it? It would only frustrate her and you because she'd be floundering around in work that's way over her head. Not everyone agrees with this but the first couple years of college are spent introducing students to R level work. Even if your dd only does R level in gr 12 or in grades 11 and 12 it will still help prepare her for college. It's not about their grade level. It's more about the academic level they are working in NOW. Work with her at her current level. I've heard Marcia and other TOG authors say this very same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karenciavo Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I'll be doing this with my ds14 Jean. Rhetoric history, probably going to skip government at least for 9th, and depending on the book, some dialectic and some rhetoric books. We're doing year 4 next year so it's hard to plan, overall the plan is to ease him in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choirfarm Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I think that my plan for my 9th grader next year is to do rhetoric level history work. Then I plan to ease into rhetoric level literature. How?? Not sure. I'll let you know. I don't have my year 3 yet to be able to plan it out. I will have him read the rhetoric level works, I think but perhaps not do the work that goes with them or modify it quite a bit. Christine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 Thank you all, I am encoruaged! Still not sure what I am going to do, but this sounds promising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie in tx Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I'm encouraged as well, Jean. My plan for next year is to put my 9th grade/14 yo in D history and R literature. I expect that the R lit will be tough, but we'll see how it goes. If she doesn't do well with the R lit, then we'll pare back and see how it goes. She has been doing the D level history for about a year now, and still struggles, so I don't want to move her up at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momee Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Hi Jean, giving our experience, hope it will help. We've gone back and forth on TOG (as I think from researching WTM and other things, you may be also). One disservice I think I've done to ds is putting him in rhetoric before he's been ready. He's been frustrated - feels the answers aren't there, feels the reading is "boring" (I read that it's too much), and is having trouble getting all the work I assign completed which leads to grounding, frustration and him hating it. Being as honest as possible here. Depends on the kid. His younger sister, I think, would work till her fingers fell off to please me and "finish" all of her work. This guy, if he's not into it, it's not happening without a fight, kwim? All this to say, I'd really look at what he's doing now before placing that big of a workload on 'em. I think the year has alot to do with it also. Year 1 rhetoric - blech. He just couldn't stand the Egyptians and their literature :) It was a tough year. Year 2 may not be much better but hopefully after my post on why do this if there's something easier type thread and the great answers I received on modifying TOG to fit our needs, hopefully we'll see much improvement. One last thing - we've discussed often the idea of switching, ditching etc. with this guy and each and every time he says he has learned sooo much with TOG at the rhetoric level. More than anything ever before. Marcia quotes from Proverbs spare not for their crying. Not telling you one way or the other what I'd do - your kid isn't mine - just sharing our trials (and success that he's learned so much). Prayers for a wise decision. You could always ramp up subjects over time too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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