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teachingmyown
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Posted: Oct 06 2009 at 11:49am | IP Logged Quote teachingmyown
I love the outline for high school from AO but I am kind of at a loss as to how to implement it. Does anyone follow the plans? Do you just assign narrations or papers for some of the reading?

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Posted: Oct 06 2009 at 4:44pm | IP Logged Quote Kristie 4
This is where I always fail with AO- love the books (although the upper years need to be really tweaked for us as we are Canadian) but my children look at me glassy-eyed if I request narration after narration. So this next year when we use a modified year 7 (for my 10th and 8th grader at that point) I will have an essay or two a month and alternate those with the narrations. The narrations will also be more specific (CM has ideas for this in her writings)- ie. writing in a different tense, outlining and rewriting a speech etc. The AO site says to have narrations for EVERY reading (but not all written ones). All I can say is that if I required that here my poor children would begin to loathe those lovely books pretty quick! But the years we used more of an AO outline I did love the books all read at a slow pace together. Seemed to work really well for ds14 and I am looking forward to continuing it next year (this year is a Greek year!).

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Posted: Oct 12 2009 at 7:25am | IP Logged Quote Shell
To be honest I dip into rather than follow AO now my daughter is 15. She is semi- Charlotte Mason and more Autonomous now. Although I look at AO for books she can read and study we tend to plan her education more towards her interests than what AO prescribes. For the books she does some narration (oral or written) some general review -character analysis or a commentary.
Don't know if that is any use to you.
I stick to most of it for my 6yr old (garde 1).
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Posted: Oct 12 2009 at 2:28pm | IP Logged Quote wahoo92
Hi Molly,

We use AO, but my oldest is in sixth grade, so I can't address your specific question. I did want to make sure that you are aware of the AO Yahoo Group House of Education Online (HEO) that focuses specifically on implementing AO in the middle and high school years. I'm sure there are a lot of ideas there from moms that have been there and who are there and doing it! I subscribe to the two Yahoo Groups, AO and Amble Ramble for the younger years, and they have been a wealth of information from scheduling to implementation questions, narration and writing concerns etc.
Never have figured out how to link, but the site for more information on HEO is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/house-of-education/

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