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Has anyone had any experience with Sonlight's 530 - British Literature?
I'd love to know what you thought of it.
Or perhaps you would recommend something else for a formal English course for an 11th grader?
Reading through old chats I notice MariB puts her own course together and Caroline creates her own too.
What do you all do?
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My daughter, a junior in college, took Sonlight's British Literature class and did not like it at all. She had enjoyed all of the other Sonlight curriculum that she had used. To be honest, though, I am not sure if it was Sonlight or British Literature that she did not like. She did not give up on the course but it was definitely her least favorite high school class.
My son took AP English Language from PA homeschoolers his senior year (an online class) and even though it was tough, he really learned a lot.
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No experience - but we are probably doing this in 11th or 12th - though I really really object to Lord of the Flies and I don't care for Chaucer either. (I really disliked these in high school)
Are you going to do British History at the same time?
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I've never heard of this, is it international?
Marilyn
Not really, although she reads so much I daresay she'll pick up more along the way 
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A friend of mine used it and her biggest complaint was the lack of real help to facilitate discussion. She felt the notes on the works were just not sufficient. I wish I could see a manual.
I think it is very easy to put together something like this with one's favorite works. Sparknotes is free for help understanding novels. For Catholic works, both CHC and Margot at Hillside have individual novel studies. Jen (MackFam) also pointed out to me that Ignatius is writing novel guides now, too. 
As a former die hard Sonlighter, the overall impression I am left with is that SL tends to complicate things that don't need to be quite that complicated. 12 books, 3 weeks per book to study, narrate, artistically represent and test if you are into that, etc and then maybe a small poetry study concurrently?
I am doing something rather unconventional for my first dd's high school. We are doing British lit and history first, and then following it with US and World history. I beefed up Serendipity's Lit for the Young Lady plans with a TC dvd for the history and added in a few more high school level works. We are also doing the Serendipity Shakespeare unit with the TC dvd and I tweaked that unit just a little bit too. (This will be three credits, 2 in literature and one in history.) Given that she will have both US and World History, I'm not concerned that her focus on British history will be a narrower time period. What is so interesting about the Victorian Era is that it was at the height of the time where the sun never set on the British Empire. We are going to focus on that aspect in comparison to Greece and Rome.
I looked at many lists of British Lit. classes online. There really is no rhyme or reason to them. So I chose what I thought was perfect for my dd for this first year of high school. The more intense and dark works I will save for World Lit. where I can revisit British lit. along with other works.
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I finally signed my children up for Homeschool Connections Online Recorded Classes they look very promising. For $30/month we have unlimited access for all recorded classes  when I figure I'm using it with two children, and when I had researched other options I believe the cost to be excellent.
My dd16 in particular will be doing several courses with them including several of the literature ones. They get the course material, can see the recorded presenter, its just it's no longer live. So no feedback but that is fine.
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This looks neat, Erin. I've never seen it before. Thanks for sharing!
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You're welcome
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Erin,
I have it sitting here waiting for later. I'd be happy to put it into a 3k bag for you to look through if that would help. Just let me know. I will be on hols for the next week.
BTW, did you get my emails answering yours? I sent several but didn't hear back and wasn't sure you got them.
I was actually going to pm you from here but then saw this post and so killed two birdies...
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