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Barb.b
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Posted: March 28 2012 at 11:20am \| IP Logged

So, if you used this - talk to me about it! Looking online - I am still confused as to how this works! I don't use a pre packed curriculum for high school - so I think it will work for me there. So, what basically is it?

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Posted: March 28 2012 at 12:05pm \| IP Logged

I would describe it as an idea book, Barb. It's like a directory of a huge number of possible high-school courses, both core classes and electives, each listing including lists of books and resources (including online resources) and possible projects and essay/research topics.

There are no lesson plans, though they have templates for working out yearly/weekly courses of study. The onus is on the parent and, especially, the student, to work out schedules of work. In fact, they strongly emphasize cooperation between parent and student to design the student's program.

I have found it helpful in these ways:

* It gave me a realistic overview of an entire high-school course of study. You really do have to think about *all* of high school from the beginning (and the earlier the better, in my experience), so as not to be caught out by unmet graduation/college requirements at the end. (really, you're the one determining your "graduation requirements," of course, but especially for college admissions, as you know, you've got to have convincing-looking stuff to put on the transcript.)

*It gave my daughter and me ideas for interesting electives, though in truth, we never got to some of the most interesting ones. There just weren't enough hours in the day.

*I can make up, say, an integrated English/history course on my own, but economics? I pulled from their list of suggested reading and gave my daughter a choice of essay topics straight from their listings, and that was econ for us. She's currently taking college econ, and it's rather a different animal from what we did, but she's doing well in the class, so that worked out pretty nicely, I think.

A friend of mine has my copy right now, but I'll definitely get it back to use for my rising 9th-grader. For those who don't need/want actual, prepared lesson plans but like to have some guidance, plus a wealth of resources gathered at their fingertips, this is a great thing to have, in my view.

Sally

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