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As I read through the posts, mention is mostly made of younger children. In several posts over the past few weeks it sounds like some of you send your older children to school. It seems that in the high school years real learning would bear fruit in a child who was excited to learn and who would take ownership, to some degree, of their own education. I'm wondering how many of you continue with real learning in the later years. I find that we have returned to it after a few years that seemed to demand more  textbooks than I would like.
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My oldest is 15, and we are still "Real Learning" with her. The only text books she uses are for math.
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MacBeth, can you summarize what your kid's schooling looked like this year? I'm all over the place about what I want to do for my 13 year old next fall.
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Sure, Bridget...but the music schedule makes it a bit "customized".
Basically, we tried to make good use of train time this year, with lots of books on tape, and several lectures on tape.
For history, for instance, she listened to How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, and followed the reading with a lecture by the author.
She did her chem (using the Camelot primer and several chem kits, along with the Castle Heights Press lab book) two days a week, on her "down" days. We added The Teaching Company Chem...but only the audio component.
Math was Algebra II/Trig using the Forester text. Fortunately, she likes math, and just does it almost daily. I am hoping she will finish so she dos not have to take the text with her this summer.
English has been lots of reading or books-on-tape followed by discussion and narration, as well as lit crit (questions by MacBeth  ).
German is still covered by the after-school program--she "graduates" from this program in June (first in her class  ).
She has also been plowing through all the SAT material she can find, in her spare time.
Now if only I could get her to remember to do the dishes... 
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Thanks! I have not really been a true 'real learning' type mom, but I'm thinking that as they get older the kids can do so much more on their own. Do their own research, follow their own rabbit trails, plan their own projects. I am seeing much more initiative and interest in things in my older kids than I expected.
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We do. Our oldest three sons are homeschool graduates but the only texts they used in high school were for maths and science book for a framework - oh, and one loved Saxon Physics.
My two current high schoolers ( nearly 15 and 17) still do not use texts as a rule. Lots of reading and reading whole books or other sources and still hands on stuff too.
Right now we are on a Science focus. Alexander ( 14, will be 15 in July) is building a motor, a working model of a hovercraft and a battery. He has researched these projects and the physics principles involved and has written reports on each, explaining the physics.
Next month, we have a focus on Australian Studies - we are reading the My Story books and following up with research and writing and projects.
Its sort of like Elizabeth's reading list in the book Real Learning - we too have a monthly focus and reading.
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We're nearing the high school years with one of our children and I was wondering, how do you figure high school credits for Real Learning? Do you use Kolbe? Are your goals even college for your children? My oldest isn't sold on the idea of college but I want him to have the credits if he changes his mind.
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Maddie, our goals have includede/do include colleg/university. But we don't have to keep credits here in Australia so I just keep a log and the kids maintain a portfolio and we write up "reports" based on the education dept standards for the senior high school years.These standards also let us know what is typcially covered for pre-university study.
Hopefuly someone from the US will jump in!
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Maddie, my oldest graduated from high school with a sort of Kolbe/Real Learning transcript. He used some textbooks, like Apologia Chemistry and Physics for science. He broke up the science text work with books from MacBeth's Science Opinion
We read Kolbe's booklists and went off on rabbit trails -- eg doing a unit on drama after he read the Greek tragedies. Kolbe integrates Religion/History/Literature and we like to use their booklist as a starting point.
He studied Latin and Greek independently, and Foerster's for Alg2/Trig.
Yes, college was definitely his goal and he is doing well there.
I am doing it somewhat differently with my 2 highschoolers now -- rather more loosely, because they are different types. So far it hasn't been difficult to keep records of what they are doing and have it fit college-transcript standards, but they have not applied to colleges yet so this is still experimental.
Around here in CA there is always the fallback of going to community college before going to a university, so that's an option for them.
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[QUOTE=Leonie] oh, and one loved Saxon Physics.
This amazes me My ds,age 17, threatened to throw it out the window! He's doing very well with the Teaching Company's Pyhsics in Your Life series (a gift from a thoughtful uncle).
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Shari in NY wrote:
[QUOTE=Leonie] oh, and one loved Saxon Physics.
This amazes me My ds,age 17, threatened to throw it out the window! Shari in NY |
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Its funny - but this son ( Nicholas, son number three ) was the least academic as a young teen - but grew to love Saxon Maths and wanted me to buy him the Physics, too. You never can tell!
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Topic: Are you using Real Learning with ages 14+
