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CatholicMommy
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Posted: July 23 2012 at 7:43am \| IP Logged

OYAN on Homeschool Buyers Co-Op

This one looks so great - and my son really wants it (he's 8, not 8th grade, so I'm making him wait...). Perhaps if enough people order it, I could join too? ;) hehe

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Posted: July 24 2012 at 11:51am \| IP Logged

We used it this year. It really is best suited for High School. I would say 9th grade is the perfect fit.

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Posted: July 25 2012 at 9:53am \| IP Logged

We did it for 8th grade this past year. It was an excellent fit for a kid with basically good writing who needed to learn to extend himself and commit to a long-term project. IMO it's the perfect bridge from middle school writing (concentration on sentence/paragraph-level writing) to sustaining something longer and more intricately structured. It's also excellent for developing the student's senses as an analytical reader of fiction -- when I was a student in a graduate creative writing program, the lit profs all loved us because we read, wrote, and did criticism like writers, and this is an age-appropriate version of that same idea! We read Great Expectations and David Copperfield this past year, and my son and I had some interesting conversations about how Pip and David were/were not adventure-novel heroes, and how those novels did/did not fit that paradigm. I'm glad to have this idea in the background as we head into a year of Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, etc.

I like this program for an advanced middle-school, VERY early high-school student, because of the way it teaches the sustaining of ideas and the structuring of a longer piece of writing. From there it's very easy to teach structured formal writing, as in essays and research papers. I felt comfortable counting it as our composition course for 8th grade; for high school I think I'd probably count it as a creative-writing elective, though of course it really is teaching composition. Overall, though it's great on its own, I think it has serious value as a tool for transitioning into the greater demands of advanced formal writing.

I tried to get everyone I knew to order it last year from the co-op -- one of my friends wound up getting it, but the price stayed the same. It was still a good deal, and very worth it in terms of what we got out of it.

Sally

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