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Barb.b
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Posted: March 10 2010 at 9:32pm \| IP Logged

Am thinking of Voc. and composition and the junior high literature for my dd next year. Any reviews?

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Posted: March 10 2010 at 10:09pm \| IP Logged

So I am confused: I see I can enroll in a single course. But I also can just order the books, plans . . .So what is the advantage of single course enrollment (I am interested in voc/comp and junior high lit) - is it that I have the option for the grading service? Not sure what I want.

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Posted: March 11 2010 at 9:00pm \| IP Logged

I'm not going to enroll, but I am going to purchase the lesson plans and the study guide books. I think it all depends on how confident you feel about teaching literature. Kolbe would provide support if you want to make sure all the bases are covered.

I'm a former English teacher.... you do the math! :-)

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Posted: March 12 2010 at 10:01am \| IP Logged

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. DD writes well, so I don't feel I need too much help in the area of grading. I thing to lesson plans and study guide books will be good. We have been doing Seton reading for the last couple of years and frankly could use a break from sending in things to be graded!

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Posted: March 12 2010 at 6:05pm \| IP Logged

From what I understand you can:

* buy books/course plans/study guides and implement them on your own, keep your own records

* enroll in single course
- you still need to buy books/course plans/study guides
- Kolbe provide recordkeeping/transcript

* fully enroll
- you receive all course plans/quarterly tests for all subjects in that level
- send in quarterly reports, generally a sample for each subject
- can ask for feedback
- Kolbe provide recordkeeping/transcript
- you still buy books/study guides

* EES is an optional extra service, pay an extra fee on top of enrollment fee
- you can send in 12 samples per quarter for detailed feedback.

We use the Junior High Lit. program - it is very thorough !

You could just go the study guides, but the course plans do provide extra information, like detailed chapter outlines for teacher use, literary analysis worksheets/definitons, written assignment topics, book report helps.

Having said all that, Kolbe place a suggested time frame for studying a book (eg.5 weeks) - we always take longer.

As far as vocab and comp - at the moment we're using something different.

Hope that helps. We're fully enrolled but don't do EES.

Emily.

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