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Posted: Aug 14 2009 at 7:37am \| IP Logged

For those who have watched it: I have listened to the first 3-4 lectures. Does anyone implement the learning journal he suggests. I know lost of people who love this series but I just can't see implementing the learning journal. That seems more for kids who are in a class outside of home and have lectures (which mine don't). I have my kids take notes on text book readings and underline and do the annotated reading style he suggests already - so, is it worth it to watch? We are already going to be watching history dvds and if this isn't worth it for a strictly homeschool environmnent then I won't have the kids watch it. Please share your experiences and opinions of this for homeschoolers.

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Posted: Aug 14 2009 at 8:11am \| IP Logged

I think it's well worth it. You've already said you are going to be watching the History DVDs. Those are lectures

. And they are great for practicing the techniques in Superstar Student, which can then be applied later when your highschooler is a college student. I wouldn't skip any of it. As a matter of fact, we're about to do the whole series with the third child next week.

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Posted: Aug 14 2009 at 10:36am \| IP Logged

Good news. I have Superstar Student on my shelf and need to sit with my son to watch soon.

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Well, I knew deep down that ds should watch this. I was being a bit of a coward because I knew he would balk at the idea of taking notes during the dvd especially. He already has started taking notes during his history ready - however they are a bit sparse. I know he does just a very little he can to appease me! Well, Hopefully these dvds will inspire! Thank you for encouraging me to watch them with him - it was the push I needed to get paste the whine that will come (actually he doesn't whine - he kind of grunts. Thankfully - I think this technique is right up my 6th grader ds alley. She takes good notes about her textbook reading and we have a TTC history dvd for her to watch too. Ds is watching the History of the U.S. (with 3 different college profs) and dd is watching Early Am. history by Linwood thompson. So, Elizabeth you are right - time for them to use the learning journal. I even have various unused binders to choose from!

Sorry for this being so long. One last question - ds dislikes binders for notes but loves spiral notebooks - do you think the learning journal would still work. He could still divide the right page for text and dvd notes and leave the facing blank for later. I like binders better. But. . . I may want to choose my battles.

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we just started them...I think there's some stuff well worth it in them. Things that *I* think are common sense, but might only be common sense because I'm 36 and not an inexperienced 14 yr old.

Things like how to make a master schedule.
Things like waiting until after class to speak to the teacher to avoid ridicule or annoying the teacher.

That's what we've managesd so far. I watched the parent part at the end first, then the schedule thing, and now we are starting at lesson 1 with son together.

I personally hate the notion of having a "learning journal" and pretty much anything else that comes anywhere near being similiar in any way to a diary. I've always refused to do it and probably always will. I remember getting an "F" on every weekly personal journalling assignment in 5th grade I disliked it so much, so I'm thinking that is one of those personality issues that isn't going to change anytime soon. My blog is probably as close as I will ever come to it.

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Martha, Watch the learning journal part, its not what you think. It is really a system for taking notes from a textbook and then at a class lecture (or in my case dvd). I definitely think the systems he shows will work for college classes, so I am thinking of ds starting now to make it a habit (only thing is he may not agree)!

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Posted: Aug 14 2009 at 6:14pm \| IP Logged

You're right! It's much better than I thought when we did it this afternoon. I'm holding judgement for after the next couple of lessons.

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