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OK ladies, dig deep into your experiences and tell me the BEST about homeschooling through high school.
What courses have you and/or your student loved?
What are your favorite teaching/learning processes? (discussion, reading together, movies, hands-on, units, etc.)
What have been the easiest courses - those good enough in order to give more attention to other courses.
What have been the most unique courses - those that help a student to stand out.
What have been your best literature, movies?
What are the fruits of having your high schooler at home?
How have you helped to meet their social needs?
What are your best record-keeping tips?
What are your favorite courses to delegate? Where did you delegate to?
In a few days I'll be firming up plans for my ds's sophomore year and want to open my eyes to new options - to get excited! Share your enthusiasm and anything that you think fits the description BEST! Thanks!
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Oooohhh...can't wait to see the responses.
Mom of a soon to be , at home, eighth grader.
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Well... here goes! I have been through three years of high school.
Loved:
~Fabre science books. They are definitely high school level. My literature hound son and my technical daughter both adored these and learned alot- how to really be observant, to more full appreciated nature, to love spiders and wasps (nice side benefit  ), as well as many other benefits! The reading is beautiful and such a nice break from our modern science texts.
~Jacob's math. They take us more than a year to get through but my kids like/love math and never get tired of the author's voice!
~Piecing together a rich living history/literature course to fit my kids. My son has done an Ancients year and both my dd and son have done a Medieval year.
~Continuing to do some reading aloud!!! They are not too old for this (at least mine still love it). It doesn't happen every day with them as I am busy with the littles, but when it does we feel more connected. This year we shared: The Canterbury Tales (selected!), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Beowulf, and Shakespeare to name a few!
Favourite Processes
~Reading Aloud
~Discussion of Theology with my dh
Easiest to implement
~hmmmm  . Maybe a list! By this age they are pretty independent. Latin would top my hardest to implement!
Unique courses
~Nature Study
~Rabbit Trails with science, history and literature!
~The breadth of our CM life!!
Best Literature
~Old classics mixed with some new reads
~The Illiad, Odyssey and Aeniad as well as ancient Greek plays
~Ivanhoe, Tale of Two Cities (this one tops the list!!), Barnaby Rudge, The Scarlet Letter, The Simmirrilion
~The Lord of the Rings
Fruits
~We pray every morning and are living our life of Faith together
~We attend the Liturgy on Feast days
~Our Lent is able to be a toned down time of academics and increased spiritual attention
~They are individuals- not obsessed with modern culture
~I have two more minions 
Social Needs
~dd takes care of that! She dances professionally!
~Learning Co-op and Shakespeare play troupe
~Honestly though, they like the peace of home still
Record Keeping Tips
~  . (My middle aged brain!!)
Courses to Delegate
~Canadian History! They get together for popcorn and Canadian History with a fellow homeschooling family. The dad teaches it!
~Latin (hoping to outsource this this year. We will go with Lone Pine Latin)
~Writing- I would love to outsource this. I am a science and math person! We have done one Bravewriter course and it was helpful but expensive!!
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Thanks Ann and Kristie. I look forward to spending time on this topic during the next several days.
Love,
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Angie,
Let me first say that what "worked" for each of my high school graduates was different. The first had online courses through Clonlara (then a bargain at less than $100 each per year long course). The second took at least 11 courses through the community college. The third (with significant communication and memory issues) loved the courses we got from The Teaching Company -- so much so that she kept them.
I did do all of history and religion with the first two and all of religion and most of history with the third by devising my own syllabi. Upon reflection, I do realize that these syllabi did best fit my oldest and my third not so much.
>What courses have you and/or your student loved?
Loved? As above, my third child loved the courses we got from The Teaching Company. My oldest didn't necessarily love the online courses she did, but she did love not working with me in those areas. She did enjoy the syllabi I made up. I did enjoy making up those syllabi as well.
>What are your favorite teaching/learning processes? (discussion, reading together, movies, hands-on, units, etc.)
Anything that works?
All of the above?
>What have been the easiest courses - those good enough in order to give more attention to other courses.
That depended on the child -- my mathy children like those best, and my language-oriented child liked the reading courses best. The easiest courses for me, of course, were the online and community college courses.
>What have been the most unique courses - those that help a student to stand out.
Probably the studies based on a child's autistic obsessions. I really did use those to good effect! Japanese mythology anyone?
>What have been your best literature, movies?
Oh heavens. The list would be really long.... but the single book I used most for literature was a Norton anthology. The book most loved by one of my kids was a recent translation of Beowulf. Movies -- anything that correlated with history -- Julius Caesar on screen, El Cid, The Agony and the Ecstasy, etc.
>What are the fruits of having your high schooler at home?
In one case, she admits that she would be in deep, deep trouble now if I hadn't kept her home. (I do not wish to be too specific.) In another case, it was the only way she could earn a high school diploma. (She has serious, serious memory issues along with other problems.)
The youngest (and maybe the middle) of my high school graduates feel(s) sufficiently strongly about hsing that she(they) told me she(they) would never forgive me if I didn't homeschool our youngest.
>How have you helped to meet their social needs? That was hard. We were in 4H primarily for social reasons. There was a wonderful homeschooling teen group for a year or so that really helped. However, we would have done more if we hadn't been dealing with various special needs.
I think that where we live now are many more opportunities for homeschooling teens. We lived in a more rural, isolated area before, and the opportunities for us were much more limited.
>What are your best record-keeping tips? Try to figure how long an "average" lesson for a student in a given area takes. (We had to keep track of how many hours each of our kids spent in a given area unless they were using a standard text or one of the online courses or a community college course.) Use the average rather than trying to keep track of the minutes in each subject each day for each student. I also printed out a weekly assignment sheet and checked off each assignment when done. I put the sheet at the end of the week into my portfolio binder, and that was a record of what had been accomplished.
>What are your favorite courses to delegate? Where did you delegate to?
Any course a child resists is one I'd like to delegate.....
Clonlara Compuhigh and the community college were the two main resources for delegation. I can't say that I delegated the courses from TTC really; she required my assistance in those courses as well. It's just that she could watch the lectures repeatedly, and that was helpful. (She also enjoyed the lectures which was also great.)
Fwiw,
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