Curriculum for older teens

[sunshine79]

Hello all. :wave

My daughter will be in 10th grade and is currently enrolled in a home school that picks the curriculum and keeps track of her grades etc. I am thinking of taking her out of this home school and picking everything myself.

Where in the world do I start? :idunno There's so much info out there that it's easy to get bogged down with all of it. I want to make sure she's learning what she should be learning but I don't agree with everything she has to do where she is enrolled at now. It's just a personal opinion of some things that I don't think are necessary.

If anyone can give me some websites to search or tell me what has worked for them, I will be very grateful!

Thank you in advance.

Sheryl

[imfree]

Hi there. :wave

I found this:

www.doe.in.gov/core40/pdf/Core40DiplReqsComp.pdf

It is the high school credit requirements for the state of Indiana. Thought it might give you a starting point to work from.

And don't worry. Take a deep breath, pray always, and God will give you wisdom. :nod :hug

[sunshine79]

Thanks! I will check it out.

[Reason&Hope]

The biggest, most comprehensive resource for homeschooling materials is the Rainbow Resource Catalog. You can order one (it's over 2 inches thick!), or you can go to their website. They have excellent, thoughtful reviews and an excellent index. It's an education just looking through the catalog!

http://www.rainbowresource.com/index.php
You can request a catalog through their website.

I homeschool 3 kids, this year teaching 11th, 9th and 7th grades, so I can give you lots of specific advice about curriculums I've used or discarded, and why. What subject would you like to begin with?

[sunshine79]

Thanks for the website you mentioned. I think I will send for their catalog. I will pm you some questions if you don't mind. I'll try to do it this evening after work.

Sheryl

[Reason&Hope]

Thanks for the website you mentioned. I think I will send for their catalog. I will pm you some questions if you don't mind. I'll try to do it this evening after work.

Sheryl

Sure. Glad to help.

[booklover]

This year we are doing some courses from the teaching company. They have times when there courses go on sale, so don't ever pay full price. My son is doing chemistry for high schoolers. It is a DVD with a workbook. He likes it. He doesn't like the Saxon math DIVE DVD for Algebra 2 though. The DVD is just a Whiteboard, and he wants to see a person!

We are also doing "How the world works"--geology, and "Great works of the western world"--Literature, and a couple of DVD courses on classical music and opera.
I like having a presentation that we can explore in depth after the class. I'm leaning a lot. Did you know that volcanoes impacted the changes in government at the time of the French Revolution? Crop failure from cold summers! I love what I learn in Homeschooling!


Warning--We just did Genesis and the Deuteronomic history in the literature course, and have had to discuss higher criticism. Evidence that demands a verdict is great to explain JEDP and all the "scholarship" that tears down a belief in Mosaic authorship of the Torah. We also talk about "billions of years" statements that are presented as fact in the Earth science DVDs.

[CircleSlide]

Sorry it took me so long to respond school started this past week and I have been getting into the swing of things.

I have a 10th grader we are doing a lot of different things such as:

Geometry - Life of Fred (literature based program, written like a novel, so far she loves this!)
Chemistry - Exploring Creation through Chemistry - I am going to have her tutored as well.
Latin Road to Grammar
Lit. - Classics ( we just downloaded a list and she is reading off of it, she is a veracious reader!)
Psychology - MIT offers all their courses free on-line and she is taking it there, I thought it would be a good idea to get here used to some college courses under her belt!
Spanish - Rosetta Stone
US History - we are going to be studying the Constitution but not until the second semester.

** she is also going to be taking her ACT this spring so she is studing for that as well.

As you can see I like to pick and choose my classes. I hope that helps in some way!

[Reason&Hope]

Hey, Circleslide!
I checked out the Life of Fred books on RainbowResource.com. They sound really intriguing. It sounds perfect for my non-mathy soon-to-be-freshman daughter. We'd been planning on doing Abeka Consumer Math before she takes algebra, but this might be a better solution.

Booklover, we've done a couple of Teaching Company courses too. The best one was probably Linwood Thompson's World History. We used it as the frame of the course, with my son supplementing with other reading and writing.

[CircleSlide]

ohhhh I love Rainbow Resources!!! They have s much excellent information on their site! So far we are loving Life of Fred!