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| kila_koka |
| Posted on: September 25th, 2006, 7:49pm |
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My sister and neice who is 15 have decided to homeschool.
Does anyone know of a good place to start for high school cirriculum and such?
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Jill |
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| mudpuppy |
| Posted on: October 8th, 2006, 10:50pm |
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| Hello Jill. I'm a 14 yr. "retired" homeschooling mom. Both my kids are grown now, one currently in college and one graduated, married and in graduate school. So I've been through the high school years pretty much successfully. The type of curriculum your sister chooses should really depend on how confident she feels. There are homeschool curriculums that are very structured and include all the basics and require very little active input from parents. But there are lots of parents who put together their own curriculum based on what they know about their children's learning styles, personalities, etc as well as what they have learned or heard about the resources available. An example of a good place to start is to order the Rainbow Resource catalog. It is a very extensive homeschool catalog. It has an online version, but it is very condensed. The hard copy is much, much better. It will list just about every resource out there for every subject imagineable. If your sister doesn't choose a complete curriculum, my advise would be to check out Saxon for math and Apologia (a Christian based science curriculum) for science. Even if she is not a Christian, the Apologia sciences are really excellent and not too heavily evangelical. There are, of course, other good options for these subjects. Once a student is in high school, basic grammar has usually been covered and most language arts subjects center on literature. Homeschool resources are usually brimming with good literature recomendations. For social studies, there are the basics: World History, U.S. History and Government. But homeschoolers can also find lots of curriculum material for Civics and other social studies topics as well. Latin and Greek are good topics to add to a curriculum, as they enrich any language arts, vocabulary or religious subject. There are really too many resources to list, so I suggest checking out Rainbow or one of the other homeschool curriculum catalogs. A google search should turn up a fair number of options. Good luck to your sister and neice. |
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| Posted on: October 9th, 2006, 2:36am |
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Hi Jill, the web site for Rainbow Resources is http://www.rainbowresource.com. I second the recommendation of this web site (and catalog). The catalog is an education in itself to browse through.
If your sister and niece prefer a distance learning program from an accredited school (which would offer transcripts and diploma upon completion), you might check our some of the schools on the internet that offer that. (Try googling "high school distance learning".) A few I can think of off the top of my head are K12 and Oak Meadow.
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Elizabeth
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