Please critigue my 10th grade schedule........

[LearnFromHome]

English II:
Grammar - A Beka Grammar 9th grade (he's behind in grammar)
Vocabulary - Root Words B1-B2
Composition - Home2Teach

Mathematics:
Algebra II - A Fresh Approach to Algebra by Walters

Science:
Earth Science - Astronomy Today

Social Studies:
World History by Western Civilization

Foreign Language:
Spanish - SOS

Electives:
World Literature I - Smarr
Speech - The Thinking Toolbox, & Toastmaster

And maybe drivers Ed. - he's not really looking forward to this class.

Thanks for looking!
Judy

[Chris in VA]

I don't know some of your materials, but

Abeka is rec'd by SWB, so, great choice in my book.
We used Astronomy Today with great success--supplement by actually looking at the sky.
Smarr Lit is supposed to be really good
World History? Do you mean you are using Spielvogel's Western Civ? Good choice if so--Ancients? Medieval?
I have not heard good things about SOS Spanish, but it's a ymmv choice
Toastmaster is strong, Thinking Toolbox goes well with Fallacy Detective, if you want to beef it up.
We used an online Driver's Ed that worked well, and now ds is taking behind the wheel.

[Maverick]

It looks very similar to my son's plan for next year. We are using some different materials but mostly the subjects and amount of work are parallel. My ds will also be working on A Beka 9th grade grammar next year. :tongue_smilie: He did more than half of it this year but I finally had to drop it so he could catch up in some other subjects. We use Vocab for the High School Student instead of Word Roots and a Great Books class at co-op for composition, so pretty similar. I am not familiar with that Alg II text, we are using Foerster's Algebra and Trig for Algebra II. We're doing Conceptual Physics--ds doesn't want to do astronomy. I'm not familiar with your social studies choice. I think we are just going to do some context papers for our great books and some reading from SWB's Ancient History book. I've heard the SOS Spanish I and II are good but the Secondary Spanish is a bit light. I dont know which course you're looking at using. I was hoping ds would choose to do Spanish in high school but he wants to continue his Latin studies instead. I think he made that choice just so I couldn't help him. :D We're also doing a speech/debate class at co-op. I don't know when we are going to fit in driver's ed.--probably next spring. Your schedule looks realistic & well-rounded to me! Any art and/or music? We fit that in occasionally w/ concerts and museum visits but it is not a course I schedule or do for credit.

English II:
Grammar - A Beka Grammar 9th grade (he's behind in grammar)
Vocabulary - Root Words B1-B2
Composition - Home2Teach

Mathematics:
Algebra II - A Fresh Approach to Algebra by Walters

Science:
Earth Science - Astronomy Today

Social Studies:
World History by Western Civilization

Foreign Language:
Spanish - SOS

Electives:
World Literature I - Smarr
Speech - The Thinking Toolbox, & Toastmaster

And maybe drivers Ed. - he's not really looking forward to this class.

[LearnFromHome]

Maverick,

Thank you for your response - it really gives me a peace of mind knowing that I have my schedule covered and not overloading my student.

Thank you!
Judy