Huge favor! Can you list what your 8th or 9th grader is doing?

[Holly IN]

A bit of background:

My ds thinks I am making him do too much!! :glare: Actually I find that not to be true. I do require a lot though.

Can you list what your 8th or 9th grader is doing for school? Thanks!!

Holly IN

[FloridaLisa]

Here you go:

8th grader:
Bible: 1st semester: I Samuel, 2nd semester: Shorter Catechism (plus memory work and personal devotions)

Math: Saxon Alg. I

Latin: Latin I (on-line)

History: American History using BJU

Science: Biology w/ lab using Apologia

English: Literature Tutorial, Daily Grams Jr./Sr. High, Sentence Composing for High School, finishing Shurley 7

Shakespeare: 2nd semester: Hamlet

Competitive Debate
Competitive Speech

Extracurricular: Basketball, Youth Group, Choir

And my 9th grader:

Bible: 1st semester: I Samuel, 2nd semester: Shorter Catechism, plus memory work and personal devotions

Math: Saxon Alg. II

Latin: Latin II (online)

Social Science: AP US Government and Politics

Science: Biology w/ lab using Apologia

English: Literature Tutorial, Sentence Composing for High School, Vocab for the High School Student

Shakespeare: 2nd semester: Hamlet

Competitive Debate
Competitive Speech

Extracurricular: Voice, Pure Fashion Model, debate/speech student leader, assistant to director for statewide Yes2marriage, lots of babysitting (!)

HTH,
Lisa

[Jenny in Florida]

http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76549&highlight=%229th+grader%22

[Mad Jenny Flint]

VFCR level C/D
Analytical Grammar (yr. 2 of 2 year plan)
literature readings chosen from WTM list (most of these) plus a few extra
IEW (2nd year- also using SWI-B video lessons)- we make up alternative lessons to go with each, use Jill Pike's curriculum outline, and supplement with history and science papers from those readings
Lial's Introductory Algebra
history readings: Story of the World, History of US Books 6-10, selected Kingfisher Encyclopedia readings
Henle Latin (finishing up latin I credit, moving into latin II credit in spring)
Physical Science a la WTM- using How Science Works, Real Science for Kids Physics, and The Way Things Work

Electric Guitar 30+ min./day
game coding (this is his baby)
community theatre

I think this sums it up.

Thought you might like to see 9th grade plans, as well: (6 courses, each followed by a blank line)

Vocabulary for the College Bound Student
Literature readings from WTM list, minus some, plus some
(Teaching company- Illiad, Odyssey, arguments, and writing courses)
IEW lesson plans designed by me, suited to his needs (interspersed with the above)

Exploring Life Biology (Campbell- not the big one or the AP one- the high school one) with separate labs from Castle Heights, study workbook and writing

Spielvogel Western Civilization using Guided Reading and Study Workbooks plus online activities and quizzes and writing assignments

Henle Latin First Year, second section (for Latin II credit)

Spanish Breaking the Barrier and Rosetta Stone

How to Understand and Listen to Great Music and another music course from Teaching company- forget the title- as we can over the course of high school
Electric Guitar practice and lessons with dh

extras:
game coding (hobby)
community theatre

[Ailaena]

8th Grade

Math: Algebra 2 & Trig

English: Voyages in English 8, Word within the Word 2

Science: Chemistry w/lab 1st sem at CC, 2nd sem organic/biochem/prepare for SAT subject test

Logic: Critical Thinking Books 1 & 2

Lumped together: US History, American Literature, Critical Thinking Through US History, assorted vidoes, prep for SAT Subtest and I think we will end up with 11 novels (ranging from Johnny Tremain and Huck Finn to The Scarlet Letter and The Jungle)

French: French 201 and 202 CC (insane teacher is trying to cover a complete 201/202 book in one semester this semester!! I don't know what she was thinking, the work is ridiculous and it is only the 2nd week of classes!)

Fun classes: Art and Archaeology in Ancient Egypt and Group Piano at the CC

Competitive gymnastics
Competitive climbing (not crazy competitive hours like gymnastics, just loves the competitions, plus there is very little preparation on our part, just normal climbing when we can)


I probably didnt help your case. It's not really much, but the workload from the French class is seriously gigantic. I don't know what she was thinking considering half the class hasn't even bought the book yet and the other half is older (60+) people. I shouldn't complain, at least I know dd will be prepared for higher level French. If she doesn't burn out:glare:

[Ame E.]

#1
Saxon Algebra I
Apologia Physical Science
Lightning Literature - American Literature
outside American history class
Rod & Staff Grammar - 9
Wordly Wise 3000 - book 6
Our Goal and Guide - religion
Latin 200 through Lone Pine Classical School
violin
orchestra
drawing
French (8 week course)
Drama (12 week course)

#2
Lial's elementary algebra
Apologia Physical Science
Kolbe Literature with some other things
outside American history
Rod & Staff Grammar
Worldly Wise 3000 - book 6
Our Goal and Guide - Relgion
Latin 200 through Lone Pine Classical School
piano lesson
chamber music
French 8 week course
drama (12 week course)

[Lori D.]

- School takes about 5 hours a day (usually between the hours of 9:30-3:30).
- PE (2 hours/week) is done outside of those hours.
- Solo reading (1 hour/week) is also done outside of those hours, usually in the evening.

Also, about 2 Fridays a month we only school for about 2 hours in order to participate in a Public Speaking class, homeschool Student Council, or other homeschool group activity. He also attends high school church Youth Group on Wednesday evenings. Video gaming/online time is limited to 1-2 hours for each day of Fri/Sat/Sun.


BIBLE (1 credit):
the Bible

ENGLISH (1 credit):
Literature: Lightning Lit 8
Writing: Wordsmith; weekly timed essay for SAT practice; monthly longer paper
Spelling: Megawords; and individualized spelling
Grammar: Winston Advanced (instruction); Chortling Bard (grammar mechanics practice)
Vocabulary: fell by the wayside this year

MATH (1 credit):
Jacobs Algebra (spine)
Math-U-See Algebra (supplement)

SCIENCE (.5 credit):
half of Apologia Biology

HEALTH (.5 credit):
Total Health

HISTORY: 20th Century World (1 credit):
- Spielvogel Human Odyssey (about 440 pages)
- selections from other books (about 200 pages)
- solo read 6-8 historical fiction works in the year
- write a "decade report" once every 6-8 weeks
- jot down 20 time line events (short sentence) per decade, once a month

PE (.5 credit):
- tennis, swim laps, Dance Revolution with TV/dance pad; etc.

ELECTIVE: The Great Books (.5 credit)
- 6 works, read aloud/discuss all together
- go over lit. guide together
- short writing response to each


COMMUNITY SERVICE: 25 hours per year
- participate in homeschool group community service projects
- house/pet sit for neighbors
- yard work for elderly family or neighbors
- Sunday School assistant at church

[Holly IN]

Lori

I have a question about the English credit. Are you assigning one credit total for all those classes or just 1 credit per class/course?

A big thanks about the gaming time because we limit to 1 hour per day on Sat and Sun only!! So thanks for that tidbit!


Thanks
Holly

[Kathie in VA]

my 8th grade dd list:

LA: Classical Writing-Aesop/Homer for Older Beginners
Hist/Lit: Sonlight's core 100: American History in Depth
Science: Apologia's General Science
math: Lial's Basic College Math
logic: Debate and Speech co-op class
spelling: Apples Daily Spelling drills
foreign lang.: Rosetta Stone

soccer team in fall/spring.
rock climbing when allowed for fun

hth (I asked this same question last year!)

[Lizzie in Ma]

Civics: Hendrick's Under God with Review questions and discussion
Logic?Rhetoric: The Argument Builder
Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra with Home Companion
Latin Prep 3
Greek Morphemes for SAT prep
History: Truthquest AOR 2 and 3 with Human Odyssey, living books and teaching company lectures, monthly papers
Lightning Lit 8
BJU Physical Science with DVDs
Co-op class in writing and literary analysis using IEW and Stobaugh, weekly papers required
piano lessons and daily practice

[ereks mom]

Our school day runs from approximately 9:00 AM-2:00 PM (sometimes longer, but rarely shorter) with a break for lunch, and EK usually has about a half-hour of "homework" (usually in math, science, and/or literature).

She participates in extra-curricular activities for 1-3 hours each afternoon/evening on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. We also plan for her to resume piano lessons (teacher currently on extended maternity leave) and begin private voice lessons in the near future, which will add lesson time and practice time to her schedule.


Monday

BJU Algebra 1
Apologia Physical Science
R&S Grammar 7
Latin (Phenomenon of Language)
R&S Bible 7
Literature (eclectic -- short stories, modern classics, etc.)
State History
Extra-curricular: EK reviews Latin by helping me tutor a younger child in beginning Latin.

Tuesday

BJU Algebra 1
Apologia Physical Science
R&S Bible 7
Literature
Small Group Co-op (12:00-2:00 PM with a group of 5 other girls)
Activities usually include one or more of the following:
Literature Circle, Writing Workshop, Grammar Review, Art/Craft Project
Extra-curricular: Community Theater for Youth (drama class)

Wednesday

BJU Algebra 1
Apologia Physical Science
R&S Grammar 7
Latin (Phenomenon of Language)
R&S Bible 7
Literature (eclectic -- short stories, modern classics, etc.)
State History
Extra-curricular: Choral Music rehearsal, Youth Bible Study

Thursday

BJU Algebra 1
Apologia Physical Science
Latin (Phenomenon of Language)
State History
Small Group Co-op (12:00-2:00 PM with a group of 5 other girls)
Activities usually include one or more of the following:
Literature Circle, Writing Workshop, Grammar Review, Art/Craft Project


Friday

"Catch-up Day" for anything not completed Monday-Thursday
Occasional field trips or special events with our Small Group Co-op

[Lori D.]

I have a question about the English credit. Are you assigning one credit total for all those classes or just 1 credit per class/course?


We're assigning one credit total per subject; the things listed below the all caps subject heading are just a more specific breakdown of what we do or use to add up to equal that 1 credit. We came to that 1 credit assignment for English based on looking at what is covered in typical high school English classes (reading, writing and grammar), PLUS, taking into account about how much time we spend on those various aspects of English.

For example, *generally*, if you're "counting hours" for credits, 120-180 school hours = 1 credit. That comes out to about 4-5 hours a week (assuming a 36 week school year) for 1 credit.

We spend about 4-5 hours/week on English topics when we add them all up, so that's 1 credit:
- Lightning Lit = 30 min/day x 4 days week = 2 hours
- Writing = 30 min/day x 4 days week = 2 hours
- Grammar = 10 min/day x 3 days/week = .5 hour
- Spelling = 10 min/day x 4 days/ week ~ .5 hour


Hope that answers your question and wasn't more confusing! (lol) Warmly, Lori

[Pamela H in Texas]

Well, my ds's 8th grade is a little light as we're focusing on certain things. And it probably won't be as heavy as many in 9th either.

DS will have (9th grade):

Biology- Apologia with co-op
History (I keep changing my mind on what)
English - grammar, writing, literature, vocabulary
Algebra II- Systematic Mathematics B, C, and D
Computer programming
Art - Mark Kistler (light)
Woodworking

He does P.E. daily and 1-1.5 hours of Bible study daily. Those aren't really school though.

He also will volunteer 5-12 hours per week most weeks. We won't worry about making up sick weeks and there will be times he's out full time.

As for schedule. It will be pretty full on Mon, Tues and Thurs. Wed will be SLIGHTLY lighter (he says he can't tell...lol). Friday has very little.

[pianoplayer]

BJUP Biology w/labs
Latin (Wheelock's)
Ancient History & Literature via the Great Books
English (grammar, vocabulary, and writing)
Logic (Intro to Logic/Interm. Logic)
Algebra (Dolciani)
Fine Arts Appreciation (via Teaching Company lectures)
P.E. (local gym, five days per week)
Community Service -- local retirement center volunteer

[laughing lioness]

9th grade this year:
Omnibus II with assignments
Saxon Alg 1
Trad Logi I and II
Christian Studies I, II, III
3-5 hours of memory work a week in 8 areas.
Poetry
Shakespeare
One Act Play competition, a 2nd Shakepeare play in the late spring
TeenPact
IEW Medieval Writing theme based book
tons of outside reading
a horse unit study
Speech class

[Jackie in AR]

8th graders this year:

Worldview - Summit Ministry's Lightbearers (dh and I are teaching this class to a small group of kids and we're spreading it over two years instead of one)

Math - parts of NEM 1 and 2 (they won't finish NEM 2 this year)

Classical Writing - Diogenes: Maxim/Chreia (online class)

Lingua Latina (online class)

Tapestry of Grace - Year 3 (history - discussion each week in an online co-op; literature - discussion most weeks with me; church history - reading only; geography - each week)

Science - Interactive Science 2 (lightly!)

We're really focusing on CW and Latin this year.

[Quiver0f10]

My DD's plans for next year ( 9th)

Chalk Dust Alg I
Apologia Physical Science
IEW Medieval Writing Lessons
TOG year 2 for History, Lit etc
SOS Spanish I
LFC B or Henle I
Traditional Logic I

[LisaNY]

My 8th gr. dd's schedule:

School begins around 8:00 am, and goes until 4:00.

Latin: Henle/Lingua Latina
English: R&S gr. 7
Writing: Put That in Writing
History: "ala" WTM, NYS history
Science: McDougall-Littell - Integrated Course 3

Extra-curricular-
Weekly practice for worship team on Saturdays
Weekly fiddle lessons & weekly practice sessions with her Irish band. Fairly regular "gigs" at various places. Participates in a least one Irish music seisun every two months. Ceili band practice begins in February and will go through May.

[Beth in SW WA]

Ds 13/8th:

Chalkdust Alg 1 daily 90 minutes
Lingua Latina daily 30 minutes (not enough!)
Classical Writing Maxim daily 90 minutes
Literature daily 1 hour
History 3 hours/wk
Science 3 hours/wk
Logic 1 hour/wk

[Tap, tap, tap]

ds14 9th

Geometry (already finished algebra 1&2)
English 9 (includes reading and reporting on 8 AP tested classics per year)
Social Studies 9
Computer Applications
Spanish 2
Biology
academics=30 hours per week

PE (accredited class with progress monitoring and documentation)
Swim team=25 hours a week

Youth group at church and bible reading daily.

[sailmom]

My self-motivated, largely self-directed, self-proclaimed "geek girl" 8th grader...

Math: Algebra 1 (using a variety of resources, including LOF, Saxon, Teaching Company lectures, etc.)

Latin: Wheelock's Latin with the workbook and Dale Grote's companion guide occasionally as reference

Literature: Teaching Company's Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works. She reads the texts in preparation for the lectures, and we talk about them a lot. Right now she's on a dystopian literature kick, so we're pursuing this rabbit trail.

Composition: Jensen's Format Writing and work on an ongoing novel. She loves to write, and is an excellent writer, so no struggle here.

History: Creating America text as our spine, and lots of primary source exploration

Science: Physical Science class at our classical charter school

Art: Art History (for a 4th semester), and Painting & Drawing (3rd year) classes at our charter. She draws constantly, and spends a lot time pursuing her passion, which is digital art.

She's on the yearbook staff for our charter school, and spends several hours a week working on that: taking photos, working on layouts, writing blurbs, etc.

Each week, she volunteers at the local Mobile Mall, organizing donations and helping with Saturday morning distributions.

She spend the rest of her time on a variety of "projects," which often take over her room and occasionally threaten to take over the rest of the house. :D

I'm mainly a facilitator now, rather than program director. I plan and schedule her math, but she has ownership of the rest.

[Laurel-in-CA]

DS - 14 - 9th

SL 200 for history and literature - study questions answered, plus one-page writing assign. weekly in history (I added some world religions reading and he summarizes this), SL's weekly study questions & literature writing assignments (pace is about one novel every two weeks, some longer, some shorter) plus Rod & Staff 7 (grammar needs work!). We've seen a definite improvement in writing this year! I think the novels are a bit too fast paced, and we substituted Frankenstein for one of them...can't remember which; we'll probably substitute in Alas Babylon for the sci fi book when it comes up.

Ceramics - 1.5 hour class weekly, plus 2 papers for the semester on assigned topics and a presentation in powerpoint (for 4-h competition) and a tour given for his 4-H fine arts & science groups - this is a 1-semester equivalent

Science - Earth Science with weekly labs (weakly done....my fault), video clips, read 1 chapter/week and answer study questions, semester project (one on community development, one on global warming pro/con) with paper and powerpoint presentation

Math - Chalkdust Geometry

Latin - Artes Latinae 1 from DVD and workbooks

PE - Daily exercise of various types - bushido sword drills from a book, jogging/walking, assistant coaching short-term basketball team, etc.

Health - Abeka book with quizzes and 2 topical papers

Also: Community Bible Study weekly lesson, 4-H lego project teen leader (sets up for meetings, prepares sample builds, oversees "team" competitions and works with project members, etc.)

[tmkclscroggins]

Here's what our 8th grader is doing this year:

Progymnasmata class through Regina Coeli
Henle Latin
Teaching Textbooks Geometry
Biology ( Apologia)
Sequential Spelling ( since he still can't spell!)
R&S Grammar
History of US ( and reading biographies, historical fiction)
Vocabulary


I think that's it. It takes him between 4-6 hours to finish each day.


melissa

[Jean in Wisc]

Learning Language Arts Through Literature Gold: The Short Story
Jump In (Apologia writing program)
Some books from Omnibus II and ??


Chalkdust Algebra 1

World History (Spielvogel)

Physical Science (Wile)

Latin I (Henle)

Keyboarding (Mavis Beacon)

Total Health

Traditional Logic Book 1 OR Driver's Ed

Physical education (cross country)

[Livinginthelibrary]

My 8th grader is doing the following:

Bible: We read the Bible aloud together every day

Math: Teaching Textbooks PreAlgebra

English: Lightning Lit 8

US & World History 1600-1850: A combination of Sonlight Cores 3,5,7 & 100

Science: Apologia Zoology & Botany

Art: Artist Biographies and videos + hands on projects

Music: PS Band & Choir

P.E.: Ist semester PS class

Industrial Ed: 2nd semester Wood Shop class

[Mad Jenny Flint]

I updated the above to include 9th grade plans, as well.

[Nissi]

8th grade:

Math: Geometry using Jurgenson and Brown text

Science: Apologia Chemistry with Labs, Various Science Olympiad topics

History, Literature, Theology: Omnibus II

Writing: CW Chreia

Latin I: Wheelocks Ch: 1-20 with Scholars Online

Greek II: Hansen and Quinn text with Scholars Online

Extracurriculars:

Team Policy Debate - NCFCA

Piano Class - Weekly

Martial Arts - Weekly

[Karin]

Dd is doing an 8/9 "Interim" year. Here's what she's doing:

Algebra 1 (second time, but more rigourous to help her with her goals), both Dolciani and Gelfand's.

Earth and Space science

Latin Grammar and Primer (she's way behind, but insists on taking it next year, so this will help)

German (but just Rosetta stone, not very time consuming)

All American History 2 (text serves as a spine/course--she does the workbook because she hates US history and so I don't assign many projects or papers in this, so it is a "get this done because she has to" history course. She does some other reading, though, for it as the TM has some good lists)

Skills for Literary Analysis

Rod and Staff English/Jensen's Vocabulary (she spends 15-20 min/day on Vocab most days)

Phys Ed--swim team 3-5x per week (usually 4-5) plus meets

Fallacy Detective (a couple of times a week)

Art (once or twice a week)

Recorder & music appreciation/learning. This week we're listening to Civil War music to augment her history. Next week we're going to listen to spirituals used in the Underground Railroad.

She has a few other things we do, but many not more than once a week, but I don't remember them all. One is Anatomy Colouring book, because she didn't finish it the year she did the human body.

Basically, I assign 9 things per day, but that's because I divide English up (but not the 2 latin books). Recorder is assigned, but not swim (so you could say 10 things.) Some are short, some are long. But if she were to focus the entire time (we're looking forward to this happening some day!) it would take her a good 6 hours to do everything except swim practice. But she loves swim practice, so that's not onerous;). As it is now, it takes her a good deal longer due to lollygagging.

[DeeDeeMarie0]

Thanks for this post. My oldest of four ds's is a rising 9th grader, so I am new to this board. I can't believe I am here. I am still working on the plan, but this was...

8th grade
TT - Algebra 1
Academic Writing at co-op (Included reading lit and literary analysis, research paper and 5 paragraph essays)
PE at co-op (one day)
Science- Real Science 4 Kids (fall) and Life Sciences spring (once per week with a science teacher and group)
Loving Literature (co-op once per week)
Sat prep with a tutor (once per week) Had lots of vocab homework
Religion at home and once per week at church
Rod & Staff and Daily Grams (periodically)
Traditional Logic I - Memoria Press on-line (spring)

Piano lessons once per week and practice
Lacrosse team (spring) Basketball team (winter)
Boy Scouts (Senior Patrol Leader and working on Eagle Project)
Church Youth Group
Archery (Hobby and passion)

We took a six week cross country road trip in the fall and visited national parks and did all of the junior ranger programs, so they learned a lot of geology, botany, history, geography. Oh...it was so special. We all loved it and are so glad we made it happen.

You can see most of his classes he is accountable to someone else. This was my 6th year of homeschooling and he is highly distractable, but competetive and wants to do well. He just does better when he has to be accountable to a group.



9th Grade
This is still in progress

TT Geometry
Traditional Logic II - on-line Memoria Press
Henle Latin - on-line Memoria Press
Academic Writing II - co-op
Debate - co-op (fall)
P.E - co-op
Teacher's assistant - P.E. 4th-6th grade at co-op
Sat Prep with tutor - one hour per week
Rod & Staff Grammar (still on 7)
Vocab from the Roots
Physical Science (At science teacher's house with other kids and sports/games after class)
Piano
Boy Scouts (He finishes his Eagle Project this coming weekend...Yahoo!)
Archery and Riflery with local club (hoping to compete this summer..this is his passion)
Doing a week long mission trip in-state repairing homes for elderly/disabled-(next week)

I am considering a Great Books study...either at home with me or on-line with Oxford Tutorial......or an AP class from the Pennsylvania Homeschoolers group. Does anyone have feedback on either of these??

Also, I have a Spanish speaking friend (her first language) who is willing to work with all the boys on Spanish, but I think this will be more informal.

I have three other boys 13,11, and 8 that I really do homeschool myself!! They are all so different.

[Linda in NM]

My 9th grader did...

* a gazillion hours of hockey and conditioning training every week (otherwise known as PE)
* Latin I (with So You Really Want to Learn Latin)
* German 1 (with The Learnables)
* Algebra 1 (with Videotext)
* Biology (with Abeka--probably wouldn't do that again--the video teacher was kind of boring)
* World History I (with Trisms)
* Language Arts (with Trisms)
* Religion (various sources, Bible, prayer book) (a 1/4 credit)
* Music Performance (viola) (a 1/2 credit)
* Fine Arts (through Trisms-- a 1/4 credit)
* Geography (through Trisms--1/4 credit postponed per his umbrella school until Grade 10 or 11)

[Emma]

8th grader:

TT math pre algebra, possibly ALEKS as a supplement
Sonlight Core 7 for history, literature, and writing assignments(several books she will do a thorough literary analysis)
Barron's vocabulary
2 Shakespeare works: Romeo and Juliet and ???
WriteGuide.com for more structured writing, especially a research report
Life Pacs grade 8 science (we're not science people!)
Starting Points (she will work through this over the next 2 yrs.)
She also dances classical ballet 4 nights a week, 3-4 hrs. a day.
Private art lessons with a lady in our home 1-2 times a week for 1.5 hrs.
BJU English 8 *modified*
It's a lot, but it works!

[EKS]

8th grader (next year):

Geometry
Literary Analysis and Composition (K12: includes grammar, vocabulary, composition, and literature)
Extra literature to go with history
US history/world history (Spielvogel, K12's Human Odyssey, and Boorstin) also includes a 2-3 page paper each week, biographies and historical fiction
State history
Conceptual Chemistry with labs
Foreign language with Keystone (one semester spread over a whole year)
Violin lessons and practice
Art and PE with outside classes

He had a similar schedule this year.

[AnitaMcC]

My 9th graders are both doing this coming school year (actually starting next week for a few courses):

-English 10.... Writer's Choice Grammar & Composition, Glencoe Grade 10 Vocab (1 credit)
-World History.... Duiker/Spielvogel World History To 1500 and Since 1500 (1 credit)
-Human Geography... Blij et al, Human Geography : People, Place, and Culture (1 credit)
-Health... Holt Lifetime Health (1/2 credit)
-Consumer Education... Glencoe Consumer Ed and Economics (1/2 credit)
-Computer Fundamentals... Norton's Introduction to Computers (1/2 credit)
-World Literature... follow World History time line... they will pick 15 books 5 non-fiction, 5 fiction, 5 biography/autobiography to analyze. (1/2 or 1 credit depending on how much we get done)

Ds is also doing
-Latin... Wheelock's (1 credit)
-Chemistry... at Jr College or Suchocki Conceptual Chemistry (1 credit)
-Physics... at Jr College or Hewitt Conceptual Physics (1 credit)
-Algebra 2... Larson's (1 credit)
-Geometry... Larson's (1 credit)
-Intro to Programming (various programming languages)...at Jr College hopefully. (1/2 credit maybe)
-Kung Fu 3x a week, Bowling league 1x a week, and a gym co-op class 1x a week. (1 credit)
-Boy Scouts
-Science Olympiad co-op class

Dd is also doing
-Sign Language... co-op class (1 credit)
-Italian... not sure program or if she will take it at Jr College (1 credit)
-Biology... hopefully at Jr College or Campbell Biology Concepts & Connections. (1 credit)
-Geometry.. Larson's (1 credit)
-Music Appreciation... at Jr College or Kamien Music Appreciation (1/2 credit)
-Music Fundamentals... at Jr College or Benward's Practical Beginning Theory (1/2 credit)
-Music lessons for Piano, Clarinet, guitar, voice. (1 credit)
-Homeschool band through co-op
-Kung Fu 5x a week, Skateboard lessons 1x a week, & a gym co-op class 1x a week (1 credit)

All of this is what is in their plans.... Ds is doing acclerated pace for math and science. Dd wants to get a lot of music in. The World History, Human Geography, and World Literature they may end up going a slower pace and take longer than the year to finish.

[Nissi]

Plans for 9th grade in the fall:

I. English Language and Composition : Local Class
Analytical Grammar
Omnibus III Primary Readings

II. Latin II Online

III.Algebra II/ Trig. with Foerster's

IV. Human Geography : Fellmann & Getis : Online AP class

V. US Govt. & Politics : Online AP class

VI. Speech and Debate
VII. Piano
Kungfu

[Nan in Mass]

This year (8th)

NEM2
Conceptual Chemistry (about half of it)
2 peacewalks
French
Ecce Romani 3 (about 1/3 of it)
Kingfisher
Great books with his older brother (US foundation documents, and some literature)
Finished reading the WTM logic stage lit list and doing book reports
Pieces of Writing Strands 6 and Writing Strands 7
Some geography
Drove round the country camping in national parks
Some of the US history logic stage WTM list
Gymnastics
Played with his lego robotix kit
Learned to use his laptop
Piano
Go
Various other strategy/D+D/LARP type games

Next year (hopefully?):

Learn to use his sailboat
Peacewalk (probably)
NEM3
Histoire et geographie 6e
Francaise 6e
Ecce Romani 3
MODG natural history syllabus
Finish reading Conceptual Chemistry (maybe)
Extra natural history
Great books a la TWTM/TWEM ancients
Assorted writing resources, probably starting with Format Writing's precis section then moving on to Art of Argument
Piano
Gymnastics
Various strategy/D+D/LARP type games
And he wants to look at German
And he needs to do some sort of robotics

We'll see what we wind up actually doing...
-Nan