Curriculum for our final year of homeschooling...

Finally had a minute to get this 12th curriculum post out.  I am more than just a little busy even with grown kids.

A17 is in 12th grade ((GASP))!

Its awesomely fantastic and fantastically awesome!

Apologia Physics 
Hewitt Lightening Lit 
Hewitt Speech
Spanish II-Mango and Duolingo
Writer's Inc.
Teaching Textbooks PreCalculus 3.0
Economics
Magruder's American Government
Khan Academy
ACT Prep various resources
There will also be a mix of acting jobs, volunteering, book clubs, a little traveling, babysitting, pet sitting, and whatever else she decides to do along the way.

Happy homeschooling......

Skeleton plan for 10th and 12th grades coming up in about 3 weeks........

Cannot even believe it but here we go again!  A new school year already.

The saddest part is by this time next year, I will have a graduate (sniff, sniff).  It has truly been an amazing adventure with C17 from the beginning to the end.

A15 will be in 10th grade, and I still have a hard time believing that too!  Luckily, I have great kids and luckily they both know how good they have it!  As with most homeschooling moms, anything can change in curriculum choices even on day one.  At the moment, this is what my brain is telling me looks good so hopefully all of this curriculum will get us where we need to be by the end of the year.


12th grade (EXTRA LARGE GASP)- Amazingly C17 has taken more electives than she ever needed to and that is why none are listed here.
Teaching textbooks PreCalculus 2.0

Apologia Physics

Advanced Biology
Hewitt Lightening Lit British Lit
Hewitt Speech
Spanish II-mango, duolingo, along with various other resources.
Economics-undecided at the moment.

10th grade
Teaching textbooks Geometry 2.0
Apologia Chemistry
Hewitt Lightening Lit Part 1 and Part 2
Spanish I-mango, duolingo, along with various other resources.
Driver's Ed.
Health II
I am going to add something else to this load, just not sure what she wants yet.


Both
Magruder's American Government This is a good year to do this with both since the election is coming up soon.
Writer's Inc
Co-op classes
Music
A whole lot of volunteering, babysitting, and pet sitting.

We will also be using many of the resources from Schoolhouse Teachers.com.  Click here to buy or in my sidebar under affiliates and thank you!

We will also be using curriculum from CurrClick.  Click here to buy or in my sidebar under affiliates and thanks again!

Check out Bright Ideas Press for so many goodies like the Mystery of History.  Click here and thanks!

Don't forget to check out Molly Green Magazine here.  So many helpful tips and goodies here!

Khan Academy is a site we cannot get enough of, please check them out here.

I will be posting updates here and there, and there is a good chance in a month from now, this will all look different but you have to do what works and keep the kiddos happy to be learning otherwise, it could be a catastrophe!

Happy homeschooling..............

An amazing find to share............

from Lamar education.  PDF trig tutorial cheat sheet.  You are welcome!!!

Happy homeschooling!!

Nature by Numbers-This is a really cool video for anyone studying geometry.

Who doesn't love geometry? C15, that is who!

Or math, or algebra, or ....
I have this amazingly smart young lady that hates any kind of math and every kind of math.  She does not discriminate on the hate of math.  I am not sure why, she has always score well-over 90% but she hates it no matter what.

This year for tenth grade we are using Teaching Textbooks Geometry.  Traditional 10th grade geometry is Euclidean geometry. The section C15 is working on now is a direct tie in to her world history which is a great bonus even if she does not think so.

Who is Euclid and what is Euclidean geometry anyway?

~Euclid was born approximately 330 BC and died approximately 260 BC.

~Euclid, a Greek mathematician, is known as the Father of Geometry because of his revolutionary ideas, and his textbook called Elements which was written in the year 300 BC.  The word Euclid

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means good glory in Greek.

~It is thought that Euclid attended Plato's Academy in Athens prior to moving to Alexandria, Egypt.

~Geometry can be dated back to as far as ancient Egypt around 3000 BC.

~The word geometry means earth measure.

~Euclid wanted to prove that by using logic and reasoning, you could find out if things are true or not.  For example, the idea that all right angles are equal.  Euclid used logic and reasoning and prove that to be the case.

~Whether we like math or not, we still must learn it.  Geometry is a good math topic for C15 since she is a photographer.  The relationship between geometry and photography is an important one-i.e. aerial photography, photogammetry, depth perception, triangulation, and on and on.  Here is a free book called the Handbook of Aerial Photography if you want to learn more.

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Help:
Intro to Euclidean geom/Khan Academy

Malini
Geometry games online.
Famous people-Euclid.
wiki