27 September, 2009

Tweaking School Schedules pt. 2

After thinking through what I typed regarding our ds #3, age 16 and his remaingin high school years, I'm considering that perhaps I will be able to crunch nine terms over two years (18-24 months), instead of crunching years 9 and 10 into the next 12 months (which would include summer school). It will take some more time for me to mull over the numbers game of dividing pages over fewer months, and I am NOT a huge fan of SYSTEMS or programs, so if I'm not as detailed here as you like, I am sorry!! I can post page number updates when I get that all completed and fit into a realistic time-frames each week. Do post any questions that you may have. Some friends just e-mail me privately, and that is fine, too.

I still may add one or two small items in this schedule for our 16 yo, but then again, maybe not! We'll see how he manages his time. He is between summer job hours and a different job. His summer job was with a business that only runs through the summer. He is waiting to hear back from other potential employers for work during the school term. He also needs to take initiative and visit those businesses to show his interest and motivation once again.

Jr. Yr. Term 1

Week 5

Monday

Tuesday

Wed.

Thursday

Friday

Devo: Imitation of Christ

Thomas a Kempis

Thomas a Kempis

Bible: James

Daily reading

Daily reading

Daily reading

Daily reading

Daily reading

History:

HEO selections

History:

Clarence Carson Hist. of the US

History:

Letters or journal entries

Government:

Are You Liberal, Conserv. Or Confused?

History:

Letters or journal entries of the revoltionaries

History:

Pope’s Essay on Man

Language Arts:

Elements of Style

Writing – narrations of essays

Writing-other narrations

Poetry: Puritan Poetry of N. England

1 poem read

1 poem copy

Mom teaches Spanish I Class

1 poem finish copying

Art History:

Raphael bio

Biography:

Various HEO selections

John Adams

Geo Wash. Addresses to Cont. Cngrss

Spanish poem scrip, or song

Leave for Chem class

Picture Study

Raphael Sanzio

Spanish sheets 2 pgs day

Spanish sheets 2 per day

Spanish sheets 2 per day

Spanish sheets 2 per day

Apologia Chemistry Class

Copy Spanish vocab/phrases in context

Alg 2

Alg 2

Alg 2

Alg 2

Alg 2

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

A hymn per term

Benjamin Fr.

Autobio 20 pgs./wk

Spanish II

Mere Christianity

Geography & Natural Hist.:

Carpenter’s N.American Geograph. reader

View maps of militia and battle sites

NatureStudy:

Ethics of the Dust

Citizenship:

Plutarch’s Lives or Ourselves

Letters from George Washington

Ourselves by CM

Spanish II ends, visit w/our friends before they leave

Writings from other re-volutionaries

Plutarch - together

Literature:

Shakespeare * Midsummer Nights Dream

Shakespeare together

TIDY

TIDY

TIDY

TIDY

Tea and Fine Arts:

Term 1

Ralph V. Wms symph. I A Sea Symphony

job

job

job

job

Free Reading:

Man Who Was Thursday

Sir Walter Scott novel

Games: Farkle

backgammon

Or Cranium

Dad Wood

Working club

Movie night

Bedtime

Bedtime

Bedtime

Bedtime

Bedtime

Bedtime

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out



Friday:

Bible reading; Pope's Essay on Man (not sure how many pages, yet); Copy Spanish vocab/phrases in context; read Mere Christianity; Algebra 2; Read Ruskin's Ethics of the Dust; family movie night...especially if our college DD is home for part of the weekend with her fiance. We also cook up a feast on most Friday or Saturday evenings.

Any Questions?

Javamom



24 September, 2009

Tweaking School Schedules pt. 1

Our last two teens at home are following slightly modified versions of the Ambleside Online's House of Education (high school recommendations) online buffet. We are pulling from years 9 and 10.

Youngest son, age 14, has been reading through English Lit for Boys and Girls and is not in the same chapter that is scheduled for year nine. Close, but not exactly the same, which I realize is hardly worth mentioning. We also work with his various learning issues and abilities, so he is not as far ahead as the 'average' student in one or two areas, Math being one. He has caught up in reading ability, spelling ability, and we are still working on writing. It is difficult for him to translate what is in his head to the page, but we are working on it! He is very imaginative and creative, so we have a lot to work with, and a lot of potential.

We are just now cranking up to begin other fine arts and Shakespeare for this year, so they may actually occur earlier in the day than scheduled below. Hubby works later in the day, so we have a later dinner hour than most people do, thus our evening draws out later than the average family's day. I am also a night owl, and am the parent who is up late any time any of our teens are out and returning home late for whatever reason, be it just visiting friends close-by, attending a football game, whatever.

Subjects

Monday

Tuesday

Wed.

Thursday

Friday







Bible:

Daily reading

Daily reading

Daily reading

Daily reading

Daily reading

History:

HEO selections

History:

An Island Story

History:

Story of the Pilgrims

History:

Clarence Carson Hist. of the US

History:

Capt. John Smith’s World

History:

This Country of Ours

Language Arts: Daily Grams

Daily Grams

One page

Daily Grams

One page

Daily Grams

One page

Daily Grams

One page

Daily Grams

One page

Poetry: Puritan Poetry of N. England

1 poem read

1 poem copy

Spanish I Class

1 poem finish copying

Art History:

The Story of Painting Jansen

Biography:

Various HEO selections

English Lit

For Children

Marshall

Autobio of Ben Franklin 6.5 pgs.

Spanish I Class

Autobio of Ben Franklin

6.5 pgs.

Picture Study

Raphael

Piano Lessons

A hymn per term

Piano practice

Piano practice

Piano practice

Piano practice

Piano practice

An Island Story

Math Facts

CD rom

Living Math reading

Math Facts

CD rom

Living Math reading

Math Facts

CD rom

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

Spanish sheets 2 pgs day

Spanish sheets 2 per day

Spanish sheets 2 per day

Mom teaches Spanish II

Andrew copy Spanish Poem

Science: Science Lab in a Supermarket

Make Spanish vocab cards

Geography & Natural Hist.:

Carpenter’s

View maps of militia and battle sites

Carpenter’s N.American Geograph. reader

…or copy a Spanish song

NatureStudy:

Draw found treasures from the week

Leave for Piano

Citizenship:

Plutarch’s Lives or Ourselves

Listen to Colonial audio dramas

Ourselves by CM

Plutarch

Ourselves by CM

Piano Lesson

Math: CDRom/

Teaching Txtbks Pre-Algebra

Pre-Algebra

Pre-Algebra

Pre-Algebra

Pre-Algebra

Piano lesson

Literature:

Shakespeare * Midsummer Nights Dream

Letters from George Washington

* Shakespeare Midsummer Night’s Dream

Letters from

John Adams

Writings from other re-volutionaries

Head home


TIDY

TIDY

TIDY

TIDY

Bank/grocery with Mom

Tea and Fine Arts ~

Term 1

Ralph V. Wms symph. I A Sea Symphony


Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520)

http://cgfa.dotsrc.org/raphael/p-raphae41.htm

Free Reading:





Rome mini book






Greek Heroes





Games: Farkle

Or Cranium


Dad at Wd

Working clb


Movie night













Bedtime

Bedtime

Bedtime

Bedtime

Bedtime

Bedtime

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out

Lights out


Since you can't see Friday, b/c of my blog layout, I will just list it ~

Daily Grams, one page; Art History: The Story of Painting by Jansen (has been reading this one for two years, now, and should finish it this year); Piano practice- scales; Picture Study, this term: Raphael Sanzio; lunch; copy Spanish vocab and phrases; leave for piano lesson; Piano lesson; errands with mom--bank, grocery; movie night or spend night with a friend.

A couple of other modifications are these:

Hubby has added a few of his own recommended readings for our Junior, from summer reading assignments given to his upcoming American Lit students (at the school where he teaches and is head of the English Dept). Examples such as a chapter from _The Travels of William Bartram_, "An Account of the Persons, Manners, Customs, and Government of the Muscogulges or Creeks, Cherokees, Chactaws...of North America." or Washington Irving's "The Creole Village" or Thomas Paine's "The Crisis: Philadelphia, April 19th, 1783." (includes important thougths on 'now what' after the Revolutionary War.

So as our 16 yo son is also studying American History and Lit, we are doing a modified year for him, which includes recommendations from years 9 and 10. You may be asking "Why?" and I'd answer that I chose to have him complete HEO year 8 last schoolyear, to make sure and wrap up as solidly as possible his study of British and Western History. Combining selections from both 9 and 10 so that he will be ready for Yr. 11 and the study of the 20th century for his Senior year. Practically speaking, we will not do everything from years 9 and 10, and will also crunch our choices from the recommendations into the next twelve months.

I am sprinkling in a few original source documents (most quite short) for both boys that fit into this time frame, as well, but I will assign more and expect more from our 16 yo. These are usually just letters associated with the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary wars, and can probably be found online. We have them in Hubby's "Library of America" collection, and more specifically George Washington's letters and some diary entries of some of the British (Frederick McKenzie on the retreat from Concord, MA) on some of the battles. We also have a short "Tory view on Lexington and Concord" by Peter Oliver. Then, we have "A Pennsylvanian Reacts to Lexington and Concord, 1775," John Dickinson to Arthur Lee. I will likely throw in "George Washington's address to the Continental Congress, June 16, 1775."


As I get the time slots tweaked, I'll post our 16 yo's schedule in another post.


Javamom