The series continues- College Prep Homeschooling: 8th-grade history and language arts.
I teach these two subjects as one cohesive unit. Find out how. Find out why.
Here are the notes from the video
White paper on weaving literature into social studies;
https://britannicalearn.com/wp-conten...
Book lists for novels set in other countries for children and teens.
https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books...
In addition to reading for Language Arts, students should be using a grammar/writing workbook. Here are some good options.
Editor in Chief, Critical Thinking Company https://amzn.to/2y1AeFT
SAT Reading and Writing Prep
https://amzn.to/2Mgtlnc
Holt McDougal World Geography
https://amzn.to/2JEpHBM (Teachers version)
Holt McDougal World History
https://amzn.to/2Mgr3EC
The Critical Thinking Company, World History Detective https://amzn.to/2y1AeFT
Sparknotes.com has online questions that your student can answer for many of the novels you can choose.
Summary: Tying Language Arts and History together.
1. Choose a book textbook or history curriculum.
2. Go through the table of contents and pick books according to the geographical area and possibly the time period being covered. At least one book per unit or for every 3 or 4 chapters.
3. Have the student read the books at the same pace that they go through the history units
4. Use unit tests and a final term paper to grade history.
5. Use a language arts/grammar and writing workbook or test prep book to grade the students language arts, in addition to questions and answer on the novels or book reports. Also grade on final term paper looking specifically at grammar, and format of the paper.
CLEP by college board, https://clep.collegeboard.org/about-c...
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College Prep Homeschooling 8th grade math
Here is my second video of the series
Here are the links I mentioned.
I talk about a few curriculums here, but I prefer you go through some curriculum reviews and choose for yourself. My preference, however, is Khan Academy, and even if you use another curriculum, I like to use Khan Academy as a supplement. Why? It teaches to mastery, and it is FREE. But to be fair, I will be linking some curriculum reviews that could be helpful to you. Teaching textbooks review: https://youtu.be/LqbZ1fEKNbw Teaching textbooks: The good, the bad, and the ugly https://youtu.be/LCBOGjXQhUQ Khan Academy review: https://youtu.be/s1ifjuTC2zU Saxon math review: https://youtu.be/-BJ_linfdVM ALEKS MATH https://youtu.be/N0nX8eGu0HU
Here are the links I mentioned.
I talk about a few curriculums here, but I prefer you go through some curriculum reviews and choose for yourself. My preference, however, is Khan Academy, and even if you use another curriculum, I like to use Khan Academy as a supplement. Why? It teaches to mastery, and it is FREE. But to be fair, I will be linking some curriculum reviews that could be helpful to you. Teaching textbooks review: https://youtu.be/LqbZ1fEKNbw Teaching textbooks: The good, the bad, and the ugly https://youtu.be/LCBOGjXQhUQ Khan Academy review: https://youtu.be/s1ifjuTC2zU Saxon math review: https://youtu.be/-BJ_linfdVM ALEKS MATH https://youtu.be/N0nX8eGu0HU
College Prep Homeschooling - a guide
You know how I have been saying what feels like a decade that I was going to write a homeschool book? I have written, re-written, scrapped and started over a dozen times.
But.
My 30ish days of homeschool videos has prompted me to get this done. I am currently going step by step into college prep homeschooling and am writing a guide along side of it... so, yep. A goal being accomplished!
Here is the link to the first video:
But.
My 30ish days of homeschool videos has prompted me to get this done. I am currently going step by step into college prep homeschooling and am writing a guide along side of it... so, yep. A goal being accomplished!
Here is the link to the first video:
What happened in that last year of public school after we made our intentions to homeschool clear
Let's just say, that once we verbalized our intent to homeschool, things got interesting.
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