We had a rough start this year just due to illness and some family issues and had to take a break from school for a bit longer than we intended so we are really not as far into school as I intended, but such is homeschooling. Anyway just really enjoying using RTR as our 9th grade for my oldest this year. I used some of what Carrie suggested viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7240 and some of our own that just felt like it was a natural correlation to us. We are choosing to cover government and church history. These are things that I feel if Carrie covers again that is just more for us to know and we feel like RTR leads that way easily to add on in those categories. If later guides cover them in the same way then I will slip something else in that guide to cover the gap. In truth I wanted to add logic and art appreciation too (and might still sneak in the art appreciation 
) but it just seems put us too high on the units so we have to save some of that for Rev to Rev when use that for our 10th grade year. The big thing is that HOD provides the glue and really in that I do not feel like I have to coordinate everything so much lesson by lesson and that takes away the feeling that to beef up you have to write your own program that I have felt with other programs when I have tried to tweak. I really feel like my daughter is getting the best first year of high school we could give her. Better even than if we had used something directly written for high school because, HOD is like minded to our family and spiritual goals for our children and it is flexible enough to allow us to add things that we feel God is calling us to on a by child basis. I just want to encourage those that are really wanting to stick with HOD but are in the situation where God can't answer the "Please make Carrie write High School" prayers in time for your child
that beefing up is a wonderful option. I am happy to share with anyone that is in that place what we are doing with RTR. I do not want to list it here because I feel like those recommendations posted on the board are better coming from Carrie and I do not want to confuse people. Also this is my most motivated child so we are attempting perhaps more than we would with our other children. But if you want some ideas to get credit in some other areas I am happy to share privately. Mostly I just wanted to encourage others that if you want to use HOD for high school the transition is very natural and we are just feeling like we made a great decision in choosing to add on a bit and stay with HOD for high school. When I felt God lead me to HOD I really felt like it was not just for a season but for the long haul and a peace that what He leads Carrie to write will be what my family needs. Sometimes God really does mean exactly what he says even if in our logic the answer does not seem to be there at first glance. And being as I am, I did second guess it and go looking for high school else where. The thing I found is that there is nothing HOD like written for high school. Nothing comes close 
and I felt like my daughter was not going to have the same great school that my other kids had. So after searching hard. I realize the obvious that God really did answer exactly the way He meant to with HOD and it was not for a season even if on paper our school was changing for my oldest. And it led me to look at beefing up and asking questions of Carrie how to do that and of course she is very generous in helping people way beyond the scope of what we can expect of her. In that I began to see in that sort of less conventional solution is the path God is going to bless even for our most academic child. It is still the perfect foundation for us. So just want to encourage you that HOD can really be a great foundation and guide for high school and you can get your credits you need while you still have that blessed foundation that HOD provides. We are finding that even with the beef up we do really have the same HOD feel in fact it is just deeper. We are really loving it! So just wanted to share for others that might need a little encouragement. It can really work out great to beef up the higher guides for high school if you are so inclined and it is not a lot of work to make it happen. ETA- Just wanted to add so I did not confuse anyone. RTR is not written at high school level as is. We just used some recommendations to make it credit worthy. Just wanting to make sure that part is clear.