HOD high school question
HOD high school question
I was wondering if the high school guides will have notebooking and written narration? If so, can it be completed with out it? How different will it be from the younger guides? Thank you, Stacey
Re: HOD high school question
Stacey,
We will be sharing sneak peeks of the new geography guide for high school on the board over the next few months that will clearly answer many of the questions about the new guide.
Our first peek will be coming in a week or two.
We are excited about how the guide is coming together and look forward to sharing it with all of you!
For now, here is a brief summary of what we've shared so far about the geography guide's design on a different thread:
We'll plan to proceed with the daily plan format into high school. I also feel that the 'T', 'S', and 'I' boxes are important, and we'll definitely keep those. We'll also keep the key ideas in areas where they enhance the plans.
I am leaning more toward only one option for science being scheduled in the guide each year, as it will be more manageable for me to write and will also allow us to put the schedule for it right in the daily plan. When the 4 guides for high school are complete, we could allow for mixing and matching in the science area. As always, if you prefer a difference science from what we schedule that is always an option.
We will try to separate out the language arts into two boxes if space allows. This would make this area seem less overwhelming especially at the high school level.
We'll also work to stay with a 4 day plan to allow students to have time to pursue their own interests each week.
Our thinking is to work toward including history, science, literature, composition, grammar, math, Bible, and 2-3 additional required or elective semester type courses each year in our guide. Our hope is that by simply teaching through the 4 HOD guides for high school that your student would then have accumulated by graduation all needed credits and required courses for high school graduation and college entrance. Any coursework the parent chooses to add would then be an optional extra, with the exception of P.E. Our hope is that this would relieve the parent of the burden of planning for all of the extras (outside of history, literature, math, and science each year), which can be very intimidating! We also will plan to detail how to award credit for each subject and with enough time we will also include course descriptions for each course.
These are challenging goals but ones that we feel will make it more feasible for parents to continue homeschooling through high school. Our main focus for the high school guides will be to help equip parents to answer the Lord's call on their lives to homeschool their children through graduation and to provide parents with Christ-centered choices that will help their children face the world we live in today.
Our plan, Lord willing, is to continue to release a guide each year through high school. We are very motivated to stay ahead of our second oldest son, who will be a freshman next school year. We want him to be able to follow the HOD path throughout all of his school years, so he will need the geography guide next year.
I am excited to say that the Lord is already showing us more clarity in many areas for high school, and I am feeling much more peaceful about the geography guide's design.
We are so grateful for your prayers, your support, and your encouragement. Each of you has such an important task at hand, and we are so glad to share the journey with you.
Blessings,
Carrie
We will be sharing sneak peeks of the new geography guide for high school on the board over the next few months that will clearly answer many of the questions about the new guide.
Our first peek will be coming in a week or two. We are excited about how the guide is coming together and look forward to sharing it with all of you!
For now, here is a brief summary of what we've shared so far about the geography guide's design on a different thread:
We'll plan to proceed with the daily plan format into high school.
I also feel that the 'T', 'S', and 'I' boxes are important, and we'll definitely keep those. We'll also keep the key ideas in areas where they enhance the plans. I am leaning more toward only one option for science being scheduled in the guide each year, as it will be more manageable for me to write and will also allow us to put the schedule for it right in the daily plan. When the 4 guides for high school are complete, we could allow for mixing and matching in the science area. As always, if you prefer a difference science from what we schedule that is always an option.
We will try to separate out the language arts into two boxes if space allows. This would make this area seem less overwhelming especially at the high school level.
We'll also work to stay with a 4 day plan to allow students to have time to pursue their own interests each week.
Our thinking is to work toward including history, science, literature, composition, grammar, math, Bible, and 2-3 additional required or elective semester type courses each year in our guide. Our hope is that by simply teaching through the 4 HOD guides for high school that your student would then have accumulated by graduation all needed credits and required courses for high school graduation and college entrance.
Any coursework the parent chooses to add would then be an optional extra, with the exception of P.E. Our hope is that this would relieve the parent of the burden of planning for all of the extras (outside of history, literature, math, and science each year), which can be very intimidating! We also will plan to detail how to award credit for each subject and with enough time we will also include course descriptions for each course. These are challenging goals but ones that we feel will make it more feasible for parents to continue homeschooling through high school. Our main focus for the high school guides will be to help equip parents to answer the Lord's call on their lives to homeschool their children through graduation and to provide parents with Christ-centered choices that will help their children face the world we live in today.
Our plan, Lord willing, is to continue to release a guide each year through high school. We are very motivated to stay ahead of our second oldest son, who will be a freshman next school year. We want him to be able to follow the HOD path throughout all of his school years, so he will need the geography guide next year.
I am excited to say that the Lord is already showing us more clarity in many areas for high school, and I am feeling much more peaceful about the geography guide's design.
We are so grateful for your prayers, your support, and your encouragement. Each of you has such an important task at hand, and we are so glad to share the journey with you.
Blessings,
Carrie