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My 13 year old 8th grade son will finish Rev to Rev the first week in January. I am trying to figure out the rest of the year. My plan is to start the Geography guide for his ninth grade year starting in the fall of 2014. He will continue his current math, grammar, writing, and DITHOR through the remainder of this school year. I am considering MTMM for the rest of the year even though he wouldn't get to complete the guide. Does this sound like our best option or does anyone have another idea? Any thoughts welcome.

I think this is what I would personally would do. I personally don't really like coming up with my own thing LOL. I have a younger child who I don't want to start in Preparing until she is 8. She will probably be finished with Bigger by the time she is 7 and a half. So we didn't do LHFHG and I plan to have her do half of that one year so I don't have to come up with more stuff for her to do.

Just out curiosity, are you opposed to starting the Geography course now? You could always go at 1/2 speed for a little bit. And it would save you money in the long run by not buying an extra years guide.

Stephanie,
Why don't you bump up MTMM to be high school worthy? There are post on here how to do that. This would give you the last semester of Sr year (or whenever) with some wiggle room to explore options. College visits, exams, volunteer, dual enrollment. Many families have used MTMM as a high school credit. It would seem wasteful of a wonderful program to only use it for 1/2 a year, and costly too. As long as your boy was ready for the challenge. Otherwise you could start out slowly, and then full speed. There appears to be plenty of not to miss in the MTMM guide. With this plan you would miss the last high school guide. That would be sad, but still enough credits and challenge.
My dd did PSEO (like dual enrollment) their last two years of high school. They were prepared academically and socially for college. Their last semester of Jr year and 1st semester of Sr high was busy with college prep. The last semester of Sr high could of been spent wanting to be done, but their college classes were challenging and different.

Good thoughts here...

chillin'inandover wrote:...Why don't you bump up MTMM to be high school worthy? There are post on here how to do that. This would give you the last semester of Sr year (or whenever) with some wiggle room to explore options. College visits, exams, volunteer, dual enrollment. Many families have used MTMM as a high school credit.

What do you think of this?
In Christ,
Julie