I'm new here at the HOD boards and to HOD and very excited to be planning a purchase to use in the fall. I have read and re-read tons of posts on here and have enjoyed learning about the curriculum. I still have questions/doubts on where to place my child. Let me give you some information. My only daughter is 13, turning 14 Aug 30th. This year we are using Beautiful Feet Medieval History for intermediate/Jr. High and while the books are great, I'm finding I need more structure. Before that we used MFW both Countries and Cultures and Creation to Greeks and before that Sonlight. For writing this year we are using WWTB1, and last year we used Writing Strands. She is using TT and is just starting Pre-Alg. We just had her tested for the year at an end of 8th grade level and she scored college level (Junior in college or above) in Reading, Comprehension and Writing. She scored slighly higher that grade level in math. Overall, she averaged at grade 13 and I was told she needs to be challanged.
The thing is while she scores high in reading and comp she is not a fast reader and too much reading overwhelmes her. She is also highly distractable and not in Alg yet (she hates math and it generally takes about an hour to finish a TT lesson). For those reasons I decided to hold her back and called this year 7/8. We have done lots of copywork and some narration...oh and this year we finished Easy Grammar 6 and will finish CLE reading 7. She did great with both. She also has a running reading list of all genres of books she reads for 1/2hr a day 4 days a week.
I guess what I'm wondering is where to start her. Should it be RevtoRev with extensions and do MTMM the next year with extensions, or should I just pick either one and then jump to the Geo guide the following year?
I hope this wasn't too rambly and someone is able to make sense of it. I really, really appreciate any and all help! I've definatley been over thinking this and could use some perspective! Thanks in advance for your help!
) and Writing Strands, as well as some narration and copywork. But, were her narrations written or mainly oral? And how much writing did she do within a day, would you say? RevtoRev will have less writing than MTMM. So this is something to consider. I am thinking in this case, as dd LA-wise could probably do either RevtoRev or MTMM, that it may be best to really look at the "History," "Bible," and "Science" columns of the placement chart. The workload and skills is upped in MTMM in these areas as well, so this may be a good place to focus on when making this decision - here is a link to the chart, you can scroll down to the history, Bible, and science columns...
As far as the chart goes, she seems to easily fall into the MTMM guide. 
