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High School

Homeschool Crew Review: College and Career Guide

With two teens, I knew we needed to look at some sort of aptitude testing, career counseling, and guidance program.  It was one of these vague projects in the back of my head.  However, time moves on, and our oldest was entering grade 11.  It was time to get moving on this project, and soon!  […]

Advanced Placement Courses at Our House

  We’re aiming for several Advanced Placement exams this spring, including World History, European History, Art History, and maybe Biology.  Yes, it’s going to be crazy, but at least we’re not short on guidelines, outlines, examples, and how-to-teach information.  These are all available free for students as well as for teachers. Students do not have to attend […]

Homeschool Crew Review: ALEKS

  As I mentioned in a previous post,  we have been using ALEKS, a wonderful online math tutor.  The children have learned a huge amount in our free one month trial, and we are now familiar enough with ALEKS to be able to give you a thorough review. Summary ALEKS is an online system for Assessment […]

Review: Upper Level Homeschool

  When the spectre of high school loomed in the distance for my oldest child, I started researching how to homeschool high school.  After all, planning these school years is very important.   There is a lot of information out there, almost too much.  I had a few second-hand high school books and bought a brand new […]

Marking High School Writing

  The most difficult part of homeschooling high school is the marking, and the most difficult part of that is marking my teens’ writing.  How can I be objective?  How can I be sure I am not being too strict?  How can I be sure I am not being too lenient?    Last year we […]