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Senior High: A Home-Designed Form+U+La - Great High School Planning Resource

4:55 PM, Sunday, December 2, 2007 .. Posted in Reviews .. 1 comments .. Link
RESOURCE BOOK REVIEW:
Senior High: A Home-Designed Form+U+La
by Barbara Edtl Shelton
Homeschool Oasis



Senior High: A Home-Designed Form+U+La
may look like your regular homeschool resource book, but it is not. This giant manual for the high school homeschool parent is stuffed with the instruction, information and encouragement I needed to feel confident in my planning and record-keeping.

As a home school mom with two in high school, I felt a bit overwhelmed in organizing all of the official high school records and crediting classes that are necessary to fill the state's requirements. The book opens up with a formula for formulating a high school plan. Barb's view on homeschool freedom is distinctly tied to her faith and freedom in her God. It then moves on to creating classes and requirements out of your own personal homeschool. It not only shows you how to count your own activity for high school credit, but it gives you samples, lists and pre-made forms for your own use in your homeschool.

There are plenty of testimonials and questions from other homeschool moms that Barb answers and encourages. There are sections on keeping high school records, know-how, recording homeschool classes as per the requirements in every state. She even takes you through personal experiences from her own children's high school records and classes.

It is created in such a way that it will work with most homeschool methods. She has written it so that you, the parent, record your classes and credits according to the way you homeschool in your own home. We all know that keeping record of class credits is necessary for our children's high school records. Barb helps you with your plan, your method and your records.

If you are looking for some guidance in your homeschool because you want to design your own classes, this is a great resource. I love to create my own lesson plans to fit what we see our children need. Barb gave me that inspiration and direction to continue on with this in our high school.

I needed a way to fit our State high school requirements into our homeschool without compromising our integrity or conforming to the public school agenda. I also needed to conform the classes to the resources we already own. I was relieved to see that she has taken her own experience and know-how and made it readily available in this book. Though I had already found all the information I needed for our state requirements, I couldn't quite make a fit, but this book opened my eyes to so much we are already doing to fulfill those requirements.

This book has worked incredibly well for me. It would be a good fit for any method of homeschool. Whether you work out of textbooks, design your own unit studies or follow the Charlotte Mason method, all of the learning can be recorded into the worksheets and implemented into their high school classes and transcripts. This book just shows you how.

If there was anything I could change it would be this: I wish it came in a binder. Now, grant it, I have taken books apart before, and Barbara even encourages you to do so, it would be a great benefit if it already came this way. Other than that, I'd have to give Barb a great big thumbs-up!

The money I spent on this book was well-spent. Add to that the fact that it can used for the entire high school experience, and divide it again if you are using it for more than one child, and it is a wonderful resource for the homeschooled high-schooler. I really love Senior high: A Home-Designed FormULa. I have used it over and over, and I know I will continue to use it.

blessings!
Jacque

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10:18 PM, Wednesday, December 5, 2007 .. Posted by quietcajun
I really like this book. It has so many ideas that I have to keep reminding myself that it is NOT a to-do list, but a resource. I have been using it to help me design a transcript! Its exciting (and scary!)

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