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Our oldest will begin her high school career in the fall so I have been busily working out a plan for her high school years. I've put a lot of hours and thought into this plan so I thought I'd share what I've done in the hopes that it will save someone else a few hours and few headaches.
Graduation Requirements One of the first things that I did was to find out the requirements for graduation from 3 of the local high schools. I found these very easily on the internet and plugged them into a chart so that I could compare them easily. Most of the requirements were the same for each school. All required 4 years of English, 3 Social Studies, 3 Math, etc. The big difference was in the number of Electives required to graduate and therefore the total number of credits. The range that we found in our area was between 21 and 24. So, we set our requirement at 25 credits to graduate since we are requiring 4 years of Bible that none of the public schools require.
Naming our Courses We also found when looking at different college entrance requirements that they often want a certain course to be completed such as U.S. History, World History, Government, Economics, etc.
So we sat down and came up with names for the course our daughter will be taking. We decided to simply have English each year, US History, World History, Government and Economics, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Biology, Marine Biology (she has been begging for this class since it came out!), Chemistry, Health, Art and Music, P.E., Computer Tech., Bible, Home Ec, Sign Language, etc.
Plugging in the Books Once we had decided on what the courses would be we sat down with the AO book lists and started plugging in the books where they fit. Churchill's Birth of Britain went into World History, Of Plymouth Plantation went into US History, etc.
In setting up our English courses we tried to keep most of the literature selections together based on region. So, the American Literature books are together in one year, British Literature in one year, etc. There is some overlap so we will work on doing the American lit at the beginning of the year to finish it up then move into the British lit books which will continue into the next year.
In each year of English we also included poetry, short stories, and grammar or composition instruction.
Need More? If anyone is interested in more details, feel free to email me!
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Posted by Astreil
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