Teaching
High School
Subjects at Home
Advice
College Professor Critiques Homeschoolers
I teach sophomore through senior level college students. As a generalization, I've noticed certain characteristics common in my students who were homeschooled. Some of these are desirable, some not. By Greg Landry, M.S.
Do-It-Yourself Group Activities for Teenagers
Cafi Cohen writes how many teen homeschoolers find support for
their interests in their communities. They join family and adult
organizations like ski clubs, computer users groups, and Toastmasters.
Don't Miss Manners!
Consider that the adult world is always judging your children and your homeschool. Never is this truer than when you begin the college admissions process. By Matt Binz, The HomeScholar.
Goal Setting
This is a sample of a goal list for a 10th grade boy. From the
Windy Creek website.
High School Course Design and Record Keeping
Long before our older sons became ready to begin high school
courses, I researched my responsibilities: courses, credits,
transcripts, and college-entrance requirements. By Joy Marie
Dunlap, Teaching Home.
The HomeScholar
Free 5-part mini-course: "The 5 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make When Homeschooling High School."
What is Homeschooling?
The assumption for most people is that they have to know it to
teach it to their children. Not quite true, since the parent
doesn't have to be the one to teach it.
See also: Teenagers
English
A Brief List of Some Key Terms in Literature
As knowledge of these terms is expected on the college SATs,
I thought it advisable to link this list here.
College Bound Reading List
American literature, world literature, biographies and histories
to read for that college-bound teen.
Developing A Writer's Toolkit
How you can learn to write well without boring grammar lessons
and exercises. By Cafi Cohen.
Encouraging Reading
Cafi Cohen writes about how to entice older kids to read, read,
read. [HEM Mar 98]
How to Teach a Novel
Choose your novel carefully, because you will indeed be living with it for the next two to six weeks. A step-by-step approach to teaching novels. Many resource links are included. This lens is by Keith Schoch.
No More Writer's Block
AN A to Z ARTICLE
Using multiple intelligences to help young writers, By Laurel Schmidt.
Unique Reader Secondary
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Let's Go Learn's Unique Reader Secondary is a web-based learning system that combines powerful diagnostic reading assessment with comprehensive, supplemental reading instruction for secondary students.
Write Now
Homeschooled students write the cutest stories! You can see them
in newsletters, magazines, presentation nights, and on our refrigerators.
But something seems to happen when these same kids hit older
levels and need to write essays and purposeful reports. By Cathy
Duffy.
See also: Writing
Resources - Advanced Composition
Mathematics
Math
4 Teens
AN A TO Z WEBLINKS PAGE
And those doing algebra, geometry or calculus, or struggling
with higher math concepts and need some help.
Rethinking
Midschool/High School Math
What official guidance are you given for teaching math? Often,
none. In the absence of specific directions, many homeschooling
families pursue what I call School Math. From the Older Kids
column, by Cafi Cohen, HEM
Steps to Problem Solving
Billstein, Libeskind and Lott have adopted these problem solving steps in their book "A Problem Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers (The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co.). They are based on the problem-solving steps first outlined by George Polya in 1945.
PE
Homeschool Sports
Programs
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Competitive athletic teams are formed all over the country for
homeschoolers. See if there is one near you, or learn how to
start one in your region.
Science
LABRats
The Society for Amateur Scientists is building a program
that will link scientists and engineers of all stripes with young
people who share their passion for science.
Learning
and Doing Science
Typical science activities include observing, measuring, categorizing,
asking questions, forming a hypothesis (guessing how something
works), proposing solutions, trying solutions (experimenting),
summarizing findings, evaluating results, recycling back to observing,
and sometimes reporting.
The Scientific
Method Today
The term "the scientific method" represents the general
pattern of the types of mental activity stages (usually aided
by physical activities) that occur in the master method, which
we use to obtain, refine, extend and apply knowledge in all fields.
Will Colleges Accept Homeschool Science?
Is it possible for a homeschool to provide high school science that will be acceptable to the colleges? We did all our work in all our sciences at home by ourselves. Not only did the colleges accept our science records, they also offered us great scholarships. By Lee Binz.
Social
Sciences
Beyond
Names, Dates, and Places
Adolescent history study differs from that of younger children
in three areas:
1. Discussing cause and effect
2. Comparing conflicting accounts and assessing sources
3. Handling more mature themes
Cafi Cohen, HEM J/F 00
Lies
My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen explains how not to pass along lies found in
typical history text books and historical books and films.
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