The summer before his freshman year, I used the Brave High School Record Keeping for Homeschoolers pack to lay out a four-year high school plan that will hopefully help prepare him for his future post-high school goals.
Here's what he'll be learning.
Because we only homeschool 4 days a week, you can assume that all subjects will be completed four times each week unless otherwise indicated.
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Group Subjects
He'll continue to join us for our Morning Time and afternoon read-aloud each day. You can learn more about those here>>>
Personal Devotions- every day
- ESV Student Study Bible- While my other kids enjoy working through Bible study books or devotionals, he prefers to read straight from Scripture.
Traditional homeschool subjects
- Plane Geometry from A Beka Book
- Rosetta Stone Italian- This will be a continuation of the program he started last year. (2x a week)
- Read for pleasure. (every day) I will gather a list of titles including those on my High School Must Read list for him to choose from each month. (Vetting titles in bulk is a great way to provide a teen/tween some helpful discernment while still offering choice in their reading selection.)
- The 5 Masculine Instincts
- The C.S. Lewis Signature Classics- This is an anthology of the major nonfiction works of C.S. Lewis, including The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity.
Dual enrollment/college subjects
We live in a state that offers free college tuition to high school juniors and seniors who want to take dual-enrollment courses to get both high school and college credit at the same time. Like his older siblings before him, my son will be taking online college classes from a Christian university. Because the workload is advanced, each 4-credit college class counts as one full credit for high school. So, he will complete the following courses during the first semester and register for two or three different classes during the second semester.
Composition 101
History of Western Civilization
Basic Computers
Life Skills
- Continue to learn basic car mechanics skills with his apprenticeship mentors.
- Behind-the-Wheel hours- Last year, he took Driver's Ed through a private organization. According to state law, he has to log a certain number of behind-the-wheel hours with a parent and with his instructor before he can apply for a driver's license. He still has a few more hours to go before he can take his driver's test.
- Volunteer at the local soup kitchen with the rest of the family. (1x a month)
- Clean his room and make his bed each day.
- Daily chores: sweep the music room and dining room, do the dishes twice a week, clean/maintain the downstairs bathroom
- Weekly Chores for his child-of-the-day privileges and responsibilities: help make lunch/dinner and do two loads of laundry (Mondays), do the dishes (Mondays and Tuesdays), rotate with his brothers to mow the lawn and/or shovel the snow as needed
- Monthly Chores: dust the main floor with his siblings, mop the music room and dining room, mop his room, and randomly select one additional chore from our chore jar one Saturday each month.
Co-operative Learning
Twice a month, he'll attend the homeschool co-op that I lead and participate in two enrichment classes each semester for a total of four for the 2024-2025 school year. In addition, he'll be able to join in on several field trips offered by the group.
His first-semester co-op classes will be as follows:
- Intro to Marketing/Business
- Mixed Media Art
His second-semester co-op classes are yet to be determined.
With his two oldest siblings out of the house now, he's officially the oldest kiddo at home. He's rising to the occasion already and is leading by example, as I knew he would. I look forward to seeing what the Lord has in store for him this year.
These curriculum breakdowns are so helpful and inspiring! Thank you for sharing with us.
ReplyDeleteI do appreciate seeing these lists each year! Thank you! - Rebecca M
ReplyDeleteYou are most welcome! Thanks for reading them each year.
DeleteCould you share the timeline game you smoked your son on? :)
ReplyDeleteIt's called American Timeline. It was out of print for awhile, but I think it's back on the market now.
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