Home-school curriculum?

Question

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations as to good home-school curriculum? I'm currently a sophomore in high school and really hate all the curriculum I'm using right now, except for math.

I'd really love a curriculum that was just read, answer questions, read, answer questions, take a test, rinse and repeat. So far I've used University of Nebraska-Lincoln's online course, Alpha and Omega, and Switched on School house, on recommendations from family friends and they're just awful.

The math curriculum I currently use is Teaching Textbooks, and I love it! (And I hate math with a fiery passion.) I love literature and reading and I even like reading textbooks if their written well, so I would love to hear recommendations if you have any.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Have you looked at Sonlight?  We use it and it's really good.  The curriculum comes complete and you can adjust the Math and L.A. levels to suit your ability.  The literature choices are really good, too.  Here's a link:

http://www.sonlight.com/

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Try Abeka-Academy. It's really tough, but it's fun as well. I really like the teachers in the video program. They make it ineteresting...well except for the math teacher. She's in love with math. And I HATE math.

Answer 3

For science you might want to try Apologia. It is written in a VERY interesting, conversational style.

Answer 4

I recommend unschooling!  Try reading Grace Llewelyn's "Teenage Liberation Handbook".  

Good luck :d

Answer 5

I do abeka.  and I'm also a sophomore.  There are things about it that bother me, and I will admit, sometimes I get so bored I IM one of my friends and we come up with "nicknames" for my teachers.  But I've learned A LOT this year.    

my best friend takes Bob Jones and so does her brother.  they love it.  And they are both two of the smartest people my age that I've ever met!

Answer 6

Here are some textbook type programs you may want to look into:

http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/...

Good luck finding something that works for you!

Answer 7

Maybe you don't need to buy textbooks at all. Just go down to the library and borrow books on a range of topics, go home and read them. Instead of answering questions on paper, start conversations with your family over dinner. I'll bet they've got something more interesting to say than questions on paper do. I assume the questions are to check if you've remembered and understood the content? If you can hold a conversation with your family on the topic, you can remember and understand enough. If you can't, go and read another book and try again. The library won't cost you anything, and saves the effort of buying and reselling the textbooks when you've finished with them.

Answer 8

You might want to look at the Robinson Curriculum.

It is a self teaching program.  You don't read and answer questions though.  That sounds more like ACE or busywork.

With RC you learn to study with the goal of mastery.  You learn all about the subject that you are doing -- math must be done with 95% or better accuracy, writing is to be completed every day (one page or more) and then you read, read, and read.  At your age you should begin taking practice SAT's at the college entry level. --- Ten to twelve practice tests in the course of the next couple of years will prepare you for the final college SAT.

Answer 9

I was in the EXACT situation as you are (all the way down to loving Teaching Text Books).  I'm using Bob Jones University World History book.  The book is used in schools, so it's a read the section, answer the section questions, and after five or six sections there is a Chapter Test.  It also came with a work book, but I'm more of a 'Answer the questions and move on' type person, so my mom said it was okay to not to the work book.

For Literature, I got a bunch of classics from the library and some study guides (pinkmonkey.com is a great resource).  After I read the chapters, I answer questions from the study guide and write a small report at the end of each book.

My mom got me "Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature' for my literature.  That was al reading and I think I've gotten the most out of the one book thatn our of all the literature book my mom has purchased over the years.

Science is terrible for me.  I used Switched on School House and it just didn't work for me.  I'm getting 'Genetics for Dummies' and so I'll just read that and get a really basic Genetics test and see if I can pass it.

For math, I'm using Teaching Text Books (I used to hate math also, but TT was amazing!)

It really helps to go to the libaray to see if you can find books there.  I think the only thing we spent money on this year were the math books and literature book.

If you need anything you can message me. =)