School curriculum?

Question

what kind of high school curriculum do you use? you have to be in highschool, 10-12 grade. how long do you spend a day on it? do you do it on the computer, workbooks, both, what?

I really need to know how long you spend a day on it, what you do it on, and what its called, and how much is it? thanks!!!1

Answer 1

I use teaching Textbooks for math, (that's on the computer), but that about a $100 curriculum.

I use BJU World History, that's a textbook I borrowed for the year from a friend.

My mom got me 'Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature' for my literature.  That was about $13 on Amazon.

For Science I'm doing Switched on School House Biology.  I'm not sure how much that was.

For reading, I just got a bunch of the classics from the Library, read them, got a study guide and answered all the questions about them.  That was REALLY nice!  And Free!

I do Chem. Lab with two friends, that's free because he bought the book and we get together to do the Science experiments.

You should look at your local library, you can find science books, literature books, and lots of other resources.  In fact, you can get your whole homeschooling curriculum from the library if you look hard enough and think hard enough.  This year I'm sophomore, but I plan on doing a lot of the same curriculum next year.

I spend about an hour in each subjects, so about 5-6 hours on my schooling a day.

I basically just read everything, I only take tests in Math.  But as long as I score high on the SATs, I'm fine.

Answer 2

My kids unschool which means, they make up their own curriculum.  They try to study something in all the areas that colleges tend to require, so that if they decide to go that route, they will have that as a choice.  Like learning advanced maths, so they can take the SAT.

Computer, TV, books... we use them all.  

It's difficult to come up with an exact cost, because all of life is unschooling and it's not like one thing is really separate from another.

Lots of ideas in Grace Llewelyn's "Teenage Liberation Handbook"

Good luck :D

Answer 3

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

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

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

Good luck!

Answer 4

We don't...use a curriculum.

I'm 15 so I *think* I would be in year 10 if I were to ever go to school, we're unschoolers though so we don't bother with any of that 'schoolie' stuff like curricula, workbooks, grades, testing etc. The only dedicated school texts I ever use are the ones written for the IB courses (you can't do the IB if you're home-educated but their books still provide a pretty good source of pre-Uni level material for your own use).

We don't have any sort of schedule either so I can't say how long I spend on what you prolly think of as 'school'. 'Course my dad'd say that, as commited unschoolers, everything we do from the moment we get up until the moment we go to bed is 'education' in which case I spend about 15 hours a day on it.

I guess our only 'curriculum' would be called 'making it up as we go along' (or unschooling, natural learning, self-directed learning, child-led learning or being an auto-didact/auto-didactic).

Our education costs our parents approx AU$50 per kid/per year.