At about 100 days of school I like to do a assessment of where we are and if we are ahead or behind in any topic so I can make any needed adjustments.
MarioFan is in 10th grade
Literature and Comp
We are working with American Literature and Composition with Lightening Literature and have just begun reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. We are also working on Daily Grams and Fix It book 3 for grammar. For vocabulary we are using Worldly Wise book 10. -- On target for Literature and Comp but behind on grammar and vocabulary
Geometry
Teaching Textbooks -- On target
US History
Crash Course curriculum and other resources as needed. We are currently reading about the events that lead to up Civil War. I had hope to be done with the Civil War by now. -- Behind
Biology 2
Using EO Wilson biology of Life books from Apple iBooks. Currently finishing up book 5 -- On target
42 Electronics
We just started book C -- On target
Music Appreciation/History
We finished watching the series from great courses Foundation in Music and have now begun watching Music history video series. We have also gone to several musical performances last semester and have several more on the table for this semester -- On target
Spanish 2
Taken at co-op and also has an online tutor 2X a week. Earned an A last semester -- On target
Piano/music theory
Has a piano teacher weekly and is register to participate in a Sonatina festival and the Mid Atlantic Music Festival soon. -- On target
Kung Fu
taken at co-op weekly. Still not his favorite class but it gets him is PE credit:) -- On target
Dungeons and Dragons club -- Just for FUN
participated monthly at the library with a friend
Sex Education class -- Participated in a 6 week class with Planned Parenthood on relationships, consent and sex education
Firedrake is in 12th grade
She is pretty much independent this year. She completed two dual enrollment classes at the Local Community college. Last semester she took the following classes
Writing composition class -- she earned an A
Pre-college Algebra -- she earned a B
For the second semester which started this week Firedrake is taking
College Algebra
Sociology
In addition to her college classes she is doing the following
Piano/music theory -- with a piano tutor also signed up for Sonatina festival and Mid Atlantic Music festival -- On target
Japanese II -- has a tutor weekly -- On target
Job -- She is working 10-15 hours per week to save up for college
Dungeons and Dragons -- participates weekly with an online group just for FUN
Firedrake has also been working on finalizing her college plans and dorm arrangements for attendance to university in the fall.
So that is our Mid Term accomplishments and as you can see we are a bit behind in a few areas, but I think we can catch up. If not there is always the summer months:)
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