Weekly Wrap Up 5/15/20 -- High School/dual enrollment Update

We have been continuing to do our best with homeschooling during this pandemic.  For the most part not a lot has changed except for not attending weekly Co-op classes for one kid and not going to dual enrollment college classes for the other.

By the end of the month MarioFan (10th grade) will have finished his grammar, vocabulary, Spanish, 42 electronic, Geometry and literature program.  Leaving us with only History and Biology 2 to work on through the summer.

For literature we just ompleted our last assigned book for our literature program and are working on our last assigned essay! 

We plan to watch the new film that recently came out -- I heard it got pretty good reviews.

The literature program we are using does not include plays so we are going to add in one last book to our lesson plans.  No writing assignment will be required but we felt that since this was American Lit we needed to include an American play.  After looking at many great options we have decided that the boys will read ....

For Biology MarioFan has about 5 more chapters work on before he is finished.   I am working with our local Co-op to see if he will participate in their Chemistry class next year (I am not happy with the science book they use) or if we will attempt an online class.  This is one topic neither my husband or I feel confident in teaching.  For American History we are wrapping up WWII and I want to have MarioFan read a few books on that topic, such as Night or Anne Frank's diary and Farewell to Manzanar before we move on to learning about the Cold War era. I figure by the end of June both History and Biology will be completed. 

Firedrake finished with her college classes.  She did very well in sociology getting an A in the class.  She really struggled with the College Algebra class and once it moved to online it was extremely hard for her to get the additional assistance she needed to grasp the concepts.  We are pleased she got a C because we know that math is definitely a struggle for her.  Had she had access to the math lab daily she might have done better.  She on the other hand is glad it is over with and vows never to take another mathematics class as long as she lives.  I am afraid she got her Math talents from me:(.
She has decided to do a summer class since we do not want her working with the virus still around.  She has signed up for ancient history.  It is a six week online class and it will be another 3 credits.  When she goes away for the fall (hopefully) to university she will have 19 credits under her belt! 

Stay safe and healthy everyone!