This is our basic high school plan. Of course, each child is different, with different needs and different missions, but this outline guides us. They often are doing a lot more high school level work than is listed here, but because they are already doing those things (violin, piano, traveling to South America, serving at the Care Center, folk dance class, LDS seminary, etc) I don't put them here.
High School Graduation Requirements for Flake Family
School
MATH
Complete
math curriculum of choice through Trigonometry (Life of Fred, Saxon…)
CLEP Algebra
Run a business for at least 6
months
*Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? Maybury
ENGLISH
Skills
will be developed and demonstrated in Notebooks
Regular
tutoring for revising and editing papers
Grammar
course (before or during highschool)
100
Greek/ Latin roots memorized per year
Brave
Writer Help for Highschool
LITERATURE (BEST
BOOKS)
Read books on Best Books list
and write about each one—plot, characters, message. We will give you the essay
questions.
Create a favorite poetry
collection
*Standard Works
*3 Dickens
*3 Shakespeare
*Lilith or Phantastes
*2 Austen
*Screwtape Letters
*Pilgrim’s Progress
*How to Read a Book
*As a Man Thinketh
HISTORY
Create
a history notebook. Details on following page.
*The
Great Prologue
*Other
Eminent Men of Wilford Woodruff
*Biography
of a Latter-day prophet
*Books
listed in each history section
LAW and LIBERTY
Read
the books on list and write a summary of each one.
*The Book of Mormon and the Constitution
* God, Family, Country
*The 5000 Year Leap
* The Law
SCIENCE
Complete
notebooks for Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
*Man, His Origin and Destiny
*Men
of Science, Men of God
*The
Word of Wisdom, Widtsoe, or other book on nutrition
*The
Fallacy Detective
MUSIC
Be
able to sing parts (participate in choir)
Be
able to accompany hymns on piano
SPANISH
*El Libro de Mormon
At least basic conversational
ability
ELECTIVES (6
total, 2 terms each)
Geography
(Around the World in 180 Days) Full year
Sewing
Nutrition
Herbs
Botany
Woodworking
Mechanics
Piano
Tuning
Composing
Music
Family
History
Film
Great
Composers
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History Notebook
Your history notebook is a history textbook written by
you. You will be able to use it to teach
history to any age group because it will be your reference book.
Your notebook contains 18 chapters:
6 from Ancient
History
Adam to Abraham
Egypt
Ancient Israel
Greece
Rome
Time of Christ
6 from Fall of Rome to Rise of America
Middle Ages
Renaissance and Reformation
Age of Exploration
Colonization
War for Independence
Miracle in Philadelphia
6 Restoration to
Present
Beginnings
1800-1820
Restoration
1820-1840
Civil
War
Trek
West
World
Wars
Modern
Times
To create your notebook, you’ll receive a page with words
for word studies, required book list, and suggested resources.
Each chapter contains the following pages or sections
*Heroes
of the Era page (include brief bios and tell about their noteworthy qualities)
*List
of all books read with short summaries of each.
*3
essays: Detailed biography of
one person
Narrative
Essay showing cause to effect of an important event of the era
Essay:
“What I learned by studying this time period”
*Word
studies
*Project—complete one for each
chapter. Keep a record of research, lists
of reference material used, photos or other record of finished project.
*List of resources for further
study
*Timeline page
(In another post I will list our high school level history books. They include a lot of great literature. A good textbook for history though, if you're looking for one, is Quest of a Hemisphere.)
Science Notebooks
Create 3 notebooks, based on studies in science textbooks
for Chemistry, Physics, and Life Science. These notebooks will become a
textbook written by you, that you could use to teach any age group.
For each module include:
Vocabulary
page
Diagrams
copied from book
Lab
reports for each experiment
One chapter summary based on
information and questions in study guide as well as the things that were most
impressive to you.
Weekly tutoring will help guide you, as well as referring
often to the study guide to be sure you understand the content of the module.
