Last year, I used the Brave High School Record Keeping for Homeschoolers pack to lay out a four-year high school plan that will hopefully help prepare him for his future post-high school goals.
Here's what he'll be learning.
(Because we only homeschool 4 days a week, you can assume that all subjects will be completed four times each week unless otherwise indicated.)
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Content-rich Subjects
As always, he'll do all of his content-rich subjects like Morning time/Bible, history, and art with his other siblings. You can see those curriculum choices here>>>
Personal Devotions- every day
Language
- English 10 from BJU Press
- Select books for the MUST READ book list I put together for him.
- Participate in a teen book club that I lead for him and a few other homeschooled teens. (2x a month)
- Continue writing the novel he started last year. (a few times each week)
- No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet (month-long unit)
- No Fear Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors (month-long unit)
Math
- Algebra 1 video lessons from Abeka
Science
- Biology video lessons from BJU Press
Civics
- Constitutional Literacy- This is a workbook/DVD set that examines our government and some current events through the lens of the Constitution and the original intent of its signers. (2x a week)
- Continue with his mechanic apprenticeship a couple of weeknights and/or Saturdays a month. (One of our house rules is that by the time you graduate, no matter what your future college/vocational plans might be, you will have had to learn a trade under a tradesman. Learning a trade will open doors of ministry, side-hustle income, and/or save him money when he can do a job himself instead of hiring it out to someone else.
- Auto Upkeep (2x a week)
Life Skills
- Life Skills for the Homeschooler- This is an out-of-print resource compiled by Steve Clark that teaches basic life skills like filling out a renter's agreement, maintaining proper records on a vehicle, paying taxes, etc. Because of its 2000 publication year, some of the information is a bit outdated. I've not found a newer publication that is even slightly comparable, however. (2x a week)
- Behind-the-Wheel hours- This past summer, he took Driver's Ed through a private organization. According to state law, he has to log a certain number of behind-the-wheel hours with a parent and with his instructor before he can apply for a driver's license.
- Mow the lawn or shovel the snow as needed with his brothers.
- Volunteer at the local soup kitchen with the rest of the family. (1x a month)
- Clean his room and make his bed each day.
- Daily chores: sweep the stairs and the kitchen, do the dishes twice a week with a younger brother, sort the laundry as needed
- Weekly Chores for his child-of-the-day privileges and responsibilities: help make lunch/dinner and do two loads of laundry (Tuesdays), rotate with his brothers to mow the lawn and/or shovel the snow as needed
- Monthly Chores: dust the main floor with his siblings, mop the stairs and the kitchen, mop his room, and randomly select one additional chore from our chore jar one Saturday each month.
- Serve at our local Soup Kitchen with the family. (1x a month)
Co-operative Learning
Twice a month, he'll attend the homeschool co-op that I lead and participate in two enrichment classes each semester for a total of four for the 2023-2024 school year. In addition, he'll be able to join in on several field trips offered by the group.
His first-semester co-op classes will be as follows:
He's the quiet one of the family who prefers to put his head down and work alone. He has aspirations of either being a novelist or a car mechanic someday. I've encouraged him to aim for both! And as you can see, he is.
- TBD
- Twin Ports History
- TBD
- Leadership Through Teamwork
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