The summer before his freshman 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
Since some of his content subjects are done through dual-enrollment, he'll only be joining his younger brothers and me for our Morning Time and an occasional extra. You can see those curriculum choices here>>>
Personal Devotions- every day
- ESV Student Study Bible- While my other kids enjoy working through Bible study books or devotionals, he prefers to read straight from Scripture.
Traditional homeschool subjects
- Consumer Mathematics from Master Books
- Rosetta Stone Italian- This will be a continuation of the program he started last year. (2x a week)
- Read for pleasure. (every day) I will gather a list of titles, including those on my High School Must Read list, for him to choose from each month. (Vetting titles in bulk is a great way to provide a teen/tween some helpful discernment while still offering choice in their reading selection.)
- Adulting for Beginners- Admittedly, I don't align with every word of this book, especially a few comments about dating relationships. However, since dating and purity before marriage are ongoing conversations around our home, I'm not worried about a few sentences in this otherwise helpful book.
- Build a Business You Love- My son has aspirations of owning a small business someday. So, I've stacked his reading pile with Biblically based entrepreneurial books.
Dual enrollment/college subjects
We live in a state that offers free college tuition to high school juniors and seniors who want to take dual-enrollment courses to get both high school and college credit at the same time. Like his older siblings before him, for the second year in a row, my son will be taking online college classes from a Christian university. Because the workload is advanced, each 4-credit college class counts as one full credit for high school. So, he will complete the following courses during the first semester and register for two or three different classes during the second semester.
Introduction to Shakespeare
Film Appreciation--His younger brother is registered for this same class.
Life Skills
- Continue to learn basic car mechanics skills with his apprenticeship mentors.
- Work at a home renovation/construction job site four mornings a week, doing demo, clean-up, and some very basic construction.
- 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 music room and dining room, do the dishes twice a week, clean/maintain the downstairs bathroom
- Weekly Chores for his child-of-the-day privileges and responsibilities: help make lunch/dinner and do two loads of laundry (Wednesdays), do the dishes (Wednesdays and Thursdays), 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 music room and dining room, mop his room, and randomly select one additional chore from our chore jar one Saturday each 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 2025-2026 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:
- Communications
- Strength Training & Nutrition
His second-semester co-op classes are yet to be determined.
With only nine more months of home education left, my son will spend much of this year slowly unmooring himself from our home. I want him to be relatively able to function as an adult before I have to send him out into the big, wide world. I have no doubt he'll be up to the task!
I really enjoyed reading this, he sounds like such a thoughtful and motivated student. It reminds me of 99 Nights in the Forest, where quiet determination and curiosity slowly shape a person’s path, one meaningful step at a time.
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