Starter Plans for Year 7
Apr 27th, 2008 by willa
I found a US History Timeline here at Wikipedia.
Kieron is my only older student next year, so I think I will use this or something like it as an outline and then fill it out with work from a variety of resources. I have a lot of them around the house.
I was thinking of trying Ray’s Higher Arithmetic with him but now that I am looking through it I’m afraid it will be too complicated, since the terminology is different from what I grew up with. Still, possibly…. also, there is an internet math for seventh grade here at AAAMath, and the Internet Classroom here to give me an idea of what to cover.
If I get too nervous I can resort to Key to…Workbooks and let him sort of pick and choose.
Latin — we’ll just continue Henle & Latina Christiania.
Greek — not sure whether to use Basic Greek in 30 Minutes a Day, or continue with Hey Andrew. Hey Andrew is so slow.
For Grammar, I want to get better acquainted with KISS this summer, continuing to use it with Daily Grammar.
For books in general related to history and literature, there is Mater Amabilis Level 3.
Does that cover the basics? I’ll continue to use Spell to Read and Write sporadically for word analysis.
Logic — either Traditional Logic, or Introductory Logic.
Writing will be the progymnasmata. In one form or another. I think I will work mostly on designing language arts & composition this summer.
One Response to “Starter Plans for Year 7”
It’s funny, it just seems like yesterday I was planning what to do for the new year beginning in January, and with the nice weather I am wanting to wrap up this year already!
I want to get to work also with some progym exercises. I pulled out Classical Writing Homer again but the format always floors me so I put it back in hiding. When I was looking at the Classical Comp. text I really liked it but need to grab it again from the University library. I think what held me up this year with all of it was that although I like to wing alot of things, I think that for this I need some sort of backbone that I have predeveloped to work from. Otherwise I just can’t think as well on the fly about how to use the different exercises.
One type of paper my son whom just turned 13 liked to do this year was a sort of slanted narrative- like the story of Gelert (the dog in the Celtic tale) from the perspective of the dog. Or the Three Pigs from the perspective of the wolf. I seem to be able to hand out these types of papers but then I am bad on the follow up; we go over spelling and basic grammar but I should be leading him through some revising etc.
Sorry, this is definitely rambling. Time for bed for me. Looking forward to seeing how your plans for writing are coming.