Saturday, October 14, 2017
Future Software Engineer & Coding
We are looking into her earning college credit while in high school as our state offers that and it is free! She wants to work from home until she gets married and she is in the right field to do so. I will be spending the remainder of this school year laying out just how we will go about this.
She started coding a few months ago and absolutely loves it. Most recently she is using Python but she did other programs before moving to that one. Here are some book she has used to self-teach herself and some of her coding.
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Update On Us
I haven't taken the time to catalog all of our journeys with homeschool the past few years or so due to surgeries, miscarriages and a cross-country move! Yes, it has been a busy time and my main goal with homeschool was just to keep pushing forward despite all the setbacks. I'm happy to say that we finally "caught up" this month in several areas but there is no time to slow down because we are changing some things with our original long-term plans for Katie.
Katie has always been strong in math and then the past few years showed a great interest in science and technology. She is gearing toward a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) high school plan. Her desires for more technology courses and a life-long interest in space have me rethinking our high school plan. This school year that we are getting ready to start next month is the year before high school (8th grade) and will determine the path for the last 4 years.
8th Grade Renaissance & Modern Book List
Late Renaissance/ Early Modern
- Adventures of Don Quixote - Dover
- The Complete Fairy Tales - Perrault
- Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
- Favorite Poems - Wordsworth
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle - Irving
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Browing
- Grimm's Fairy Tales - Grimm
- Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings
- Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina Rossetti
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Twain
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Verne
- The Raven - Poe
- Kidnapped or Treasure Island - Stevenson
- The Man Without a Country - Hale
- Little Women - Alcott
- Sherlock Holmes stories - Doyle
- The Jungle Book - Kipling
- The Time Machine or The War of the Worlds - Wells
- The Call of the Wild - London
- The Scarlet Pimpernel - Orczy
- Short Stories - O. Henry
- Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
- Murder on the Orient Express - Christie
- Gone With the Wind - Mitchell
- The Yearling - Rawlings
- The Song of Hiawatha - Longfellow
- The Road Not Taken - Frost
- Collected Poems - Cummings
- Poems 1919-1934 - de la Mare
- The Dream Keeper and Other Poems - Hughes
- Pygmalion - Shaw
- The Hiding Place - Ten Boom
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
7th Grade Medieval History Book List
- Beowulf: A New Telling - Nye
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Tolkien
- The Canterbury Tales - McCaughrean
- The Inferno of Dante - Alighieri
- Saint George and the Dragon - Hodges
- The Sword and The Circle - Sutcliff
- Shakespeare Stories - Garfield