Benefits in using younger guide for high school

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kidsforHim
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Benefits in using younger guide for high school

Post by kidsforHim » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:34 pm

Hi,
I'm sure there must be SOME benefit that a child would gain by using a younger guide for high school if that is where he places,- could anyone share what they might be?? I am wanting to feel we would be 'missing out' by not using the guides written for high school. They might not be going on to a big name college but perhaps community college and surely there are skills they need to succeed in even a community college. I'm reading of the benefits for using HOD high school guides but what about using younger guides? I'm wanting to feel like they wouldn't be 'enough', and maybe, should try to make the high school guides 'work'.
Thanks for any thoughts!

Jennymommy
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Re: Benefits in using younger guide for high school

Post by Jennymommy » Mon Apr 20, 2015 3:04 pm

I am currently working out a plan to use younger guides for a new homeschooler. I think they are perfectly suited to his current level and will be very encouraging and spiritually beneficial without overwhelming him. I am also schooling my own three ds at grade level, and the main difference I see is not an intelligence factor, but rather a matter of self discipline and endurance. Hope that helps 8)

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Re: Benefits in using younger guide for high school

Post by StephanieU » Mon Apr 20, 2015 3:31 pm

If you have to modify a high school guide to work for your child, you aren't going to be getting everything out of it possible because of the modifications. Often, you end up modifying so much that using a young guide would have meant for independence and skill growth than doing a modified high school guide. Carrie's middle school guides are still VERY beefy, especially in the history. The math, science, and language arts are written to conform to standard sequences for middle school, but often it is easy to modify that for high schoolers as well. And often, families still use some of the high school guides even if they can't start with WG in 9th grade!
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Re: Benefits in using younger guide for high school

Post by mrsrandolph » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:06 pm

I think my daughter is (and possibly son) are just going to fall that way if we don't skip a guide. They are 11 and 12...soon to be 12 and 13 and in week 7 of CTC.
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Re: Benefits in using younger guide for high school

Post by 8arrows » Tue Apr 21, 2015 11:02 am

My daughter used REV2REV, MTMM, World History, and will use World Geography next year for high school. She is just fine and very capable of college work! The benefits it posed for us were keeping children combined as much as possible and keeping a more peaceable spirit in the home (immeasurable!). I would have no trouble doing it that way again.
Melissa, wife to Jim for 28 years
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kidsforHim
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Re: Benefits in using younger guide for high school

Post by kidsforHim » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:13 pm

I'm thinking skill wise - what skills do they gain or use that will help them in a college setting? (if placed in the younger guides for high school)

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Re: Benefits in using younger guide for high school

Post by LynnH » Tue Apr 21, 2015 2:29 pm

The younger guides progressively build skills just as the high school guides do. So if a dc places initially in one of the lower guides then they will build writing, reading and deeper thinking skills as they go through that guide and the ones following it. All of these skills are necessary to prepare for college. They also will learn independence and how to organize their day. Each year they are supposed to do more and more independently. If a dc wasn't going to get to any of the high school guides by the time they graduated then I would probably do at least the EIW grade 10 or 11 book if I thought they could handle it in order to have them do a research paper and some of the other types of college level writing that is included in EIW. I would also consider the science and would most likely need to do Biology one year in place of the science that is scheduled in say MTMM because most colleges require Biology. Again if the student places solidly in a lower guide then that is the best place to start because they need to learn the skills that are in those guides before they can handle the skills that come later.

The other thing that is built in to the lower guide is Christian Worldview training which to me is one of the most important things we can teach our older children.
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