I am currently busy planning for the twins senior year, (I am ignoring the sadder implications of this) and have been buying and planning for their electives. Most of our main curriculum choices are set but I have been twiddling with the electives. I am not including foreign language, science, english, math, history or Bible in this post. Since I am in electives mode, I thought I would share some of our favorites.<\/p>\n
Freshman Year<\/p>\n
Intermediate Music Theory<\/a> – (1) My kids had 7 years of piano and\/or guitar lessons but I wanted to make sure they had a thorough grounding in theory and I needed a good fine arts credit on their transcript. I thought this was a great on-line class. It was small, but it gave my kids the training they needed while also providing them an opportunity to work with classroom deadlines, tests, homework and a teacher other than me. There is also a Beginner class but mine were past that with their previous music education.<\/p>\n Traditional Logic I<\/a> – (1) We did the Logic from MFW in 7th and 8th grade and then choose to add a more formal Logic in 9th. This was a little dry, but it gave my kids the background in Logic that I wanted. We were reviewing these formal logic fallacies just this week to prepare for the SAT Writing Portion and doing some of the logic in math. I like my kids to really be trained to think critically.<\/p>\n Sophomore Year<\/p>\n AP Psychology<\/a> -(1) Sonlight has really developed some great new electives, and this is no exception. It taught everything needed for the AP exam (my kids both passed) but from a Christian perspective. This was a doable first AP course but it did take a lot of time and energy on their part. (Remember Honors and AP courses are weighted differently. An ‘A’ is worth 5 points not 4 etc)<\/p>\n Junior Year<\/p>\n Beginning Java <\/a> – (.5) – Collin was originally going to make this into AP Comp Sci A but the high school we take APs through wasn’t offering this test year so, we made it into a semester elective and will take the test next year. CodeAcademy is a great tool. We did pay the $20 a month from Aug – December in order for him to do all the lessons and projects and have help available.<\/p>\n