Grade 10 Curriculum

 

Planning for grade 10 next year has been very different than planning for previous years. For one thing, we decided to finally enroll and get those official credits he needs for the BC Dogwood Diploma. Originally I was planning an alternative route (straight to college without highschool diploma... yes you can do that), and that may still happen, but for now this is what we're doing.

I had been nervous about how the transition would go, and if we had done enough to prepare for it. To my surprise some of the things he had been working on for grade 9 can potentially count for grade 11 and maybe even grade 12 credits. One of the benefits of being registered instead of enrolled for grade 9. I hadn't even considered that a possibility.

So for next year this is what his courses will look like:

ENGLISH COMPOSITION 10

Micheal Clay Thompson, mostly level 5 probably.

ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES 10

Micheal Clay Thompson and Memoria Press

Reading H.G. Wells, at least one Shakespeare Play, and some classics.

SOCIALS 10

Donna Ward Canada in the 20th Century

MATH 10

Dr. Shormann Math

SCIENCE 10 & LIFE SCIENCES 11

NOVARE Science

General Biology by John Hays

Accelerated Physics and Chemistry by John Hays

ART STUDIO 10

Map Art Lab

See the Light Art DVD class

Drawing Birds by John Muir Laws

CARRER LIFE EDUCATION 10

PHYS ED 10

GERMAN 11

Rosetta Stone

Talk Box German

and some assignments using the book "Fluent Forever"

Potentially also:

RUSSIAN 10

Rosetta Stone

APPLIED DESIGN

Rocket design

INDIVIDUALIZED "ENGLISH" Course including Latin, Classical Studies, Philosophy, the Aenid, and the Greek Plays. (Using Memoria Press curriculum). If we don't do it for credit this year, might do it for credit next year. This could also technically be a SOCIALS 12 credit.

He’s also going to continue with Bible and Church History, but I’m not going to make him do tests or quizzes on most of it so this will likely not count as credit. We plan to use curriculum from Memoria Press, CLE, and some of the devotional books recommended at Ambleside Online.