High School at Home; Emma's Story

This week was much more productive, starting with about 4 hours after my last post. Emma mastered her cartwheel on the beam in gymnastics last Saturday, and her coach sent me video to show me. I am so happy for her!  She did well with school this week too. Algebra: we began Pace 6, and got through the first two checkups. She is working in graphing simultaneous equations. She had some sloppiness issues the first day, but has done excellently since. I'm hoping to get Pace 6 done by Thanksgiving week, and Pace 7 done by Christmas break, but it all depends on how fast she "gets it". Ancient History/Literature: Emma is finishing reading, "Mara, Daughter of the Nile" this weekend, has begun taking notes for her research paper on Ancient Egypt, and we have begun discussing the Ancient Agean civilizations in preparation for our unit on Ancient Greece. While I love all ancient history, I'm excited to be doing Greece most of all. I never learned ANY of this in sch...

Nothing really major that is new to report. Emma has been having some blah days, which affect her school also, but we are slowly chugging away, making progress. I'm glad to be keeping this blog, or sometimes I'd feel we never get anywhere. Algebra: we finished Pace 5 yesterday with an 85% on the test. Emma does NOT share my love of Algebra, but I am really pushing her through it to "get it done". We are officially 5/12 of the way through now. Ancient History/Literature: Emma has completed 22 lessons out of 90. I'm not sure we will complete this in one school year. We finished reading Exodus, and she is currently reading, "Mara, Daughter of the Nile". It seems to be a quicker read for her than the last three books. Writing: we are almost done with chapter 8, the "Emotional Appeal Persuasive Essay". Emma had a nice gift from her oldest grown sister....She bought them each a copy of a blank story starter notebook. She also likes to write, so...