homeschoolmom Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I'm in the process of making HSdaughter's high school plan. We intend to homeschool her. I'm curious about what kids these days from different locations take for their required and elective classes. So, if you would like to help me compile this sort of information, you could list the classes you've taken or will take during your four years and whether you attend(ed) public or private school. If you want to pm me, that's cool too. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I would tell you what I took but I am not in high school and haven't been for ... a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted July 24, 2009 Author Share Posted July 24, 2009 Which is why I titled this "Attention High Schoolers" I still remember every class I took in high school... and the teacher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StColette Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 My cousin, a high schooler, is taking a criminal justice elective. She's attending a public school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted July 24, 2009 Author Share Posted July 24, 2009 Cool. beans. I love hearing these kinds of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christie_M Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I'm taking computer tech, Greek mythology, Poetry, and forensic science. and i'm taking then all online(kinda sorta still homeschooled) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StColette Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I took Fine Arts as an elective and I absolutely loved it because it tied in a lot of things about the Church. Again a public school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Well, fwiw, my favorite electives in high school were my art classes. I think that's primarily because everything else I took as a pretty heavy academic class. I was in band and choir too, although choir was not for credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 My boys had to take math, science, English, History, PhysEd, foreign language. Their first year, they had a ropes class. I thought that was strange, but it was supposed to give them confidence in moving to a new school or something. The had electives like computer science, but my oldest really liked getting to take votech classes in culinary his last two years. I think one of the advantages of homeschooling was we could do more than what the school offered. I would offer some stuff that we used to take, that has been dropped because computers have edged it all out, like art music, and even home ec stuff like a cooking class or sewing class. My oldest took an art class at school in pottery. It actually got him interested in baking fancy cakes. I guess molding clay and molding frosting are similar. You might also want to see about summer science camps. When we home schooled, I could teach the science, but didn't have a microscope or chemistry lab to do anything fancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zunshynn Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I graduated in 2006 but I remember well so... My electives were 4 years of Journalism, 1 year each of speech, photography and intro to drama, 4 years of French, 1 year of Spanish (only 1 year of fine art or foreign language was required though). Required classes were English of course (I did AP/honors... loved it, most years) and 3 years of Math, which needed to include Algebra II. My math credits were weird because they let me go back and repeat classes for credit that I had already passed because I wasn't doing well... Our SS classes were World History as a sophomore, U.S History as a junior, Health/Driver's Ed as a freshman, and Economics/US government as seniors (I also took these as AP... they were pretty good. I was in the first AP World class, so they were still kind of learning how to do it, but I liked it alot). 2 years of P.E. (4 were technically required but they waived the 4 years to two for almost everyone)... I took Core as a Freshman and Aerobics as a sophomore. Science had to include one physical science and one life science, which for me were Chemistry and Biology (which I took in Summer School and really liked.) My school did offer some cool Ag science classes, including horticulture and floriculture (actually, that was an art I think)... and some others... I can't remember exactly, but if you're interested I can find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat22 Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 i homeschool, and a lot of my friends are doing one or two college courses online to get a few credits before they graduate, it seems very popular right now. its funny. my parents are in dallas with my aunt and uncle at the homeschool confrerence. they're "rescuing" my cousin from the public school system, but she's only 11. i do to a program on wendsdays called "holy house" at our lady of walsingham in houston its 1-12. its tons of classes all day taught by retired teachers and parents, there are over 75 students. last year i took: latin, bio, american history, and photography. the classes are seperated by elementry, middle, and highschool level kids. then i did other courses like math, with mother of divine grace, not enrolled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosieranna Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 A lot of colleges have recently updated the requirements for admission (usually more math). The requirements are often available on admissions sections of college websites. Here is the link for the Indiana University-Bloomington page, for an example. [url="http://admit.indiana.edu/freshmen/as_standards.php"]http://admit.indiana.edu/freshmen/as_standards.php[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat22 Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 (edited) community colleges have special courses for high schoolers Edited July 24, 2009 by pat22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted July 24, 2009 Author Share Posted July 24, 2009 Yes, I know. I'm just interested in what people here took. I'm especially interested in what people took for credits in social studies, science and electives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosieranna Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 (edited) 4 years of English 3 years of math (integrated algebra/geometry, pre-calc, AP stats) 3 years of science (biology-lab, chemistry-lab, physics-lab) 4 years of French 2 years of history (world and US) 2 years of social sciences (world geography, integrated social sciences/English course) 1 year of Government and Economics 2 years of Health/Wellness/whatever else it can be called 2 years PE electives: 2 years of drafting, sociology, criminology, psychology, 1 year of an internship, literature, lifeguard training edit: UMinn [url="http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php"]http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php[/url] Edited July 24, 2009 by Nadezhda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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