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Post by ChemMommy on Jan 13, 2009 22:14:40 GMT -5
I have 4 kids, 15, 12, 9, 7. We've been homeschooling for 10 years and have done basically NOTHING with writing. I have IEW, but have never been able to implement it, despite trying several times.
I especially concerned about my 15 yo who wants to be a pastor but has no writing instruction. Is it too late to start CW with him? Should I look at a different, short-term kind of writing program instead? He's a solid, independent learner, does his work without complaint (mostly) and has an excellent vocabulary, if that helps with your reply. We haven't been unschooling, by any stretch of the imagination, just not writing. We currently use TOG and have used SL for many years.
The ladies on TWTM boards strongly recommended that I ask here. I appreciate your comments and thought!
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Post by greengables on Jan 14, 2009 13:26:40 GMT -5
No, it's never too late! It would be easier to answer your question if I knew a bit more about your son's skills (grammar, classical languages, etc.), but if he begins Aesop and Homer for Older Beginners now, and completes it this semester, he could probably get at least through Herodotus (depending on when he will graduate). You might check the classicalwritingtutorials.com website to see if there are any offerings there that would help you.
Hope that helps,
Kathy
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Post by ChemMommy on Jan 14, 2009 19:57:53 GMT -5
My son is in 9th grade. He as done Abeka language arts 1st-6th grade along with a bit of Shurley Grammar. He knows what an adjective and adverb are and how to identify them. He knows prepositions and action/linking verbs. He is just beginning to study Greek.
Does that help a bit? I'd love to hear more of your opinions. Please let me know if you need more information.
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Post by greengables on Jan 14, 2009 22:06:14 GMT -5
I think that the safest plan would be to go with Older Beginners and try to finish it this semester, so he could do Maxim next fall. Some of the grammar will be review from ABeka, but the narrative writing skills of Older Beginners will give him the foundation he needs to do well in the rest of Classical Writing.
That would put him in Maxim in 10th grade, Chreia in 11th, and Herodotus in 12th, which will give him a very strong writing background if he goes on to university.
Kathy
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Post by Holly on Mar 25, 2009 17:43:49 GMT -5
I realize my post here is a little belated, but I too have a 9th grader and just found CW and was wondering the same thing. I don't know if I could squish the Aesop and Homer for Older Beginners into the rest of this year being as it's 22 weeks long and we only have 9 weeks left. But assuming we work as best as we can and finish it up at the beginning of next year, going on to Maxim and so on as Kathy suggested, where would we fit in the poetry studies? Do those just not get done, or are they done simultaneously or what? I wish I'd found this curriculum sooner in order to go through it properly, but we'll do what we can. My youngest is in 6th grade, so there's hope to get most of it in with her.  |
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Post by Carolyn on Mar 25, 2009 21:56:18 GMT -5
The Poetry studies are wonderful. Squeezing them in will depend on what else you have going, what your aims are, and of course, what sort your oldest is. If he (she?) loves language and enjoys playing with it, it would be a pity not to explore Poetry, and it might work to work through the books as 'summer enrichment' sorts of classes. Doing two CW books at the same time (our Aesop and Homer is sequential, not simultaneous) is generally not a good idea. Using Poetry as a mid-winter break from one of the other books could work, though. Carolyn |
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