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Home Curriculum Reviews Second Year of K12

Second Year of K12

Curriculum Reviews, K12 Virtual Academy1 CommentJuly 6, 2013Homeschool Curriculum

By Sue
(Salzburg, Austria)

Visitor Review:
Have completed our second year of K12 as independents. Deleted Earth Science halfway through the year and just did the unit assessments. It was more thorough buying a Science textbook with companion workbook and went through that in parallel to K12. The k12 Earth Science curriculum is too wide – too many topics and not enough in depth information. Dropped Pre-Algebra as well half way through – a different topic every day, all over the place, no explanation of concepts. Substituted ICE-EM mathematics from Australia which is a little more sequenced and with far better explanation. As Australia rates much higher than the USA on PISA tests in Maths, I figured they might be doing something right. They don’t split Math into separate pieces in High School either (which to a non-American has always seemed a little odd).
K12 Intermediate B History, Intermediate B Art and Grade 7 Language and Literature all great. Lots of reading and writing.

Can’t do K12 Language and Literature next year as the subject ‘Literary Analysis and Composition’ is the same course for Grade 8 as for Grade 9 – it can’t be done twice and there is no alternative but to then do Grade 10 in Year 9 etc and we don’t feel like being constantly a year ahead then forced to do an AP subject in Grade 12.

Would recommend K12 for independents but because of lack of subject choices for 8th grade will try Keystone next year.

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Yocelin
October 10, 2015 11:27 am

Oh dear Mr Moor, that doesn’t sound fair. What did you all think children? Imagine if the whole ctrnouy was separated that way and people with blue eyes were not allowed to associate with people of other eye colour. Imagine if you were not able to live together or go to school together.I am really excited about our apartheid topic, we will be looking into South Africa and the very inspirational Nelson Mandela, who fought hard for equal rights for everyone in his beloved ctrnouy even though it meant that he had to spend a lot of his life in prison.You will be using the laptops and itouches to do some research of your own and create radio broadcasts to report on events. We have also found a range of African art to try, which should be fun! For those sports fans out there we will be looking at the impact that Apartheid had on sport in South Africa and the rest of the world.If there is anything else you would like to learn about South Africa or Apartheid then let us know and we’ll do our best to incorporate it into our Creative Curriculum topic.The Year 6 team

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