Level I All-Subject Package | Ages 13-15

Description

Includes everything you need to teach with confidence.?All of the planning is done for you. Relax knowing you don’t have to be an expert to give your student an excellent education.
Included in this package:

Instructor?s Guides (separate Parent/Student Guides for History & Literature)
History & Geography
Literature and Language Arts
Science Labs (includes schedule and answer key)
Math
Required Resources

Here?s an in depth look at what you?ll receive and learn.
History and Literature Instructor’s Guides
Includes a 36-Week, 4-Day?schedule designed to save one day a week for co-ops, music lessons, sports, field trips or other extra-curricular activities. Includes colorful map answer keys, discussion questions and answers as well as background notes to help you get the most from the time you spend with your child.
With all your lesson plans and organization done for you, you can spend your time enjoying your children and learning with them. Let the discussion questions and great books lead to meaningful conversations about family, politics, history and character. Open your guide each day to see what to read and discuss.
As an added benefit, you will receive free online access for 1 year to the electronic version of your History and Literature guides.
History & Geography _ American History?
Joy Hakim’s award-winning series?A History of US?provides the foundation to the story of our nation with interesting text, photos, and illustrations. Several other books great books make up the history portion such as?Before Columbus,?Freedom Walkers,?Sacajawea?and more. You’ll also find that we include supplemental notes in the Student and Parent Guides with additional details to help balance out ?points made in the books.
We utilize Joy Hakim?s The Story of Science as the spine to our program.? The Story of Science is a three book series centered on three of the world?s most influential scientists: Aristotle, Newton and Einstein. Each book provides the historical perspective and the scientific explanation necessary for students to comprehend how each scientist contributed to our current understanding of matter, mechanics, mathematics and the universe.?
American Historical Literature & Language Arts
Designed to integrate with History course material your students will read great classics like?To Kill a Mockingbird,?The Call of the Wild, and?The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. These literary treasures will help your children’s? writing abilities, vocabulary, cultural literacy, and love and learning. They’ll also stimulate thinking as your children encounter interesting ideas, characters, and situations.
The Language Arts portion corresponds closely with the literature, offering a complete writing program that develops critical thinking skills, literary analysis, and creative writing.?We provide instruction on how to compose various writing assignments, namely: narrative, argumentative, expository, persuasive and descriptive.? We also require a 4 week research project and various reporting assignments (similar to a periodical).? Each writing assignment concludes with a series of evaluation questions for the parent to analyze the quality of the student?s finished work.
The following?OPTIONAL?supplements?Wordly Wise 3000, Book 8 & Teacher’s Key? and Analogies 1 is scheduled in the guide for your convenience but not required. (Not included in the All-Subject Package but can be added using the?Customize?Tab).
Science | Physics, Electromagnetism, and Waves

Includes a Schedule with discussion questions, Student Lab Book and Parent Answer Key, as well as a Science Supplies Kit which provides all hard-to-find materials for the student’s science labs.
Includes the?Story of Science,?a three book series centered on three of the world?s most influential scientists: Aristotle, Newton and Einstein. Each book provides the historical perspective and the scientific explanation necessary for students to comprehend how each scientist contributed to our current understanding of matter, mechanics, mathematics and the universe.?
Student should understand basic algebra to complete some lab work in this program.
Math
The Math-U-See Algebra 1 Universal Set comes with this All-Subject Package. You may also choose from other math programs such as?Saxon using the customize tab. To find out if your student is ready for Algebra 1 take the Algebra 1 Readiness Assessment.
Required Resources
Includes two Includes 3? Binders with Tabs?to keep your Parent and Student Guides organized and?The Timeline Book. (Customize this option using the Customize Tab to include only the items you need).