Sophomore Year - Mid Year Review

We are technically about half way through Lindsey's sophomore year, so I thought I'd give you a little review on where we are over all.  I say "technically" because it's looking like she's going to be done a lot earlier than expected.   You can read about the curriculum we picked, and why we picked it Curriculum Picks - Sophomore Year.

Geometry - Teaching Textbooks was our pick for this year.  We ran into some snags in early January due to their revamping their whole program online. Once the system was working, it still didn't have the proofs working (expected completion now 2/15/21), but you can't finish a lesson without that aspect. We finally had to resort to moving back to the 2.0 series on thumb drive.   This whole thing put Lindsey about 2 weeks behind schedule.  However, as of today she's completed 80 of the 110 lessons. I expect she'll complete this class in mid-March.

World History - Lindsey has never been a fan of history, and that has not changed this year.  The Abeka World History is going ok.  She really struggled early on with all of those ancient names that she couldn't pronounce.  It all ran together in her head, and frustrated her.  She's doing much better now that she's moved past that.  She's about 3/4 of the way finished, and will likely finish in late April.

World Literature - We're using Abeka World Literature to keep with the same time period as our history.  Lindsey is enjoying this class, although she does like to critique some of the selections pretty harshly. As with history, she's about 3/4 of the way finished.

Grammar - This is our first year using Easy Grammar Ultimate Series and we really like it.  The lesson doesn't take forever and isn't horrible dry and boring.  I can see a big difference in Lindsey's understanding this year, and it's showing up in her writing.  She's on lesson 90 of 180.  We'll start to double up on the lessons as we get closer to the end of the academic year.

Science - We both really like the layout of the Survey of Science: History and Concepts.  We've completed the Mathematics and Physics book, and just about finished with the Biology.   This has been a great way to hit several branches of science, and fill in some gaps.  I'm looking forward to the Chemistry and we'll hopefully add some experiments with that.

Civics - This ended up being the perfect year to focus on Lifepac Civics.   Lindsey has learned so much about the  way our government is set up and has been quick to see the things that aren't lining up with our Constitution.  This was supposed to be a 1 semester class, but I've added projects and enough current events to turn it into a full credit.

ASL - We had planned on using Rocket Language, but quickly learned that this was way too slow paced and dull.   We changed to LifePrint and Lindsey absolutely loves it!  She's doing really well, and has been able to use it a few times both at church and in stores.  

Lugandan - We'd planned on doing a semester of  the Luganda language study.  However, finding resources that have audio for pronunciation is proving to be a bit of a challenge.  We've tabled this for now, and I'll continue to research.

So there we are, about half way through the academic year and looking to start wrapping things up in the next 6-8 weeks.  Now it's time to work on our junior year picks.