Kelly1730 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2016 6:53 am
We are reading The Fallacy Detective this year (8th grade) and will complete it. We plan to read the second Bluedorn book as MFW suggests for 9th grade but will need something else to make it enough to count as a credit. Any suggestions? Thank you

Hi Kelly,
I posted some ideas on what to do after Logic here:
http://board.mfwbooks.com/viewtopic.php ... 315#p97315
I also had the thought that you could add a project. Not sure if it would be too much for a student getting used to high school, but I was thinking about evaluating a series of ads and rating them on their use of fallacies, or comparing different products and finding out which fallacies tend to be used for which products (cars, beauty products, vs. political promotions, etc.). You could even visit your state legislature, if nearby, and observe logic in action (or not LOL).
If your student will be doing Geometry, there might be a way to tie in geometry proofs to further logic study, too. I read about using geometric proofs to prove one of your beliefs. Maybe that could tie into one of the AHL essays, outlining the essay like a proof.
And there is also review of the books, expanding on things in the books, teaching or presenting the books to other students, basic things like that can fill out a credit, depending on how deep you dig.
Kelly1730 wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2016 4:01 pm
Thank you, Julie! This is very helpful. Next year being our first year in high school, I'm not sure exactly what constitutes a credit. I will take some time to check out the link you provided.
Very generally, a high school credit is typically either
(a) completing a body of work generally accepted as a high school credit (e.g. Algebra I or a Science textbook), regardless of time taken, or
(b) completing high school level work that would take the average student approximately 60-90 hours per semester and naming the course clearly.
MFW of course makes all this VERY easy by assigning work, testing it on real students, and creating sample transcripts.
However, some of us pull together our own credit here or there, using one of the above methods. You can read more in books on homeschooling high school (one of the early ones I liked was Senior High: A Home-Designed Form+U+La by Barb Shelton) or checking out trusted sites like HSLDA (
http://www.hslda.org/highschool/docs/Ev ... redits.asp ).
Julie
Kelly1730 wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2016 6:26 pm
Thanks, Julie! My summer reading will include on book on high school transcripts!;).