11th GRADE CURRICULUM CHOICES | 2023-2024 high school homeschool plans |

Hey mamas! I l’ve finally gotten around to putting together a video sharing our homeschool plans for our almost 11th-grader!
Are you doing anything similar? Have you tried any of these?
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[@amberleggio335]

I'm glad you are.talking about the not doing dual enrollment with high schoolers. We have not done dual enrollment with our kids. I have 21-8. We kept all our kids together for morning time even history. My 21 year old had no problem getting into college and is a firefighter now, my second son got a huge academic scholarship without dual credit and will be leaving for university in the fall. We are very CM in style.

[@RootedHomeLife]

This is so encouraging to hear!!

[@HomeSweetHomeschoolLife]

I love that you are taking the non traditional path too. It makes me feel better with my choices.

[@RootedHomeLife]

I can’t wait to see what you chose! Have you shared it yet?!

[@HomeSweetHomeschoolLife]

@@RootedHomeLife we are continuing to use unit studies.

[@RootedHomeLife]

@@HomeSweetHomeschoolLife love that!!

[@leyw2510]

I absolutely love your non-traditional approach! We are newer homeschoolers, but I feel I have come a long way in a short time with ditching the public school mentality. Anyway, next year I will have a 10th grader, 8th grader and 4th grader (all boys) and I can’t wait to go where the Lord leads in our home and our learning. Thanks for this video. ❤

[@RootedHomeLife]

Yes! It’s been a process and an adventure!!

[@pacificnorthwestgirl2725]

Great choices! It's nice to see another homeschool parent talk about not doing dual enrollment. I don't think it's necessary and pushes our children to grow up faster than needed. Anyway, thank you for bringing it up.

[@laurabeth7755]

Love your choices! And I love how you are picking curriculum that meets your specific child's needs!

[@RootedHomeLife]

Thank you!

[@lmiller2003]

I would love to hear your “why” on deciding not to dual enroll, please. I have my own hesitations but I don’t know much about it!

[@GraceFilled]

Aaaaw so awesome he desires to be a youth pastor!!!!❤ Great job taloring his learning to him!!!!

[@elizabethrobinson4390]

Christina I hope you got my other comment when you did notebooking for your kids that was 38:28 Good on homeschool tips and picks ❤

[@liztefft5312]

Christina, you don't want to miss reading The Bronze Bow WITH your son...it is so good. My son and I just finished reading chapter 23 of 24! You will both love it. ❤️

[@RootedHomeLife]

Aww that’s all I needed to hear!!

[@framseen2]

I would love for you to talk about why you have chosen against dual enrollment. Always love your videos! 💞

[@megandeanne9642]

This is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much for sharing your family’s journey. Thank you, Jesus, for answering little prayers. God bless 💕

[@RootedHomeLife]

Yay, I’m so glad!

[@thissimplelife653]

Love this video so much! I love adding good literature, too!!

[@RootedHomeLife]

Thank you!!

[@karenposselt8275]

I used the Good and the Beautiful high school language arts with my son very loosely. We did level one for 10th grade since it was our first year homeschooling, plus I added in a few other books that I thought he should read. For 11th grade I bought the pdf version of both the HS2 and HS3 and then picked and chose what I wanted him to do. Plus we read other books- you can get great individual book studies on Teachers Pay Teachers. For chemistry my son had a set I bought him from Home Science Tools. It was so cool! And it came with a guide for how to do the experiments. It was called a MicroChem kit. He did that along with Apologia Chem, but I think you could add it in with TGATB and it would be great for him.

[@Panda-nc9mo]

Great video! I’m doing very similar with my 10th grader! Thank you for sharing as I was beginning to feel alone with our path.. 🙏🏼💖

[@leyw2510]

We are very much alike in our picks as well. It does seem like so many get so heavy and rigorous in the high school years.

[@RootedHomeLife]

@@leyw2510 agreed!

[@RootedHomeLife]

You are so welcome! That was my hope!!

[@amberleggio335]

We do high school science the exact same way. I do a unit and add anything extra I feel the high schoolers need. It is to grow a love of learning not cramming to check off of lists. And also knowing how your child is bent. We didn't do past Algebra 2 either!!!!!

[@RootedHomeLife]

Yes!! Love this! Thank you for sharing!!

[@prettybusygirl5635]

Thanks so much, Christina, for sharing what curriculum your family will be using in 2023-2024. ❤ We have very similar styles in the way that we choose to homeschool! 🌿 I would love to know your summer schedule plans ☀️and thoughts on dual enrollment 📚as I have rising 12th, 10th and 8th graders this next year. Also, your t-shirt is awesome!🌻

[@RootedHomeLife]

Yay! I love knowing there are like minded mamas out there! I will be sharing on Summer in the next couple weeks!!

[@jessicahilyard5996]

Could you do a video regarding dual enrollment? Im leaning towards not doing that as well, but would like to hear your thoughts on the matter as well

[@contessawright7430]

we love not consumed! And its not just because we know people who work for them.

[@RootedHomeLife]

Their studies are so well done!

[@kgn61]

Interested in entrepreneurship .

[@talesofavloggingmommy8479]

I love your videos. They are so helpful. My soon-to-be 16 year old will be in 11th grade and she has loved her independent courses this year, but wants to learn family style again. It gets hard in the high-school years keeping them with us and it feeling like enough. We did Gather ‘Round 2 years ago, but after praying to God about it I’m not sure this is the direction to go for us. I’m looking into Simply Charlotte Mason, tweaking AmblesideOnline to a more family style method, and your nature study units for science. For math for my youngest two we are using Math on the Level (highly recommend!) and we use LOF for my high-schooler. There are so many options out there and it can be overwhelming. I need to rewatch your videos on those nature studies to see if they are enough for science for all grades or if I will need to supplement. Thanks!

[@RootedHomeLife]

Simply Charlotte Mason has some great stuff!!

[@liztefft5312]

We did the Dave Ramsey Personal finance Middle School level last year, too. Demme Learning has a stewardship math class at the high school level, with a biblical perspective (I haven't looked deeply into it yet, but I like their math curriculum).

[@RootedHomeLife]

That sounds interesting!!

[@liztefft5312]

@@RootedHomeLife I may look into it...we are a little 'behind' in math at this point, yet it's an important topic...maybe it's something that could be a supplement, maybe even spanned over the course of 2 years.

[@aaajjjjaaaj]

Hi Christina! I’d love to see a video about a summer schedule and your thoughts on dual enrollment and also your thoughts and picks on apologetic curriculums. We are coming up on a season where all of these subjects will be implemented in our home too. 💛

[@RootedHomeLife]

Hi! There seems to be a decent amount of interest in all of these topics so I will try to share soon!

[@HomeSweetHomeschoolLife]

I would love for you to share about not choosing dual enrollment for the next year.

[@RootedHomeLife]

I think I may end up sharing more about this!!

[@gbcflower]

A book you might be interested in looking into for your high schooler is Diagramming the Scriptures. I can't remember if I bought our copy off of Amazon or Rainbow Resources.

[@RootedHomeLife]

That sounds really interesting!! Thank you! I will look into that! I think Not Consumed may have something like that too!!

[@kimberlygrescheck4783]

I recently purchased that same bible study. I have yet to start but I am hoping it helps our kiddos too!

[@RootedHomeLife]

I can’t wait to start it! I may not be able to wait until next year!!

[@kimberlygrescheck4783]

@@RootedHomeLife I don’t blame you! We are pulling our kids from public school one by one- at 4/5th grade we start them so next year our second oldest daughter will be home with our oldest. I hope they can re build their bond using this and more time together. Our oldest boy will be going into 1st grade. We talked about pulling him next year also. Unsure it’s the right time for him though since he has some speech issues that they can better help him with and I am not sure I’m good enough to teach him to read. This past year was our first year homeschooling our oldest for 5th grade.

[@bethanymills1945]

I read the Bronze Bow with along with a study when I was in middle school (homeschool). I honestly don't remember anything about it other than it was good. Lol

[@adventureswiththemacs8066]

Whenever I hear you talk about the different things you are doing, I feel like it’s the same as us! Very eclectic, CM-y, unschool-y, unit studies, living books, etc. we are not done with several of our “books” (like ELA) because we do so many other things. The books are more or less a fill-in for when we are not doing a unit or something like that. Lots of field trips and just being together. However, I don’t do a morning basket and I’m feeling like maybe we should… we have a routine though. I forget… have you spoken about summer plans yet?

[@RootedHomeLife]

I think of you want to do nothing basket, try it! If not, and you love what you’re doing-don’t worry about it! I’m going to be talking about summer plans very soon!

[@lmiller2003]

Please share why you are going against the grain and not going the dual enrollment route. I have so many hesitations of my own. Thank you!

[@alittleglamalotofmom]

I also agree that 15 might be too young for dual enrollment. Something to consider and pray over is the maturity and spiritual foundations/fortitude for early college. However, what some families might not know is that dual enrollment can be a hybrid option. My soon to be seniors are still home 5 mornings out of the week and have more “unschool/homeschool learning” than they do college courses. Dual enrollment can also benefit larger families in the cost of college. More importantly, a start to their young adult lives without student loan debt.

[@RootedHomeLife]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@raisingsixarrows6140]

Dave Ramsey has his books on sale for 10$ at this time, they are wonderful. I also got a shop book for my son for last year that is Christian based and was also going to do an auto one for my husband and son to do together. Sadly my son decided he wanted to stay at his biological fathers home so we didn’t get to do it.

[@RootedHomeLife]

Oh mama. That is so hard, I’m so sorry. Prayers for your mama heart. 💔❤️🙏

[@lindsaystrawsburg8689]

Younger 2 please

[@RootedHomeLife]

They will be coming soon!

[@genabrady1348]

I keep my high schoolers' learning family style as much as possible. The only things that are independent work are math and LA. EVERYTHING else is family style. There is less than a 5 year age span between my oldest and my youngest. I shoot for the middle and scale up or down a bit depending on the child.

[@RootedHomeLife]

Yes! Love this!!

[@christinasetzer2880]

I would definitely love to know your reasons for not doing dual enrollment. I see the benefits of it if you have a college bound child, but I feel it defeats the purpose of homeschooling, or atleast our purpose which is to deciple our children as long as we can without outside influences, so when they do go out, they have a stronger foundation.

[@cjparenzini]

Slightly off topic but Liberty University online is Christian and they offer dual enrollment.

[@RootedHomeLife]

@@cjparenzini I saw them at Teach Them Diligently and meant to go talk with them but never got around to them. That is something I’d be open to in the future!

[@RootedHomeLife]

Yes, this is part of my thought process!

[@fordfamily-zl9bc]

Can you share credits for high schooler?

[@RootedHomeLife]

Do you mean which credits he’s earned so far?

[@fordfamily-zl9bc]

Yes like what do you count as a credit? How do you count it?

[@sarairivera4006]

A pastor now need collage studies

[@RootedHomeLife]

@@sarairivera4006 For some churches!

[@Amy_loopsandliterature]

Do you happen to have a video explaining what you used/are using for Apologetics?

[@RootedHomeLife]

Not a dedicated video but I have stated resources here and there. That may be a good video to do!!

[@catalinagomez5460]

I’m new to your channel, not sure if you’ve made a video already please direct me to it 😅but I would like to know how to you manage or distribute they time/class work during the day without it being “8 hrs of PS”? I don’t want to overwhelm them as this will be my first year homeschooling (11th grade & 9th grade)

[@RootedHomeLife]

This is such a great question! I may do a new one, but I think I touch on it in my scheduling videos from the beginning of the school year.

[@karenposselt8275]

Good luck to you! I started homeschooling in 2020 with an 8th grader and a 10th grader. I continued for the following two years with the older one and he just graduated. It was wonderful! You are making the right choice by making this leap!

[@jeniferteodoro4513]

Hi, we are also using Dave Ramsey’s personal finance. I had a question about nature study club. I was thinking of getting them for the fall and also looking at idlewild. Was wondering if you think the word studies from idlewild would I be able to pair that with nature study club lessons?

[@RootedHomeLife]

Yes! I did that quite a bit this year! I think there were some topics that weren’t covered in Idlewild and visa versa, but a lot of it aligned nicely!!

[@jeniferteodoro4513]

@@RootedHomeLife Great! Thank you so much.

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