Hi People,
Recently my mother has been bugging me to start a blog documenting my journey of homeschooling through high school and going into university. I'll give it a shot. Questions and comments are welcomed and appreciated!
High School
For grade 9 I attempted to get into Eden High School, but alas I did not and was homeschooled. We used Ambleside online http://www.amblesideonline.org/ which I really enjoyed, although I felt like it was less structured then the curriculum used in elementary school. In hindsight I am very glad I did not go in grade 9; I don't think I would have come back to homeschooling and I would've missed out on some of the great opportunities presented to me.
In 2008, for grade 10, I went to Eden high School. If your going to choose a school in the Niagara area I do not recommend Eden. The kids there don't really want to learn; they also seem to have a very twisted view of authority and God. Although it has the "Christian" label, it's not really what you are getting. Overall it was not a great experience.
For grade 11, I came back home and we followed Tree of Life http://www.treeoflifeathome.com/ It was good for my mum because it is correspondence. The English I took was actually considered grade 12 and is worth three credits: Bible, history and English. It was nice/easy. The books were okay; I had read a couple of them before and I felt that the rest of them were pretty boring. =D
This past year I've decided to apply to Brock for Accounting. At first we thought that I would need to go through high school, and so I took two courses from Sir Winston; calculus and advanced functions.(These were the prerequisites for my program) Sir Winston is a great school! I highly recommend it for people interested in going to high school. The students are very warm and friendly, plus the teaching staff is great! I also took two university courses from Athabasca http://www.athabascau.ca/ via correspondence. I found out from Brock that I only need to have two university credits and an average of at least 60%, to be considered as a transfer student, and that is the route I am taking at the moment. I have to take two more Athabasca courses which are an English Writing course and an introduction to business math.
The deadline for Brock is June 1, and all one needs is the midterm averages. Right now I am working toward my midterms and looking for a summer job =D
