Heather,
I’m trying to get it all figured out too…doing a lot of reading, researching, and planning right now. 🙂 As I am preparing for the 9th grade, I’ve spent a lot of time pondering, considering, researching, reading, and praying about our approach and how to set up the high school years for my daughter. I considered AO, Beautiful Feet curriculum, and others. What I appreciate here at SCM is that there’s so much information on how to transition and develop a CM-style education. There are so many great blog articles and ebooks and such. And this forum is absolutely wonderful!
I’m working on figuring out how I want to grade each subject this coming year. I’m thinking of using some rubric style grading also.