High School Transcript Class Descriptions/Names…

Have you considered doing a portfolio rather than an actual transcript?  I think that is what I will be doing when we get to that point (my oldest is 8 LOL).

Just an idea.  🙂

If your child might be bound for college, I would  be very conservative in assigning more than one English credit per year unless the child does a huge amount over and above the call–writes a novel, say, or participates in a competitive debate team, or retranslates Beowulf, or doing some sort of very advanced project or something like that.  If you felt that the Language Lessons and vocab work was necessary for your child’s freshman English year, then I’d just count it as one credit for now.  In a college admission officer’s mind, an English credit is 120-180 hours of work–that’s a lot, and to say you have one and a half is then to be half again as much–they are going to wonder exactly how many hours a day you chained your  kid to the table doing English.    I’d just detail the work done in the course description you write for the course and consider it all a credit, or alternatively consider grouping the English work thematically instead of yearly, but I’d still hesitate to have a kid end up with more than 4 credits without doing something above the ordinary.