Name: CHEC Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Location: Denver, CO

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May 1, 2011 at 9:14 pm
greenebalts
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As we finish up our school year, I’m logging 9th grade courses for record keeping/transcript. Our dd completed MFW Ancient History and Lit, which qualifies for 3 credits including Ancient History, Old Testament Bible Study, & English. In addition, I’d like to give an extra .5 credit in English for completion of Sandi Queen’s Language Lessons and Wordly Wise. So in total, there would be 1.5 credits of English for her 9th grade year. Has anyone else done this? I’m basically looking for a name to give the .5 credit course work, which has to do more with picture study, copywork, grammar, and vocabulary, versus the English Literature & Comp from MFW. I’ve thought about rolling it all into one credit, but I feel she went over and above by completing the extra LL and WW. Any thoughts or suggestions? Fortunately, in our state there’s no real rules or restrictions regarding this. I’m just a compulsive record keeper. Thanks, Melissa
May 2, 2011 at 1:27 am
Sara B.
Participant
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. 🙂
May 2, 2011 at 10:46 am
CindyS
Participant
Melissa,
We do that. It’s always good on their high school records to be as specific as possible. If your child wants to attend college, the name of the courses she completed can be a help, depending on her major. Therefore, for instance, ‘science’ becomes Biology, or Chemistry, etc. My daughter just completed a Civil War history credit. Teaching 5-day clubs became Early Childhood Christian Education, that sort of thing.
Blessings,
Cindy
May 2, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Bookworm
Participant
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.

May 2, 2011 at 5:15 pm
missingtheshire
Member
I agree with Bookworm – my girls have done a lot of English over the four years, but I will only give them 4 credits, that just seems the right answer for us. Linda