Roar on the Other Side: High School Credit?

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  • October 30, 2016 at 10:24 pm
    Rachel White
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    Has anyone used Roar on the Other Side with their child and given a partial credit as a Poetry Elective? I am scheduling it for my non-high school 15 yr old, having her do all the ‘Stepping Stones’ assignments between Nov. 2016 and June of 2017; giving her 2-3 weeks per chapter to finish (similar to AO) AND requiring that she copy and define all the “poetry vocab” which are in all caps within the chapters.

    After typing out the syllabus, I think the assignments are quite challenging. Has anyone given 1/2 credit by going steadily and successfully through this book without the tediousness of counting hours?

    Also, I could add in The Great Courses “How to Read and Understand Poetry” course to it, too; which would bump it up, also.

    What do you think? I think it would qualify with all of that.

    Thanks,

    Rachel

    October 31, 2016 at 7:56 am
    retrofam
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    You could do a poetry elective, if you need more elective credits or want to emphasize that the student took poetry.

     

    At our house it would be part of our high school English credits, meaning English 9, 10, etc. I have a list of resources used by year, which would list “The Roar…”

    For English we do English 9-12 and one semester of speech.

    I have considered journalism as an elective though, so I see you line of thinking.

    I do not count hours. A credit is earned if the student spends a high school class period equivalent of time most every school day or if they finish the book or book list.

     

    November 2, 2016 at 2:32 pm
    Rachel White
    Participant

    Yes, it would normally be a part of the 9th English credit, but she’s not getting a 9th English credit yet, so I don’t know what to do.  Next year, she’ll probably do Grammar of Poetry for more in-depth and it’s worth 1/2 credit in Lit. Then , later, Art of Poetry.

    RotOS just seems like a lot of work to not get any official “credit” from it. Of course, I could just combine it with her next year’s GoP and give her a full credit.

    ???

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