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Transcript based on SCM lessons
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- MelissaParticipant
I would like to know what has worked well for people who have created a transcript after following SCM’s recommendations. I have found the credits to assign useful from the back of the lesson plan books but I am not sure of what exactly to “call” what my son has accomplished in a way that is easily recognizable by admissions officers. He is currently 16 and in his 10th grade year. The only reason I need to compose a transcript is because he is looking into attending a vocational/tech school for music lessons next year and they require one. If anyone would be willing to share a sample of a transcript by email (you could *** out names and grades for confidentiality), my address is melissacseverance@gmail.com (don’t miss the “c” btwn my first and last name). Many thanks for any input here.
ClaireParticipantI called everything pretty much what they wanted to hear it called. They’re looking for the cold hard “fab four” with something resembling electives, so that’s what I gave ’em. 🙂
English – here I realized, like history, we have a lot of lessons that fall in to this category so I actually averaged them all to create the grade for these (we needed grades on our transcript) and gave them one per year. I usually name this course every year based on the literature focus we had that year – Survey of Short Stories; Classical Literature; World Literature; Southern Literature, etc.
Math – here I gave them one a year; nevermind that we never did one in a year but instead some faster and some slower than that
Science – I counted high school sciences done in 7th or 8th if I felt confident they were really high school level
History – there are many lessons in CM that fall under here so I did what I did with english and averaged them to create the grade; I think here I used either World or American each year but not both in one year … come to think of it, in high school we quit doing simultaneous world and American histories and did one or the other.
As far as electives, I chose ones that emphasized the very best characteristics of a CM education – Shakespeare; Speech; Fine Arts, etc.
Honestly, there is the real transcript and then there is the one you create for use with applications and scholarships. I say tailor it as needed as long as your honest. Of course, this is just one way to approach it.
MelissaParticipantThank you, Claire! Very helpful.
ClaireParticipantAwesome sauce!! 🙂
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