There are 15 pages or more devoted entirely to how to stand, sit, walk, enter and exit a room or vehicle. Home EC seems to be focused very much towards young ladies and how they should perform as such. LA gave us an interesting history lesson on the evolution of language and condensed several chapters of reading with very few application questions. Both subjects spend a vast amount of time on information that is unnecessary and/or unrelated to the subject at hand. We did not care for Lifepac Language Arts (grade 8) and are not really enjoying Family & Consumer Science (Home EC). Lifepac is lke the trunk of our academic tree and it's up to the teacher to trace the branches of instruction for the student to bloom in the end. With Science and History, I often add extra articles, blurbs, reference books, maps, experimental findings, documentaries, and projects. It's easy to see where we need to backtrack and practice more. It's common core curricula, which I'm not familiar with, so I (Ok, YouTube guides) instruct traditionally and the book covers the other side of the coin. We've used Lifepac box curricula for grade 8-11 thus far. We like to read together and interject a lot in order to make long-term correlations with what we're learning. In our homeschool, we prefer to use textbook-based materials because there is very little temptation to wander on the PC/internet. Learn how your comment data is processed.
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