Reddit mentions of McDougal Littell World History: Patterns of Interaction: Student s Edition Grades 9-12 2003

I'm preparing to start my daughter in homeschooling (US) for high school this fall, and I've been researching and using some of the resources available to figure out what will work and won't. I haven't solved all of her courses yet, but I'm happy to share what I'll be trying:

For math: KhanAcademy.org

It's structured both by grade level (U.S.) and by topic. What I like about it most is that there is no 'grading', just mastery of topics. You can freely bounce from topic to topic as your interest and ambition desires. It's perfect for a student who may have weak spots in early education to catch up at their own pace. I recommend starting from the beginning and working through 8th grade as a great way to get up to speed for high school levels. Warning, though - this may take a couple of weeks (2-4) depending on how far behind he is, and how much time is spent each day.

You can sign up as a 'teacher' or 'parent', and monitor the student progress, with some pretty detailed reports to support individual tutelage when and more importantly, where required, and to make sure they're meeting any minimum time requirements you might set.

It seems the most comprehensive site in terms of what it is teaching and has a fair system for its topic mastery values. Has great progress tracking tools.

Cons: the teaching videos are often long-winded and can be boring to get through, but they are thorough. I personally prefer to learn from text, which Kahn does provide if you do the practice questions and ask to be shown all the 'hints' on how to solve, but it's different than reading about a subject. Will be using mathisfun.com as a supplement, along with expii.com (overly ambitious, unfinished project, it seems).

Kahn Academy also does Science/History/Economics courses, but I haven't tried them yet, so can't evaluate.

For English, I've been customizing a starter course based on the Foundation course from EasyPeasy. While they have a heavy religious aspect at EasyPeasy, they do a pretty comprehensive job in designing courses.

The Foundation course is geared toward self-discovery, character development, learning how to learn, and then presentation. I'm most fond of the Reading Comprehension quizzes, however - and they will be a daily exercise in every English class until 12th grade reading level is reached (the top level at this site, I believe).

For World History, I've decided to start with McDougal Littell World History It has some of the best reviews of any high school level textbook, and while I may use Kahn in addition - I believe reading vs. video learning is a more effective learning method (though I'm fine to find if I'm wrong after trying them both out - pulling up BBC documentaries on Netflix is easy.)

So, those are the three courses I've set in stone. Still working on the Science course, and PE/Health. She wants to learn French, so that's set, but I haven't yet prepped a 'course' for it, and she'll want art & music as elective - of which art I can wing it (me, Architect), and my wife can do the music (college vocal minor).