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Ellipses,
Northstar Academy has Latin. You can use their Homeschool and Independent Study Program (HIS) where you purchase the ability to access all their materials with you as the teacher for around $125 plus the yearly access fee that would apply to any classes for a year. Their academy is signigicantly more. I have been looking into some of their classes, some have religious interweaving, some do not appear to. I was looking through the catalog they sent and it's pretty obvious which courses do, based on the textbook used, mostly science and some of the history classes.

JustaMom,
They also have computer and AP math.

Thanks mel,

I did sign up for Latin 1A at Tech. I like the curriculum. My daughter will already be in a Middle School. It is just not very high performing. Our concession to moving here is for me to be able to add to the curriculum to keep up with what she would have had (although it is not even close).

I am really interested in the extra Roman history that goes with it. I do not like religious interweaving and want the "straight" stuff.

However, I do want her to learn about other religions, such as the Roman gods. I hope this does not have any religious leanings. That is one problem with teen gifties. My daughter will spot it in a minute and cry foul. She can easily tell when something is fact or opinion.

Anyway, I will let you know how this goes. Thanks for your input.

Definately let me know please. I am having a terrible time finding good secular curriculum.

We have started this course - Latin 1A correspeondence. Background - my daughter dislikes summer and wishes she could go to school in the summer. She will be a seventh grader, but her scores are at least four years ahead.

The course is for 6th - 12th. It teaches quite a bit of Roman history. History is very shortchanged here so I am glad for this. The book is about the life of Horace and will tell the stories of the Iliad and other classics. There is also sociological aspects such as "women in Rome" and other interesting bits.

For my daughter, the "unlocking" of grammar is really fun. It teaches the further parts of speech such as Dative and the genders (has three). This answers a lot of questions she has about words. She is a word collector at this age and wants to break each down into its true meaning. This seems to be a logical step once the vocabulary gets larger.

We are learning together and it is really fun for me also. She is at the right level for it and it satisfies her curiousity.

How expensive is it?

It was over $100. But, I paid 1200 to take Calc. This is a nice challenge and she will learn the story of the Iliad and other interesting stories. Learning about sentence construction is very new to her and it is nice to have her learn something completely different.