Digital Prep

 Now is the time to set up digital resources for next fall’s home-school year.  Take pix of the textbooks.  I put the images into a slideshow.  Take photos frequently of completed work, tests, and projects.  Upload the images both to the slideshow and to Google Classroom.  Think about keeping a blog.  Write about fun projects, a successful science experiment.  Load pix!  These digital documents will make it easy to submit a digital portfolio to an online home-school.  If your state or county requires an extensive portfolio, you will be ready.  Set up Google Classrooms and four quarters of slideshows.  Take loads of pix.  Your portfolio won’t induce stress at all.

Brit Lit

 I’m in the process of planning a British Literature class for fall.  I have some plans in the works here and here.  The class is using Stobaugh’s British Literature, primarily for class discussions.  I’ll use outside websites, too.  This class is remote to save families miles trudging back and forth.  We already have Biology and Algebra II scheduled Tuesdays and Thursdays all morning.  The kids are reading Robinson Crusoe, one Shakespeare play, Pride and Prejudice, and Frankenstein this summer to prepare for the class. I’ll post more information and websites to the spreadsheets as I continue to plan the course.