Your homeschool highschoolers need 4 Language Arts credits for their transcripts. Each Language Arts credit includes more than just literature. Each Language Arts credit also must include writing.

A LOT of writing…

How do you know if your homeschool highschooler is getting enough writing for their Language Arts credits?

How do you know if they are covering the right types of writing?

Never fear! In characteristic light-heartedness and encouragement, we’ll help you figure it out!

Join Sabrina, Vicki and Kym for a fun discussion of the 4 genres of high school writing requirements and ideas for knowing when you hit the correct amount of writing for your teen.

Here is a helpful post: What to Cover in Homeschool Highschool Writing

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There are all kinds of homeschool highschoolers and all kinds of homeschool moms:

Some are bookworms and some are not!

But all homeschool highschoolers must have literature on their transcript and all highschool moms must supervise that literature.

How do you choose lit that will be good for your teen and what if it isn’t your thing?

Or what if your teen HATES lit but you love it?

Join Sabrina, Vicki and Kym for an idea packed episode on handling highschool literature whether you are bookworms or not!

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All homeschool highschoolers are different. Some of them are different with the label “special needs”.

Can you homeschool highschool with a teen who has special needs? OF COURSE, you can!

Join Vicki for an interview with Patty Tillman about her son’s special highschool program.

Patty homeschooled her son from the time he was adopted at age 8 to his graduation. He is now a hardworking, responsible, God-loving, good man.

His life preparation and practical academics through highschool helped assured his success today!

She shares tips on how to understand your teen, set goals, develop resources and rejoice in the fact that God has plans for every teen!

Homeschool High School with Special Needs Learners

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Career Exploration is a necessary life preparation course in highschool! (It may not be mandatory, but it certainly is important!)

Teens don’t need to know everything about the future when they graduate homeschool highschool- but they will be off to a MUCH better start if they have a sense of direction!

That sense of direction comes from knowing themselves and looking for God’s guidance. That’s what Career Exploration is all about!

Join Vicki and Kym as they share about their work with homeschool highschoolers on the Career Exploration journey in this week’s Homeschool Highschool Podcast: What’s Included in Career Exploration?

Here are some links to helpful 7SistersHomeschool.com posts about Career Exploration:

What Is a Comprehensive Career Exploration Curriculum?

10 Tips for Career Exploration for Teens

3 Ways to Turn Transcript Courses into High School Career Exploration Credits

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There are so many different kinds of homeschool highschoolers, so it shouldn’t be surprising that there’s more than one way to homeschool highschool history!

History can be interesting, inspiring, meaningful and challenging when you find the right-fit history for your teen.

Ready to try something new?

Join Sabrina, Vicki and Kym for a fun discussion of the various ways to earn homeschool highschool history credit.

Sparkle up that transcript!

History Movies

World History Idea

Earning Social Studies Credits

Choosing an Extraordinary World History Curriculum

Favorite American History Books

5 Ways to Earn American History Credit

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Your homeschool highschooler needs World Language credit on the transcript! How on earth do you get it done? Can it be fun? Is there anything useful about it?

Join Vicki, Sabrina, and Kym who between them have taught their homeschool highschoolers (and LOTS of other local homeschooler) French, Cherokee, Spanish, Russian, and Latin.

They will be chatting about:

The joys of World Languages- with some ideas to make it fun

How to find curriculum that fits

Basics of what a World Language Curriculum should include

Tips to make World Language study useful and meaningful!

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Homeschooling highschool years are the best years of all! There is so much to do and to learn and so much adventure to be had!

Join us for an interview with homeschool graduate, Ezra Tillman, as he shares about the ups and downs of homeschooling highschool- and how to make the most of those precious 4 years!

Ezra homeschooled through highschool graduation. He is also a college graduate, having earned a double degree from Lancaster Bible College. Ezra now teaches middle school history, geography and Latin at the prestigious Tome School in North East, Maryland.

His highschool years were filled with adventures like film-making, speech, trips and more. Some adventures were awesome, some were well, REAL.

Join us for all the details on making the most of homeschool highschool.

Here are links mentioned in the podcast:

http://7sistershomeschool.com/products-page/drama-2/speech-i-public-speaking-and-practical-life-skills/

http://7sistershomeschool.com/products-page/short-story-writing-curriculum/advanced-guide-to-high-school-short-story-writing-myth-fantasy/

The highschool cinematography project explaining why guys should take ballroom dance lessons:

Why A Guy Would Want To Take Ballroom Dance Lessons

The video for the local homeschool umbrella school:

Here’s a college project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pnU9iKhVE

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Sparkle up the homeschool transcript, have fun, and gain some terrific life skills. How? With DRAMA (the good kind, not the *I’m-mad-at-you-and-am-going-to-make-a-scene* kind.

Recorded live at Sabrina’s 16th annual homeschool drama camp, Vicki and Kym talk about the ways drama has a powerful impact on teens and transcripts. AND we interview some homeschool highschool drama campers!

Join us for the fun and get some inspiration at The Homeschool Highschool Podcast!

AND check out these links:

Here are some fun drama resources to help you with your own drama– the GOOD kind! (Including freebies!)

Here’s a glimpse of drama camp in action.

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Many homeschool highschoolers are college bound. How do they create a transcript that is college attractive?

One important feature of college-attractive transcripts is showing that your teens have done well with rigorous academics. Why just record “Language Arts” when you can let those college advisors know that your homeschool highschooler has done some AMAZING word?

How do you show academic rigor? There are some simple ways to make do that.

Join Vicki and Sabrina on this week’s Homeschool Highschool Podcast as they share the how’s and why’s of recording academic rigor on the homeschool transcript!

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Get real with the 6 Sisters of 7SistersHomeschool as they talk about their brightest moments and their biggest fails during homeschool highschool.

Between all the Sisters there have been something like 30 highschoolers (they can’t count, so they’re not sure…probably one of their fails!). With that many highschoolers there have been lots of opportunities for victory and lots of opportunities for the teens to tell stories about.

Join us on this fun episode that we recorded at our annual retreat. You will be inspired and relieved that at least it wasn’t YOU going through some of the classic fails!

BTW- Who’s the 7th Sister of 7SistersHomeschool.com? YOU are! Join us for HSHSP Ep 17: Homeschool Highschool Faves and Fails.

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