Benjamin’s 9th grade year is going well. He has a handle on the amount of work he needs to do each week and is getting into a routine.
For bible Benjamin is joins our church in our yearly bible reading plan. He also has The Westminster Shorter Catechism and read More Than A Carpenter for a theology book. We started What If Jesus Had Never Been Born. He has a weekly scripture memory for school and usually for youth as well.
In history/social studies, we have three main spines: The Story of Christianity, The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History, and From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya. He also has timeline and a current events assignment each week.
I’ve been able to do about half of his read alouds with him this unit. We read Till We Have Faces, Twelfth Night, The Ramsay Scallop, and started Pride and Prejudice. He also has daily readings from A Child’s Anthology of Poetry.
Benjamin has started to give in and try a little harder on his writing on the first draft. It is nice not to have to push. He usually has a weekly creative writing assignment and a weekly short timed essay. He does vocabulary with Vocabulary From Classic Roots B and Wordly Wise 3000, Book 9, analogies with Analogies 1, and spelling with Sequential Spelling 6.
This year we are doing earth science. We have Discovering Design with Earth Science which includes experiments, vocabulary, reviews, and tests. We have figured out the schedule, one week is experiments and the next is a test. Ben is doing pretty well with the notebooking and getting good test grades.
Math is Math U See Geometry. He does well in this subject.
For dual credit, Benjamin is taking the required first class called “Learning Frameworks”. He realized about a month in that he didn’t sign up for an online only class like he thought he had and so we are having to go to “college” once a week for his in person instruction. He tells me he is doing well and they just have a few weeks left in the semester.
Benjamin is glad volleyball is over and now it is his turn. Nate is assistant coaching and Benjamin has been having three or four basketball practices a week. He made the JV team and games will start mid November. He babysits about once a week and helps out as our tech man at church. He attends most of our church and Connections event and also participated in the Purity Ceremony.