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suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - cookderosa - 11-03-2016
My 10th grader is going to take his first Straighterline class starting this December. He isn't working on a degree, but this will count for high school credit and college credit later.
I don't care about the subject, I just want his first class to be a good experience. I'd like him to complete it in 1 month as well. If you were in my shoes, which class would you choose?
suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - rowan555 - 11-03-2016
cookderosa Wrote:My 10th grader is going to take his first Straighterline class starting this December. He isn't working on a degree, but this will count for high school credit and college credit later.
I don't care about the subject, I just want his first class to be a good experience. I'd like him to complete it in 1 month as well. If you were in my shoes, which class would you choose?
My teenage son just started with Straighterline at the end of September. He has completed 8 courses and is working on a few more - he has found the history classes to be enjoyable and pretty simple (open book finals), and he really enjoyed Business Ethics. Environmental Science was a good one as well, and he is a kid who hates science. I also recommend English Comp 1 and 2 - those are good ones to get out of the way and I found the courses to be thorough and to cover much more than I expected.
Your son should be able to complete any of the above courses in well under a month. I recommend ordering the texts used on Amazon, though, as they are much cheaper there.
suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - Synicaal - 11-03-2016
I'd say have him start with the English comps also, get them out of the way now. Unless your child is really good in English with writing and that kind of thing then have them take the CLEP and go with something Like History or maybe even a personal finance type thing. Never to early to start learning about money.
suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - Synicaal - 11-03-2016
May also want to try for this https://study.com/blog/guardian-s-personal-finance-scholarship.html not sure if they have any left but I just got mine so I think they do. You can get 3months free. If you do 2 courses each month that will be 18 credits for free. Over a semester down at 0 cost. You child can take the Mandatory Personal Finance course and then just take a bunch of gen ed stuff so it doesn't mess with a possible degree choice down the road.
suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - cookderosa - 11-03-2016
Synicaal Wrote:May also want to try for this https://study.com/blog/guardian-s-personal-finance-scholarship.html not sure if they have any left but I just got mine so I think they do. You can get 3months free. If you do 2 courses each month that will be 18 credits for free. Over a semester down at 0 cost. You child can take the Mandatory Personal Finance course and then just take a bunch of gen ed stuff so it doesn't mess with a possible degree choice down the road.
Thanks, but he's not doing Study.com, he'll be doing Straighterline.
suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - cookderosa - 11-03-2016
rowan555 Wrote:My teenage son just started with Straighterline at the end of September. He has completed 8 courses and is working on a few more - he has found the history classes to be enjoyable and pretty simple (open book finals), and he really enjoyed Business Ethics. Environmental Science was a good one as well, and he is a kid who hates science. I also recommend English Comp 1 and 2 - those are good ones to get out of the way and I found the courses to be thorough and to cover much more than I expected.
Your son should be able to complete any of the above courses in well under a month. I recommend ordering the texts used on Amazon, though, as they are much cheaper there.
Rowan, are you guys using print text or ebooks?
suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - Nichelenole - 11-03-2016
Cultural Anthropology is an easy one to start with. The ebook is available free online and the questions were logical and in the text. I hate when their exam questions don't match up with the exact year text (e.g. regarding exhibit 12.4, what were the names of the top whatever) and points are lost. Not a bad topic to learn either!
suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - Likiro - 11-03-2016
I just finished 3 classes on straighterline...each one took me about a week. Intro to Religion was pretty straight forward. All open book quizzes and final. I also thought Intro to Communications was pretty easy and fast to complete. All open book with 3 speeches that you record on youtube and submit for grading. American Government was a little more challenging in my opinion. A closed book final and the questions were trickier.
suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - rowan555 - 11-03-2016
cookderosa Wrote:Rowan, are you guys using print text or ebooks?
He prefers the print books, and I was able to get all of them for less than $10 shipped each, so it worked out well.
suggestions for 1st Straighterline class - rowan555 - 11-03-2016
cookderosa Wrote:Thanks, but he's not doing Study.com, he'll be doing Straighterline.
My son got the Guardian scholarship to Study.com 2 days after he signed up with Straighterline - bad timing, but it's hard to turn down free! He's juggling both right now, and while it's not ideal, he is knocking out a few credits with Study.com at absolutely no cost, so it's worth it.