Science in the High School Years
Succeeding with science instruction at the high school level
Eyes Wide Open
Five things every parent should know
about homeschooling high school
Skill Drill
Three skills every student needs for college
Literature and Our Teens
Social & aesthetic nourishment for homeschooled students
Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
Five things about writing most students are never taught
Grammar for the Real World
How English grammar should be taught (but seldom is)
Developing your student as a writer
Part 1: How kids learn to write — and what you can do
to foster in your student the key abilities
 Many of the skills vital to effective writing are not acquired in a writing class. In fact, it's probably more useful to think of young writers as being cultivated rather than taught.
Roy Speed has been a writing consultant for more than thirty years, working with professionals in large organizations; in the homeschooling world, he teaches writing to adolescents, and he brings good news: There's a lot we parents can do, he says, to foster the development of our students as writers. — This is Part 1 of a session in which he shares what he's learned.
excerpt from workshop for parents
What course credits does
my student need?
In her workshop for parents, Diane Speed
discusses curriculum planning.
excerpt from workshop for parents
Does your student have "grit"?
In her workshop for parents, Diane Speed discusses character
traits psychologist Angela Duckworth calls "grit."
excerpt from a live class
Electronegativity & periodic trends
Diane Speed discusses with her chemistry students some
of the effects of electronegativity in atoms and molecules.
excerpt from a live class
Romeo & Juliet: The Prologue
Roy Speed discusses with students
the Prologue to Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
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