When I started homeschooling, I couldn’t find U.S. history curriculum that told the stories I wanted my kids to hear—stories that weren’t the whitewashed stories of American mythology but the stories of people (men, women, and nonbinary) who made space for themselves on the margins of history. Some of their stories are happy, some are sad, most are both, but these are the people I wanted my high schooler to get to know during our U.S. history studies. Since that curriculum didn’t exist, I made it!
This self-paced U.S. History class includes a full year of history classes, including primary source readings, lectures, projects, papers, and exams.
Recommended credits: 1.0
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PART 1 of 2: This U.S. history class focuses on primary sources and personalities who shaped the United States, with an emphasis on women, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color.
$10 first payment, $20.00 / week onwards
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PART 2 of 2: This U.S. history class focuses on primary sources and personalities who shaped the United States, with an emphasis on women, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color.
$10 first payment, $20.00 / week onwards
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This self-paced philosophy class is designed to cover a full year of study. All readings are included.
$30 / week
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This self-paced U.S. literature class includes 5 lessons and is designed to make up one-third to one-half of a semester — though you could certainly stretch it to a full year if you got excited about digging deeper.
$10 first payment, $20.00 / week onwards
These once-a-week activities include brain teasers, assertion journals, argument-builders, and other activities to get your students up and thinking. Dig deeper, explore further, and have even more learning fun with weekly options for additional activities inspired by the curriculum.
Every week, you'll get an email with a recommended to-do list for students, including tips and ideas to help you navigate high school.
Get answers to your questions about transcripts, college recommendations, high school planning, and anything else during monthly small group Zoom sessions with Amy.
The poet Diane Wakoski says, "“American poetry is always about defining oneself individually, claiming one’s right to be different and often to break taboos. Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one’s geographic landscape, sometimes out of one’s cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins... America may be a melting pot, but most American poets think of themselves as separate, different, and while very specially identified with some place in America or some set of cultural traditions, it is usually about the ways in which they discovered their differences from others and proudly celebrate them.” Emily Dickinson, with her blatant disregard for punctuation, bold conjectures about life and death, and unconventional life choices, certainly fits this description.
This self-paced U.S. literature class This self-paced literature class includes a full year of history classes, including readings, lectures, projects, papers, and exams. (You will need to provide copies of The Awakening and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, but everything else is included.)
Recommended credits: 1.0
If the United States has its own philosophical tradition, it’s Transcendentalism, a wide-reaching school of thought that spread across U.S. intellectual circles in the 19th century. It borrowed some ideas from Asian philosophies and definitely reacted to some of the rationalism of the Enlightenment, but it carved out a niche as a philosophy that both encouraged and emphasized individualism AND insisted on the importance of community and connection.
Antiracist, antisexist, and antiabsolutist, Transcendentalism is a fascinating school of thought to explore.
This self-paced philosophy class is designed to cover a full year of study. All readings are included.
Recommended credits: 1.0
Here's what we believe. If you agree, home/school/life academy’s online classes may be the perfect fit for you.
Homeschooling high school should be fun.
It’s time to decolonize the curriculum.
Learning is a lifelong project.
Chemistry and the United States have a lot in common: The U.S. Constitution was written the same year Antoine de Lavoisier submitted the chemical naming convention that would become the basis of modern chemistry. So in many ways, the United States and the science of chemistry have grown up together — they’re both recent additions to their respective worlds, and they’re both children of Enlightenment rationalism, impressed with their own specialness in a way that can sometimes make them oblivious to their potential faults. Chemistry and the United States have both participated in imperialism, both prioritized capitalism and economic progress over human life, and both changed the social, political, and natural landscape of the world.
This self-paced full-year class is designed for students who want to dig into the big questions of chemistry. Classes include lectures, readings, labs, projects, and exams. Students will need to provide a copy of The Disappearing Spoon and lab supplies for the included labs. Everything else is included.
Credit recommendation: 1.0
