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Wow! So I now have one year of homeschooling high school under my belt. You know what?! It wasn’t so bad. It wasn’t nearly as scary as I thought it be. Doing The Home Scholar’s Comprehensive Record Solution course helped ease my fears. I feel more confident with high school records and teaching high school courses. So now here I am with our 10th-grade homeschool curriculum picks.
I am so thankful to be homeschooling high school in our current world because there are so many resources to make homeschooling high school a little easier.
For example, if a subject is too challenging to teach (most people seem to struggle with math), you can find an online curriculum or curriculum with video lessons to help.
This year, our 10th-grade homeschool curriculum includes many different online resources. I also love using literature-based resources; my curriculum picks reflect this.
So, let me share with you what we will be using for 10th grade.
Table of Contents
- 10-Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices for English
- 10th Grade Homeschool Math
- 10th Grade Homeschool Chemistry Curriculum
- 10th Grade History Curriculum
- High School Health and Physical Education Curriculum
- 10th Grade Homeschool Art Curriculum (and other Fine Arts)
- Filmmaking Course
- 10th Grade Curriculum- Adding it Up
10-Grade Homeschool Curriculum Choices for English
You will notice some things duplicated from last year if you read my curriculum picks for 9th grade. I made changes last year and abandoned some curricula for a later time. It so happens that this is the case with English.
High School British Literature or Classics of English Literature
So, as I was sitting down to write up our 10th-grade homeschool curriculum, I came across a special note about the High School British Literature course on Schoolhouseteachers.com that I planned for my daughter. It stated the course was being replaced with Classics of English Literature after July 31, 2022.
Oh, man!
Well, the one good thing with Schoolhouseteachers.com is that you can download the materials onto your computer and still use them. So I did download all the materials.
However, I will look at the course that is replacing it and see about using that one. I wanted to cover a lot of the great British Literature with my daughter for 10th grade, so I’m sure even the new course will do just that.
I love Schoolhouseteachers.com. They are an ULTIMATE curriculum. You get all your homeschool curriculum for PreK through 12th grade plus a lot of homeschooling and family support. All of it is for one price (perfect for tight budgets). You can have as many kids as you want using it too! I’m fortunate to receive a complimentary membership as part of the Homeschool Review Crew.
{I have Schoolhouseteacher.com reviews for 2020, 2021, and 2022.}
I use many of their courses throughout the year with my kids. Often the kids choose fun electives. My daughter is waiting for their Psychology course that is due out sometime this year.
It’s Not Greek to Me
I was fortunate to review It’s Not Greek to Me as part of the Homeschool Review Crew. We were going to use this vocabulary program last year, but our schedule became too full.
It’s Not Greek to me is an excellent vocabulary curriculum to teach Greek prefixes, suffixes, and root words. This program will help with SATs, reading, and writing.
10th Grade Writing Curriculum
For writing, we will finish Cover Story, which we started at the end of 9th grade as part of the Review Crew (I will link my review when it is complete).
This particular curriculum is for grades 6-9. Kids create their own magazines. Hence the name of the program Cover Story. It is pretty cool. I love how kids write with a purpose, to create an actual product, not random writing assignments. It is a great creative writing program for homeschoolers.
Our history and literature program also includes writing assignments. Both will require essay writing and analysis. Plus, our history program incorporates creative writing.
10th Grade Grammar Curriculum
When it comes to grammar, we will be using Fix It! Grammar by IEW. I reviewed their high school grammar curriculum during my daughter’s 9th-grade year. She enjoyed it, so that we will continue with it.
Fix It! Grammar uses a story to teach grammar. It is engaging and fun for kids. Plus, it only takes 15 minutes a day to teach it! Yay! It is perfect for busy moms like us.
10th Grade Homeschool Math
Okay, I am one of those moms that avoids teaching math if I can. I certainly wasn’t going to tackle high school geometry. I struggled with it in high school and am unwilling to do it again.
So, for our 10th-grade math curriculum, we will be using CTCMath. I have a couple of reviews on the program. You can read my 2020 and 2021 reviews to find out more.
CTCMath offers online math for kindergarten up to high school calculus. The curriculum has video lessons, interactive practice, worksheets, online grading, and more. It is such a time saver and saves my sanity!
10th Grade Homeschool Chemistry Curriculum
Last year, we used Journey Homeschool Academy‘s Experience Biology program and loved it. So, the obvious choice for a 10th-grade chemistry curriculum was Experience Chemistry by the same company.
Journey Homeschool Academy offers Christian online homeschool science courses. They consider that some people have a young Earth view and others an old Earth point of view when teaching. I appreciate they do this!
This science curriculum has excellent online videos that are engaging and interesting. I loved sitting in on the biology lessons with my daughter.
The program also offers labs and a list of the materials so you can buy them ahead of time.
Kids learn to take notes, write detailed lab reports, and research information. With their comprehensive programs, kids will come away with a solid science education and have earned high school credit.
Enrollment is open a couple of times a year. One is in August and again sometime in the spring. However, you don’t activate your class until the fall. So I’d encourage you to look into it.
10th Grade History Curriculum
History is one of our favorite subjects in our home. Maybe it’s because I have a history degree and am super excited about history. Or maybe my kids just enjoy it like me. Regardless, we have always done history together.
For history, we are moving into our second year of Connecting with History. It uses a classical method, so it uses a four-year cycle for history, starting with Ancient history and working through modern times.
It is also a literature-based curriculum designed to use with the whole family! You use different books according to their classical stage (beginner, grammar, logic, rhetoric).
This history curriculum incorporates Bible study (Catholic study), map work, timelines, projects, literature, and more. It is a lot of fun for the whole family.
High School Health and Physical Education Curriculum
When it comes to incorporating health and physical education, I’ve picked out a couple of different programs.
High School Health
For health, we are using Apologia for our 10-grade homeschool curriculum. We have an older edition of Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition.
The program comes with a textbook and a student workbook. The curriculum covers your basic health topics body systems, nutrition, and the importance of exercise. However, I like that it includes mental health, interpersonal harmony, and spiritual life as part of its curriculum.
High School Physical Education
As homeschoolers, we have a lot of freedom when it comes to physical education. We don’t need to follow the typical high school gym class model. Instead, we can tailor it to our kids’ interests.
My daughter loves biking. She will record her hours of biking each week (until the snow flies). Then she comes indoors and roller skates.
Hiking is another physical education activity. My daughter and I will be training for a 7-day hiking trek, which will also be part of phys ed.
Also, as part of our training for our hiking trip, we have cardio workouts. Currently, my girl is using American Coaching Academy’s Habit Trackers (I will link my review soon). She is using one of their Cardio trackers with a set of exercises to complete daily. It is a circuit training routine.
For an actual curriculum, I will be using parts of Horizons’s Physical Education Grades 9-12 program. They have some helpful information and sports that don’t require a classroom.
Also, we often have opportunities, like gym time in 4-H and homeschool sports programs like dodgeball, that we will participate in as they come up during the year.
Isn’t it great we can let our kids do what they like for physical education?!
10th Grade Homeschool Art Curriculum (and other Fine Arts)
Art is something we usually have multiple programs we pull from. This year I have two main programs we will be using.
First, we will be using Home School in the Woods Activity-Pak: Artists. We are currently reviewing it. This art program studies art techniques and artists and has kids create their own art too!
Even though the lap pak is for grades 3-8, I have been modifying it to make it more in-depth for my high schooler. Plus, the review game, Art Gallery, is great for any age.
Another art curriculum we will be using (that we are currently reviewing for the Review Crew) is ARTistic Pursuits Drawing with Graded Graphite Pencils Art Core 3. This program comes with video lessons and a book. It teaches kids how to draw but also about great artists and history. We have used a couple of their products over the years (watercolor pencils and middle school Book One The Elements of Art and Composition).
Plus, my daughter does other Fine Arts projects on her own. She is always working on animation or cartooning projects. She also is involved with a Homeschool Players group and takes part in plays throughout the year.
Filmmaking Course
The last course I have planned for my daughter is filmmaking. She LOVES filmmaking; it is her passion. She often studies films for costumes, lighting, camera angles, and the quality of the storyline.
I was fortunate to win a Filmmaking course in an auction. The course is by Story Masters Film Academy. This program contains a semester of screenwriting (which she is finishing up right now) and directing. The directing course will be part of her 10th-grade curriculum.
These courses are taught by people in the industry. They have written screenplays for real big-time movies and done other work in film too. It is fantastic!
10th Grade Curriculum- Adding it Up
So, as of right now, these are our current homeschool curriculum picks for 10th grade. Some may get added, while others may be replaced. It is kind of how it goes with homeschooling. I love the flexibility of homeschooling.
When it is all added up, my daughter currently has 6.5 credits for her sophomore year.
- English- 1 credit
- Geometry- 1 credit
- Chemistry with lab- 1 credit
- World History- 1 credit
- Health- 1 credit
- Physical Education- .5 credit
- Fine Arts- .5 credit (maybe 1 credit if we consistently incorporate art multiple times a week)
- Filmmaking- .5 credit
So, there you have it. We are onto our second year of high school, and I have a pretty solid plan for what it will look like. I hope the curriculum choices help give you some ideas on some excellent curricula or the types of classes to use in your homeschool.
If you need help finding the right curriculum for your family, check out 6 Tips to Take the Stress Out of Homeschool Curriculum.
Happy Homeschooling!
