Thanks for this review! This was one that I had on my mind for my oldest for next year (her 9th grade year). Have you found others that you are interested in for high school?
Finding a writing curriculum for my son has been a struggle the entire six years we have been homeschooling. We’ve tried BJU, IEW Structure and Style, and Write Shop over the years, in addition to various other odds and ends writing workbooks. Nothing has been a great fit. However, we did like Write Shop better than IEW, even though I did take out some of the pre-writing assignments. Next year we are going to give Essentials in Writing a try. 😅
Have you looked into Write by number? It’d going really well with my son who hates writing. It starts off easy with a power sentence and each stage you add 1-2 sentences. IEW, EIW, and writeshop didn’t work well for us either. It’s something that can be done independently as well.
Finding a good writing program is the bane of my existence! We tried Essentials in Writing this past year for my two older boys (10th and 8th grade). I'd say it was mostly good. Still, though, at the end of the year I feel like they need reminders for basic things like periods and capitalization! I wonder if it's just a boy thing.
@@OneMamaToAnother Looking forward to review that you'd post later. Thank you for your videos. One more question Christine: what was duration of WriteShop lesson, on average? (they look so intimidating)
