Sunday, January 30, 2011 By: Kate

Helena as a Senior?!

Senior class registration is in just a couple of days!  Ahhhh!  I can't believe it!

She and I spent an hour or so this afternoon hammering out her Plan A schedule, and a Plan B, just in case Plan A doesn't work out.

The Plan A involves three distance learning classes and two AP classes.  Distance learning classes are university classes that are broadcast into a classroom at the high school.  Students interact with the teacher via live feed and a microphone.  They count as both high school and college credit.  If we can swing this schedule, she will have three general ed. classes taken care of before she graduates.  The AP classes are European History and Art History.  Combined with the US History class she will also be taking, her schedule will be mostly history classes; a subject she loves.

It is the distance learning classes that make Plan A a bit tricky.  If we can't swing that, Plan B includes the two AP classes, a concurrent enrollment English class (Expository Writing, or something), and orchestra.  Concurrent enrollment is similar to distance learning in that you earn both high school and college credit for the class.  The distance learning classes in Plan A prevent her from taking the level of orchestra class she would be in.  I will be sad if she is not able to continue with her violin in her senior year, if Plan A is successful.  I am hoping she finds the desire and a way to continue with her musical studies in college.

She has fulfilled all her graduation requirements, save a few history credits (the US History class, for instance), and the electives.  Nearly everything she will be taking counts as elective. 

Here is hoping for a successful registration!

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