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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With regard to the richness of the curriculum, there seems to be some good planning and cross-pollination on curriculum.  Classics, for example, reinforces some of the history, as they go from ancient history progressively into modern history as the grades progress.  Latin, in turn is also reflected in Classics, as well as in the English class, which delves here and there into Greek and Latin root words as well - they have many word lists in common between classes.  There's a lot of contextual add-ons and connecting the dots going on from class to class, which adds to the richness.  Outside of BASIS, what I have seen  has generally been that classes are far more disconnected and disjointed, from class to class and from grade to grade.[/quote]

I completely agree with this.  I was told by my daughter last night re her latin homework that it was "standard Basis notation" to underline subjects, double underline verbs, and circle direct objects.  I looked at her folder and they are teaching grammar in English too (Washington Latin only stuck it in Latin class),  Saw the same underlines, circles, etc.  I agree that they really seem to have a tried and true curriculum that pulls together many classes and I really like that.  At Washington Latin everyone was free to design their own curric and there was no overlap.  The teachers at both schools seem overall to be very good and dedicated, but I am really glad to see the grammar because it will help her with any foreign language and the crossovers are pretty impressive as pp said[/quote]

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