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At www.America.gov you will find some great e-books to use as an outline for a high school course of study or as an actual text in the class. Here’s an excellent 180 pp. overview of American literature that can serve as a guide for a course of that name.
http://www.america.gov/publications/books/outline-of-american-literature.html
Here’s an interesting finding: City life decreases emotional control and cognitive capacity. Does this context, in part, explain why children growing up in our urban core lag behind their middle class peers? And what does the net effect of less time spent outside by school age children predict for the future?
Homeschooling families can offset this trend by making the most of green spaces near at hand ( if not an actual backyard, then a city park) and allowing plenty of time for recess.
Here’s a site to bookmark and peruse. I’ve been surveying the open content available on the Web for homeschoolers and just this morning I thought, “I wish there was a site where users were rating these lectures so I didn’t have to spend so much time trying to find the best ones.” Well, if you can think of something that ought to exist on the Net, then it probably already does. A recommendation on the Yahoo Groups:homeschool2college granted my wish: Academic Earth is the site which consolidates many of the open content lectures scholars are making available free of charge. Registered users can grade the lectures. Top ranked courses and lectures appear on the home page.