High School Transcript Thoughts

Hut in Snow-Caspar David Friedrich, 1827

Here is a questions I received recently in a comment:

I was wondering what would your transcript look like for 10th grade? I am currently using a curriculum that is driving to the brink ...??? I have modified our subjects at times to make them more like CM. I seem to have a hard time translating what we do onto a hs transcript. Am I thinking about it too hard? Do you have a guideline? A Sample you could share. I know ours would be different because of our goals - but any comments may help.
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Here is a glimpse into how I translated our 10th grade onto our high school transcript.

First of all, I used the guidelines from Tapestry of Grace to come up with course titles and credit ideas. (Follow the TOG link to see more on their advice for transcripts.) I try to keep things simple and by combining things we do into one course, you get the basic idea of what we are covering in a year. I use hours to come up with credits.

Classic Literature of the Western World 1 credit
World History: Fall of Rome to 1800 -1 credit
Marine Biology - 1 credit
Geometry - 1 credit
Spanish 2 - 1 credit
Band -1/2 credit
History of Fine Arts-Western World 2 -1/2 credit
PE -1/2 credit
Robotics - 1/2 credit

I also include on a separate sheet all of the extras that the boys participate in aside from their formal courses. This is more of a narrative style discussion of what is not reflected in the list of credited courses.

I try not to think about transcripts too much, but I do keep records of all we do in Homeschool Tracker. This gives me a way to remember all that we have accomplished and then put it into a transcript that makes sense for our family.

Hope that helps.
Barb-Harmony Art Mom