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Life Academy · Universal United States secondary curriculum · Carnegie-unit credit framing
Goal: College- and career-ready academic year with transcript language parents can use.
Not a state diploma. Not state-locked. Parents remain responsible for their state’s homeschool notice, portfolio, and dual-enrollment rules.
Subject categories: English · Math · Science · History / Social Studies · STEM · Driver Education · Life Skills / Electives
Driver Education (0.5) remains available if not yet transcripted.
Hours framing: ~120–150 hours guided study ≈ 1.0 credit when Friday mastery gates are passed and evidence is kept.
Sample transcript line:
> *English 11: American Lit & Rhetoric — Life Academy — 1.0 credit — Grade: A — Evidence: Week 1–36 mastery gates; revised essays; seminar defenses; midyear + final portfolio.*
See transcript.html for the full checklist parents can paste into portfolios / umbrella schools.
Rigorous reading of literature and nonfiction; dialectical annotation; writing workshop with revision; Socratic seminars; research with citation discipline.
Conceptual understanding before procedure; justification/proof habits; modeling; cumulative mastery gates (EOC-style where appropriate).
Inquiry/lab cycle: observe → explain → record → argue with evidence (CER); notebook as credit evidence.
Chronology + weekly primary sources; map/timeline literacy; document-based writing; ideology-last factual survey.
Teen agency: time, health, finance, ethics, pathway planning. Elective spine (STEM / Business / Arts / CTE / Driver Education 0.5) logged Fridays + weekends.
| Weeks | English | Math | Science | History / SS | Life Skills |
|-------|---------|------|---------|--------------|------------|
| 1–4 | American lit survey launch | Algebra II: function families review | Physics OR Anatomy track launch | US History: Indigenous nations & | College/trade pathway invent |
| 5–8 | American Romanticism | Polynomials: division, remainder/fac | Energy & work OR cardiovascular | Early republic: parties, expansi | Essay of purpose brainstorm |
| 9–12 | Civil War literature & speeches | Sequences: arithmetic/geometric | Waves intro OR endocrine system | Civil War military & home front | Scholarship search system |
| 13–16 | Modernist poetry/fiction | Unit circle values | Circuits intro OR ecology of hum | WWI & 1920s US documents | College essay anecdote minin |
| 17–20 | King / Malcolm / women organizers rhetoric | Statistics path preview OR trig appl | Modern physics lite OR exercise | Civil Rights movement primary st | Campus culture research (fit |
| 21–24 | Contemporary American lit | Rational functions | Project: physics engineering cha | 9/11 & forever wars documents (c | College/trade applications c |
| 25–28 | Seminar: American literature themes revisit | Exponential/log applications clinic | Science elective enrichment OR c | Immigration across eras document | Deposit/visit logistics |
| 29–32 | Socratic series: conviction, conscience, community | Weak-spot Alg II clinic | Science concept clinic | Primary stations full US arc | Capstone idea brainstorm → G |
| 33–36 | English 11 portfolio | Alg II credit exam A | Science credit defense | US History defense | Transcript packet assembly |
Open weeks/week-01 — week-01.md through week-36.md (index in weeks/README.md).
Elite bar: great books & primary sources · proof-based math · lab/inquiry science · writing workshop · Socratic prompts · AI Voice Coach teen register.
Regenerate: python3 tools/generate_grades_9_12.py