When you are homeschooling a high schooler, you need to get them ready for the college placement tests. NOW while I don't teach just to get my kids to pass a test, like what happens in the school system, I do believe in teaching in our own way the things that will appear on future important tests like SAT and ACT. Analogies are just one of those things...now while most online analogy games are geared for younger kiddos, I did find a couple of sites that had some for high school aged kiddos.(like the one linked above;)
Here is the defination of Analogy from dictionary.com
a·nal·o·gy
1. a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
2. similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
3. Biology . an analogous relationship.
4. Linguistics .
a. the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when a child says foots for feet.
b. a form resulting from such a process.
5. Logic . a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects.
So learning about analogies, is a great life lesson not only for those college placement tests but for my kiddos everyday life! Little things like this add up into a well rounded homeschooler who is ready for life AND those pesky tests,LOL
What are some things that you really never thought of before to be important to teach your homeschoolers?
Here is the defination of Analogy from dictionary.com
a·nal·o·gy
1. a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
2. similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
3. Biology . an analogous relationship.
4. Linguistics .
a. the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when a child says foots for feet.
b. a form resulting from such a process.
5. Logic . a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects.
So learning about analogies, is a great life lesson not only for those college placement tests but for my kiddos everyday life! Little things like this add up into a well rounded homeschooler who is ready for life AND those pesky tests,LOL
What are some things that you really never thought of before to be important to teach your homeschoolers?
I knew it was important, but I failed to require my oldest children to write enough. With the younger ones we've learned to give it more focused effort. It's so important that they learn various skills required to write well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Melanie for your insight!! It is a struggle for us most days but we are getting better at it!!
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