High School

High school students take a wide variety of courses and have more options to focus on subjects that interest them than in earlier years.

Resources for High School

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Geometry: Seeing, Doing, Understanding

Harold Jacobs' classic high-school geometry course, built on discovery rather than memorized proofs. The one geometry text most veteran homeschoolers name first.

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Geometry Workbook For Dummies

The practice half of the For Dummies geometry pair: several hundred problems with fully worked solutions, not just an answer key.

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Geometry For Dummies

Mark Ryan's plain-English geometry reference, aimed squarely at the student who has a textbook and still cannot follow the proofs in it.

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Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar

Short explanations followed by heavy drill, from McGraw-Hill's long-running self-study series. Cheap, plentiful practice.

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Side by Side: Student Book 1 (Third Edition)

A conversation-first beginner course built around guided dialogues, which makes it one of the few ESL books that works with two people at a kitchen table.

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Essential Grammar in Use with Answers

Raymond Murphy's elementary grammar reference, built on a two-page unit format that makes it genuinely usable for self-study.

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Word Power Made Easy

A vocabulary builder that teaches Greek and Latin roots rather than word lists, so each session unlocks families of words at once.

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Basic English Grammar Workbook (Azar-Hagen, 5th Edition)

The grammar series most ESL teacher training programs are built around, in workbook form with a full answer key for self-study.

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Oxford Picture Dictionary, Third Edition

The standard visual dictionary in ESL classrooms worldwide: roughly 4,000 words organized by real-life situation rather than alphabetically.

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English for Everyone Practice Book Level 1: Beginner

The written practice half of DK's Level 1 course. Buy it with the course book, not instead of it.

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English for Everyone Course Book Level 1: Beginner

DK's visual self-study English course, built so a complete beginner can work through it alone without a teacher explaining every page.

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How to Take Smart Notes

The standard English-language explanation of the Zettelkasten slip-box method: notes written to be linked and reused, not filed and forgotten.