Reviews for Homeschool High School Level Curriculum

Who knew I had so many choices with curriculum for high school level?  It's so many to chose from and overwhelming!  I may be attending another homeschool convention or two this summer, so I can continue to evaluate and hopefully find the best curriculum for us.

So far, I have checked out the following:

(Image from keystonehomeschoolcoalition.com website)

I am interested in Keystone Coalition for Homeschooler as they are with Compass/Odyssey and online based curriculum. Or, I just received a catalog from Apologia and their Science program looks very attractive. They have a variety of presentation with HD quality, great sound, content, etc.  The price for a whole complete curriculum for the year is about $225.00 (US).  That's impressive and the samples I viewed were intellectual, up to date, captivating and most of all they made it fun by offering different ways to present the video contents thru animation, reading, question/answer and reasoning.

Abeka:
I attended an Abeka fair recently, but I was disappointed with their video streaming. First, it seemed very old fashioned and the teachers were so boring, that it reminded me of sitting in my old high school class decades ago!  Have we not evolved with the times here?  I like the idea of the video streaming and also receiving the textbooks bundled into one price, a hefty one, about $750.00 (US).  But the quality was not HD and it just seems so "old fashioned".  Some of the sample content I viewed was OK, but did not captivate my full attention.  The students were so clean and neat cut looking, the kind of "stereo-type Christian  school look. For the lack of holding my own interest, I highly doubt my teenager would find this appealing too.

(Image from Apologia.com product page)

I received an Apologia catalog in the mail yesterday.  Surprising, they are offering college-preparedness for 9th graders for Physics and Chemistry.  They offer complete series and options to buy extra lab equipments and videos so that we can perform these experiments ourselves at home.  The prices were very reasonable and since we currently use the Apologia Exploring Creation with Physical Science textbook by Wile, we are familiar with the content and layout. The book is easy to understand because it's written in the first person content.  Lots of "On Your Own" questions between every concept learned, a chapter test for review and many hands-out labs you can do at home!

There's a few others I have found but will write in another post.  I have to find the links and info first ;-)