What unique interests and talents does your child have? List the required, and any additional, courses that would help your child pursue those interests What strengths do you, your spouse, or extended family bring to bear on these topics? Which courses might you need to seek outside help with? To learn which courses may be required for high school students, click on your state at https://hslda.org/legal. In Virginia, where we home schooled, there were no specific course requirements since the state employs testing for home school students instead. This left us free to focus a number of courses on our son’s interests. If this is true for you, you can still look up your state’s department of education to see what courses they require of students in the public school system. That will give you a starting point of possible courses to consider.