Week 1

Monday

Saxon 56

Age of Fable ch 25 Arion - Narrate (notebook) 

This Country of Ours ch 88. Lincoln - The Battle of Gettysburg - Oral Narration

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Pyrex p. 63 Oral Narration 

Spanish Ch 1 Section 1 and  Section 2 
            Check for printed hand out for section 2 in notebook 
            Take Quiz at end of Section 2 tell me how you did 

Practice these root words 

Reading

1. Write the words teeming, fathom, reverberating, cumulative (08) in your reading notebook and pay attention to them as you read. Please write the date in the top right corner of the page and label these as "Day 1".
2. Read Carl Sandburg poems numbers 2-11. This poet was born in 1878.
3. Look at the word monotone in poem 5. The rain is monotone and is being contrasted with a rainbow which has lots of colors. What does monotone mean? The prefix mono means one. This man is wearing a monocle.
4. Look at the word catalpa in poem 6. I don’t know what it is. Do you? But the poem gives us clues. It says, “grass, catalpa and oak.” We know what grass is. Oak is referring to the tree. So we can assume catalpa is some sort of plant. This is catalpa.
5. This is a mastodon in poem 8. How would you imagine a mastodon moves?
6. Write what you think is the definition of each of the words you wrote in your notebook.
7. Look the words up to find their definition. If you were not correct, please add the correct definition to your notebook.
8. Choose two poems and write what each poem is talking about in your own words. Label your answer with the number and title of the poem.

Tuesday

Saxon 57

Carry a Big Stick (introduction and pgs 25-34) - Oral Narration
     * Definitions can be found on this site 

Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 22, The Tools of Animals Oral Narration 

Spanish Ch 1 Section 3 

    Hand outs in notebook  

Practice these root words

Reading

1. Write the words gnarled (13), trajectory, baritone (21) and furrows (22) in your reading notebook under yesterday’s words and pay attention to them as you read. Please label these words as Day 2.
2. Read Carl Sandburg poems numbers 13-22. This poet was born in 1878.
3. Write what you think is the definition of each of the words you wrote in your notebook.
4. Look the words up to find their definition. If you were not correct, please add the correct definition to your notebook.
5. Choose two poems and write what each poem is talking about in your own words. Label your answer with the number and title of the poem.

Wednesday

Saxon 58

Story Of The World Chapter 1 and 2 - Oral Narration 

Madam and Lady Why Ch 12 Homeward Bound from beginning to "We must see about getting on board now, and under way."   Oral Narration 

                How do you think that animals think? Have you ever had a pet or known an   
                animal that seemed to think in almost "human" ways?  Oral Narration 

Spanish Ch 1 Section 4

Practice these root words

Reading

1. Read Carl Sandburg poems 24-30.
2. Poem 30 is talking about the city of Chicago. He is saying, yes, we have problems with evil in our city, but we are still proud this is our city and we are all these great things. The first part of the second paragraph of the poem reminded me of this chapter of the Bible. Why?
3. Effluvia in poem 24 means emanation or exhalation, maybe it means like the breath of the mountains. Effluvia is actually plural. Effluviam is the singular.
4. Thingamajig in 25 is pronounced thing – a – ma – jig. It’s just a word we use when we don’t know what something is called. What do you think the thingamajig is?

Spelling

1. Play hangman.

Thursday

Saxon 59

Halliburton Ch 25 The city that rose from the dead Narrate (notebook) 
                          10 Facts on the notebook page

Childs Geography of the World ch 46, 47  Narrate Map 
                     Locate and label Greece, the Isthmus of Corinth, Athens,Mount Hymettus.

                     Locate and label Bosporus, Istanbul, Turkey, Mt Ararat

                     <!--[endif]-->Let’s find a picture of the Santa Sophia – 

Spanish Ch 1 Section 5 
(I did not print the assignments. If you click on the link it will open them so that you can type them. When done email them to me so I can print them) 

        Assignment 4: Los Saludos

        Assignment 5: La Hora

        Assignment 6: 

Practice these root words

Reading

1. Read Robert Frost poems 1-5. Robert Frost is a very well known poet born in 1874.
2. Find one word you don’t know and write it and its definition in your reading notebook.
3. Do you see a common thread in his poems? What is in all of his poems?  (Answers)

Grammar

1. Watch this video to remind yourself about syllables.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LxULM_etVo

Spelling

1. Participate in the spelling bee.

Friday  

Saxon 60

Spanish Ch 1 Section 6
Take Quiz and Tell me how you did! 

Quiz on these root words 
How did you do? Tell me

Tell me how you think this week went. 

This terms artist is George Suerat View this painting narrate