Week 5

Monday

Saxon 75

Age of Fable ch 26 Aurora and Tithonus, Acis and Galatea Written Narration (Notebook) 

This Country of Ours ch 92. Johnson - How the President Was Impeached Oral Narration 

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Trivets p. 70 Oral Narration 

Spanish Ch 3 Section 1and 2

Practice Latin Roots 

Reading

1. Read chapter 6 of Captains Courageous.
2. Write in full sentences in your notebook…

• What is the story of Disko Troop’s name, and what does this suggest about his parents’ priorities?  What do you think Kipling was saying about Disko when he used the allusion to Myron’s bronze statue “Discobolus”?
• What things, in Disko’s judgment, ought to be kept separate?  (Two of them cause an argument between Uncle Salter’s and Disko at the beginning of chapter 6.)  What are some of Disko’s reasons for thinking this way?
• How do sailors on different ships relate to one another?

1. free·ma·son/ˈfrēˈmāsən/Noun: A member of an international order established for mutual help and fellowship that holds elaborate secret ceremonies. The original freemasons were itinerant skilled stonemasons of the 14th century, who are said to have recognized fellow craftsmen by secret signs — (My comments: freemasonry is a false religion that cannot be practiced by a true Christian. It is something that many of America’s founding fathers were part of and is a hidden part of American life and politics, but it is something to be avoided and to not become curious about.)

Writing

1. Choose a metaphor about America. What would you compare America to? Kipling compares America to the big ship. Choose a metaphor for America and explain why.

Tuesday

Saxon 76 

Carry a Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt) pgs 83-97 Oral Narration 

Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 26, Coverings of Animals Oral Narration 

Spanish Ch 3 Section 2 (two days) 

Practice Latin Roots 

Reading

1. Read chapter 7 of Captains Courageous.
2. Answer the following in complete sentences in your notebook (remember to label them with the chapter number.)

• What happens to the Jennie Cashman?
• What impact does the accident have on Penn?  Take time to think through this incident.  What might Penn’s character represent?  Uncle Salters?  How does the accident affect Harvey?
• What good news does the Carrie Pitman bring?

Vocabulary

1. Play this vocab matching game.

Wednesday

Saxon 77

The Story of the World vol 4 ch 8, 9 Oral Narration  

Madam and Lady Why Ch 12 Homeward Bound from "Yes. You are a lucky boy to have seen that." to "because you went on board at night." (pg 264-268) Oral Narration 

      Vocabulary for Part Four

      Guillemot, murre, marrock  Names for a kind of large auk

      Discussion Questions for Part Four

      1. The father repeatedly brings up the issue of cruelty to animals. What is his solution? How does the boy respond? Oral Narration 

Spanish Ch 3 Section 3 Subject pronouns 

Practice Latin Roots 

Reading

1. Read chapter 8 of Captains Courageous.
2. Answer the following in complete sentences in your notebook (remember to label them with the chapter number.)

• Describe the community of fishermen that exists in the “town” the We’re Here encounters.
• What is the “Virgin”?
• What superstitions are revealed as a result of the death of the Frenchman? Write down at least one Scripture that instructs us on how God views these things. Read “What the Bible Says about Superstitions.”
• What is the race that the We’re Here has with the Parry Norman and what is significant about the finish for the We’re Here?
• What is Harvey’s reaction to arriving in Gloucester and why does he feel this way?

Spelling

1. Participate in the spelling bee.

Thursday

Saxon 78

BOM: Hilburton CH 29 The heart of Russia  Written Narration (Notebook) 
  10 Facts 

Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 55, 56 Written Narration (Notebook) 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.      <!--[endif]-->Locate and label India, Calcutta.  )Remember Mother Teresa?  She helped the poor in Calcutta.  Label the Himalayas, Mount Everest, Kashmir, and Pakistan and Islamabad.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.      <!--[endif]-->Locate and label Bombay, the Taj Mahal, the GangesRiver, Benares, Sri Lanka and capital Colombo 

3.      Also locate and label any other nearby countries and capitals not mentioned: Afghanistan, Kabul, Nepal  Bangladesh, Dhaka  Burma, Rangoon    

Spanish Ch 3 Section 3 Las Plurals  

Practice Latin Roots 

Reading

1. Do this simile exercise.
2. Read chapter 9 of Captains Courageous.
3. Answer the following in complete sentences in your notebook

• How do Harvey’s parents respond to his tales of his life at sea?
• Where does Kipling’s humor shine through as it relates to Dan and his dad’s “jedgments?”  What might this be saying about the potential for Dan and Harvey’s generation?
• Why does Cheyne think that “jerk[ing] the We’re Here back to port” might not have been so good for Harvey had Disko done it when he first picked Harvey up?
• What decision does Cheyne, Disko, and Dan’s mother arrive at regarding Dan’s future?

Writing

1. Read this poem.

EDIBLE

My shirt is red tomato soup,

My pockets are green peas.

My khakis are brown dog biscuits.

My socks are cottage cheese.

I have vanilla ice-cream shoes

with limp spaghetti bows.

I wish I could eat everything,

but then I”d have no clothes!

–Jacqueline Sweeney

1.  Choose a noun. Choose two adjectives that describe that noun. Turn each into a metaphor. EXAMPLE… apple; red, delicious
   • My apples is red becomes my apple has blushing cheeks.
   • My apple is delicious becomes my apple is a symphony in my mouth.

Friday

Saxon 79 

Spanish Ch 3 Section 3 possessive adjectives 

Practice Latin Roots 

Week 4

Monday

Saxon 71

This Country of Ours ch 91. Lincoln - the End of the War - The President's Death Oral Narration 

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Potholders p. 68 Oral Narration

Age of Fable ch 26 Dianaand Endymion, Orion  Written Narration (Notebook) 

Spanish Ch 2 Section 6

Latin root words (Practice 2 weeks)

Reading*

1. Read over the questions you are going to have to answer and then read chapter 2 of Captains Courageous
2. *Use this Venn diagram (or just draw your own) to compare and contrast Dan and Harvey’s upbringing. Label the lines at the top with either Dan or Harvey. What is the same about both their upbringings goes in the middle.
3. Answer these questions in your notebook with complete sentences. Label the section on the page with “Chapter 2.” Any time you start a new page label it with the book title and the date.

• What do you think about the change in Harvey?
• What work does Dan and Harvey do when and after the dories come in for supper?
• List the various crew members and their traits.
• What makes Harvey hang in there when he’s dead tired?

Vocabulary

1. Play your vocab matching words.

Tuesday

Saxon 72

Carry a Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt) pgs 68-82 Oral Narration

Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 25, Wings  Oral Narration

Spanish Ch 2 Sec 7 (over two days rubic in notebook) 

Latin root words (Practice 2 weeks)

Reading

1. Read over the questions below and then read chapter 3 of Captains Courageous. There is a lot of terminology in this chapter. Don’t get hung up on it.
2. Answer these questions…  (remember to write the chapter number)

• What reputation does Disco Troop have among the sailors?
• What happened to Penn to make him the way he is?
• Why does Troop decide to move the We’re Here and how does he do it?
• Add to your Venn diagram what you learn about Harvey’s upbringing.
• Write down one metaphor Kipling uses.

Spelling

1. Play 8 letters.

Wednesday 

Saxon 73

The Story of the World vol 4 second half of ch 6 (starting at pg 63), ch 7 Oral Narration

Madam and Lady Why Ch 12 Homeward Bound from "Oh! one has fallen into the sea!" to "And how the mackerel flew out of the water!" (bottom of pg 260-264) Oral Narration

Spanish Ch 2 Section 7 (2nd day)  review for test tomorrow  

Latin root words (Practice 2 weeks)

Reading

1. Do this lesson on similes. Read the lesson and then click on the practice at the bottom of the page.
2. Read chapter 4 of Captains Courageous.
3. Answer the following questions in your notebook. (Remember to label any new page with the book title and the date.)

• What do the sailors do for amusement when the weather is too bad for fishing?
• What is a “jonah” and what are some of the jonahs the men identify? Where do you think the name comes from? Why?
• Who is Uncle Abishai, why are the men of the We’re Here dismayed to see him, and what  happens to him and his schooner?
• Write one simile Kipling uses.

Writing

1. Write five similes using any of your spelling words for any week so far. Example: He was as blunt as a butcher.

Thursday

Saxon 74

BOM: Halliburton 28 No woman's land . Written Narration (Notebook) 
      10 facts 

Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 53, 54 Written Narration (Notebook) 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.   Locate and label all the countries and capitals of   the Arabian Peninsula.  Also label Mecca,Medina, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, Aden.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.   Persia is now called “Iran”.  Locate and label Iran and its capital, Tehran, and the Persian Gulf.  Iran no longer has a Shah – the United States helped to remove him in the 1970’s.

Spanish Ch 2 Section 8 (test) 

Latin root words (Practice 2 weeks)

Reading

1. Read 1 Samuel 16:7 and Acts 13:22.  What gives someone significance in God’s eyes?
2. Read chapter 5 of Captains Courageous.
3. Write in full sentences in your notebook…

• How does Harvey see his “former life,” now that he’s made a place for himself on the We’re Here, and what evidence is there that Harvey has changed?
• What are the tools available to the men of the We’re Here to keep track of each other in the fog?
• What kind of information does Disko record in his log book, “page after soiled page”?

Friday 

Saxon 75

Spanish Ch 2 Section  9       

Latin root words (Practice 2 weeks)

Music Apprecaition Listen to this one and this one

Week 3

Monday

Saxon 66

Age of Fable ch 25 Simonides, Sappho Written Narration (Notebook) 

This Country of Ours ch 90. Lincoln - Sherman's March To the Sea - Lincoln Re-elected President  Oral Narration 

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Coolers and Insulated Bags p. 67  Oral Narration 

Spanish Ch 2 Section 3

Latin Practice Roots 

Reading

1. Write rued (32), diffuse (34), agitated, (37), fragmentary (42) in your notebook. Make sure label them as Day 9.
2. Read Robert Frost’s poems 32-43.
3. Here is a picture of a whetstone mentioned in poem 33.
4. Here is a picture of a phoebein poem 43.
5. In 19 it ends with “Good fences make good neighbors.” This is a common expression. What does it mean? Write your answer in a complete sentence in your reading notebook.
6. “To rue the day” is another common expression. What do you think it means? Remember to write your answer in your notebook.
7. Which poem is your favorite? Why? Write your answer in complete sentences.

Grammar

1. Play this game about synonyms. Synonyms are words that mean the same thing.
2. Play grammar gorilla or word invasion to remind yourself about the parts of speech.

Vocabulary

1. Play this game about synonyms. Synonyms are words that mean the same thing.
2. Play your vocab matching words.

Tuesday

Saxon 67

Spanish Ch 2 Section 4 PowerPoint project

Latin Practice Roots 

Carry a Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt) pgs 51-67  Oral Narration 
   * Vocab help is on this site 

Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 24 Instruments of Defense Oral Narration 

Reading

1. Read Robert Frost’s poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay, number 46 (the last on the page)
2. What three things does he mention that were gold?  (Answers)
3. What happens/ed to each of these that the gold went away? (Answers)
4. What is the mood of this poem? Happy, sad, etc.  (Answers)
5. What does this poem tell you about Robert Frost as a person?  (Answers)

Vocabulary

1. Complete this crossword puzzle.

Wednesday

Saxon 68

The Story of the World vol 4 ch 5, first half of 6 (up tp to page 63)  Oral Narration 

Madam and Lady Why Ch 12 Homeward Bound from "Hoch!" to "gannets swooping round and round." (pg 258-260)  Oral Narration 
     Vocabulary for Part Three

      gannets  large black and white seabirds with yellow heads

      Discussion Questions for Part Three

      1. What things about the whale surprised the boy?

Spanish Ch 2 Section 4 Finish PowerPoint and take quiz 

Latin Practice Roots 

Reading*

1. Read Psalm 107:23-31
2. Read Kipling biography  Oral Narration
3. *Do this worksheet on metaphors  (in your notebook) to remind yourself that a metaphor is a description where one thing is said to be something else. When a whole book is written this way, it’s called an allegory. Pilgrim’s Progress is a famous allegory. The book you are about to read is about a ship, but the ship is really just a metaphor for America. As you read try and see what the author is saying about America through his metaphor of the ship.   (Answers)
4. Read this introduction to Captain’s Courageous. List some things you can expect from this novel.

Thursday

Saxon 69

Spanish Ch 2 Section 5

BOM: Halliburton Ch 27 Athena's People Written Narration (Notebook) 
      List 10 facts of what you learned 

Hillyer's Childs' Geography of the World ch 51, 52 Written Narration (Notebook)  

     1.      Locate and label Bethlehem, Nazareth,Tel Aviv.

     2.      Locate and label the Tigrisand Euphrates Rivers, Iraq, Mosul, Bagdad.

     3.      Iraq is no longer ruled over by England, and no longer has a king.  In fact, Iraq is the country we have been at war with for many years.  Let’s get a little info 

Reading

1. Read over number 3 below and then read chapter 1 of Captains Courageous. If you want to read along with an audio version, here it is. Use this link and click on the chapter number you are reading. (If you find this version not clear enough to read, you can use this version.)
2. On a new page in your reading notebook write the Title of the book, the author and today’s date.
3. Write “Chapter 1″ and…
4. Describe Harvey Cheyne and what his relationship with his parents is like. Use full sentences.
5. What kind of ship does Harvey fall from, and what kind of boat picks him up?
6. Describe Captain Disko Troop.  What does he pride himself on? (“jedgment”= judgment)
7. Describe the We’re Here.  Include her business, home port, the size of its crew, and any other preliminary information about the boat.
8. Are there any messages/stereotypes about America in this chapter? If so, what? (This book is a metaphor about America.)

Writing/Vocabulary

1. Use five of your vocabulary words and write each in a metaphor. Here’s an example: The fog horn was a baritone making his presence known with a low operatic note.

Friday

Saxon  70

Spanish Ch 2 Section 5

Test on Latin Roots 

Art Appreciation: Check notebook

Music Appreciation  and this 



Have you checked your grades? ENGRADE

Week 2

Monday 3/4

Saxon 61

Age of Fable ch 25 Ibycus Written Narration (Notebook)

This Country of Ours ch 89. Lincoln -Grant's Campaign- Oral Narrations

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Heat Transmission p. 65 Oral Narrations

Spanish Ch 1 Section 7  Test? ? 

Latin Practice Roots 

Reading

1. Read Robert Frost poem number 6. This poem, The Road Not Taken, is his most famous. You will need to memorize it by the end of the week. (printed out in notebook) ) 
2. What is he talking about in this poem? Write the answer in your notebook. Write in a complete sentence so that someone reading your answer would know what the question was.
3. Read this article about the poem. It’s a little hard but read the whole thing. Do you think you were right about what you thought the poem was about? Why or why not? Write a complete sentence in your notebook.

Writing

1. Now you write a poem in the same form of this one. As the article points out it is written in the form: ABAAB. That means that the second and last lines rhyme and the first, third and fourth lines rhyme. Also pay attention to the length of each line. Each line in the first stanza is nine syllables long. (A stanza is what we call each paragraph of a poem or song.) So, you will write one stanza, trying to make each of the five lines nine syllables long and using the rhyme scheme, ABAAB.

• Click on Me  You’re doing great! Okay, back to work.

Tuesday

Saxon 62

Carry a Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt) pgs 35-50 Oral Narrations

Christian Liberty Nature Reader ch. 23, More about the Tools...   Oral Narrations

Trial and Triumph ch 42. Chinese Christians (1900-1901) pg. 259 Oral Narrations

Spanish Ch 2 Section 1 Begin making note cards for Spanish Ch 2 Section 2 

Latin Practice Roots 

Reading

1. Read Robert Frost’s poems number 7 – 15.
2. cat’s cradle, trillium (13) Here are pictures of what these are.
3. Write in your reading notebook on a new page: foliage (10), flecked, knoll (15) and write what you think they mean. Please write the date in the top corner of the page.
4. Look the words up and write their correct definition in your notebook.
5. Practice The Road Not Taken

Vocabulary

1. Read over your vocabulary words and definitions from last week. Then read quotes with these words in them.
2. “Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, (He’s calling out her name and listening to it echo.)
   And make the babbling gossip of the air
   Cry out ‘Olivia!’” Shakespeare
3. “If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?” Tennessee Clafin     (He’s saying that it’s wrong that there are those with nothing when there is so much available.)
4. Go here and look up quotes with gnarled and cumulative. Copy your favorite into your notebook.

Wednesday

Saxon 63

The Story of the World vol 4 by Susan Wise Bauer ch 3, 4 Oral Narrations

Madam and Lady Why Ch 12 Homeward Bound from "Well, and what have you been doing?" to "up those cliffs in columns of white foam."  

   Vocab: 

        peat-bogs  wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage   than a swamp. The peat (peat moss) is cut, dried, and used (traditionally) for fuel, or in gardening.

         moraine  A mass of rocks and sediment deposited by a glacier

        Christmas Sound  a bay on the south coast of Terra del Fuego

        Gar-fish  Now often spelled garfish

Discussion Questions for Part Two Oral Narrations

1. How does the man know that the island was once joined to the cliff?

2. Why wouldn't a moraine be "built" in the sea?

3. Tell what you know of the garfish.

Spanish Ch 2 Section 2 practice vocab

Latin Practice Roots 

Reading

1. Write miscellany (16), interposed (17), tumultuous, keen (18), subdue (20), dilating, sanctify (21) in your reading notebook
2. Read Robert Frost’s poems 16 – 21.
3. Here is Minerva from poem 18.
4. Pick two of the poems you read today and write about what they mean. Make sure your answer is labeled with the poem number and title.
5. Practice The Road Not Taken

Vocabulary/Writing

1. Write a short story using at least three of your vocabulary words from above (what you just wrote in your notebook). If you use them all, you get a hug and a high five.

Thursday

Saxon 64

BOM: Halliburton ch 26 The Magic Grotto  Written Narration (Notebook) 
          10 Facts about the Blue Grotto 

Child's Geography of the World ch 48, 49, 50 Written Narration (Notebook)

1.      <!--[endif]-->Locate and label the Dardanelles, Troy (home of the Trojan Horse), Tarsus (home of Paul), Ephesus,Rhodes (let’s look at a picture of the Colossus of Rhodes), Ankara, and Smyrna.  Some of the information in your geography book is probably out of date here – let’s look at a modern map and be sure we’ve labeled everything correctly.

2.      <!--[endif]-->Locate and label Syria, Damascus, Israel, Palestine,Jerusalem, the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee. Ask me what the “Middle East” is.

3.      <!--[endif]-->Let’s look in your history encyclopedia for an update on the Bible lands, which have changed some since your geography was written, and are still in flux and dispute.

Spanish Ch 2 Section 2 practice vocab

Latin Practice Roots 

Reading

1. White russet (23), profanation (25), peck (26), acquainted, luminary (28) in your reading note under Day 8.
2. Read Robert Frost’s poems 23-30.
3. Pick two of the poems you read today and write about what they meant. Make sure your answer is labeled with the poem number and title.
4. Practice The Road Not Taken

Vocabulary

1. Do this crossword puzzle. You can print it out or complete it online.

Friday

Saxon 65 

Spanish Ch 2 Section 2 practice vocab

Latin Practice Roots 

ReciteThe Road Not Taken