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