Monday, May 13, 2013

Week 11

Bible (OT): Dan 3; Isaiah 42:22, 51:19-23; Ps 137; Isaiah 40:1-5; Isaiah 45:1-5; Dan 5 ("The Exiles in Babylon")
Bible (NT): John 11:1-46 ("The Raising of Lazarus")


Pick one verse to memorize for the week 



Monday 

Saxon 120

Age of Fable ch 28 The Fall of Troy spend 2 weeks as needed Written Narration

This Country of Ours ch 97. Roosevelt - Taft  Oral Narration

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: The Percolator p. 77 Oral Narration

Spanish Ch 4 Section 8

Assignment 6 - Discutir Question for Thought

DiscussionCompose a paragraph describing what supplies you have and need at school / home to do your coursework. 

Reading
  1. Read summaries of chapters 4 and 5:  Chapter 4 The Houyhnhnms’ notion of truth and falsehood.  The author’s discourse disapproved by his master.  The author gives a more particular account of himself, and the accidents of his voyage.  Chapter 5 The author at his master’s command, informs him of the state of England. The causes of war among the princes of Europe.  The author begins to explain the English constitution.
  2. Read chapters 4 and 5.
Vocabulary
  1. Copy a sentence with a word you don’t know. Underline the word.
  2. Look up the word. Write the definition under the sentence.


Tuesday 


Carry a Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt) pgs 159-172 Oral Narration

Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 31 Oral Narration

Spanish Ch 4 Section 8 

Assignment 7 - Conversar (Speaking)

AssignmentSpeaking is a great way to enhance your language learning.  Language learning has four components:  reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  For this assignment, you will record yourself answering questions in Spanish. After recording, you will save your file and follow your teacher's instructions for submitting your work. Click on the handout in the sidebar for the assignment details. Make sure you have downloaded Audacity correctly.  Click on the document in the sidebar for specific instructions for this program.  If the file is not submitted / saved correctly, your teacher will not be able to listen to your recording.
You will be assessed (graded) according to this rubric.  See the handout in the sidebar for specific details.


Latin: 10 minutes a day TIMED. 

Reading
  1. Read summaries of 6 and 7:  Chapter 6 A continuation of the state of England under Queen Anne.  The character of a first minister of state in European courts.  Chapter 7 The author’s great love of his native country.  His master’s observations upon the constitution and administration of England, as described by the author, with parallel cases and comparisons.  His master’s observations upon human nature.
  2. Read chapters 6 and 7.
Writing
  1. In your opinion, which episode in Gulliver’s Travels was the most effective in enlightening you about the flaws and follies of governments and their leaders? Explain your answer.




Wednesday 


The Story of the World vol 4 by Susan Wise Bauer second half of ch 17 (starting at pg 185), AND 18  Oral Narration

Madam and Lady Why Ch 12 Homeward Bound from "There is the White Horse Hill." to "as I hope you will some day." (pg 281-285)Oral Narration

Spanish Ch 4 Section 9

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)

Reading
  1. Read summaries of 8 and 9:  The author relates several particulars of the Yahoos.  The great virtues of the Houyhnhnms.  The education and exercise of their youth.  Their general assembly.  Chapter 9
    A grand debate at the general assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and how it was determined.  The learning of the Houyhnhnms.  Their buildings.  Their manner of burials.  The defectiveness of their language.
  2. Read chapters 8 and 9




Thursday 



Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 65, 66 Written Narration (Notebook) 


1.      Locate and label Timbuktu, Sudan, the Niger River, the Gulf of Guinea, Liberia, Monrovia, the Congo River, Lake Tanganyika, Victoria Falls, the Zambezi River.
2.      Locate and label South Africa, Johannesburg, Kimberley, Cape Town, Pretoria, Mauritius, ZanzibarRhodesia is no longer called Rhodesia – can you find its modern name?  Auntie Anita has been there.
3.      But you’re not done yet!  Africa is quite big, and your book doesn’t tell about all of it.  Let’s locate and label all of the countries of Africa.
5.      Let’s cook something from this region.  I’ll bet it’s really yummy.





Reading
  1. Read summary of chapter 10:
    The author’s economy, and happy life, among the Houyhnhnms.  His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.  Their conversations.  The author has notice given him by his master, that he must depart from the country.  He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits.  He contrives and finishes a canoe by the help of a fellow-servant, and puts to sea at a venture.
  2. Read chapter 10.
Grammar
  1. Do this activity about simple, compound and complex sentences.



Spanish Ch 4 Section 10 (Review notecards/vocab final exam is coming) 

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)


Friday 

Trial and Triumph ch 44. J. Gresham Machen Valiant for Truth (1881-1937) pg. 271


Check Your Grades on Engrade 

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