Monday, April 29, 2013

Week 9


Bible (OT): 2 Kings 23:31-37; Jer 22:10-13; 26:1-16; Lam 1:1-3, 12; optional: parts of 2 Kings 24-25 and Jer 18-20 ("Jeremiah and the Last Kings and the Fall of the Nation")
Bible (NT): Matt. 25:31-46 ("Christ in the Judgement")

Pick one verse to memorize for the week 



Monday 

Saxon 103/104

Age of Fable ch 27 The Iliad spend 3 weeks as needed Written Narration

This Country of Ours ch 95. Cleveland - Harrison - Cleveland Oral Narration

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Permeability, The Cone and Filter Coffeemaker p. 75 Oral Narration

Spanish Ch 4 Section 8 assignment 5


Reading
  1. Read summary of chapter 8: The king and queen make a progress to the frontiers.  The author attends them.  The manner in which he leaves the country very particularly related.  He returns to England.
  2. Read chapter 8 of Gulliver’s Travels. (the end of part 2)
  3. Answer these questions about part 2:
  • What is unusual about the land of the Brobdingnags?
  • What do you notice about the ruler of the Brobdingnags?
  • How do the Brobdingnags govern themselves?
  • What do you notice about the place of science and education in the land of the Brobdingnags?
Vocabulary
  1. Play a level 5 vocabulary game.


Tuesday 

Saxon 105/106

Carry a Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt) pgs 129-141 Oral Narration

Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 29, The Thinking of Animals Oral Narration


Latin: 10 minutes a day TIMED. 


Reading
  1. Read chapter 1 and 2 summaries:  Chapter 1  The author sets out on his third voyage.  Is taken by pirates.  The malice of a Dutchman.  His arrival at an island.  He is received into Laputa.  Chapter 2 The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described.  An account of their learning.  Of the king and his court.  The author’s reception there.  The inhabitants subject to fear and disquietudes.  An account of the women.
  2. Read chapters 1 and 2 of part three of Gulliver’s Travels.  (Remember there is an audio version if you want to listen along.)
  3. Remember to take notes on characters and settings and themes and include page numbers with your theme notes.
Grammar
  1. Read about the different types of sentences–simple, compound, complex.
  2. Copy from your reading one of each type of sentence.
  3. Click here. (Remember not to click on anything else.)




Wednesday 

Saxon 107/108

The Story of the World vol 4 by Susan Wise Bauer ch 14, 15  Oral Narration

Madam and Lady Why Ch 12 Homeward Bound from "There. We are off at last" to "We are in the Box Tunnel." (pg 275-277)Oral Narration

Spanish Ch 4 Section 8 assignment 7 

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)


Reading
  1. Read summaries of chapters 3 and 4:Chapter 3
    A phenomenon solved by modern philosophy and astronomy.  The Laputians’ great improvements in the latter.  The king’s method of suppressing insurrections.Chapter 4
    The author leaves Laputa; is conveyed to Balnibarbi; arrives at the metropolis.  A description of the metropolis, and the country adjoining.  The author hospitably received by a great lord.  His conversation with that lord.
  2. Read chapters 3 and 4 of Gulliver’s Travels.
Writing
  1. Choose one of the places Gulliver visits and write about a day you spend there. Use simple, compound and complex sentences. Make sure this gets into your notebook. Hold onto this for next week’s grammar lesson.



Thursday 


Saxon 110/111

Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 61, 62 Written Narration (Notebook) 


Ch. 62-63: Japan (12) (Southeast Asia map)
Locate and label Japan, Tokyo, Mount Fujiyama, Kyoto.  Let’s look at some pictures of Japan and eat Japanese food!  .



Reading
  1. Read chapters 5 and 6:Chapter 5
    The author permitted to see the grand academy of Lagado.  The academy largely described.  The arts wherein the professors employ themselves.Chapter 6
    A further account of the academy.  The author proposes some improvements, which are honourably received.
  2. Read chapters 5 and 6 of Gulliver’s Travels.
Vocabulary
  1. Copy a sentence with a word you don’t know in it.
  2. Look up the word. Write the word and its definition underneath the sentence.




Spanish Ch 4 Section  9

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)

Friday 


Spanish Ch 4 Section  10


Check Your Grades on Engrade 


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