Week 13

Week 36
Bible (NT): Luke 18:31-19:10 ("The End of The Road")

Age of Fable ch 28 Agamemnon-Troy (end of chapter) Written Narration

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: The Gravy Skimmer p. 80 Oral Narration

Latin: 10 minutes a day TIMED. 

Carry a Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt) pg 189-end Oral Narration

Latin: 10 minutes a day TIMED. 

The Story of the World vol 4 by Susan Wise Bauer ch 21, 22 Oral Narration

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)

Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 69, 70, 71 Written Narration (Notebook) 

1.      Locate and label Australia, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Tasmania, Launceston, and Ayers Rock (now know by its Aboriginal name – find out what it is and label it properly.)  Many sites in the world have been given names by the white people who discovered and conquered them, but now many of those places are returning to the names given them by the indigenous peoples.  Define indigenous on your terms page.

2.      Locate and label New Zealand and its capital.  Do its two islands have separate names?  Label them, and the largest city in each.

3.      Let’s locate and label some of the south sea islands: the Cook Islands, the Marquesas (where Jim and Julie sailed), the Solomon Islands, the Fiji Islands, the Samoan Islands, the Philippines, Guam (which is owned by the US) and the Hawaiian Islands.  Since Hawaii is a US state, label each of its islands and Honolulu.

Spanish Ch 4 Section 10 (Review)

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)

Due Monday

Speaking

1. Present your poster or power point. Read your title. Tell a little about the book and explain the theme you chose. Share about the author. Share the examples from the book and explain how they support the theme. Answer any questions.
2. Ask a parent to take a picture for your portfolio

Week 12

Bible (OT): Parts of Ezra; Neh 1; Neh 8; Ps 126 ("The Return of the Exiles")
Bible (NT): John 11:47-57 ("Coming Back to Jerusalem to Die")

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 98. Wilson - Troubles With Mexico  Oral Narration

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Density p. 79 Oral Narration

Spanish Review

Latin: 10 minutes a day TIMED. 

Reading

1. Read summaries of chapter 11 and 12.  Chapter 11   The author’s dangerous voyage.  He arrives at New Holland, hoping to settle there.  Is wounded with an arrow by one of the natives.  Is seized and carried by force into a Portuguese ship.  The great civilities of the captain.  The author arrives at England. Chapter 12  The author’s veracity.  His design in publishing this work.  His censure of those travellers who swerve from the truth.  The author clears himself from any sinister ends in writing.  An objection answered.  The method of planting colonies.  His native country commended.  The right of the crown to those countries described by the author is justified.  The difficulty of conquering them.  The author takes his last leave of the reader; proposes his manner of living for the future; gives good advice, and concludes.
2. Read chapters 11 and 12.
3. Writing
   
   1. Make a poster about one of your themes you took notes on as you read.
   2. Include on your poster three examples from Gulliver’s Travels.
   3. Include any biographical information on the author that would incline him to write about that theme.
   4. Include a title for the poster and explanation of the theme you are doing.
   5. Present your poster. (It should be neat, organized, appealing, easy to read by your audience.)
   6. An alternative is to prepare a power point presentation including the same things.
   7. Today you just have to plan it out. Gather the quotes/examples from the book, research the author. The deadline is Next Monday

Tuesday 

Carry a Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt) pgs 173-187 Oral Narration

Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 32, Hygeine Oral Narration

Spanish Review  

Latin: 10 minutes a day TIMED. 

Reading

1. Do this main idea worksheet (Do the first five. — you can read online)
2. Compare your answers with these answers. Where did you go wrong? Why?
3. This week you need to finish your day yesterday's assignment in order to present on day Next Monday.

Wednesday 

The Story of the World vol 4 by Susan Wise Bauer ch 19, 20 Oral Narration

Madam and Lady Why Ch 12 Homeward Bound from "There was a clergyman named Henslow" to "Why we are crossing him again!" (pg 285-289)Oral Narration

Spanish Review 

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)

Reading

1. Take this main idea quiz.

Writing

1. Write a one or two sentence summary of Gulliver’s Travels.
2. You can use this at the beginning of your presentation.

Thursday 

Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 67, 68 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, Zanzibar.  Rhodesia 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.

Reading

1. Do this main idea worksheet (Do the last five. — you can read online)
2. Compare your answers with these answers. Where did you go wrong? Why?

Vocabulary

1. Do this vocab matching game.

Spanish Ch 4 Section 10 (Review)

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)

Friday 

1. Do this main idea activity.
2. Finish your presentation! Do your best!

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

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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

Compose 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)

Speaking 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, Zanzibar.  Rhodesia 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.

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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

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Week 10

Bible (NT): John 10:22-42 ("A Second Appeal to Jerusalem")

Pick one verse to memorize for the week 



Monday 

Saxon 112/113

This Country of Ours ch 96. McKinley - War And Sudden Death Oral Narration

Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: The French Press p. 76 Oral Narration

Spanish Chapter 5 Section 1 and 2 do 1/2 the notecards

Latin: 10 minutes a day TIMED. 

 

Reading

1. Read chapter summaries of chapters 7 and 8:  Chapter 7  The author leaves Lagado: arrives at Maldonada.  No ship ready.  He takes a short voyage to Glubbdubdrib.  His reception by the governor.  Chapter 8  A further account of Glubbdubdrib.  Ancient and modern history corrected.
2. Read chapters 7 and 8 of Gulliver’s Travels.

Writing

1. The characters in the story rewrote history — as government have often been accused of doing. You try it. Choose a famous event in history and rewrite it. Was Benedict Arnold really the hero of the Revolution? You decide.

Vocabulary

1. Play a level 5 vocabulary game.

Tuesday 

Saxon 114/115

Carry a Big Stick (Teddy Roosevelt) pgs 142-158 Oral Narration

Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 30, More About The Thinking of Animals Oral Narration

Spanish Chapter 5 Section 1 and 2 do 1/2 the notecards

Latin: 10 minutes a day TIMED. 

Reading

1. Read summaries:  Chapter 9  The author returns to Maldonada.  Sails to the kingdom of Luggnagg.  The author confined.  He is sent for to court.  The manner of his admittance.  The king’s great lenity to his subjects.  Chapter 10
   The Luggnaggians commended.  A particular description of the Struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject.
2. Read chapters 9 and 10 of Gulliver’s Travels.

Spelling

1. Participate in the spelling bee.

Wednesday 

Saxon 116/117

The Story of the World vol 4 by Susan Wise Bauer ch 16, first half of 17 (up to pg 185)   Oral Narration

Madam and Lady Why Ch 12 Homeward Bound from "There is the light again:" to "described in it, close on our right." (pg 277-281)Oral Narration

Spanish Chapter 5 Section 3 

 

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)

Reading

1. Read the summaries of chapter 11 and chapter 1 of part 4:  Chapter 11 The author leaves Luggnagg, and sails to Japan.  From thence he returns in a Dutch ship to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to England.Part IV.  A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.  Chapter 1 The author sets out as captain of a ship.  His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabin, and set him on shore in an unknown land.  He travels up into the country.  The Yahoos, a strange sort of animal, described.  The author meets two Houyhnhnms.
2. Read chapters 11 and 1 of part 4.  Don’t forget to take notes on your themes, include page numbers in your notes.

Grammar

1. Read this page and then click on next and do the activity on simple, compound and complex sentences.
2. Use your writing assignment from day 35 and underline every sentence. Use three different colored pencils and color code your story. Every sentence should be unlined marking it as simple, compound or complex. Assign a color to each type of sentence.  (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 118/119

Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 63, 64 Written Narration (Notebook) 

Ch. 64-65: Egypt, North Africa (9) (Africa map)

On a map of Africa, locate and label Egypt, the Nile River, the Assuan Dam, Alexandria, Cairo.

Locate and label Morocco, Fez, Tunisia, Tunis. 
Locate and label the Sahara desert (largest in the world!), then list it on your terms page.

Spanish Chapter 5 Section 4

Latin 10 minutes (SET A TIMER)

Reading

1. Read summaries of chapters 2 and 3:  Chapter 2  The author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his house.  The house described.  The author’s reception.  The food of the Houyhnhnms.  The author in distress for want of meat.  Is at last relieved.  His manner of feeding in this country. Chapter 3  The author studies to learn the language.  The Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him.  The language described.  Several Houyhnhnms of quality come out of curiosity to see the author.  He gives his master a short account of his voyage.
2. Read chapters 2 and 3 of part 4.
3. Write a summary of part 3. Answer the following questions in your summary:

• What was unusual about Laputa?
• What seemed to characterized the people of Laputa?
• What might the Academy represent?
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Friday 

Spanish Chapter 5 Section 5




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