Thursday, September 1, 2011

Welcome Back Grade Five Week One

Week 1
Monday
The Bible
This Country of Ours ch This Country of Ours ch 64. Washington First in War, First in Peace
Abraham Lincoln's World: 1809 pg ix-x, Napoleon pg 5-8, The Next Emperor pg 9-10, Because of England and Napoleon pg 11--14, Young Creoles of Venezuela pg 15-18

Tuesday
Trial and Triumph ch 36. William Carey Father of Modern Missions (1761-1834) pg. 219
Of Courage Undaunted (Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark) pg 13-20
Explore the Holy Land, Turkey, ch 1

Wednesday
Wild Animals I Have Known: Lobo, first third
Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 1, What is Made from the Blood (teeth, tears, etc) [or, in the 2002 edition, 1. What is Made from Blood? part a]

Thursday
Madam and Lady Why Ch 8 Madam How's Two Grandsons from beginning to "beautiful work than he has ever yet done in the world." (pg 141-145 in the Yesterday's Classics reprint)
Story of Inventions Ch.1: James Watt & the Invention of the Steam Engine - Captured by Steam (pgs 1-10)


Friday:
Poetry of Rudyard Kipling
Pyle's King Arthur: Part I, The Winning of Kinghood, ch. 1 and 2 or Roger Lancelyn Green: Bk 1 ch 1 The Two Swords, ch 2 Balyn and Balan
Age of Fable ch 15 The Graeae, Perseus and Medusa, Perseus and Atlas

Isaak Newton (word doc for kindle)

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