Monday, October 17, 2011

Grade 5 Week 7

Week 7
The Bible
This Country of Ours ch 70. Madison - War With Great Britain
Abraham Lincoln's World: Benito Juarez A Boy of Mexico pg 84-87, Toda America Es Mi Patria pg 88-91, Citizens of the World pg 92-94, Victoria Is Born pg 95
Of Courage Undaunted pg 86-98
Explore the Holy Land, Israel, ch 1 OR Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 12, 13 OR Halliburton
Wild Animals I Have Known: Bingo
Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 7, Breathing [or, in the 2002 edition, 3. Breathing]
Story of Inventions Ch.3: George Stephenson & the Invention of the Locomotive - The First Railroads & Locomotives (pgs 55-68)
Madam and Lady Why Ch 9 The Coral-Reef from beginning to "old guess is actual fact and true." (pg 162-166)
Optional: Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Bottle-cap Opener, p. 32
Spread this term's Shakespeare play and Life (from Plutarch's Lives) over the 12 week term
Poetry of Rudyard Kipling
biography of Isaac Newton to be read over the 12 week term as desired
Pyle's King Arthur: The Three Worthies: Prologue and Merlin ch. 1, 2, and 3 or Roger Lancelyn Green: Bk 3 ch 1 Holy Grail Came to Camelot, ch 2 First Adventures of Sir Galahad
Age of Fable ch 18 Meleager
Spelling List

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