Monday, November 14, 2011

Grade 5 Week 11

Week 11
The Bible
This Country of Ours ch 74. Harrison - The Hero of Tippecanoe
Abraham Lincoln's World: Time Makes an Old Idea New pg 139-142, The Sultan's Guest pg 142-144, India pg 145-146, Li Hung Chang A Boy of China pg 147-149
Of Courage Undaunted pg 137-152
Explore the Holy Land, Israel, ch 3 OR Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 20, 21 OR Halliburton
Wild Animals I Have Known: Redruff
Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 11, How the Eye is Guarded [or, in the 2002 edition, 4. How the Eye is Guarded]
Story of Inventions Ch.5: Invention of the Spinning Machines - James Hargreaves & the Spinning Jenny (pgs 101-106)
Madam and Lady Why Ch 9 The Coral-Reef from "That is the history of the cocoa-nut crab." to "nothing is impossible with God." (pg 179-182)
Optional: Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Chopsticks, p. 36
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: Pellias ch. 6, Gawaine ch. 1 or Roger Lancelyn Green: Bk 4 ch 1 Launcelot and Guinevere, ch 2 The Plots of Sir Mordred
Age of Fable ch 19 Hebe and Ganymede

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