Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Week 27 Grade 10

Tuesday

Imitation of Christ or Pilgrim's Progress - work through this during the term; if necessary, continue through the summer
Churchill: Gladstone and Disraeli from beginning to "from this glittering prospect."
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ch 4, 5
Queen Victoria by Sarah Tytler Book 1 ch 7, 8

Wednesday
The Oregon Trail ch 15
Ourselves, Book 2 pg 52-55
Plutarch: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
How Should We Then Live ch 3
Sesame and Lilies - 1/4 of Lecture I

Thursday
Current Events: Keep up with your choice of periodicals or blogs
Graves of Academe The End of the String
Simonds Hawthorne spend two weeks
Silas Marner ch 4, 5
Moby Dick ch 18-31

Friday
Fallacy Detective by N and H Bluedorn - Lesson 27
History of Art Pt 4 Modern World ch 3 Post Impressionism (work through this chapter over the term)
Six Easy Pieces pg 48/49 Chemistry
Walden 14. Former Inhabitants; & Winter Visitors - allow 2 weeks
Les Miserables Vol 3 Book 3 The Grandfather and the Grandson
Shakespeare: follow Ambleside Online's schedule

Every day
Poetry
Writing Assignments
Copywork
Dictation
Continue working through your Math program
Science/Apologia
Nature Study
Picture Study: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
Composer Study: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
Hymn/Foreign Language song/Folksong
Foreign Language
Work and Life Skills - reading? Bible

Week 27 Grade 8

Monday-
Co-op

Tuesday-
Desiring God John Piper ch 1,2
Marshall's English Literature Ch LVIII Milton--Darkness and Death
Roar on the Other Side pg 99 Genres
Poetry of Milton

Wednesday-
Desiring God John Piper ch 3
Churchill's The New World ch 21, beginning of chapter, to section ending "supreme day of joy."
Galileo's Daughter read about 35 pages a week, as desired
This term's Life from Plutarch's Lives

Thursday-
Desiring God John Piper ch 4,5
CM's "Ourselves" pg 112-117 ch VIII Courage
Whatever Happened to Justice pg 183-188 ch 34, 35
This term's Shakespeare play

Friday-
Desiring God John Piper ch 6
Kon Tiki, chapter 6: Across the Pacific (spend 4 weeks)
I Promessi Sposi ch 20, 21, 22
John Bunyan's The Holy War

Everyday-
Math: Saxon Algebra 1
Switched on Schoolhouse: Language 800
Apologia: Biology
French: Rosetta Stone

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Grade Ten, Week 26

Week 26
Read The One Year Bible everyday

Tuesday

Pilgrim's Progress -
Churchill: The Rise of Germany from "The war seemed over." to end (short section)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ch 3
Queen Victoria by Sarah Tytler Book 1 ch 4-6

Wednesday

The Oregon Trail ch 14
Ourselves, Book 2 pg 49-52
Plutarch:
How Should We Then Live ch 2

Thursday

Sesame and Lilies - 1/4 of Lecture I
Read Paston Nathans Blog
Graves of Academe Propositions Three and Seven
Essay by Frederick Douglass My Escape From Slavery

Friday

Simonds Thoreau spend two weeks
Silas Marner ch 3
Moby Dick ch 8-17
Les Miserables Vol 3 Book 2 The Grand Bourgeois
Shakespeare:

Everyday

Poetry
Writing Assignments
Copywork
Dictation
Microbe Hunters ch 4 Koch (there are 8 sections; space it out for the week if desired)
Walden 13. House-Warming - allow 2 weeks
Fallacy Detective by N and H Bluedorn - Lesson 26
History of Art Pt 4 Modern World ch 3 Post Impressionism (work through this chapter over the term)
Picture Study:
Composer Study:
Hymn/Foreign Language song/Folksong
Foreign Language: French Rosetta Stone

Week 26 Grade Eight

Tuesday-
Desiring God John Piper ch 2, 3
Poetry of Milton
Francis Bacon essay - Of Studies
A Coffin for King Charles ch 4 first half

Wednesday-
John Donne's funeral speech 1631 spend three weeks
This term's Shakespeare play
Galileo's Daughter read about 35 pages a week, as desired
Kon Tiki, chapter 6: Across the Pacific (spend 4 weeks)

Thursday-
I Promessi Sposi ch 16, 17
Marshall's English Literature Ch LVI Herrick and MarvellL--Of Blossoms and Bowers
How to read a Book ch 11

Friday-
Whatever Happened to Justice pg 169-177 ch 31, 32
This term's Life from Plutarch's Lives
Churchill's The New World from ch 19 beginning "At the moment when the axe..." to ch 20
John Bunyan's The Holy War - spread the book over the 12-Week term (book has no chapter divisions)

Everyday-
Math: Saxon Algebra 1
Switched on Schoolhouse: Language 800
Apologia: Biology
French: Rosetta Stone

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Week 25 Grade 10

Tuesday

moby dick ch 1
Churchill: The Rise of Germany from beginning to "the sentence was not carried out."
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ch 1, 2
Queen Victoria by Sarah Tytler Book 1 ch 1-3


Wednesday

moby dick ch 2-3
The Oregon Trail ch 12, 13
Plutarch: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
How Should We Then Live ch 1
Sesame and Lilies - 1/4 of Lecture I
Current Events: Keep up with your choice of periodicals or blogs
Graves of Academe Foreword


Thursday

Simonds Thoreau spend two weeks
Silas Marner ch 1, 2
Moby Dick ch 4-5
Les Miserables Vol 3 Book 1 Paris Atomized
Shakespeare: follow Ambleside Online's schedule

Friday

Six Easy Pieces pg 47/48 Relation of Science Introduction
Walden 13. House-Warming - allow 2 weeks
Fallacy Detective by N and H Bluedorn - Lesson 25
moby dick ch 6-7

everyday

Poetry
Writing Assignments
Copywork
Dictation
Continue working through your Math program
Science/Apologia
Nature Study
Picture Study: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
Composer Study: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
Hymn/Foreign Language song/Folksong
Foreign Language
Work and Life Skills - reading?

Week 25 Grade 8

Tuesday-

Churchill's The New World ch 19 up to pg 292, ending at "...the curse of Cromwell."
John Donne's funeral speech 1631 spend three weeks
A Coffin for King Charles ch 3
Whatever Happened to Justice pg 158-168 ch 30


Wednesday-

Desiring God John Piper introduction, ch 1
Galileo's Daughter read about 35 pages a week, as desired
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England by Sir Charles Firth
I Promessi Sposi ch 14, 15


Thursday-

Marshall's English Literature Ch LV Herbert--The Parson Poet
John Bunyan's The Holy War - spread the book over the 12-Week term (book has no chapter divisions)
CM's "Ourselves" pg 108-111 ch VIII Gratitude

Friday-

Roar on the Other Side pg 81 More Formalities
Poetry of Milton
This term's Life from Plutarch's Lives
This term's Shakespeare play



EVERYDAY-
Math: Saxon Algebra 1
Switched on Schoolhouse: Language 800
Apologia: Biology
French: Rosetta Stone

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Monday
Churchill: The Victory of the Union entire chapter
Nicolay's Boys Lincoln ch 13 OR Thayer's Abraham Lincoln ch 27-29
Tuesday
Arguing Slavery ch 41
The Oregon Trail ch 11
Plutarch: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
One Blood ch 11 The Last Adam's Race, What Does It Matter?
Current Events: Keep up with your choice of periodicals or blogs
Wednesday
The Deadliest Monster ch 6
Essay by Frederick Douglass An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
History of English Lit Ch 85 Tennyson--The Poet of Friendship spend two weeks
Thursday
Frankenstein ch 24-end
Les Miserables Vol 2 Book 8 Cemeteries Take What is Given Them (two weeks)
Shakespeare: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
Poetry
The Book on Writing ch 24
Writing Assignments
Friday
Walden 12. Brute Neighbors - allow 2 weeks
Fallacy Detective by N and H Bluedorn - Lesson 24
History of Art Pt 4 Modern World ch 2 Realism and Impressionism (work through this chapter over the term)

Everyday
Copywork
Dictation
Continue working through your Math program
Science/Apologia
Picture Study: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
Composer Study: follow Ambleside Online's schedule
Hymn/Foreign Language song/Folksong
Foreign Language
Work and Life Skills - reading?

Week 24 Grade 4

Week 24
The Bible

Tuesday:
George Washington's World:
Olaudah Equiano pg 158-160,
Spain's New Colony pg 161-165,
Over The Mountain With Boone pg 165-167,
Rebellion in Massachusetts pg 168-172,
The First Congress pg 173-175

Wednesday
Madam How and Lady Why: last third ch. 8 OR Explore His Creation
Poetry: Emily Dickinson

Thursday:
Age of Fable ch 8 Apollo and Hyacinthus
Kidnapped ch 19, 20

Friday:
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution ch 12
George Washington's World:
Rebellion in Massachusetts pg 168-172,
The First Congress pg 173-175

Grade One Week 24

Week 24
The Bible
An Island Story: chapter 14 "The Story of Gregory and the Pretty Children"
Fifty Famous Stories Retold "Grace Darling" (1842)

Wednesday
Burgess's Bird Book: choose one chapter based on geographic region and season

Thursday
Aesop's Fables: "The Fox and the Leopard" (pg. 52 in the Milo Winter version) and "The Heron" (pg. 54 in the Milo Winter version)

Friday:

James Herriot's Treasury: "The Market Square Dog"
A.A. Milne: a poem a day

Grade 8 Week 24

Tuesday-
Izaak Walton's Life on John Donne paragraphs 126-end
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England by Sir Charles Firth
Sower biography of Kepler read about 17 pages a week

Wednesday-
I Promessi Sposi ch 11, 12, 13
Poetry of John Donne
This term's Life from Plutarch's Lives
Thursday-
A Coffin for King Charles ch 2 second half
Utopia Of the Religions of the Utopians spend 5 weeks
Diary of Samuel Pepys excerpts
Friday-
Kon Tiki, chapter 5: Halfway (spend 4 weeks)

Whatever Happened to Justice pg 152-157 ch 28, 29

This term's Shakespeare play

Every Day-
Math: Saxon Algebra 1
Switched on Schoolhouse: Language 800
Apologia: Biology
French: Rosetta Stone