Monday, January 9, 2012

Grade 5 Week 17

Week 17
Abraham Lincoln's World: A Beautiful Uniform or a Spiked Helmet pg 213-215, Wilhelm der Goldaf pg 216, The Peace Festival pg 217-220, Napoleon III pg 220-224 (including Eugenie)
Trial and Triumph ch 40. Amy Carmichael Mother to Outcast Children (1867-1951) pg. 245
Biography of your choice - spread over the 12 week term as desired
Explore the Holy Land, Egypt, ch 3 OR Hillyer's Childs Geography of the World ch 31, 32 OR Halliburton
Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 16, The Muscles [or, in the 2002 edition, 5. Muscles]
Story of Inventions Ch.7 cont: Offering the Machine to England - end of chapter (pgs 155-168)
Madam and Lady Why Ch 10 Field and Wild from "Another forest coming up from below?" to "even as wise as Sweep the retriever." (pg 209-214)
Optional: Physics Lab in A Housewares Store: Teflon Pots and Pans p. 47
Spread this term's Shakespeare play and Life (from Plutarch's Lives) over the 12 week term
Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
biography of Alexander Graham Bell to be read over the 12 week term as desired
Oliver Twist: ch. 20-23
Age of Fable ch 22 Erisichthon

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