Monday, January 9, 2012

Grade 11 Week 17

Week 17

The Cost of Discipleship ch 10 (Woman) - ch 13 (The Enemy-The Extraordinary)
Gilbert's History of the 20th Century pg 320-333 of ch 8 1945-1948 (13 pgs)
OR Modern Times second third of ch ch 11 up to pg 388 (8 pgs)
Mein Kampf Book 1 ch 9, 10
Here is Your War ch 8 (or other Ernie Pyle book)
The Men Behind Hitler Schreibner ch 4
Hiding Place ch 7
The Justice Trial (spend 3 weeks)
Amusing Ourselves to Death ch 5 "The Peek-a-Boo World"
Six Easy Pieces: pg 92-94 Development of dynamics
This term's Plutarch's Lives
This term's Shakespeare
Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson: ch 17. Government Price-Fixing
Essay:
The World: Life and Travel by Jan Morris pgs 199-205 (last part of ch 17; skip ch 18)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok ch 5, 6
Brideshead Visited second half of ch 5
Choose poetry from an anthology of modern poetry
Regular Copywork and Dictation
Continue your Math program
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir ch 5
Apologia or other science
Picture Study
Composer Study/Folksongs/Hymns
Foreign Language
On Writing Well ch 20
The Thinking Toolbox by Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn lesson 16

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

Grade 9 Week 17

Monday-
Declaration of Rights (1765)
Letters to His Son by Lord Chesterfield

Tuesday-
The God Who is There Section 2, ch 3, 4
Age of Revolution, The American Colonies
John Adams and the American Revolution ch 1, 2

Wednesday-
The English Constitution 4 The House of Lords second half
Common Sense by Thomas Paine 4 Of the Present Ability of America, with misc Reflexions

Thursday-
War of the Worldviews ch 3 The Christian Worldview
History of Rasselas ch 16-19
She Stoops to Conquer, a play; read Act IV

Friday-
Selbourne Letters XXXIII-XLIV
Marshall's English Literature ch 67 Pope

Grade 2 Week 17

Week 17
The Bible
Trial and Triumph 14. Peter Waldo and the Waldensians Faithful to the Word (1130-1217)
The Little Duke first half of ch 9
Tree in the Trail chapter 25
Burgess Animal Book XXXIII Buster bear's Big Cousins, XXXIV Unc' Billy and Old Mrs. Possum
Poetry of Eugene Field and James Whitcombe Riley
Wind in Willows: ch. 5
Pilgrim's Progress

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Grade 5 Week 16

Week 16
The Bible
Abraham Lincoln's World: Gold pg 200-201, Canada pg 201-202, Corn and Potatoes pg 203, The Year 1848 pg 204-208
Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5: ch. 15, More About Bones [or, in the 2002 edition, 5. More About Bones]
Story of Inventions Ch.7 cont: Making His First Sewing Machine - Exhibiting the Machine (pgs 149-154)
Madam and Lady Why Ch 10 Field and Wild from "And where did men get the grass seeds from?" to "and lived quietly side by side for ages." (pg 203-209)
Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
biography of Alexander Graham Bell to be read over the 12 week term as desired
Oliver Twist: ch. 15-19
Age of Fable ch 22 The rural deities

Grade 2 Week 16

Week 16
The Bible
Tree in the Trail chapter 23, 24
Burgess Animal Book XXXI Bobby Coon Arrives, XXXII Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School
Poetry of Eugene Field and James Whitcombe Riley
Wind in Willows: ch. 4
Parables of Nature ch 9 The Circle of Blessing

Grade Nine Week Sixteen

Tuesday-
CM's Ourselves Book 1 pg 163-166: Some Causes of Lying
The English Constitution 4 The House of Lords first half
Common Sense by Thomas Paine 3 Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
War of the Worldviews ch 2 Worldviews in Conflict

Wednesday-
History of Rasselas ch 13-15
She Stoops to Conquer, a play; read Act III
Land of Little Rain 5 OR Selbourne Letters XXIII-XXXII OR Life of the Fly ch 6

Thursday-
The God Who is There Section 2, ch 1, 2
Age of Revolution, use this week to catch up if necessary
Letters to His Son by Lord Chesterfield
Autobiography of Ben Franklin