Grammar & IEW Schedule 2011-12 Semester 2

1/10     Week 13    Lesson 14    Declaration of Ind.
1/17     Week 14    Lesson 15    Declaration of Ind. 2
1/24     Week 15    Lesson 16    Declaration of Ind. 3
1/31     Break

2/7       Week 16    Lesson 18    American Revolution Biography
                                                       Pick 3 sources (books).  Take notes on all 3 sources.  Fuse 2-3 paragraphs.  2 for younger.  3 for older.  Rough draft due next week.  Final draft due by last day of class (4/17) for Oral Report on 4/20.

2/14     Week 17    Lesson 25    Bill of Rights - Creative Writing
2/20     Break (Spring Break)

2/28     Week 18    Lesson 26    Francis Scott Key - Creative Writing
3/6       Week 19    Lesson 27    Lewis & Clark - Critique Model
3/13     Week 20    Lesson 28   Lewis & Clark 2  (skip lesson 29 & 30)
3/20     Week 21    Lesson 31   Oregon Trail - Writing from Pictures
3/27     Break

4/3       Week 22    Lesson 32  Alamo- Descriptive Poetry
4/10     Week 23    Lesson 33  Oregon Trail 2- Writing from Pictures
4/17     Week 24    Lesson 34  California Gold Rush- Haiku

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4/20     Parent's Night- 7-8:30 p.m.
             Oral Report (American Revolution Biography from Week 16)
             (S- Betsy Ross, J- Martha Washington, B- Benjamin Franklin (life), T- George Washington, M- Benjamin Franklin (scientist), A- Molly Pitcher.)

** Prepare a memorized oral report on the American Revolutionary War.  Come dressed as the person you are talking about, or have something fun to share.
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**  IEW Lessons 19 - 24 focus on Formal Reports & Essays.  Older students can continue these lessons at home if desired.  Recommended for 7th grade and up.

CC Week 16

Andrew Wyeth

CC Week 15

Periodic Table

The Periodic Table Printmaking Project by Jenn Schmitt, a celebration of the chemical elements in 118 images by 97 artists, is on show in an exhibition titled Elemental Matters: Artists Imagine Chemistry, which opened Feb 2011 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. Image: Jenn Schmitt

Georgia O'Keeffe

Born: 15 November 1887; Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States

Died: 06 March 1986; Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Field: painting

Nationality: American

Art Movement: Precisionism

School or Group: Stieglitz group

All O'Keeffe's paintings link

CC Week 14

Great Artist:  Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell (Feb. 3, 1894-Nov. 8, 1978) was a 20^th century American painter and illustrator. He was most famous for the over 300 published original cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for the Saturday Evening Post magazine in his forty-plus years with the popular periodical. 

Art lesson idea

Look under foot....The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.--John Burroughs

Homeschool Daily Schedule Planner

So, it seems I reinvent this about every 6 months or so when I realize that the older system isn't working for our family.  Here's my next attempt.  

My last one (The weekly instead of monthly view had us writing in activities daily, ie. lesson numbers, etc.  I have goals that I've made for the year in math, and our co-ops have weekly assignments already laid out.  I figured if they just mark that they worked on it, it would suffice the "daily record" requirement for homeschooling.  I will just attach the lesson outlines for our co-ops and math at the end of the Mead folder when it comes time to do portfolio reviews.)

Double click on image.  Should fit inside a Mead 11 1/2 x 9 3/8 brad folder easily. 

Calendar is off-center to allow for the brads on the left side.

These versions below are more specific to my schedule.

I also wrote up a task sheet for the week that I put up on the wall.

I'm hoping to update it weekly with new reading assignments and lesson numbers

so the statement "I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing" is lessened.

CC- Week 13

Assignment:

Busy Folk Art Scene

Inspired by Grandma Moses

Create your own.  Assignment found in the Discovering Great Artists book.

*  Print a picture done by Grandma Moses out and place it at home, or make flash cards to help remember the artist better.

Timeline link:

Week 13 Discovery (John Calvin)

•John Calvin & The Institutes •Cortez de Soto, de Leon & Coronado: The Spanish Explorers •The Council of Trent •John Knox, The Scottish Reformer •Explorers of the Northeast: Cartier, Champlain & Cabot •Raleigh Settles Roanoke •Jamestown Is Founded in Virginia •The Mayflower Lands At Plymouth

Science Additional Reading:

Chapter 1:  The Universe and its origin.

Counting the starts

How big is the Universe?

How can we measure star distances?

Did our universe have a beginning?

An orderly universe

The law of entropy

Why doesn't everyone believe in God?

CC Semester 2- Quarter 3

Hi everyone!

I hope you are having a great Christmas Vacation.

So we'll all be on the same page... I'm sending out a reminder about Grammar, CC & Human Anatomy.

Dates, times, & what to be prepared with.

Qtr 3: 

Week 13     Jan 12 

Week 14     Jan 19 

Week 15     Jan 26

Break           Feb 2

Week 16     Feb 9

Week 17     Feb 16

Week 18     Feb 23

Break           Mar 1

Grammar Class will resume on Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012.  2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Come with your Christmas story for extra credit if you did one.

Please remember to pay your kids for their tickets from Semester 1.  (I am paying my kids 10 cents a ticket.)

I'm thinking about having a spelling test each time when they come based on the words in the back of the binder.  What do you all think about this? There are different levels.

Classical Conversations & Human Anatomy will resume on Thursday, Jan 12, 2012.

CC- at my home.  9 a.m. to Noon.

Quarter 3 focus:  Chemistry & Artists

*  My husband has agreed to do the Chemistry Experiment from 9 to 9:30 a.m.

This means that we need to have everyone arrive at 8:45a.m. to start on time.

It is 15 minutes earlier than we have been meeting so far.

We will have our devotional and Public Speaking after the experiment.

We will be introducing Week 13 that day.

Please review weeks 1-12 for our review games.

Public Speaking:

Week 13:  Lehenbauer 1, Whiting 1, Kleppe. 

Topic:  My favorite

Time:  2 to 3 minutes.

Watch um words.  Practice before you speak.

We will have everyone doing an impromptu 30 second talk.  This is in addition to the prepared talks.

Human Anatomy & Reading Literature, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., and 2:30 to 3:00 p.m.

Come having read Week 13's information.

Try and catch up on any pages that you haven't finished in the Notebook.

I am currently looking into having someone help us teach the third week.  It is still being worked through.  

Literature:  We will be reading The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.

Please have a copy of the book by this date.  We will be introducing the book.  You do not need to purchase the study guide if you don't want to.

Wk: 13   Pre-reading activities

Wk: 14   Ch. 1-2

Wk: 15   Ch. 3-4

Wk: 16   Ch. 5-6

Wk: 17   Ch. 7-8

Wk: 18   Ch. 9-10

Wk: 19   Ch. 11-12

Wk: 20   Ch. 13-14

Wk: 21   Ch. 15, 16 & 17

Wk: 22   Conclusion

Wk: 23

Wk: 24

That's about it.

Thanks for all you do to help create a great environment for our kids to learn in.

Great information.  Great friends.  Great mentors.

Love to all of you,

Ms. Candi