Semester 1, Week 14 update
Both classes can bring snacks for the last class: Girls may want to bring sweets and the guys
a salty snack or drink. See below for notes on final exams and quizzes.

Culpeper – Final Class ‐ Friday, December 12 (Remember, we already have a pizza day
scheduled).

Vint Hill – We meet Thursday, December 11 and Monday, December 15th (half day).

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Homework Review – complete before week 15 class
Algebra 2	Lessons 51-54. Also, bring one math question from your own math book to put on the board.
Latin	Translation lines 3-21 of Helvetian Drive to the West.
Logic	Finish Lesson 14 and answer questions. Quick Word Bank Quiz on the final day.
History: HSWTL	HSWTL & SOA Bluebook Quiz (2 Essay questions - listed below)
History: Art	Art Identification Quiz
Art Presentation:	Art Lecture Presentation
British Literature Essay:	Read Animal Farm (read page 92 of guide - it charts the characters in the book). Testimony Essay: Show if these two works (Tale of Two Cities and Animal Farm) are each an authority on rebellion against government? Truth in fiction? More than cold hard facts?
Biology:	Finish Chapter 8 and exams.

JUST A QUICK WORD ABOUT QUIZZES:
*This year, Math and Biology are given at home.
*I sent the Latin Quiz home over Thanksgiving to be returned this week.
*The Logic Quiz will be a quick Word Bank quiz based on the charts on page 5 and page 62
of the text.
*Art Identification Quiz involves completing a chart with information for the top 11 artists
we studied (the Art Chart is posted in the Week 11 blog update).
*Art Presentation will be assessed based on student’s use of clear speech, comprehensive
evaluation of the art piece using all the requested facts, and a visual prop.
*History Bluebook Essays involve looking at your notes before the exam and answering the
questions based on things you remember from How Should We Then Live, State of the Arts,
and literature books.

Here are the actual exam essay questions:
1. Examine a particular time period from one we studied and use one artist and one
author to help share information about that time period. (Hint: if you cannot find an
artist and an author in the same period, you should still choose one era with its artist
and an author from another era to compare differences, or to tell about
circumstances, or to find a topic that relates the two.
2. If you were standing in a museum in front of a painting or sculpture and needed to
evaluate the art piece, what guidelines would you use to decide if it is good art? Try to
think of 5 or more tips for evaluating art.

Notebook Checks, Art Presentation Assessments, and Semester Progress Reports will be made
available for those that finish their exams and any missing papers (unless excused by
parents) by Week 15.

Algebra 2 – Lessons 47 – 50 rate & unit conversions, fractional exponents, completing
squares of binomials (and trinomials), using parallel lines to find angles, and using sine and
cosine.

Latin – We begin to translate Caesar’s reports about the land of the Gauls (Helvetian Drive
to the West). Class discussion includes the introductory information in Latin 2 about
Imperialism, leadership, the Gaul’s defenses, and Caesar’s rise to power.

Logic – We finish the last of the Syllogism rules that can be broken: the Qualitative Rules.
The final chapter in the Logic book is a full book review. We discuss Elements of Style
before week 15.

History – We finish the final chapter of HSWTL and take a look at the society problems that
lead up to the threat of imposed world order.

Art Essay – We cover Monet and Impressionism.

Art Presentation Project – We finish the selection process of pictures for our “Art
Presentation” project. The students picked an art piece to “critique” and “present” to the
class on week 15. The students will need to include the specific details of the painting
regarding: date, artist, era, museum location, etc. They also will explain what they think is
occurring in the picture and the possible influences that the painter relied upon to create
the artwork. Finally, the student will present why the piece does or does not fit parameters
that define “good” art.

British Literature – Discussion about Charles Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities. Finish Animal Farm
and the final Literature essay for Week 15.

Biology – We finish half of chapter 8: genes, DNA, dominant traits, and probability squares
(Punnet Squares).

We’ll add pictures to the next blog. Have a good week.