Semester 2 Week 2 update

Protocol (“Taming of the Shrew” and luncheon) will be Thursday morning, April 2nd. Please contact Mrs. Burnham with your registration and payment by the end of January if you are attending so she can confirm the booking.  Details were in her notice earlier last week. E-mail me with any additional questions.

We will start preparations for our final Team Debate when we get to March. Teams usually consist of 6 students for a Lincoln-Douglas Debate. We have 6 students in Culpeper and 9 students in Vint Hill. The Aldie/Chantilly Challenge II only has 3 students and would like to ask if 3 of our students from Vint Hill could help form a team to participate in a debate. I’m not sure about the logistics yet (with regards to a few team planning sessions), but we might even be able to invite them to join us for our team debate night with larger teams (or hold a double debate one evening with some of our students switching sides). I will try to pick a date for the L-D Team Debate soon.

  “Handel” - en.wikipedia.org           

“Bach” – nybooks.com

Homework Review – complete before semester 2 week 2 class
Algebra 2	Lessons 64-67. Also, bring one math question from your own math book to put on the board.
Latin	Lessons 20 (parts 1-3) and exercises, translation lines 75-145 Helvetian Drive to West (bring Latin Key).
History/Music: Gift of Music Class. Music Essay	We will continue to add composers to our Timeline. GOM - Read Chapter 3 on Bach CMD - Read page 43 (Hopeless Romantics) to 76 (Classical Music in this Century) Comparison Essay on Handel and Bach (page 63 in the Guide has good essay questions)
Debate	Team Prep - Write 1 paragraph in preparation for your affirmative (or negative) construction. Vint Hill is researching New Laws about Copyrights & Internet Plagiarism. Culpeper is researching New Legislation for Facebook Client’s basic rights.
British Lit. WAS Essay	Finish reading Passage to India. Words Aptly Spoken 103-112 Essay: Circumstance Essay on the opinions of British, Indians, and Mother Teresa about class differences. How does worldview affect interacting with each other?
Biology:	Finish Chapter 11 (read experiment 11.3 in preparation for the earthworm dissection)
Drama	Start highlighting “Harvey” script. Bring your books for class.

Algebra 2 – This week’s lessons involved solving problems with inscribed angles and tangent angles, direct and inverse proportion variations, and chemical mixtures.

Latin – We reviewed gerunds, participles and infinitives. We continued translating Caesar’s reports to Rome in “Helvetian Guide to the West.”  Students should work on the next 70 lines of translations and bring their homework and Latin Key to class.

History/Music – We talked about the Baroque Period and the composer Handel. We listened to specific pieces from a few composers and played a few rounds of “white board drawing musical chairs.” This week we will read about Bach and write an essay comparing the two composers.

www.halfahundredacrewood.com

 www.britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

^{Here are some of the music pieces the students will analyze and recognize for our classical studies:}

Water Music Suite No.2 - Alla Hornpipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xIf8NDa3gc
Well Tempered Clavier prelude and fugue in c major https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkNzx7hXu_U
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRA5pm76XgE
Beethoven Symphony 5 first movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pQytF2nak
Brahms Symphony 4 movement 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cqv8PRsZRw
Dvorak Serenade for Strings 4th movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USDpHN1Pow4
Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 fourth movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ebQYH6EpJ8
Debussy la mer dialogue du vent et de la mer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbsX74pFr9I
Stravinsky rite of spring opening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceglu9msRbo

^{And the Waltz Goes On – Anthony Hopkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMRUf4TtJQ0}

…and here are a few fun arrangements:

Brahms "Hungarian Dances" Pigs in a Polka 1943 https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=Nh11A41klL4

Bach played on big piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6RRMVWepI4

Mickey Mouse & Friends - The Band Concert (1935) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IErXg5kBXXg

Tom Jerry Direttori d'Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXYl5pJU9Jo

Tom & Jerry - The Cat Concerto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKZgi06fVsk

Tom And Jerry - In Concert Parte 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmGUbr9Ovic

Tom And Jerry - In Concert parte 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrmm97PueJg

Disney also did a whole series called “Silly Symphonies” that can be viewed on YouTube.

White Board Musical Chairs:

 

 

 

Debate - We will likely have the groups work on preparations and a short debate on weeks 3 and 4 and then repeat the preparations for a debate from the opposite side weeks 5 and 6.

Vint Hill Affirmative Team: Bethany, Michelle, Ian, Asher
Vint Hill Negative Team: Hope, John, Klay, Seth, Sarah

Culpeper Affirmative Team: Jordan, Grace, Justin

Culpeper Negative Team: Desiree, David, Wayne

British Literature – In preparation for Passage to India discussion circles, students should research India’s Caste System and the reasons for Great Britain’s presence in India. 

Student-led discussion assignments:

Passage to India – Asher/Mrs. Hoke

Alice in Wonderland – Michelle/Desiree
Robinson Crusoe – Klay/Mrs. Hoke
Father Brown – John/Justin
A Morbid Taste for Bones – Sarah/Grace
Out of the Silent Planet – Hope/Jordan
The Hobbit – Bethany/Wayne
The Screwtape Letters – Seth/David

Drama – We watched Harvey and started discussing script expectations. We’ll work on class “Radio Reads” and discuss the possibility of pulling a play together. A few logistics need worked out for gathering props and for planning a few practices with both Challenge 2 campuses.

Biology – Topics for this week: Sponges, Hydra, and Nematodes (worms). This week we will finish reading chapter 11 and start dissections. Here are some of the microscope pictures from class for lab journal drawings:

Hydra

 

 

hookworm and flatworm

 

 

Earthworm cross section