Semester 2 Week 3 update

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Homework Review – complete before semester 2 week 4 class
Algebra 2	Lessons 68-71. Also, bring one math question from your own math book to put on the board.
Latin	Lessons 20 (parts 4-6), translation lines 146-171 Helvetian Drive to West (bring Latin Key). Page 443 has a section on Roman Officers.
History/Music: Gift of Music Classical Music Essay	We will continue to add composers to our Timeline. GOM - Read Chapters 5,8, & 9 ( Haydn, Rossini, Schubert) CMD - Read page 76 (Classical Music in this Century) - 110 Relationship Essay on Baroque and Classical Era (cause and effect)
Debate	Team Prep – Prepare for a quick informal debate this week before we switch sides. 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	Read Alice in Wonderland. Words Aptly Spoken 117-120 (Michelle & Desiree are picking questions) No Essay
Biology:	Read Chapter 12 to 376 (read experiment 12.1 in preparation for the crayfish dissection)
Drama	Bring your books to class. We will start listing a list of props needed for a play.

Algebra 2 – This week’s lessons involved solving problems with adding vectors by converting everything into rectangular form and using trigonometry (basically we took a look at triangulation with a quick nod to compasses, maps, and graphs). We also covered a few questions with “imaginary” numbers and advanced substitution.

Latin – We reviewed present and perfect infinitives and read through the next section of Caesar’s report on the Helvetians.

History/Music – We talked about the Baroque Period and the composer Bach. We listened to Bach’s music. His books about “The Well-Tempered Clavier” included a prelude and a fugue in every major and minor key (we defined “Clavier,” “Fugue,” and “Zither” terms this week).

Debate - We will likely have the groups hold a short debate this week and then repeat the preparations for a debate from the opposite side weeks 5 and 6. Both teams should consider their ability to persuade an audience with definitions, examples, problems, and solutions. 

 

Define all your terms

Vint Hill is researching New Laws about Copyrights & Internet Plagiarism.

Vint Hill Affirmative Team: Bethany, Michelle, Ian, Asher

Vint Hill Negative Team: Hope, John, Klay, Seth, Sarah

Culpeper is researching New Legislation for Facebook Client’s basic rights.

Culpeper Affirmative Team: Jordan, Grace, Justin

Culpeper Negative Team: Desiree, David, Wayne

 

 

British Literature – Passage to India discussion: India’s Caste System and the reasons for Great Britain’s presence in India. We covered social stratification issues (religious, wealth, occupation, self-segregation, group affiliation, nobility or status). Britain’s monarchy, with the exception of two rulers, all married near/distant cousins (including Prince Charles/Diana and Prince William/Kate). Asher led group questions. Next week we cover “Alice in Wonderland.”

Student-led discussion assignments:

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 – This coming week, 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 – Topic and dissection for this week: Earthworm. Great job, everyone! Here are some of the pictures from class for lab journal drawings:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Challenge III presented Shakespeare recitations for us: