Semester 2 Week 10 update

Protocol is Thursday, April 2^nd.

The Debate is scheduled for Tuesday evening, April 14^th at Oak Dale Baptist from 6:30-8:30.

The students will complete their debate and then work on Notebooks and the Music Lecture Presentation.

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Homework Review – complete before semester 2 week 11 class
Algebra 2	Lessons 96-99. Bring one math question from your own math book to put on the board.
Latin	Ch. 26, Translate lines 1-57 Invasion of Britain
History/Music: Gift of Music Class. Music Essay	We will continue to add composers to our Timeline. Ch. 21 Tchaikovsky Pgs. 212-243 Testimony – Was Tchaikovsky an authority on the Romanic Period?
Debate	Write Constructions (quotes, definitions, criteria), cross-examinations and rebuttals.
British Lit. WAS	Finish Out of the Silent Plant. Words Aptly Spoken pgs. 135-140 ( Hope & Jordan are picking questions)
Biology:	Finish Chapter 15 -  Read Exp. 15.2  Fruit dissections Also: Type ANY 4 dissection experiments for your formal reports.
Drama	Arsenic & Old Lace - Bring your book to class.

Remaining Assignments for Challenge II:
Algebra – 20 lessons
Latin – 4 lessons and “Invasion of Britain” translation
Music History – GOM & CMD readings
Essays – 3 Music History & 2 British Literature
British Literature – Out of the Silent Planet,  The Hobbit, & Screwtape Letters
Biology – Ch. 15 & 16 (experiments:  Fruit dissections, chick embryo stages, bird identification)
Drama – Arsenic & Old Lace
Team Debate – April 14
Music Lecture Presentations – May 7 or 8
Western Cultural History Notebook with Art/Music Folders, Lab Journal
    *see last week’s blog for the Notebook checklists

Algebra 2 – Distance problems when water currents and other forces affect the “rate” in a problem, using just the “discriminant” portion of a Quadratic equation and determining whether “y” is a function of “x.”

 

Latin – Chapter 25 introduced unique words like “so” that can introduce dependent clauses or be used as an adverb. Also, English adverbs can pinpoint specific time frames or indicate to what extent an activity occurs. This makes rephrasing Latin translations necessary at times. Some prepositions like “of” run into the same dilemma during translation. We read the opening historical introduction and footnotes to the next translation section. Individual Latin students each translate 15 lines of the beginning 57 lines of “Invasion of Britain.”

History/Music – Next week we’ll discuss defining good music. For students that finish their debate preparations, they can start on their May 7/8 Music Lecture Presentation (a five minute talk with short sample music clips).

*Critically analyze 3 music styles in terms of their cultural context).
*How do the three styles add or subtract to culture?
*Should this music be passed on to friends, parents, pastors or grandchildren?
*How do the three styles stimulate the emotions or imagination?
*Define genres by instrumentation, composers, history and rhythm
*Define the styles by their contribution to culture and their impact.
*Persuade others that music matters to God, culture and people.

Debate – This will be our final debate of Challenge II (Tuesday Night, April 14^th at Oak Dale Baptist from 6:30-8:30 - I will e-mail directions by Easter). The debate topic is “Rescuing great cultural and artistic achievements from theft or destruction is worth risking one’s life.” Pages 78, 114-119 in the guide give debate helps! The students working on cross-examinations and rebuttals will prepare their work over the Easter Break. We have one more class period after Easter to polish up arguments before Debate night. I’ll still e-mail the students most of their white board discussions so that the material between campuses remains separate. We have photos of students working on the debate boards, but the only one I can post until after the April debate is this one:

As a side note, we mentioned the upcoming theater movie titled “Woman in Gold.” The theme covers the topic of recovering stolen art during World War II.

British Literature – We held a final short discussion with Crucible questions. Next, we hold full discussions about Science Fantasy books like “Out of the Silent Planet.”

Out of the Silent Planet – Hope/Jordan
The Hobbit – Bethany/Wayne
The Screwtape Letters – Seth/David

Drama – We watched Arsenic and Old Lace. Bring your books this week! Think about character roles, set layouts, and highlight your book to make it easier for you to read parts smoothly.

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Biology – Flower dissections. We discussed functions of flower parts. We also covered the 4 ways water is necessary to plant life (photosynthesis, Turgor Pressure, hydrolysis and food/mineral transport). We selected various Mums, Daisies, Tulips and Asiatic Lilies for our dissections. Here are some of the Biology pictures from class for lab journal drawings:

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a few shots from our microscope samples of pollen:

 

 

 

 

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Semester 2 Week 9 update

The Debate is scheduled for Tuesday evening, April 14^th at Oak Dale Baptist from 6:30-8:30.

The students will complete their debate and work on Notebooks and the Music Lecture Presentation.

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Homework Review – complete before semester 2 week 9 class
Algebra 2	Lessons 92-95. Also, bring one math question from your own math book to put on the board.
Latin	Ch. 25
History/Music: Gift of Music Class. Music Essay	We will continue to add composers to our Timeline. Break – Work on Music Notebook Break – Work on History Timeline Break – Work on Lab Journal or catch up on essays
Debate	Research. Find Quotes, Definitions, and Criteria. Write Constructions.
British Lit. WAS	Start Out of the Silent Plant. Chapters 1-13 Words Aptly Spoken pgs. 135-140 ( Hope & Jordan are picking questions for after Easter)
Biology:	Finish Chapter 15 to p.480 -  Read Exp. 15.1 Flower dissections Also: Type ANY 4 dissection experiments for your formal reports.
Drama	Arsenic & Old Lace - Bring your book to class.

Remaining Assignments for Challenge II:
Algebra – 20 lessons
Latin – 4 lessons and “Invasion of Britain” translation
Music History – GOM & CMD readings
Essays – 3 Music History & 2 British Literature
British Literature – Out of the Silent Planet,  The Hobbit, & Screwtape Letters
Biology – Ch. 15 & 16 (experiments: Flower & Fruit dissections, chick embryo stages, bird identification)
Drama – Arsenic & Old Lace
Team Debate – April 14
Music Lecture Presentations – May 7 or 8
Western Cultural History Notebook

Algebra 2 – We practiced using coordinates and Pythagorean Theorem to solve for a hypotenuse (when you have 2 coordinates, you can easily graph a triangle and use formulas to solve for distance). Chords, Secants, & Tangents all describe line segments in relation to circles. We reviewed a few geometry rules and measurements. The past few weeks the students graphed linear equations. This week, graphing included linear inequalities and shading correct regions. Our final exercises involved solving systems of three equations by elimination and substitution.

 

 

Latin – This week we had a quick break.

History/Music – This week we covered Brahms, Dvorak and the Romantic Era. We also discussed violins and woodwind instruments (flutes and clarinets) and their roles in the orchestra. The students will only be memorizing 9 Composers, their locations and their eras (along with recognizing the individual music excerpts that belong to each composer). Students will not need the specific music dates from the chart or orchestra instruments used for compositions.

  

 

Debate – This will be our final debate of Challenge II (Tuesday Night, April 14^th at Oak Dale Baptist from 6:30-8:30 - I will e-mail directions by Easter). The debate topic is “Rescuing great cultural and artistic achievements from theft or destruction is worth risking one’s life.” Pages 78, 114-119 in the guide give debate helps! This next debate will be a “values” debate as opposed to a “policy” debate. I sent home some handouts. Both teams worked on selecting their values and criteria. This week they work on gathering quotes, definitions, and supporting criteria. After week 9, the students working on constructions will complete them and bring them for week 10. Then, the students working on cross-examinations and rebuttals will prepare their work over the Easter Break. Both classes get one more class period after Easter to polish up their argument before Debate night. I’ll still e-mail the students most of their white board discussions so that the material between campuses remains separate, but here is one shared board of instructions:

British Literature – We held a discussion circle about “Morbid Taste for Bones.” The exercise for this week involved taking notes while participating in the conversation. Usually students are only on one circle at a time (the outer circle that observes or the inner circle that holds discussion). Everyone took Socratic notes while participating.

Out of the Silent Planet – Hope/Jordan
The Hobbit – Bethany/Wayne
The Screwtape Letters – Seth/David

Drama – We completed a “People Map” for Crucible characters. Next, we work on Arsenic and Old Lace!

 

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 Biology – We worked on leaf journals and leaf identification. We compared Dicot and Monocot plants and trees. We covered all of chapter 14 including doing anthocyanin experiments detecting acidity and alkaline properties in cabbage water. The final experiment in chapter 14 covered the same microscope slides on plant cells and stems that we observed in November so I included a few additional pictures of buttercup stems, cornstalk stems and onion root tips as reminders. Here are some of the Biology pictures from class for lab journal drawings: