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: