Semester 2 Week 11 update

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

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Homework Review – complete before semester 2 week 12 class
Algebra 2	Lessons 100-103. Bring one math question from your own math book to put on the board.
Latin	Ch. 27, Translate lines 58-117 Invasion of Britain
History/Music: Gift of Music Class. Music Essay	We will continue to add composers to our Timeline. GOM - Ch. 25,35, 39 (Mahler, Ravel & Prokofiev) CMD - Pgs. 243-267 Compare the Romantic and Modern Eras
Debate	Finish Preparations for Tuesday’s Debate, then start research for the Music Lecture in May
British Lit. WAS	Start Hobbit chapters 1-7. Words Aptly Spoken pgs. 141-146 ( Bethany & Wayne are picking week 13 questions)
Biology:	Start Chapter 16 up to p. 520 -  Read Exp. 16.1 Remember: Type ANY 4 dissection experiments for your formal reports.
Drama	Arsenic & Old Lace - Bring your book to class.

Algebra 2 – Direct and Indirect Variations (written as formulas or in radical form), Advanced substitution, Number line problems with fractions, and Absolute Values.

 

 

Latin – Chapter 26 discusses compound words and gerunds (verbal nouns). Compound words may require extra translation to take the word “conscribo” from its literal “write with” to mean “enroll” or the word “circumvenerunt” to mean “exploited” instead of “they go around to the back.” Gerunds are verbs with added case endings since they are used in the sentence as nouns (direct/indirect objects, objects of prepositions). We started translation on Caesar’s Invasion of Britain:

 

History/Music – We covered Tchaikovsky and Brass/Percussion Orchestra instruments. 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.

Music discussions usually lead/connect to dance style discussions:

 

 

 

Debate – This will be our final debate of Challenge II. We covered final preparations, protocol and the debate schedule.

British Literature – Out of the Silent Planet discussion: Science Fiction books are set in this universe with scientific explanations added to explain for surreal elements. We had a lengthy discussion about everything from the book characters, spaceship and scenery to the symbolism behind many of the components. The author inserted himself in the end of the story making the fictional tale even more believable. C.S. Lewis wrote his trilogy in response to a challenge from J.R.R. Tolkien. Lewis was to write a Science Fiction book while Tolkien tackled a Time Travel book.

The Hobbit – Bethany/Wayne
The Screwtape Letters – Seth/David

Drama – We discussed the stage layout of Arsenic and Old Lace and brought a bugle prop to sample playing.

 

Biology – Fruit dissections. We examined stages of fruit pollination and all types of fruit classification.

 

 

 

 

Not ALL fruit is sweet!

 

 

 

 

Downtime as we finish out the class day:

 

 

 

PROTOCOL: 

Taming of the Shrew play at the American Shakespeare Theater & lunch at Stonewall Jackson: