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Semester 2 Week 14 update

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Homework Review – complete before semester 2 week 15 class
Algebra 2	Review. Lessons 112-115.
Latin	Review.
History/Music: Essay	Review. Bring History Timeline and Notebooks with remaining essays. Testimony - (Are fiction books a credible authority?) or WRITE your own Screwtape Letter.
Music Lecture	Bring your three music genre examples and your speech. 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.
British Lit. WAS	Review. Screwtape Letters Words Aptly Spoken pgs. 145-155 (Seth and David are picking week 14 questions)
Biology:	Review. Bring Lab Books

Bring Lab Books, final Notebooks/Timelines, Screwtape Essays, and Music Presentations. Your book bag should be pretty light this week.

We will do Music Lecture Presentations and Jeopardy quizzing in the morning. Any final Math, British Literature and Drama will be completed shortly after lunch. Feel free to bring snacks and a game to celebrate the year’s end. I’ll try to remember Ice Cream if the students want to bring toppings.

Instead of Blue Book Essays for finals this semester, we plan on holding a Challenge II Jeopardy for review. We had eight main subjects to learn and integrate this year (Algebra II, Latin II, Logic, History of Music and Art, Debate, Drama, British Literature, and Biology). If I had kept my wits about me, I’d have selected to let the each student compose a 40 question test to show me their idea of what would be important to remember (instead of just completing a general review of homework in preparation for Challenge II Jeopardy). As it is, my questions generally touch on each subject and frequently have 2-part answers (for example: I might present the fact that we studied multiple eras throughout the year and ask for the students to name two). A quick glance through textbooks for review might help, but the student’s own recall will likely benefit them fine. As we mark through timelines and essays and quizzes this final week, I’ll re-scan the student assignment sheet and e-mail them to parents. After May 17^th, I should be free to answer additional questions that come up about the school year assignments (for the next few days I’ll be busy proctoring Stanford Tests and helping complete a few preparations for a local Ballet Performance on May 16^th).

Algebra II – It’s one thing to add numbers of items and still another to add values of items. Some items are really sets of amounts (like money – you can add the individual number of coins or value amounts). Solving for unknowns may require using substitution. We opened seminar by adding amounts and values. We closed by doing a few variety exercises that integrated logic, math and a few fictitious composers. This was problem solving at its best!

Latin II – Lesson 29 introduced the Vocative Case (involving direct address and interjections) and we finished the final translation section of Invasion of Britain (with John’s rendition of Interpretive Dance to aid comprehension).

History/Music – We took a look at Timelines and Notebooks and talked about the music lecture. Students can still bring in completed work this week if they did not have notebooks ready Week 14.

British Literature – Some students did not have the opportunity to complete reading Screwtape this week so we only covered book and device overviews. We also discussed the essay assignment about whether a fiction book can be a reliable authority. We talked about using discernment when books are written that teach a message or seem prophetic.

Biology – The final section of the final chapter – Mammals! We covered the reliable traits and their uses as well as group divisions under the mammal classification.

For our Biology viewing pleasure, John introduced us to a scientist reciting the longest English word (no, it’s not supercalifragilisticexpialidocious). It is a chemical name for the largest known protein, Titan. Since it takes over two hours to say the word, we opted to fast forward through 1 hour and 55 minutes of mumbling.