Sunday, May 11, 2014

Dollygirl's School Plans: Term 3, Week 8

"We are aware that our own discursive talk is usually a waste of time and a strain on the scholars' attention, so we (of the P.N.E.U.) confine ourselves to affording two things,––knowledge, and a keen sympathy in the interest roused by that knowledge. It is our part to see that every child knows and can tell, whether by way of oral narrative or written essay."  ~~ Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education
Monday:
(Daily opening time: hymns, poetry, current events)
Old Testament: Book of Numbers
Saxon Algebra 1/2
History of England: Who was Henry III?
French, using Complete French Smart 7 workbook
Apologia General Science:  how do "calories" relate to the ideas about food consumption and combustion we have been discussing?
Shakespeare's King John
Grammar: a review passage drawn from literature (but definitely easier than the last one we did)
Ourselves Book II: how reading philosophy helps instruct the conscience
"Perhaps the gravest defect in school curricula is that they fail to give a comprehensive, intelligent and interesting introduction to history."  ~~ Philosophy of Education
Tuesday:
New Testament: Gospel of Mark
Saxon Algebra 1/2
Money Matters for Teens
French
Plutarch's Life of Cicero (we are doing two Plutarch lessons this week)
Map quizzes with Seterra Onlinne
The White Mountains
Handwriting with Fix It...Write
History: work on Century Chart
"...the desire for knowledge for its own sake, on the other hand, finds satisfaction in knowledge itself."  ~~ Philosophy of Education
Wednesday:
Old Testament: Book of Numbers
Money Matters for Teens
French
History of Music for Young People: lesson on Mendelssohn we missed last week
Apologia General Science: about metabolic rates in humans and animals
Ivanhoe
A little more grammar practice
University of Waterloo Gauss mathematics competition
"These young students have the powers of perfect recollection and just application because they have read with attention and concentration and have in every case reproduced what they have read in narration, or, the gist of some portion of it, in writing." ~~ Philosophy of Education 
Thursday:
New Testament: Gospel of Mark
The Spring of the Year: chapter on phoebes that was missed last week
French
History of England: about Henry III and parliaments
Picture Talk: Jan Vermeer
Key to Geometry
The White Mountains
Handwriting
"Children recognise with incipient weariness the doctored tale as soon as it is begun to be told, but the human story with its evil and its good never flags in interest." ~~ Philosophy of Education
Friday: 
Basic Bible Studies by Francis Schaeffer
Balance Benders Level 3
Apologia General Science: finishing off Module 12, about life and energy
Plutarch's Life of Cicero
Transcription (copywork)
Ivanhoe
Key to Geometry
French History: reading more from De Joinville's Memoirs of the Crusades
Notes in the Book of Centuries

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