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Current Booklist Math ~ MEP Yr 5 & 6 Grammar ~ Grammar Smart Junior & Grammar Smart Perfect Literature ~ Ivanhoe, Scarlet Pimpernel, The Good Earth, The Great Divorce History ~ Romans & Birth of Britain Science ~ Earth Science Poetry ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson & Keats Bible ~ Strong's Concordance, Ephesians, Proverbs & Psalms Art ~ Botticelli & Friedrich Music ~ Liszt & Mahler Shakespeare ~ Love's Labor Lost Plutarch ~ Titus Flamininus Computer ~ Mavis Beacon 9 Extras Health ~ weight training, walking, skating Life Skills ~ CPR, cooking, gardening Hobbies ~ knitting, woodworking Videos ~ Standard Deviants Skill Bldg ~ Where in the World Carmen Sandiego, Crossword puzzles |
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Excelsior Academy 4th Term Aug ~ Nov 2006 Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life ~ I am, I can, I ought, I will. Students: A - Riley (15yo) ~ B - Da Boy (14yo) Bible A & B ~ OT - Genesis Chapters 7 - 20; NT - Mark Chapters 1 - 6. Evening/Sunday Reading A & B ~ Mere Christianity; Biography ~ John Wesley Writing A & B ~ Mrs. Bridges Handwriting Lessons - practice pages 1-3; 2 perfectly written lines everyday. Choose and transcribe favorite passages from Shakespeare or Poetry weekly. Dictation A & B ~ 2 paragraphs to be prepared carefully each week; then a paragraph from these to be written from dictation or memory. Use Poetry Selections. English Grammar A & B ~ Simply Grammar - selected chapters; To be able to pick out nouns, verbs, and adjectives in a given paragraph and to analyze simple sentences. American History A & B ~ This Country of Ours - Chapters 29 - 63 (1600 - 1800), or An Island Story - Chapters 65 - 95, 9 narrations; Biography ~ Ben Franklin: A - tbd; B - Poor Richard Church History A & B ~ The Light and the Glory - selected chapters, 9 narrations World History A & B ~ Childs History of England Chapters 33 - 37, 9 narrations General History A & B ~ British Museum for Children - Chapter 7. Keep a Book of Centuries, putting in illustrations from all the history studied during the term. Citizenship A & B ~ Plutarchs Lives - Titus Flamininus Geography A & B ~ To draw plan of room, know the points of a compass, understand parallel and meridians and generally able to use a map. A - Marco Polo; B - Kon Tiki Natural History A & B ~ The Sciences - pg 1-34; Complete selected experiments. Keep a nature notebook. Make special studies for the season with drawings and notes - Country Rambles - (Aug - Sept) A - Wild Animals I Have Known - selected chapters; B - Madam How and Lady Why - selected chapters Picture Study A & B ~ Reproductions of 3 pictures - Matisse Arithmetic A & B - Mental Math for 5 minutes 3x a week. Steady progress - reinforce basics. Centre for Innovation in Mathematics - online lessons Year 5 French A & B ~ To know 20 names of things; 5 French phrases. Spanish A & B ~ To know 20 names of things; 10 Spanish phrases. Drawing A & B ~ Introduction to Drawing - Chapters 1 - 3; Draw 3 each - a) wild fruit; b) studies of animals, that you have been able to watch; c) children at play in pencil. Recitation A & B ~ 2 poems, 2 songs/hymns, a psalm. Reading (includes holiday and evenings) A & B ~ Books set for Geography, History, and Bible; King Arthur & Robinson Crusoe; Shakespeare - Comedy of Errors; Poetry Reading - AO August selections. A - Gentle Ben & Calico Captive; B - Captain Courageous & Amos Fortune, Free Man Music A & B ~ Continue piano practice. Listen to selected composers work - Mozart. Singing A & B ~ Ten Minute lessons in Sol-fa; learn 1 English song. Drill/Exercise A & B ~ Ball Games and Breathing Exercises Work Help in house and yard; Care of animals; Handicrafts - a) hand-sewn garment for a doll; b) crochet or knit an item and c) make 2 models using modeling clay. |