Lesson Plans and So Forth

Primary Master Plan -- doing some tweaking this week (more later).

Last week's poem (memorized but not copied):  "The Falling Star," Sara Teasdale
This week's poem: "Steam Shovel," Charles Malam

Grade 9 Weeks 10 and 11 (still catching up after our long weekend away):

                                                                                   

Week 10 Reading journal: Pre-writing for 5-paragraph essay on The Iliad. Choose a large theme – the idea of the hero, the relationship of man with the created universe, the relationship between man and the gods – and explain how Homer’s use of literary devices reveals and develops and reinforces your chosen them. Composition assignment:  Write a thesis sentence for your Iliad essay. Your thesis should mention the larger theme which your essay will discuss, and name, specifically, the three literary devices which, as you will argue, develop this theme.		Great Myths/Colum
		Cat of Bubastes/Henty
		David of Jerusalem/de Wohl
		Bible:  Psalms
		The Iliad/Homer
		The Odyssey/Homer
		Antigone/Sophocles
		The Crito/Plato
		Lives/Plutarch
		The Aeneid/Virgil
		Julius Caesar/Shakespeare
		The Restless Flame/de Wohl
		Confessions/Augustine
math	Saxon Algebra 2:  one lesson daily Life of Fred Advanced Algebra:  read
history	FWC: Lecture 10 Plutarch: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/home.html “Solon,” “Aristides”
English	JFW:  34-35. Write a thesis sentence for your 5-paragraph essay on The Iliad. See above. JG:  Lesson 10, Exercise 10 Literature:  reread The Iliad
Science & German	General Biology, Belmont Abbey College German: M-Th:  1 hour daily @ Deutsche Interaktiv Friday:  German Steps EGG 81-91
Religion	Didache 10 BAH 142-159

                                                                                      

Week 11 Reading journal: Odyssey:  who’s who, what’s happening		Great Myths/Colum
		Cat of Bubastes/Henty
		David of Jerusalem/de Wohl
		Bible:  Psalms
		The Iliad/Homer
		The Odyssey/Homer
		Antigone/Sophocles
		The Crito/Plato
		Lives/Plutarch
		The Aeneid/Virgil
		Julius Caesar/Shakespeare
		The Restless Flame/de Wohl
		Confessions/Augustine
math	Saxon Algebra 2:  one lesson daily Life of Fred Advanced Algebra:  read
history	FWC: Lecture 11 Plutarch: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/home.html “Pericles,” “Nicias”
English	JFW:  40-41, 44-45. Write the introductory and concluding paragraphs for your Iliad essay JG:  Lesson 11, Exercise 11 Literature:  The Odyssey
Science & German	General Biology, Belmont Abbey College German: M-Th:  Deutsche Interaktiv, 1 hour daily Friday:  German Steps EGG 92-97
Religion	Didache 11 BAH 160-170 journal