Started CC back in full swing and going really good!
Did weeks 13-15
Timeline - from Age of Exploration to The Seven Years War
History -
Tell me about the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment made all former slaves US citizens and paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement.
Tell me about tycoons. During the late 1800s, tycoons like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie and Swift fueled the nation's Industrial Age by developing American resources.
Tell me about Theodore Roosevelt. In 1898, Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, defeated the Spanish at the Battle of San Juan Hill while trying to help the Cubans win their independence.
Geography
Western Mountains
Rocky Mountains, Pikes Peak, Mt. Elbert, Sierra Nevadas, Mt. Whitney
Northwest Mountains
Cascade Mountains, Mt. Ranier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. McKinley
Great Lakes
Superior, Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie, Niagara Falls
English
Irregular Verb Tenses
To beat, beat, beats, beat, beating, beaten
To break, break, breaks, broke, breaking, broken
To write, write, writes, wrote, writing, written
Math
Liquid Equivalents:
8 fl oz = 1 cup
2 cups = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart
4 qts = 1 gallon
Linear Equivalents
2.54 cm = 1 inch
12 in = 1 ft
5,280 ft = 1 mile
Metric measurements
10 mm = 1 cm
100 cm = 1 m
1000 m = 1 km
Latin
John 1:1 (continued) - John 1:3
and the Word was with God and the Word was God. This was with God in the beginning all things were made through Him
et Verbum erat aupud Deum et Deus erat Verbum
hoc erat in principio apud Deum
omnia per ipsum facta sunt
Science
What is the atomic number? It is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, which is also the number of electrons in a neutral atom.
What is an element? An element is a basic chemical substance defined by its atomic number (number of protons) and atomic mass.
What are some parts of an atom?
nucleus, protons, electrons, quarks, leptons, neutrons
