Friday, March 27, 2015

March 2015 (20 days)

Weeks 19-21 for CC

Timeline
Lincoln's War between the states
Reconstruction of the southern states
Dominion of Canada
Otto von Bismarck unifies Germany
Boer Wars in Africa
The Spanish- American war
The progressive era
Australia becomes a commonwealth
Mexican revolution
WWI and President Wilson
Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution
US Evangelist Billy Graham
Modern period of the arts
The great depression and the New Deal
WWII and President Franklin D Roosevelt
Stalin of the USSR and the Katyn Massacre
The United Nations formed
The Cold War
Gandhi and India's Independence
Jewish State Established
Mao and Communist Victory in China

History
Tell me about NATO.  In 1949, the US and its allies formed NATO to resist the spread of Soviet Communism.
Tell me about Brown vs. Board of Education.   In 1954, in Brown v Board of Education the  US supreme court ruled that the segregation of public schools by race is unconstitutional.
Tell me about US Astronauts.  In 1969, US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon.

Geography
Trails: Cumberland Road, Santa Fe, Mormon, Gila, Old Spanish Trail, California ,Oregon
Canals: Erie, Pennsylvania, Chesapeake & Ohio, Ohio and Erie, Miami & Erie
Territories & Terrains: Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Plateaus, Northwest coast, California & Great Basin, Southwest

Math
circumference of a circle
area of a circle
associative law for addition and multiplication

English
predicate is that part of a sentence that says something about the subject
a phrase is a group of words that does not contain both a subject and a verb and may be used as a single part of speeach.  a clause is a group of words that does contain both a subject and a verb.

Science
What do the heavens declare? the heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands (psalm 91:1)

What is the theory of evolution? the belief that life began as a chance combination of non-living things

What is uniformitarianism? the belief that the earth's past geological changes can be fully explained by current processes.

Latin
John 1:5-6
and the darkness comprehended it not there was a man sent from God whose name was John this man came for a witness
et tenebrae eam non conprehenderunt fuit homo missus a Deo cui nomen erat Johannes


February School (20 days)

Feb. 2-6, 9-13, 16-20, 23-27

Timeline:
Age of Industry
James Cook sails to Australia & Antarctica
American Revolution & General George Washington
Madison's Constitution & The Bill of Rights
French Revolution
Second Great Awakening
Louisiana Purchase & Lewis & Clark Expedition
Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France
Liberation of South America
The War of 1812
The Missouri Compromise
Immigrants Flock to America
The Monroe Doctrine
Romantic Period of the Arts
Cherokee Trail of Tears
US Westward Expansion
Marx Publishes The Communist Manifesto
The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scot Decision
US Restores trade with Japan
British Queen Victoria's Rule over India
Darwin Publishes the Origin of Species

History
Tell me about immigrants coming to America.  From 1820 to 1930, more than 37 million immigrants came to America, seeking freedom and the opportunity to increase their personal wealth.

Tell me about President Wilson.  In 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on the Central Powers two years after German U-boats sank the Lusitania, killing American citizens.

Tell me about Pearl Harbor.  On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing the US to join the Allies in World War II.

GeographyBays: Chesapeake, Hudson, San Francisco, Puget Sound, Pamlico Sound
Rivers (East): St. Lawrence, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas River
Rivers (West): Colorado, Red, Rio Grande, Columbia, Great Salt Lake

Math:
Area of Rectangle, square and triangle

English
Irregular Verb Tenses
To shake, shake, shakes, shook, shaking shaken
to go, go, goes, went, going, gone
Subject: The subject is that part of a sentence about which something is being said.

Science:
What are the first 12 elements of the periodic table by number, element, and mass (mass is rounded)
1 hydrogen H 1
2 Helium He 4
3 Lithium Li 7
5 Beryllium Be 9
5 Boron B 11
6 Carbon C 12
7 Nitrogen N 14
8 Oxygen O 16
9 Fluorine F 19
10 Neon Ne 20
11 Sodium Na 23
12 Magnesium Mg 24

Latin:
John 1:3-5
and without him nothing was made that was made in him was life and his life was the light of men and the light shineth in the darkness

et sine ipso factum est nihil quod factum est in ipso vita erat et vita erat lum hominum et lux in tenebris lucet


Science experiments and learning about great artists Wyeth, Lichtenstein, Davis

Girls also have been working on paper writing. Research and creative writing.
Started working on faces of history, Payton is Florence Nightingale and Emi is Helen Keller. Working on complete project to present.