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.