AK Homeschool Adventure
Week 2
After Colleen returned from the East Coast I had another week’s worth of assignments prepared in The Notebook. I had met with a Connections advisor in the meantime and they approved my curriculum and gave me a stack of French textbooks to go along with our Rosetta Stone program. I procured a Saxon Math 8/7 Homeschool edition and I found an old “Introduction to Literature” text for her to use. I had decided to evaluate her work in Science and Social Studies via her Language Arts spelling and vocabulary test along with going over her reading notes and grading her projects. Also, I decided to leave words that she either spelled or defined incorrectly on the list until she got them right.
Her Week 2 Curricula was as follows:
Spelling and Vocabulary
By Wednesday define, study for test on Friday
History
Homo sapiens
Fossil
Their
Shovel
Though
Something
Bracelet
Couldn’t
Intelligence
Baby
Extinct
Territory
Deflects
Develop
Evolution
Australopithecine
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Primate
Neandertal
Multiregional model
Replacement model
Paleolithic
Neolithic
Civil Rights Movement
pH scale
Basic
Acidic
Solvent
Solute
Solution
Ionic bond
Covalent bond
Atom
Molecule
Proton
Neutron
Electron
Element
Compound
Isotope
Polarity
Canon
Genre
Interpret
Social Studies
By Wednesday
Read pgs 23-48 in text, take notes
CD-ROM “Meet the Scientists- Dr. Jonathan Marks” & Chapter 2 photo essay.
Look up and read Wikipedia entries for Martin Luther King Jr. and The United States Civil Rights Movement.
Science
By Wednesday
Read and take notes for Chapter 2, pgs 16-31.
Do Chapter Review in your notebook.
Life Skills
By Friday
Research Social Security on the internet.
Find out what you need to do to apply for a new card.
Fill out and application for a new card and get it in the mail.
Math
By Friday:
Correct lessons 1 & 2
Do lessons 3-8.
Language Arts
By Friday:
Spelling- Chapter 1
Grammar- pgs 23-66
Writing- pgs 27-32
Read and do “Brain Ticklers.”
Creative Writing
By Friday:
Read pgs 12-51
Do “Try This” on page 47
Literature
By Friday:
Read and take notes on pgs 3-16
In your notebook define “Literature” in a couple of paragraphs.
Read “To Build a Fire” by Jack London.
Write a 5 paragraph essay explaining why “To Build a Fire” is or is not literature.
Flute
Practice 15 min per day.
French
By Friday
Rosetta Stone Chapter 2 Guided Practice
It must be said, in Colleen’s defense, that she spent a couple of hours Monday, Tuesday at the school taking her Analytical Writing Assessment tests and all day Wednesday taking the test and participating in her “in building” classes.
It must also be said that I took a very hands off stance monitoring her progress due to her outstanding performance during week one.
HOWEVER, come to find out, the fancy Toshiba laptop that John got her for Christmas came fully loaded with some art shop software and a Lego Batman adventure game. And I, being heavily pregnant, take naps with my toddler in the afternoon. Woops.
Colleen’s grades are currently rendering her ineligible to play in her Volleyball games. Hopefully she’s able to bring them up before any games are actually scheduled.
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