What has been going on for my daughter this year with our studies...
Spiritual Formation/Orthodox History
~Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy lectures and discussion with Papa
~The Role of the Saints in our Spiritual Lives- Fr. Damascene
~The Orthodox Church- Bshp. Kallistos Ware
~Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives- Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
~Lives of Saints
Math
~Foerster Algebra and Trigonometry (almost done!)
Literature
~Watership Down
~Hamlet with Study Guide (Progeny Press) and essay (and a few other Shakespeare plays (3 I think))
~Tess of the D'Ubervilles
~Animal Farm
~Farenheight 451
~The Screwtape Letters
Writing
~Hamlet Essay
~NaNoWriMo 20,000 words
~written narrations
~poetry explication essays
~other things I am sure...
~The Elements of Style
History
~Canadian History- Canada A People's History Volume 1 (to tie up the 1/2 credit from year 8/9)
~Livy's Early History of Rome- a few books
~The Aenied
Science
~The Way Life Works- a couple chapters
~Apologia Biology- 11 modules so far
~Mader Biology- section on Fungi
~Khan Academy- sections on cellular respiration and photosynthesis
~about 5 labs
~Physics: kinematics and motion in one direction from Hewitt, Apologia and Giancolli
Latin
~Visual Latin- up to about lesson 34
~Lingua Latina- read up through chapter 11 I think
Fine Arts
~a couple of lessons from The Natural Way to Draw
~beautiful pencil sketch of cover of Watership Down
~much research of the costuming of the time of Henry the V as well as ancient Babylonian costume (for the Daniel play)
~three costumes finished for Such Stuff (at least 20 hours put into costuming so far)
~two months of rehersals for Henry the V
~quilt patches all ready for another quilt
Dance
~all.the.time
Home Ec.
~nannying a few times a month including food prep, house tidying and childcare
A profitable exercise for the February doldrums...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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