Year 10/11

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...

Link for Punctuation Worksheets

Write Shop Skills Sheets

Also, Robert E. Grammar Handout

More Chemistry...

Caleb: Secrets of the Universe

Khan lectures

and books from this link!

Update to Self...

H. first read- To Kill a Mockingbird (assign the same essay I assigned Ar. last year!0
Ar first read- Les Miserables
C. first read- Adam of the Road
Aa. first read- D'Aulaire's Abraham Lincoln!

Pops will do a study of Darwin on Trial with the kids (his idea!!)

Silkscreening with Papa too!!- can't wait!! We will schedule this in the end of October, beginning of November (in time for Christmas gifts)

Spelling City for H. with lists daily from Sequential Spelling (AAS was a BOMB!)
AAS with Aaron
Dictation still weekly with Ar. and biweekly with C.

Science- The Way Life Works thing I found online again.... looks like just the ticket for H. and Ar. (Have to iron this all out!!)

YIKES!! Need to get this all flowing...but at least I am excited about it this year!

More books...

Schoolhouse Rock- multiplication tables - Aa. and C. will drill, drill, drill, in the Fall!!

Usborne Illustrated Chemistry Dictionary

More books for C. and an Author etc......

For C.
Robin Hood- have this one
Beric the Britain- ditto
Captain's Courageous- Kipling
Prince and the Pauper- he just has to finish this
**Cathedral
**Castle
(May read the last two outloud to he and Aa.)

To two youngest:
Chingas Kahn
Arabian Knights
The House of Sixty Fathers (Matt will do this one)


Our Term Artist:
Emily Carr
I have a great kids picture book I will read with the kids as well...

Older Two:
They will begin reading about the Nativity of the Theotokos today out of the Incarnate God to be ready for next week.

These are such scattered thoughts, but such is life right now. Thankfully this is a scarcely visited blog!!