Saturday, March 14, 2015

Ancients Sonlight Core G Week 9 "A" (LOW) March 7-13, 2015

Ancients Sonlight Core G
Week 9 “A”
(28th week on Core G, 9/36)
March 7-13, 2015


Actual SUNSHINE!


Our first taste of SPRING! The snow has been melting, and all the icicles are gone from the buildings in our apartment complex. 

For more pictures of our trip to frozen Lake Michigan, see the post right after this one---lots of pictures there!

 This week we did manage to drive to Lake Michigan and enjoy our time at Kirk Park, and we also went to our library in downtown Grand Rapids twice.  With the new arrival of warmer temperatures we were able to take a few nature hikes around our complex and open our windows in our apartment.  

Our house in Indiana is STILL for sale, and we are anxiously awaking some great family to buy it so we can move out of this tiny apartment and into a cozier house! All three of us have had some health issues this week, and Dh stayed home on Monday b/c of his illness.  We are all trying to recover, and the warmer temperatures are definitely helping (at least me!)

Timeline and Timeline figures: Confession—I’ve been working hard—cutting out and gluing down all our Ancient timeline figures that from Homeschool in the Woods.  Year after year, I keep thinking my Dd will eventually learn to love her timeline book; and each year she consistently tells me that I am the only one who likes doing it!  And I do!  I totally admit I think doing our timeline is so much fun, and really puts history into a visual snapshot that I appreciate.  So, this core I have finally stopped making her do it, and I’ve taken it as something I do, and she looks at!  A compromise! And a good laugh at a geeky mom!

We are continuing to add various materials to our Sonlight Core G schedule to best meet OUR needs.  



Our lessons this week:

Bible focus:
The Kingdom of Judah, Rehoboam, Abijah, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Ahaziah, Athaliah, Joash, Amaziah, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Menasseh, Amon
Isaiah, Micah, Nahum…

Bible/BiblioPlan: Ancients
(I really like how this book (BiblioPlan: Ancients Companion) brings Geography, Bible, and History all together in every chapter.  I really wanted to unite our bible with our history, but was unable to skillfully do that myself.  I am so glad I’ve found a book that has done the work for me!!!  I like it so well that I have slowed down our pace of moving forward to catch up the BiblioPlan book to where we are in history.  We had already learned about the Sumerians, Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians…but was happy to learn more about all the ancient peoples with the new material.  I am sure we were able to add the new material to our overall comprehension of the ancients.  BiblioPlan has placed the figures from our bible into reality and not floating adrift any more.)

Ch. 17: Crete
Ch. 18: Greek Beginnings
(Homer, Olympics, Trojan War, Sennacherib, Hezekiah’s Tunnel)
Ch. 19: India
(Rig Veda, Hinduism, Caste System, Buddhism, the Nanda Empire-that stopped Macedoniah Grek emperor Alexander the Great’s conquest of India in 326 BC; Maurya Empire, Jainism,
Ch. 20: The Babylonians
(Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar (suffered from mental illness), battle of Carchemish, Daniel, the Fiery Furnace, Ishtar Gate, Hanging Gardens…)
(Bible: Jehoiakim, Jehochin, Zedekiah, Jeremiah, Daniel)
Ch. 21: Rise of the Persians
Persian: Nabolpolassar, Nebuchadnezzar, Evil-Marduk,
Bible: Ezekiel, Belshazzar, Daniel, and the Handwriting on the Wall000from Daniel 5:1-4, when Belshazzar is feasting and drinking and calls for gold and silver goblets from the Temple of Jerusalem to drink from while offerings to Marduck.   Then in the midst of this party, a hand appears and writes on the wall: “mene, tekel, parsin”.  This foretells of his days being numbered, that his kingdom will be divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
BiblioPlan Ancients Mapping:
 World Continents, Egypt’s Middle Kingdom, Egypt’s New Kingdom, The Exodus, and Wilderness Wanderings.





DVD from public library:
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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

2010
NR (Just the first disc - 1/2)



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by Steven P. Demme 
Math: Math U See: Pre-Algebra
Lesson 23 A-E


Here is our assigned parking space---it actually was worse and we couldn't park in it...this is the improved spot!



Science:

1. Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick
Ch. 1-5
This book has been really educational!  We have gone over a lot of scientific terms and great explanations of levers (first-class or second class levers) and mechanical advantage.

Item #: 023169
2. Apologia: Anatomy and Physiology
Pg 47-60 (with notes)


History:

Story of the World: Ancients (audio): Ch. 25-29


The Book of the Ancient World by Memoria Press
Ch. 5: Life of Ancient Babylon
Ch. 6 The Gods of Ancient Babylon
The Hebrews
Ch. 1: Land of Palestine
Ch. 2: The Bible
Ch. 3: The The Patriarchs
Ch. 4: Moses and Exodus
Ch. 6: The Kingdom of Israel (Saul, David, Solomon)
Ch. 7: The Divided Kingdom
Ch. 8: The Hebrew Prophets (Elijah, Isaiah)
Ch. 9: From the Captivity to the Destruction of Jerusalem
The Hittites
Ch. 1: The Land of the Hittites
Ch. 2: The Hittite People and Their Cities
Ch. 3: The Hittites and Their Neighbors


Review of The Book of the Ancient World
I admit that we are reading about the same information in multiple sources, but unlike the time on the Greeks, this duplication seems to be reinforcing our comprehension of the material.  Dd was already pretty complete in her understanding of Greek, so I didn’t really need to read as much as I did about that topic, but I wanted to make sure she understood the boring things as well as the exciting things.  I’ve found this book to be very good, not as good as the BiblioPlan: Ancients book, but good.  The material has brought up a few things that thus far hasn’t been discussed in the other materials.


Sonlight History Read Aloud:
Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray(Ch. 5-11)
Dd and I both like this book very much!  Written in such a descriptive style that I feel like there is dust in my mouth at the end of each day’s reading!  I really like how this book really transports you right into the story. 



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Add-in History book 1:
You Wouldn’t Want to Be In Alexander the Great’s Army!


It's melting!


Add-in History book 2:
Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
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Fun Add-in book:

Princess Ben
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Logic:
Chapter 9 and Dd typed up a page explaining what we’ve learned so far:

Red Herring: whenever we introduce something irrelevant into an argument, we are avoiding the question.  Someone may think it proves his side, but it really doesn’t.
Special Pleading: when someone uses a double standard or argues for an unjustified exception, he is committing the fallacy of special pleading.  Example:  “Most people shouldn’t rob banks, but I’m an exception- I need the money.”
Ad Hominem: an ad hominem attack is attacking an opponent’s character or his motives for believing something instead of disproving his argument.  Someone may have character flaws, but his argument may still be valid.
Genetic Fallacy:  the genetic fallacy is condemning an argument because of where it began, how it began, or who began it.  No matter what you say, he will just claim you are saying it because of your difficult past, and therefore, everybody can ignore what you say.  The idea may be bad, but it is not necessarily bad because of the source (a good idea can come from a bad person).
Tu Quoque: is dismissing someone’s viewpoint on an issue because he himself is inconsistent in that very thing.”


Review of The Fallacy Detective: At first I thought this book was going to be SO easy, but as each week goes by and we are expected to remember and use the knowledge from all the precious week’s chapters, we have found this to be much more challenging!  It is quite humbling to get so many questions wrong each chapter, but I think we will eventually get it!  The first week we learned what a “Red Herring” fallacy was, then “Special Pleading”, “Ad Hominem”, “Genetic Fallacy”, “Tu Quoque” and we have to identify which fallacy is with numerous situations…really quite challenging!  One of the main points is to learn and identify when people ask a question if the answer they receive is actually answering that question, or deflecting – and not answering the question but perhaps insulting the person, or changing the subject, or re-directing the conversation in a different path than was intended by the other person. 


Latin:
Prima Latina
Ch. 5

Review of Prima Latina: For some reason the southern accent our “Magistra” (teacher) has seems to drive my daughter bonkers.  We will be finding a new program after we complete this set.  In middle school,  I really enjoyed the short time I studied Latin, before I moved, and so wished that my Dd would also find Latin interesting.  My Dd does like the end of each lesson where we work on learning a prayer and does that well, but finds the beginning and middle section, where we go over the weeks lesson words very slowly to be ‘not her favorite part’.  The magistra does seem to be quite wordy and perhaps (for my taste) over-explains things too much with too many words.  We re-watch the lesson each day and it does get a bit long and drawn out.  Perhaps, if we were in the targeted age bracket then we might like it better?  Every week during our lessons I have to look up multiple words on my computer to hear how I am suppose to be pronouncing words, and we’ve noticed that the way our magistra pronounces some words (like, “Salve” ) do not match with the way our online searches say to pronounce those words.  It makes me wonder if we are learning all the words the correct way, or if we are learning the southern accented way for saying Latin?


Current Events: CNN STUDENT NEWS
Each morning—Monday through Friday—ten minute news show



Geography:
Seterra (U.S. States game twice this week)
and
BiblioPlan Maps:
“Joseph”, “Egypt’s Middle Kingdom”, “Egypt’s New Kingdom”, “The Exodus”, and “Wilderness Wanderings”



Language Arts:
IEW’s Fix It (Frog Prince)
Week 27 completed

All About Spelling 6:
Step 28: passed

Easy Grammar, Plus
Pg 77-91



Writing With Skill: Week 7 completed
 ( Review for Writing With Skill: I have to say, I am so impressed with this book.  I have struggled with finding a program that wasn't like pulling teeth to get Dd to do it, and this is it.  She actually doesn't need my help with this (even though I bought the teacher's manual) but finds the directions so well done she figures it out 'faster without me'.  She has been bringing me her assignments to read aloud to me, with pride in her work----that is just totally awesome, and not normal for her..not at all!  I'm so glad this program is getting her to want to write, and feel confident in her abilities.)


Typing:
Nitro Type (three days this week)
Dd earned $100,000 this week for completing 5 hours of typing.  She has been using this program for a few years now, so it is great to see her skills improve—and they certainly have improved a great deal.  She really enjoys this program and ASKS to do it!

Nature Hikes:
Monday and Wednesday
Thursday we went to Kirk Park---Lake Michigan!  Dd played in the water, beside the frozen waves, and we hiked the trail.


Busy Hands:
Lego week
Keyboarding


Cooking:
pancakes from scratch, brownies, and yummy potato salad


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Audio: The 39 Clues
Book 1: Cahill Files Operation Trinity
I *thought* I was getting the previous book that we heard last week, but it seems that there are different series to the series…so confusing…I enjoyed parts of this audio, but really seemed ify about others.  Disc One starts back ‘a few hundred years ago’ and that story line—the young son whose father doesn’t have faith in him, but his mother does, and so she chooses him to work in the church and keep an eye on the altar piece, was very interesting.  But, then they fast forwarded to our modern time, with two rich, spoiled kids that have a very snobbish mother and I was very unimpressed.  I guess I am not endorsing this series…although I am a HUGE Agatha Christie fan, and so cherish fun mystery books…just not this series.  I should say, if you children wanted to read it, there hasn’t been any thing disturbing or questionable…just pretentious.

Our maps and schedules for the week--joint effort on coloring the maps--she did the first two alone, and then I colored her three last maps...I just can't see a map be plain!








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1 comment:

  1. Enjoying reading your posts! It's a perfect opportunity for me to grab a cuppa, and have you chat to me .
    So good to read that the sun is shining and that the snow is finally melting!!
    (All those mounds of piled up snow :-o )
    Wishing you lovely warm rays of sunshine!

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