Our Week Ahead ~ 31 March 2014

Even though our history schedule says The Byzantine Empire, we're not going to immerse ourself in that topic - we'll cover the required amount of reading (meaning whatever mum thinks is necessary ☺) and continue on with our study of Columba, Ireland, & Scotland.
In earlier years we created Byzantine notebooking pages, and arts n craft items (including the pictured paper dolls from SOTW2 student pages) - not this time.

Bible 

All: 1 Corinthians ch:13 - ch:15:1-19   & discussion with Dn
Daisy: II Kings  (continue)

Memorisation & Cursive Copywork: wk 2 of 4
Hymn: O God, Thou Art the Father
Scriptures: Ephesians 4:32

History & Geography

Topic: The Byzantine Empire
Biblioplan Ch: 4 The Byzantine Empire: Justinian & Theodora, John Chrysostom, Monophysite, Nestorianism

Mapping: Justinian’s Empire (Biblioplan)
Encyclopedia Research: Byzantines
N/F: Church History (selections complete this week)

Family 
Read Alouds:  How the Irish Saved Civilization ~ Cahill (n/f)

Car time audio: Beowulf the Warrior ~ Sutcliff

Famous Men: Justinian (527-565ad)
Poetry: Anglo Saxon Poetry: The Dream of the Rood Wk 2 of 2

Daisy ~ History & Literature:
SOTW 2: Ch 4: The Byzantine Empire
N/F: Medieval Myths, Legends and Songs ~ Trembinski
Reader: Where Red Deer Run ~ Jenny Robertson (Columba) Complete, then book basket choices. A few have asked us about this books.  It is a harder title to get a hold of - we happened upon one at a 2nd hand bookshop years ago.  It's a smaller book with only 94 pages yet we saved it for now due to the theme of Bel being chosen as a human sacrifice.  Here's what the back says:

Bel loved the glen with it’s tumbling burn and the shy red deer. But sickness and death come to the glen and the priests say that the gods demand a sacrifice. Bel is the Chosen One.  Then St. Columba, a monk from Ireland,  brings news of a sacrifice already made by The King of Kings
Poetry: A Child's Introduction to Poetry ~ Driscoll

Bob ~ History & Literature:
Invitation to the Classics (early Christian Writers: Augustine AD401 - selections)  ~ Cowan & Guiness (complete on Monday)
Audio: Augustine's Conversion ~ Mclean (complete on Monday)
Greenleaf Guide to Medieval Literature ~
Lesson 4 : Beowulf 2, lines 1-700