08 June 2015

Our Week Ahead ~ Monday 8 June 2015

Winter is well and truly here and while I could take a significant side trip into bemoaning the lack of sunshine I won't ☺, instead I'll focus on this season of the year being a perfect opportunity for us to be at home with the fire going, our sheep skin lined slippers on, sipping steaming cups of hot chocolate, or tea,  .... and, the chance for us to make some pretty serious inroads into our academic schedule.
We purposely have our winter months schedule typed up so that it requires more in depth writing, reading and audio book listening from Jay and Daisy, than the amount of work I set for them during the summer months.

The children seem to want to listen to a larger volume of audio books too, which makes me thankful for audible sales that happen just before our winter starts ☺
I find it handy to have audio options of some of our read alouds on hand too, as coughs and colds can get in the way of effectively reading aloud; it's annoying when a reader would continually stop reading, every few sentences, to blow their nose ;)

Our week ahead:
·       Family
Bible
All: Titus
Hymn: Come, We That Love the LORD  (All Glory, Laud & Honor C/D #11)  1674-1748

History & Geography
1:  Read Aloud: George Frederic Handel ~ Ludwig 1692+
2:  Book Basket:

English
1:  Car (& craft time) time audio: 
The Great Courses: Classics of British Literature
(content issues)
Lecture 14: Swift—Anger and Satire
Lecture 15: Johnson—Bringing Order to the Language

·       Daisy
History & Geography
MOH vol 3, wk 28, Peter I: Czar of Russia
Mapping: Biblioplan wk 17;  Peter the Great's Reign in Russia

History, Literature, & Book Basket:
1: Book Basket:  Susanna Wesley ~ Charles Lugwig  1669+
2:  History Reading:
ITTC~ Cowan  (read over the next 2 weeks)
A:  Swift: Gulliver’s Travels   1726
B:   Edwards: Treatise   1746
C:   Johnson  1759
D:   Boswell   1791
6:  Audio: Lorna Doone ~ R.D. Blackmore   

Free Reading: The Mandie Collection  Vol.10 ~ Leppard

English
1:  Essentials in Writing, Level 8:  L. 15+ Mon to Fri
2:  Timed writing with mum  Mon, Fri
7Typing.  A narration from history reading, or from your current reader          (due Weds)

·       Jay
History & Geography
1: Biblioplan Early Modern Times: Ch: 17 Russia; More French Explorers pgs 395-413A
Mapping: Biblioplan wk 17;  Peter the Great's Reign in Russia 

History, Literature, & Book Basket:
1: Book Basket:  Tartuffe ~ Moliere (Play)  book  &  audio production  wk 1 of 2
I think this is a great play to discuss false religious piety and hypocrisy,  and the outcomes of blindly following anyone that practises those traits .  I'm also going to place Letters to a Devastated Christian ~ Edwards,   
&  ,The Tale of Three Kings ~ Edwards  into Jay's book basket to expand that line of thought. 
2:  History Reading:  
ITTC ~ Cowan  (read over the next 2 weeks)
A:  Swift: Gulliver’s Travels   1726
B:   Edwards: Treatise   1746
C:   Johnson  1759
D:   Boswell   1791
3:  Audio:  A:  David Copperfield ~ Dickens (dramatised) I enjoyed this audio production so much, I now want to read the book also. Highly recommending this audio!
B:  George Whitefield: God’s Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century ~ Dallimore
C:  The Hound of the Baskervilles ~ Doyle   (we purchased a budget priced kindle edition first, and that allowed us to procure the audio for $2.99)
Someone suggested we also watch a visual production of this book; we won't be as most of the movies amplify the 'scary, nightmarish'  tone of the story.  I  prefer to go for creating our own visual pictures as we listen along, and to discuss the fears & superstitions that were put to rest once the 'mystery' surrounding the hound of the Baskervilles is dealt with.  (Trying not to add any spoilers for those that wish to read the book somewhere and are not familiar with how the story ends.)

English
1:  Greenleaf Guide Yr 3 Lit (1550-1900)  ~ Shearer
Lesson 11:  Moliere’s Tartuffe (1622 -?)  Mon to Fri
2:  Review Essentials in Writing, Level 8: L.15+  Mon to Fri

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