Our Week Ahead ~ Monday 26th Sept 2016 (Diverse Selection of Books)

It's always interesting for me to see which books the children will choose from the book basket to read: now that Jay has finished reading, and writing, about a select group of books we had scheduled up for him to use with his NZ English course - he can read any title he would like to out of his book basket.  
(This is for English or history related reading... not for pleasure time reading.   His pleasure/free time reading options are all business and finance related tomes.)
After looking through the selection he chose to go with To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Lee.   

This is a book, in our home, that definitely needs discussion - and is not a story that we'd want Daisy reading any time soon - as it contains very mature, violent, and racist themes. One of the books I was hoping Jay might select to read and study, he's elected to go through in audio format during term break - which is next week for us.

Our Week ahead

September Monday 26  2016

Family

Bible

All:  Luke 21+

History & Geography

Hymn:  Wherever He Leads, I’ll Go  ~ B.B. McKinney (1936)  wk 2 of 4

(Then Sings My Soul Bk 2 ~ Morgan p.293)    

Economics 

Economics for Everyone ~  R.C. Sproul  jnr     (Mostly for Daisy.  Mr. Sproul is definitely of Reformed theology - which is very apparent in the first lesson -  we aren't Reformed so adjusted the lesson content accordingly.) 

Jay

History & Geography  

1:  Bp Early Modern Times:      

o   Ch: 27 Dividing Germany, Dividing India p.409-414a, 415-421

3:  ITTC:  William Faulkner  – Go Down, Moses (1942) p.339

Free Reading in Sept: 

Business related titles

Mapping:  

o   BP Map 27 

History, Literature, & Book Basket:

1: Book Basket:  

o   1:  To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee (set in early 1930’s)

o   2: The Birth Order ~ Leman   (selections)

2:  Audio’s in Sept: 

1:  Surfeit of Lampreys ~ Ngaio Marsh (1941)  NZ/Britain  

(content issues - the way the victim was murdered - may need editing out for others!  Recommend you listen through this before handing to your teen.

 Many of Marshs stories are set in and around theatrical localities and often as not a few of the characters are "physically" free spirited    :-/  

This story doesn't have that.

Added to that: this is one of the few audios, that I've encountered of hers, that doesn't have the narrator fleshing out select male characters with a very effeminate affectation.)

Daisy

History & Geography  

1:  Bp Early Modern Times:      

o   Ch: 27 Dividing Germany, Dividing India p.409-414a, 415-421

2:  ITTC:  William Faulkner  – Go Down, Moses (1942) p.339

3:  Kingfisher Encyclopedia

o   p.419 (The United Nations 1945-48)

o   p.421 (Indian Indep 1945-47)

o   p.424 (British Commonwealth 1914-49

Mapping:   

o   BP Map 27 

History, Literature, & Book Basket:

1: Book Basket:

o   1:  Parallel Journeys ~ Eleanor Ayer (1938+)  SL 300 Lit

Free Reading: 

A Little Bush Maid ~ Mary Grant Bruce  (1902) Aust (BCW)

synopsis: Norah's home was on a big station in the north of Victoria-so large that you could almost, in her own phrase, "ride all day and never see any one you didn't want to see"; which was a great advantage in Norah's eyes. Not that Billabong Station ever seemed to the little girl a place that you needed to praise in any way. It occupied so very modest a position as the loveliest part of the world! The homestead was built on a gentle rise that sloped gradually away on every side; in front to the wide plain, dotted with huge gum trees and great grey box groves, and at the back, after you had passed through the well-kept vegetable garden and orchard, to a long lagoon, bordered with trees and fringed with tall bulrushes and waving reeds.

Boys Without Names  ~ Kashmira Sheth (India)    (emotive, gritty read!)