Christmastide: The Season of Love

A blessed Christmas to you and your families.  I hope and pray you return to school renewed from the Joys of the Season.


I said in the previous blog, I was assigning four books of the Aenead.  As you know, I have  reduced this to three!  Books VII, VII and IX need to be completed upon return.  No Geography!  I am glad you are willing to do this work.


Thank You and Have a Joyous Christmas,
Mrs. Barbara

Work for 9 December 2014

The Aeneid:  Finish responding to the Questions in Book  V From # 10 on or whatever you have not done.  Also Places and Characters.  Make sure you know the answers to the discussion questions on p.27.  Book VI due Friday;  we will have a discussion in  class.  Any Books not completed will be added on to your work over break. Yes, you will have 4 chapters to do over break (if we ever hope to finish this book). 




Geography: Finish your in book notes on The United Kingdom. Locate and bring in an article from one of the countries.  England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, or Wales.  Know where the capital are.  Do page 49 And 50, please

Work for 5 December 2014

Geography and Literature:  Do take home quiz for each. Geography Central Europe 4 Countries Map and write about 2 countries of your choice.


 Books 3 and 4 of  The Aeneid  Take home quiz. (If you have time begin Book 5).

Work Due 21 November 2014

World Literature:  Please complete the questions for Book III.  Over break, please read and answer all questions for Book IV.


World Geography:  Please read summary of Germany's History.  Also please bring in one current events news article for France and one for Germany.

Work for 18 November 2014

World Geography:  Do the next two Central European Countries France & Germany.  Read text about these and fill in Maps and Facts.  No need to get an article yet unless you have a burning curiosity about that country!


Classic World Literature:  Read Book III of the Aeneid and do the questions you were assigned.  Also be prepared to answer orally the discussion questions and discuss  the meaning of the  quotations. 

Work for 14 November 2014

World Geography:  Be prepared for a map test on the Mediterranean Countries ( 5 ), including capitals and placement on map.  In addition be able to write one paragraph about either the history or the current situation in each country.  You may choose what to write about each and do some  history or some current events.


World Literature:  Have a rough draft of your Trojan War paper ready to hand in.  Please follow the suggestions I gave.  when typed, it needs to be 2 1/2-3 typed pages in 12 point type following the MLA format.  No works cited page needed but put in page numbers after quotes or paraphrases.  I would like to collect the Trojan War Guide Books to give a final grade on them!
After you hand this in, we will resume discussion of Book II of The Aeneid.

Work For 11 November 2014

Classical Studies: World Literature - The Aeneid - Book II 
                                                            Please answer the questions on pp.12-15.  Any one who needs to complete Book I, please do so.  We will finish going over these questions in class.






Classical Studies: World Geography - Please review the four countries of the Mediterranean World.  Know the capitals, how to put them on a map (use correct spelling). See Pg. 36 and fill in Student Guide.  Please bring a Portugal article if you have not done so.

Work for 7 November 2014

Literature:  Read Book I of the Aeneid.  As you go through the text,  keep the student book opened in front of you and add identities to the characters in the list as  you come across them, as well as answer the questions in complete sentences or mini paragraphs.








Geography:  Do Portugal and bring one article about Portugal Today.  We will do the articles for homework or in class.  Please edit the Africa Papers.

Work for 4 November 2014

Literature:  In your student guide, Read Introduction to Virgil, Life and Context.  Please answer the following questions completely:

1. What is Virgil's complete name (know spelling,) his dates, his physical and financial condition in life.
2. Discuss the writings he is best known for.
3. What was his goal in writing the Aeneid?  How does he inform his readers of  this?
4. Explain the Nature of Epic Poetry and its three characteristics.
5. Explain the additional three characteristics.
6. Discuss the three themes that can be identified throughout the work.

Geography: 

1. Read about Spain in your text; then fill in the page about what you learn in the Student Guide, including the Map.
2. Read the article I gave you and fill out the current events summary.  Find another news article about Spain today and print it.  You don't need to do a current event page yet.

Work Due October 31, 2014 Halloween

Literature:  Last test on The Trojan War in class.  Bring your two Aeneid Books.




Geography:  Africa Papers due.  Please use the topics you agreed to in class.  Please use 2 to 3 Sources.  Use the format you used last time (MLA)  and include the sources in the text.  No Works Cited page needed, but do not discard the information on the sources.  This time 3-5 typed pages, please. 

Work for 28 October 2014

World Geography:  Write summaries of each of the articles about Greece and Italy on the Current events form.  Your Africa Paper is due 10/31.






Literature:  Finish the last chapters of the Trojan War.  You will have the final quiz on it when you are ready (to be determined) .  We will discuss the Character paper due the first week in Nov.  On 10/31 we will begin the Aeneid.  Bring the text and the Student Guide.

Work Due 24 October 2014

Geography:  Read the Introduction to Europe, and Greece, and Italy, part of the grouping Lands of the Mediteranean.  Do map drawing and coloring in the student guide book and add some current facts about these two countries from your two articles.  Bring the articles in.




Literature: Read Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the Return of the Heroes.  Do pp. 60-65 in the student guide.

Work Due 21 October 2014

Geography:  No new assignments.  Please bring both books Geography I and be prepared to tell me your paper topic.  We will formulate your thesis sentence.


World Literature:  The Trojan War-Part V- The Fall of Troy----Chapters I, II, III.  Do pages 54-55-56-57, Including enrichment in Student Guide.

Work Due October 17, 2014

World Geography: Finish taking notes about Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia.  Know What happened in the Arab Spring and what is happening up to 16 December 2013 when the summaries you are reading were last updated by the BBC World News. Also Know where each country is and its capital and location.  If you discuss other cities besides the capital, place them on the map.


Next go to Sudan and write notes about what has been happening there.
Begin with the article from HRW  Human Rights Watch which discusses the situation there on 23 September 2013.  then go to the article from the Sudan Tribune 11 October 2014 "Heavy" Fighting  Hits South Sudan and get an update from that.  You must know what happened and what the results will be.


I hope you will be ready on Friday with this information. 




World Literature:  You will have a test on Part Four -The Close of the War, Chapters 1-7.  Go over the Questions, the Characters' Identities, Quotations and Enrichment Vocabulary.

Work for 14 October 2014

Geography:  you have all been sent an email with your assignment and attached articles to print and study.  Please do so.






Literature:  Please Read and do the pages in the Student Guide on Book IV  The Close of the War Chapters 5,6, and 7.  We will discuss them as well as Chapter 4 (Pyrrhus) that we did not complete in class on Friday.  I will create a test for that Book to take ?? When you are ready.

Work for 10 October 2014

World Geography:  Prepare well for your in class test of  the African Continent.  We have yet to do North Africa which is covered in Book I so bring Student text and Guide to class.  Also keep collecting any news about Ebola in the Western Coastal countries and don't forget about the Kurds in the Middle East hot spots.






World Literature: Do Chapters 1-4 of Book IV (read and do questions.)  Please do all the questions, vocabulary, and add to your character list ( Do not write discussion questions.  They are for discussion.)  I have to see two more Guidebooks and will collect them today.  You know who you are!

Work For 7 October 2014

World Geography: Do Quiz on first part of Africa Lessons 1-4. We will go over Lessons 2,3,4 first. (Prepare for test on Lessons 1 to 8 by completing the map with the rest of the countries.  Study them and their capitals.)  We will review in class.


You will need to bring Student text and workbook for Geography # 1.
We are starting Northern Africa and it is in Book 1.


World Literature I :  Prepare for Test on Book III in class on Tuesday.

Work for Sept 30 and Oct. 3, 2014

World Geography:  Since we are behind in discussion we  will go over Chapters 5-6-7-8 in Sub -Saharan Africa, and have a review Tues. Sept 30th. 


 We will do Chapters 1-4 for Friday Oct 3rd.


World Literature:  Trojan War:  For Tues Sept. 30th read Part Three Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4.  Do pages 28-35 in Student Guide.


For Friday Oct.3,  read 5 ,6, 7, and 8, still a part of Part III, and finish the student guide questions for this section.

Work Due 26 September 2014

Geography:  Papers on Middle East due.  Review the West Coast of Africa-the Former Coastal Colonies.  Read about and do the Student pages for the two previous lessons 8 and 7 of West Africa.




Literature:  Hand in your take home test II.

Work for Sept.23, 2014

World Geography: Please draft in 12 point Times New Roman Font your paper informing a reader in your class what you learned about your Middle Eastern City or Country.  Based on your articles you have already decided on a focusing sentence .  Use it in the first or last paragraph.  Two typed pages or approximately 500 words will work.  Show the in text citations for direct quotes or summaries and paraphrases.  Use fewer direct quotations and more of the latter two. Follow the handout.  Due next Friday or before.  You have time to work on draft of article because you have only one lesson to do in Book II


Read and do in Geog Book two the coastal countries of the sub Saharan West on page 24-25 Student text lesson 8 and pp.  24-25 in Workbook.




Literature:  Please finish the last Chapter of Part II of The Trojan War and prepare a study sheet to prepare for test Friday.

Work for Friday 19 February 2014

Geography-turn in in-class map with Country and Capital and two facts for each on separate paper if you have not already done so


Find 3 articles about the country you are choosing to write about.  Print them.  Fill out the event sheet for each and attach to article.  Prepare to tell the class what you will focus on in the paper.  We will discuss this in class.  I will then make a formal assignment in class for a paper draft.






Literature-Read Part II The Opening,  Parts 1,2,3,4, pp. 35 to 67.
Student Guide:  Complete pp. 16-17; 18-19; 20-21; and 22-23.  Add new characters to your list identifying them and drawing them if you can.  (Extra Credit)

Work for 16 September 2014

World Literature:  You all did very well on the first test!  Good for you!  Please read the first two chapters of Part II.  ( I have your work books so you cannot complete the written assignments).




World Geography: Prepare for your map and concept test.  You need to know:

1. How to label a blank map with the ten Middle Eastern Countries.
2. To place the capital of each where it belongs on the map and to add any geographic features you are familiar with.
3. To write several sentences about the country on a separate sheet of paper; please include a current interesting or timely fact and an historical one. 
4. Last, tell me, in a sentence, the country you will write your research paper about and the particular fact (s) you will focus on. 

Work due Friday 12 September 2014

Geography:  Please finish reading about the last four countries in the Middle East .  Then record your facts and map work in your Student Guide.  Please fill out the map I gave you in class as a study guide.  We will go over the new countries and review the earlier ones in class and will discuss all in preparation for the test you will have on Tuesday the 16th in class.  I will also give you a fresh map to create a study guide for the first countries we studied.  We now have 10 in all!


Literature:  Please prepare for your test of Book I which includes the first five stories. Go over the stories themselves, the questions, the quotes (who said what to whom), the vocabulary and the character list I gave you in class today.  You will be prepared then for the test : ).

School Work for Tuesday 9 September 2014

Dear Students,
I am so happy you are responding so well to our new material and like the Geography and map studies.  Next week we will  add a new component.  Will you please locate and cut out at least 3 articles (or more) about one or more of the Mideast countries in the news.  Use news magazines and newspapers, get them on line or at a news store and cut them out. Do not paste in notebook yet as we will share them as we decide what topic within one country each of you is interested in finding more information about.  We need these for Friday the  12th.


For Tuesday add Iran, Israel, and Jordan to your reading (pp.18-19; 8-9; and Jordan. In the Student Guide, do pp. 10,5, and 6.  Then add thee three countries to the larger map I gave you.  Please color in the countries using the same colors you used on the first day for each of them..  That's all folks!!




All of you seem to love the stories love the stories of the myths and so  are enjoying The Trojan War.  Please finish the last two chapters of the .Prologue.  Also do up to and including p.12 in
Student Guide.  Anyone doing the drawings will receive extra credit.  Please use unlined paper.  You can make smaller images and put several on a page.  Add 4-5 sentences about that character.  I have an idea for the non artists in the group on another way to do these charts.  Tell you Tuesday.


Have fun.  Mrs. B

Homework and other matters:

I enjoyed welcoming you all to school!  New students and familiar ones grouped together and did the kind of work we will do all year.  Our first classes went well and I enjoyed introducing you to both courses.  I gave you as best as I could  an idea of what the courses entail as well as some of the processes we will be using to learn.  Some of the material is based on what you already know but stretches your learning beyond that into new and interesting areas of knowledge.

 

This blog will have your daily assignments as well as the book list and any other useful material you may need along the way.

 

The Book Lists:

 

 

Geography & Literature of the World(2014-5)

 

Barbara S. Armbruster

Trinity Classical Christian Academy,

Upper School

Beaufort, South Carolina, 29901

 

 

 Reading List -- World Geography

Order From Memoria Press - (Order online www.memoriapress.com)

     1. Geography I:  The Middle East, North Africa & Europe - text $14.95/Student Consumable Workbook $11.95. (Two Books)

 

    2. Geography II:  Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Oceania, & The Americas – Text $14.95/Student Consumable Workbook $11.95  (Two Books)

 *N.B. Reading List- Books available on line from Memoria Press.  Consumable workbook means that the student, at the teacher’s instruction, writes in the book.

 

Reading List -- World Literature

Order From Memoria Press - (Order online www.memoriapress.com

1.The Trojan War (retelling) by Olivia Coolidge Novel-$6.96/consumable student Workbook-$11.95. (Two books).

2.The Odyssey (Samuel Butler Translation) Novel-$10.00/consumable student Workbook-$16.95. (Two books).

3.The Aeneid (David West Translation) Novel-$12.00/consumable Student Workbook-$16.95. (Two books)

Order From Veritas Press – (Order on line; use numbers to identify books www.veritaspress.com)

4.Julius Caesar (Roma Gill Editor) order #420245-$8.96

5.Codes of Hammurabi and Moses order #305201 -$11.66

6.The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S.Lewis order #25570-$6.29

  *N.B. Reading List- Books available on line from sources indicated.  Please get suggested edition-other versions not acceptable. In addition, if you order all books from same publisher at the same time, you have only one shipping charge. Consumable workbook means that the student, at the teacher’s instruction, writes in the book.  In addition, order of listing does not necessarily mean order of study.


Homework due Friday 5 September 2014
Geography: Study/Read in Student Text The Introduction pp.4-5.
  The Middle East pp.6-7.                           
  Syria pp.12-13.
  Iraq pp.16-17.
As you are doing this have your Geography Student Guide opened to the corresponding pages. Middle East p.4; Syria p.7; Iraq p.9 and follow all of the instructions for these pages and color the maps after you put in what the instructions indicate. ( Keep the colors the same as those on the Middle East map.)  


Literature:  Study/Read in The Trojan War pp. 3 to 21.
As you are going through these chapters, in your Student Guide, follow the instructions on pp. 6-13.  Write all in your guide book except the character list and any drawings you are asked to do.


See you Friday!  Mrs.B