The Fine Young Man's plans are coming together nicely. He begins classes at the high school tomorrow, and only has about a week's work left to complete his ninth grade year (talk about cramming!). Most of his textbooks/spines and about half of his literature books are in the mail on the way to us, so should be here by the time he is ready to start. I still have a couple of things to put together, but we are close!
The FYM's schedule is different every day, so will take some getting used to. We wrote just this week's public school schedule in his agenda today, and he filled in the times when he wouldn't be there with his Green Dragon work. It is a full schedule, but he can do it- he showed himself that by completing most of his ninth grade work in one six-week term this summer!
Green Dragon Academy Classes:
History: Medieval (plus a little more) history, 400 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Text will be Spielvogel's Western Civilization. He will also use The Teaching Company's Renaissance, Reformation, and Rise of Nations Audio Course, and The Teaching Company's World History Video Course, The Fertile Crescent to The American Revolution. He will use the Brimwood Press Scroll timeline.
We will also be doing a small unit on American Govt./Civics. I am still working this up at this time.
Literature: See list in previous post.
English: Grammar: possibly Hake Grammar 8 (I own this one, but can I give him credit for this?Will there be enough grammar in Latin Book One or do we need this?? He still struggles with grammar-sigh.). He will be using A First Book of Sentence Diagramming. ; Bravewriter Intermediate online course, beginning in Late Sept..
Foriegn Language: Latin Book One
Science: Textbook-Holt Biology- Either Principles and Explorations, or Modern Biology, both of which have online editions, to make it more fun. Labs will be added (??). Thinking Connections, bk B-1 will be used as supplement, as well as Joy Hakim's The Story of Science, vols. 1 and 2. (I may have him do this subject second semester, as he has a larger load 1st semester.)
Fine Arts: We are looking for a new french horn teacher, and he will continue to take voice lessons monthly when his schedule allows.
Local High School Classes:
Math: Algebra 1
Occupational Education:Computer Graphics
Elective #1 (Fine Arts):Symphonic/Marching Band
Elective #2 (English?):Speech and Debate (as club, not formal class, though I will give him credit for it.)
Monday, September 03, 2007
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Literature Planning- rough copy
Literature Planning for the FYM, Sophomore year, Sept 08 to June 09. I have a few more to add- this is a very rough list so far.
Recommendations are from the Well-Trained Mind booklist, using translations recommended in The Well-Educated Mind. He will be using WEM for Socratic dialog and lessons related to types of reading as well.
Spines and books used for all four years of high school are in green. Books that have been read are in red. They are in approximate chronological/ reading order.
Western Civilization by Jackson Spielvogel
World's Greatest Speeches by
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney 9-07
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Pearl verse translations by Marie Boroff
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, prose translation by Nevill Coghill
Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Mac Beth by William Shakespeare
One or more other Shakespeare plays of student's choice
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, edited and translated by Walter Starkie
King James Bible, Psalms, New Testament
Recommendations are from the Well-Trained Mind booklist, using translations recommended in The Well-Educated Mind. He will be using WEM for Socratic dialog and lessons related to types of reading as well.
Spines and books used for all four years of high school are in green. Books that have been read are in red. They are in approximate chronological/ reading order.
Western Civilization by Jackson Spielvogel
World's Greatest Speeches by
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney 9-07
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Pearl verse translations by Marie Boroff
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, prose translation by Nevill Coghill
Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Mac Beth by William Shakespeare
One or more other Shakespeare plays of student's choice
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, edited and translated by Walter Starkie
King James Bible, Psalms, New Testament
Thursday, August 16, 2007
TTAP Bike-a-Thon
The Kids are participating in a unique community service project this summer. Usually our communtiy service is very local, but this one is a world-wide neighborhood project!
The kids formed a group called TTAP: Teens and Tweens Against Poverty. They arranged and rode in a bike-a-thon to raise money to purchase goats through Heifer Project. A family in an impoverished village in (most likely) Africa is chosen to be the goat owners. They learn how to care for the goat, and when the goat has a baby, it goes to another family in the village who has been trained for the job. Buying a goat for one family helps an entire village. I am probably not explaining this well as I am in a hury, but you can read more about it at the link provided above.
The kids' goal was to ride a total of 20 miles each. All six of them did just that, and so far, they have raised $600. That is enough to buy 5 goats!
Our good friend Mr. B. supervised the kids on the ride, bought them ice cream at the half-way point, and hauled all their bicycles in his trailer. He is a real sweetie, don'tcha think?
Here are some pictures as they are coming home. Click on any of them to enlarge- I know you are going to want to try to read their shirt logos! Here they are unloading the trailer. That is Mr. B. in the trailer.
Here they are, all posing in their TTAP t-shirts. The logo says: TTAP- Teens and Tweens Against Poverty. In case you don't recongnise them, mine are the two on the right, in front of Mr. B. Notice the TTAP dawg in front. His name is Gandalph, and he is a sweetie.
Showing off the back of their tshirts. There is an image of Uncle Sam, and the caption says, "Even you can make a difference." Yes, the kids came up with the slogan and made the shirts themselves. Pretty amazing kids, aren't they? It just goes to show that anyone can do something to change the world.
That is all for now.
Mistress LB
The kids formed a group called TTAP: Teens and Tweens Against Poverty. They arranged and rode in a bike-a-thon to raise money to purchase goats through Heifer Project. A family in an impoverished village in (most likely) Africa is chosen to be the goat owners. They learn how to care for the goat, and when the goat has a baby, it goes to another family in the village who has been trained for the job. Buying a goat for one family helps an entire village. I am probably not explaining this well as I am in a hury, but you can read more about it at the link provided above.
The kids' goal was to ride a total of 20 miles each. All six of them did just that, and so far, they have raised $600. That is enough to buy 5 goats!
Our good friend Mr. B. supervised the kids on the ride, bought them ice cream at the half-way point, and hauled all their bicycles in his trailer. He is a real sweetie, don'tcha think?
Here are some pictures as they are coming home. Click on any of them to enlarge- I know you are going to want to try to read their shirt logos! Here they are unloading the trailer. That is Mr. B. in the trailer.
Here they are, all posing in their TTAP t-shirts. The logo says: TTAP- Teens and Tweens Against Poverty. In case you don't recongnise them, mine are the two on the right, in front of Mr. B. Notice the TTAP dawg in front. His name is Gandalph, and he is a sweetie.
Showing off the back of their tshirts. There is an image of Uncle Sam, and the caption says, "Even you can make a difference." Yes, the kids came up with the slogan and made the shirts themselves. Pretty amazing kids, aren't they? It just goes to show that anyone can do something to change the world.
That is all for now.Mistress LB
Monday, June 25, 2007
Summer school begins
Here is the Fine Young Scholar at work. Summer school officially starts this week. Last day of classes at the High School is tomorrow. Here is our scholar, working on his Classical Writing model of the week.
Notice the timer and the water bottle.
Here you see some of his stack of books for the week:
Notice the timer and the water bottle.
Here you see some of his stack of books for the week:
Reading List of and for the Fine Young Man
This was the Fine Young Scholar's booklist for the school year of 2006-2007. This school year formally ends August 31st. The books are broken down into subject areas. He is compiling a list of all the books he read this year, and we will add them soon.
(Red means have read.)
(Green means currently reading, or a spine, to be read as assigned throughout high school years.)
History:
Main Reference Spines:
The New History of the World by J.M. Roberts: He uses it for maps reference only- It was dry and boring so he ditched it for SWB's Story of the Ancient World, in combination with Spielvogel's Western Civilization
The World’s Greatest Speeches edited by Copeland, Lamm & McKenna
Literature:
The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N.K. Sandars-
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagels The Boys’ and Girls’ Herodotus by John S. While, LL.D. The Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch, translated by Robin Waterfield (He still wants to read the John Dryden translation- for fun!)
The Fall of Athens, A Story of the Peloponnesian War by Alfred J. Church The Last Days of Socrates by Plato, translated by Tredennick & Tarrant
Other Books:
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren (he read over half of the book, then switched to the Well-Educated Mind by SWB- 1st five chapters)
“How to Read How to Read a Book” by Maryalice B. Newborn (half of the workbook)
A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston (currently reading and completing assignments)
Classical Ingenuity by Charles F. Baker & Rosalie F. Baker
The Classical Companion by Charles F. Baker III & Rosalie F. Baker
General Literature, all genres:
Dragons in our Midst series, bks 1 to 4 (fiction/fantasy)
Well World Series (scifi)
the Shadow Thieves (fantasy)
Here, There be Dragons (fantasy)
The Names Upon the Harp (myths)
Half Moon Investigations (fiction)
Artemis (collection)
the Witches of Karres (scifi)
the Code of the Life Maker (scifi)
the Accidental Time Machine (scifi)
Flyte (fantasy)
So You Want to be a Wizard (fiction)
(Red means have read.)
(Green means currently reading, or a spine, to be read as assigned throughout high school years.)
History:
Main Reference Spines:
The New History of the World by J.M. Roberts: He uses it for maps reference only- It was dry and boring so he ditched it for SWB's Story of the Ancient World, in combination with Spielvogel's Western Civilization
The World’s Greatest Speeches edited by Copeland, Lamm & McKenna
Literature:
The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N.K. Sandars-
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagels The Boys’ and Girls’ Herodotus by John S. While, LL.D. The Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch, translated by Robin Waterfield (He still wants to read the John Dryden translation- for fun!)
The Fall of Athens, A Story of the Peloponnesian War by Alfred J. Church The Last Days of Socrates by Plato, translated by Tredennick & Tarrant
Other Books:
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren (he read over half of the book, then switched to the Well-Educated Mind by SWB- 1st five chapters)
“How to Read How to Read a Book” by Maryalice B. Newborn (half of the workbook)
A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston (currently reading and completing assignments)
Classical Ingenuity by Charles F. Baker & Rosalie F. Baker
The Classical Companion by Charles F. Baker III & Rosalie F. Baker
General Literature, all genres:
Dragons in our Midst series, bks 1 to 4 (fiction/fantasy)
Well World Series (scifi)
the Shadow Thieves (fantasy)
Here, There be Dragons (fantasy)
The Names Upon the Harp (myths)
Half Moon Investigations (fiction)
Artemis (collection)
the Witches of Karres (scifi)
the Code of the Life Maker (scifi)
the Accidental Time Machine (scifi)
Flyte (fantasy)
So You Want to be a Wizard (fiction)
Deep Magic (fiction)
the Gondwane Epic (fantasy)
And the Devil Will Drag You Under (fantasy)
the Gates Of Sleep (fantasy)
Peter and the Starcatchers (fantasy)
Conrad's Fate (fantasy)
Eulalia! (fiction)
The Fire Within (fiction)
Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves (fiction)
The Traveler (scifi/fiction)
the Divide (fantasy)
The Blue Fairy Book (myths)
The Purple Fairy Book (myths)
the Orange Fairy Book (myths)
the Changeling (fiction)
Cold Shoulder Road (fantasy)
the Illyrian Adventure (fantsy)
the Black Cauldron (fantasy)
the Pearls of Lutra (fiction)
Marlfox (fiction)
The Chronicles of The Deryni (fantasy)
the Revenge of the Shadow King (fiction/fantasy)
Unexpected Magic (fantasy/fiction)
Friday, January 12, 2007
Links for Dy
Dy suggested we post some of our unused but very cool links. So, for your educational viewing pleasure, I present to you, some links:
Latin:
Dy, here is that study guide to Wheelock's latin I told you about many moons ago.
Here is another study guide, this one for Oxford Latin.
That's all for now, more later.
LB
Latin:
Dy, here is that study guide to Wheelock's latin I told you about many moons ago.
Here is another study guide, this one for Oxford Latin.
That's all for now, more later.
LB
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