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
Saturday, August 25, 2007
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
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