7th Grade Homeschool: Week 1

Math and Chinese are being done independently with her Chinese textbooks and supplementary books. If she has any questions she can ask a friend or one of my coworkers.

Art: Impressionist Movement Watch videos: 1, 2

Weekend Project: Impressionist Self Portrait

Math: Chinese textbooks + 1.1- 1.6 Whole Numbers + Game

Geography: US State capitals, rivers, mountains + U.S.A. Geography (Game)

Science: Science: Chapter 1:The Cell + game/ Video1: Crash Course #4  Chemistry of a Cell: (Lesson 1 Quizlet) , Structure of Cell (Lesson 2 Quizlet), Cells and Energy

Video3: Photosynthesis: Crash Course Biology #8

My daughter decorated her parts of a cell cake with her homemade marshmallow fondant

PROJECT: How to Make an Edible Cell Model (Cell Cake)

Review Games: Characteristic of Living Things +  Parts of Cell

Social Studies: Colorado History Fur Trappers and Beaver Pelts, Silver Ore and Smelters,
Hunting with Bows and Arrows, Left Hand's Visit, Mining and the Environment,
Women and the Gold Rush , Coal Field Field War Project

Spanish: Class 1: Practice the alphabet a few times (no need to remember)

Listen and count along. Colors + Greetings

Reading: Hope Is A Thing With Feathers

• Who was Emily Dickinson?
• Define the words: gale, sore, abash, chillest and extremity
• Metaphor: What is the poem about and what metaphor/image does it use?
• What does the last stanza mean? (lines 9-12)  
• Select one abstract word and determine an object or living thing to compare it to.

Example: Fear is the thing with teeth (perhaps comparing fear to a bear).

Emily Dickinson’s poems were about nature, bees, flowers, butterflies, etc., and

reveal Emily’s love of nature and her fun sense of humor about things.

Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems are written in Iambic meter.

Shakespeare was also a fan of Iambic meter.

• Read "I'm Nobody Who Are You?"

Extra: Other Dickinson poem #383 “I like to see it lap the Miles” (Video)
#387 “The Brain – is wider than the Sky”
Writing Techniques: Write the definition and Example for each: 1.)metaphor 2.) simile 3.)idiom 4.) personification 5.) hyperbole                                               
Watch: The Art of Metaphor (TED Kids)