7th Grade Homeschooling: Week 6

As before, she is continuing with her Chinese textbooks for her math and Mandarin. She is also reading her geography book at her own pace.

Art: Finish Starry Night

Reading:Context Clues 1.5 | PDF, and Read, “Cask of Amontillado” (Poe)

Watch a Video on Italian Carnevale

Cask Vocabulary (Quizlet):

There are many examples of irony. List as many examples as you can find.

Spanish: Winter Clothing in Spanish+ Winter Weather in Spanish

Review: Count to 40 in Spanish

Social Studies: Revolutionary War Ends

Writing: Was the Revolutionary war inevitable, or could it have been avoided?

If you believe it was inevitable, explain why. If it could have been avoided, explain how.

Science: Chapter 4 Lesson 1: Foundation of Genetics (Quizlet)

Video: Gregor Mendel’s Law of Heredity: Crash Course #9, Law of Segregation

Lesson 2: Understanding Inheritance (Quizlet) LAB paper +Alien Baby(PDF)

Review: Codominance and Sex-Linked Codominance Inheritance
Test Problem #1 Codominance Problem: A mother has blood type O and her husband has blood type AB. They have a child who has blood type A. Is this possible? Draw a Punnett’s Square.

Test Problem #2 A man has normal color vision and is married to a woman who is colorblind. What are the chances that they will have children that are color blind like the mother? Colorblindness is carried on the X chromosome and colorblindness is recessive (see above for this information). Since the man has normal vision, he will have a dominant allele on his X chromosome: XBY

The woman is colorblind. This means she must have two recessive alleles – one on each X chromosome. Her genotype is XbXb. Draw a Punnett’s Square