7th Grade Homeschooling: Week 12

This week she is playing catch up as we lost some days over the holiday weekend, having a guest and going out of town ourselves. She is finishing up her math, Mandarin at the same time as her peers in the local public school and will be needing news books after the CNY. This week's science is light, but Spanish has some more meat than usual. She will be also finishing, "A Christmas Carol".

Science: Focus on Life Science Chapter 8 lesson 1, Geologic Time and Mass Extinctions

(Quizlet) Videos: 5 Mass Extinctions,
From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying,

History: A Young Person’s History Chapter 6, “The Women of Early
America” (handout + Quizlet)
Videos: Anne Hutchinson and Anne Bradstreet,

Sojourner Truth, Crash Course #16, #31

Learning Questions:

1. If America was founded on religious freedom, then how to explain the treatment of Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer?
2. How are the Abolitionist Movement and Women’s Rights Movement related?
3. Explain how the unequal treatment of black women means women do not have equal rights.

Project: Choose one important woman from Early America and write a report about her.

Spanish: Part 1:  VERBS: Comer/ Desayunar + Story: ¡La Cena! [take notes]

Estar + Verb Gerund form = Present Continuous

Part 2: Meals + Utensils (Quizlet +Video)
Part 3: Fruit + Vegetables (Quizlet + Video)

Reading: A Christmas Carol: The End of  it (Quizlet)

Post book follow-up discussion questions:

1. What do the three ghostly experiences have in common? 
2. Why did Dickens choose this similarity?
3. If there were a fourth ghost, what might it look like? What might it represent?
4. How do the vision scenes demonstrate that Scrooge is actually quite complex?

After you read: Project: Create a collage of the themes in The Christmas Carol.