Sunday, February 10, 2019

7th Grade Homeschooling Week 15: Europe, Colonial Women,and The Lottery

Time to get back into the groove post CNY break! She has a new Mandarin book which she does independently. She will be finishing her American 6th-grade Geography book which does a very good job of giving an overview of global geography and world cultures. I need to find a 7th-grade geography book or something that goes into more depth of the same subjects.

Geography: Europe (pgs 152-162): Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe and Russia’s Governments: Bronze Age: Persians and Greeks, Alexander the Great, Totalitarianism,

The Cold War, Fall of Communism, EU, Brexit

Writing: Research and write an essay about:
1.)Minoan Art
2.) Your favorite important woman in early America

 Science: Chapter 9, Lesson 1 (pdf pg. 113) The Musculoskeletal System
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

Spanish: Learning Spanish, Lesson 1 pg. 4-8
Review Games:  LOS NÚMEROS (1-50)

Reading: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson "The Lottery" worksheets Day 1 and 2,



"The Lottery" Vocabulary List (words are in the order that they appear in the story): 
  1. assembled – gathered
  2. boisterous – rowdy, loud
  3. reprimands – punishment, repercussions
  4. surveying – viewing
  5. reluctantly – unwillingly
  6. jovial – jolly, joyful
  7. scold – a person who is constantly scolding or reprimanding with loud and abusive speech
  8. paraphernalia – personal belongings, items associated with a specific activity
  9. shabbier – fallen into disrepair
  10. perfunctory – performed merely as a routine duty
  11. interminably – unending
  12. disengaged – to free from attachment
  13. petulantly – with unreasonable irritation
  14. stoutly – bulky in figure
  15. daintily – delicately, in a lady-like fashion

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