7th Grade Homeschooling Week 9:

She is doing great working her way through her math, Chinese and geography. This week I will have to devote more face time to her Spanish as we are finally, formally conjugating the present tense SER.

Science: Chapter 6 Evolution, Evidence of Change

Lesson 3:  Evolution and Plate Tectonics (Quizlet)

Lesson 4: Classifying Organisms (Quizlet)

Spanish: Describe Yourself (Quizlet)+ Feelings in Spanish (Quizlet)

The Verb SER (To Be) Quiz, Quiz 2

Reading: A Christmas Carol, Chapter 2: First of the Three Ghosts (Vocabulary)

Online Exercises

Q1. Describe the first of the three spirits and how its appearance helps its lesson.

Write a paragraph.

US History: A Young Person’s History Chapter 3, “Who Were The Colonists”?

Handout) Bacon’s Rebellion

Art: Pop Art Pop Art Pop Can Multimedia, Wayne Thiebaud Pop Art, Monochromatic Self Portraits, Wacky Ceramic shoes, McTwisted Fast Food, Pop Art Poster

7th Grade Homeschooling: Week 5

As before, she is continuing with Chinese and Math on her own using her textbooks from the public school. She self-tests and is between 85% and higher and if she has any questions, she can ask my coworkers/ friends.

Science: Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Animal Reproduction (Quizlet)

Chapter 3 Lesson 4 Asexual Reproduction (Quizlet)

Spanish: Seasons in Spanish (Quizlet) + Count to 30 (Quizlet)

Reading: A.Read “ Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (pdf)

Who is Emerson? (Bio) Video

This poem was first distributed as a leaflet on the occasion of the dedication of

a monument (July 4, 1837) commemorating the battle of Lexington and Concord.

However, since the cornerstone of the monument was laid late in 1836 and the

monument carries the date 1836, some printed versions of the poem give that date.

The poem was not printed again until it was included in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Poems (1847).

B. Who is Anton Chekov?

Read, “The Lottery” [pdf]

Social Studies: The Revolutionary War Begins Battle of Lexington and Concord,

Women during the War , Events in Moses Grandy's Life,

Moses Grady's Life as a Slave,

Not Really a Tea Party, Patriots and Tories,

Geography: Page 36-44

Art: Starry Night

7th Grade Homeschooling Week 3

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.
I. Geography:13 Colonies (see below)  

PROJECT: Make a puzzle 13 Colonies Map Puzzle Activity

II. Social Studies:  

A. 13 Colonies watch introduction (The History of Colonial America)

Describe each of the 3sections The Thirteen Colonies (Crash Course #2),

B. Who Came to the New World and what did they bring? (Crash Course #4)

1. Pilgrims
2. Puritans
3. Quakers

C. 2 Famous Colonies: Roanoke and Jamestown, compare both using a Venn Diagram

1. Lost Colony of Roanoke
2. Jamestown Settlement

D. The Salem Witch Trials, extra

Women's Roles

E. Slavery

III. Science:

Chapter 2, lesson 2 Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells

Video: Similarities and Differences + Review/Test + Systems of the Body
Chapter 3, lesson 1 Meiosis Crash Course #13, Review and Test

• What’s the Difference between Mitosis and Meiosis? Chart a Venn Diagram

IV. Spanish:  About you + shapes , classroom Items + Places at School

Quizlet: Classroom Objects

V. Reading: 1. Simile Worksheet 1 PDF

2.  Anne Bradstreet- first American poet and a Puritan

Bradstreet often used a sarcastic tone in her poetry. In the first stanza of "The Prologue" she claims "for my mean pen are too superior things" referring to society's belief that she is unfit to write about wars and the founding of cities because she is a woman. In stanza five Bradstreet continues to display irony by stating "who says my hand a needle better fits". This is another example of her sarcastic voice because society during this time expected women to perform household chores rather than write poetry.

Although Anne Bradstreet endured many hardships in her life, her poems are usually written in a hopeful and positive tone. Throughout her poem In "Memory of My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet," she mentions that even though she has lost her grandson in this world, she will one day be reunited with him in Heaven.] In "Upon the Burning of Our House," Bradstreet describes her house in flames but selflessly declares "there's wealth enough, I need no more." Although Bradstreet lost many of her material items she kept a positive attitude and remained strong through God.

Poetic devices: rhyme: correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse

• hyperbole: exaggeration for emphasis (the opposite of understatement)
• simile: comparison between two essentially unlike things using words such as "like," as," or "as though"
• imagery: word or sequence of words representing a sensory experience

+What’s the difference between metaphor and simile?

ASSESSMENT: Quiz: English Reading, Spanish (Unit 1)

PROJECT: Mitosis/Meiosis

VI. Art: Chose a Colonial Art Project and Pointillism Pointillist Portraits

Seurat "Grande Jatte", Pastel Pointillism, Pointillism Q-Tips

Extra: Colonial Cooking