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

Practice Test/ Video/ Quizlet/ Project

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,

Lottery Day 3 final[1].docx/Vocabulary/Intro to Irony /The Lottery with Irony Questions /

Quizlet/Test/Writing Prompts

"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

Resources:
https://betterlesson.com/lesson/630036/musculoskeletal-system
https://study.com/academy/exam/topic/the-musculoskeletal-system-study-guide.html
https://www.pinterest.com/explore/skeletal-system-activities/
https://www.brighthubeducation.com/middle-school-english-lessons/34014-the-lottery-by-shirley-jackson/
https://www.elacommoncorelessonplans.com/category/the-lottery
https://betterlesson.com/community/lesson/303552/the-lottery-by-shirley-jackson
https://www.elacommoncorelessonplans.com/how-to-win-the-lottery-in-the-classroom-with-the-lottery-movie.html

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.