Emma chose our Ted Talk this Friday, and we watched a film about a man who experienced bullying throughout his childhood and how he chose to define himself not by negative experiences, but by the resulting "enlightenment" he experienced as a result of negative circumstances. Emma had some great insight on the nature of bullying, especially among females, and she discussed the rhetorical devices present throughout the talk.

Emma was given an essay quiz on the content of The Crucible. She was asked to gauge the importance of truth vs. reality; is truth something real and tangible? What happens when truth is based on religious beliefs and those religious beliefs are flawed?

An introductory overview of the U.S. Judicial Branch of Govt. The U.S. Supreme Court / Attorney General / Federal District Courts / State Supreme Courts / Municipal Courts / Law Enforcement / Important Case Laws /

Emma and I discussed the last year of WWII today. We talked about the following: the Manhattan Project, the facility at Oak Ridge, TN and its workers, the detonation of the atomic bomb in the New Mexican desert, the use of the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how we have managed to avoid nuclear war in the decades since WWII, the connections to modern history with the Iraq War, weapons of mass destruction, enrichment of uranium, Iran, diplomacy, and the Nuremberg Trials.

Emma was absent today.

I had a session planned for Emma to learn about the Cold War, but she was absent today.

An introductory overview of the U.S. Judicial Branch of Govt. The U.S. Supreme Court / Attorney General / Federal District Courts / State Supreme Courts / Municipal Courts / Law Enforcement / Important Case Laws /

We covered Ch. 11.5 Solving exponential and logarithmic equations.

Ch. 11.3 properties of Logarithms

The conclusion of Congress / House of Representatives / The Senate / The Speaker of the House / The Vice President / House Majority and Minority Leaders / Senate Majority and Minority Leaders / Political Machinery and how things get done in Government. The relationship between today's Republican controlled Congress and the Democratic President.