Finished up the sections regarding to Ancient Egypt, focusing mainly on their contributions to the modern world (Medicine, Language, Geometry, etc..). Began looking at Judaism; its foundation, formation and its significance to Israel's georaphy

We are working through calculations for the weight on Earth compared to other planets that were chosen by Hunter.

Today, Hunter and I read and discussed chapters 7 and 8 of The Giver. I taught him the difference between first person limited and first person omniscient point of view. We reviewed 15 vocabulary words, important chapter quotes, and plot details. He typed a summary of the chapters on his Penzu journal.

Today, we covered Ch. 2-5 Literal Equations and Formulas and 2-6 Ratios, Rates, and Conversions. I assigned HW.

Continued our discussion on Egyptian Gods and Goddesses and introduced the concept of mummification and the impact it had on the shaping of religion.

Hunter was scheduled to leave early today so we looked at his HW.

Today, Hunter and I discussed chapters 4 and 5, which he read for homework, and read chapter 6 together. We added vocabulary words such as meticulous and scrupulous to his list, and we did some critical thinking exercises when I asked him to think not only of the details that are given to us about this new world in the novel, but also what is LACKING in this new world--we identified lack of variety in family units, language, culture, skin color, etc. He wrote a journal entry as a summary of the previous chapters and will continue reading the next two chapters for our meeting on Monday.

I graded Ch. 2-1 and 2-2 HW and we talked about the problems he missed. We covered Ch. 2-3 Solving Multi-Step Equations and Ch. 2-4 Solving Equations With Variables on Both Sides. I assigned HW from the latter.

Read and discussed the pyramids and the notable gods of ancient Egypt. Reviewed homework and what is expected from him.

We learned about the three significant eras of ancient Egypt. Hunter left his homework at home. Tomorrow, he needs to bring in both yesterday's and today's assignments.