Discussions about history events, friendship, social media - pros and cons; business ethics...
Using 10 new words for each in sentences...
Working on grammar...

Discussions of the "old" technology, CDs, computers... Sentences with new words from the book (Max)... Travel vocabulary sentences (Katia)... Russian movies, Russian cuisine...

Today we used the computer and learned about several new instruments emerging in the field. We ended learning about different tunings for the guitar and how to utilize them.

Continuing Max's assigned work from his London school, we added to his notebook a list of Shakespeare's plays Max had heard of, a biographical paragraph about Shakespeare , and a paragraph defining poetry and the use of verse in Macbeth. Next, we added information about the historical sources of Shakespeare's plays noting that Holinshed's Chronicles is the source for Macbeth. We then discussed Act I scene (i) and prepared an outline for the next segment of the assignment: explain why the opening scene is effective. Max offered good ideas to incorporate into the paragraph which we included in the outline.

Lesson 1: Earthquake Risks – Max began to discover what happens when Earth’s tectonic plates move. He learned that most earthquakes occur in oceans and along the edges of continents where tectonic plates meet. Then he was given a map of where the tectonic plates are located on the Earth. Then he learned that earthquakes result from the buildup and release of stress along plate boundaries. The movement in the ground results from movement along breaks in Earth’s crust or faults. The size of an earthquake depends on the amount of force applied to the fault. The amount of energy released by an earthquake is magnitude. He viewed actual footage of an Alaskan earthquake that caused a tsunami.

Discussions of various topics...
Sentences using new words from the book (Max)...
Sentences using new words in chosen topics (Katia)...
Learning new words, explaining their meanings in Russian...

Discussions of various subjects: religion, lies/truth, psychology...
Max is creating sentences using newly learned words from the book The Power of Positive Thinking that he is reading.
Working on correcting Katia's mistakes in using verbs in the past tense with the correct gender...

Discussions about different topics: Anniversary of Gagarin's flight, Russian concert on TV dedicated to that date; music.
Debate between Max and Katia concerning energy drinks and artificial sweeteners.
Discussion of the book The Power of Positive Thinking that Max started to read.

Lesson 5 The Cycling of Earth’s Materials – Max learned what happens to rocks at Earth’s surface. Then he learned that sediment deposited in water often forms layers in the beds of rivers, lakes, and oceans. Over time these layers can be preserved in sedimentary rocks. Next he learned that lithification is the process through which sediment turns into rock. Then he learned that cementation is the process by which minerals dissolved in surrounding water crystallize between grains of sediment such as quartz, calcite, and Clay. Next we looked at several samples of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. He was given a geode to open with a hammer to determine what type of rock it contained.

Goals:
Figure drawing practice #2 ...
Work on project, get bottom two canvases outlined and ready to be painted.