The plan was to introduce Jaydn to arcs and their rotation along the circumference of circles. I was going to introduce the concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise movement along the circumference and measurements of the associated central angles. I was also going to investigate arc length and concentric circles. Unfortunately, Jaydn was not in class today. There was no assignment.
Assignment
See Lesson Outline.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
0
Lesson Comments
Jaydn was absent today so I will present this lesson when I teach her next time.
The plan was to introduce Jaydn to arcs and their rotation along the circumference of circles. I was going to introduce the concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise movement along the circumference and measurements of the associated central angles. I was also going to investigate arc length and concentric circles. Unfortunately, Jaydn was not in class today. There was no assignment.
Assignment
See Lesson Outline.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
0
Lesson Comments
Since Jaydn was absent from today's session, I will be presenting this lesson again the next time I teach her.
We discussed good and bad aspects of nationalism in class last Friday, 9/24. Today we looked at the growth of nationalism throughout Europe and the Americas in the 1800s. It shaped countries by creating new ones or breaking up old ones. In Europe, it also upset something called the "balance of power." Empires in Europe were made up of many different groups of people. Nationalism fed the desire of most of those groups to be free of the rule of empires and govern themselves in their traditional lands. During the 1800s, nationalism fueled efforts to build nation-states. Nationalists were not loyal to kings and queens, but to their people. Three aging empires, the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the Hapsburgs, the Russian Empire of the Romanovs and the Ottoman Empire of the Turks, contained a mixture of ethnic groups. As nationalism emerges in the 19th and into the 20th centuries, ethnic unrest threatened and eventually toppled these empires. In 1900, the Austro-Hungarian Empire dominated most of eastern Europe. After WWI, it broke into many different nation-states. During WWI, the Russian Empire of the Romanovs toppled after 370 years. The Ottoman Empire also broke up after WWI, altering the maps of Europe and the Middle East. While nationalism destroyed empires, it could also build nations. In 1870, Italy emerged as a nation built from crumbling empires. Between 1862 - 1871, Prussian Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck, unified over 12 German states, and gained land through wars with Austria, Denmark and France to form the nation of Germany. By 1871, Britian and Germany were the two most powerful European nations with other nations lagging behind. The European balance of power had broken down.
Assignment
Read pp. 698 - 703 "Revolutions in the Arts"
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
When we began class, Jaydn said she wasn't feeling too well and explained that she had a seizure and was in the hospital. She says she has to go for a brain scan. Understandably, Jaydn did not complete her H.W. which was to read 5 pps. in her text about nationalism in late 19th century Europe. So, we reviewed it and went through it together. Since we have class later today, Jaydn took some time to catch up on reading 3 pps. on the "Revolution in the Arts." Jaydn said she found the "readability" of the book to be comprehensible and yet, she seemed to have difficulty explaining or reiterating anything she had just read to me. That said, Jaydn said that she is glad to have a physical versus a digital textbook. It's an excellent text, so we will give it some time. We will meet again after lunch at 12:30pm.
I introduced Jaydn to several facts about the number of degrees in a circle and in a straight line. I also told her that perpendicular lines form a ninety degree angle. I included the information that each degree is composed of 60 minutes and each minute is composed of 60 seconds. There was no assignment.
Assignment
See lesson outline
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Jaydn has not brought her text book to class for the past two sessions and when I asked her about it, she said she misplaced it in her room. Since she never appears on camera, doesn't have a text book, and often seems caught off guard when asked a question, I really have no idea what she's doing while I'm trying to deliver my lesson. She's polite enough, but I don't feel that she's getting value from the course. I would be hard pressed to come up with her grade for geometry at this time.
I concentrated today on rounded vowel sounds while singing various specific exercises, plus clearly enunciated consonants at the ends of words. We then learned/performed "I Believe I Can Fly".
