Jaydn orally reviewed the SAT vocabulary words being studied. She completed an online digital game matching the words to their definitions. She then completed a written assignment by applying the words to the correct sentence. She then completed a critical thinking writing assignment concerning a character from The Glass Castle and the theme of parental responsibility. She then read and discussed the next chapter of The Glass Castle.

Today we continued Dicken's Christmas Carol. The goal is to be able to look at each line and expound on the meaning of that line. We are digging beneath the surface to get at the meaning, as opposed to summarizing what is going on.

Today we continued to do a bit of historical context for Dicken's classic, _A Christmas Carol_. We are explicating the text as we go.

We are working through the first quarter of _A Christmas Carol_ by Charles Dickens. We are critically analyzing the text as we go.

We had a shortened class because of a fire drill. Jaydn worked on her Chapter 3 homework.

Jaydn reviewed the SAT vocabulary that was introduced last week. She applied the words to the given sentences. She created sentences as well using the words. She then read the next chapter of Jeanette Wall's The Glass Castle. We discussed the effect of the mother's thinking and choices on the protagonist. Jaydn did a quick write on the word Mother. We compared and contrasted what she wrote with Jeanette Wall's mother's traits.

We talked about the Law of Definite Proportions and Multiple Proportions.

The Scientific Revolution, in a little more than a century, drastically and irrevocably changed Western European science and philosophy by changing the fundamental views on the nature of knowledge. The scientific method and its corresponding emphasis on observation and empiricism presented Early Modern thinkers with a new basis for knowledge, one which was tangible and could be demonstrated and reproduced. Using observational and experimental methods, scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers of the late 16th and 17th centuries discovered and theorized new views of our universe. These findings, and most importantly the methodology these Early Modern thinkers developed, changed the course of Western history by ushering in the beginning of modern science. The 16th and 17th centuries saw medicine and chemistry come into their own as disciplines. This occurred largely due to the increased emphasis on empiricism by the scientists of the period in their study of the natural world and the human body. Without the period's pioneering dissections, endless experimentation, and dedication to notation and observation, medicine and chemistry would likely not be the highly specialized disciplines they are today.

I introduced Jaydn to non-convex geometric figures, which we study in geometry. She answered some questions concerning definitions of polygons. I introduced some of the logical tools used in geometric proofs, including conditional statements and their converses. There was no assignment.

The Scientific Revolution designates a rapid series of scientific discoveries in western Europe during the 17th century.
There were numerous causes of the Scientific Revolution including the rise of empiricism, new inventions, and new discoveries that questioned the works of ancient philosophers like Aristotle or Galen. The scientific method, the process of analyzing natural phenomena, was formulated during the Scientific Revolution.
Astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun, and physicists such as Kepler and Newton discovered the forces that made the universe operate such as Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion and Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravity. Mathematicians found ways to simplify computing and analysis of data on charts, which enabled scientists to read their findings more easily and publish them more quickly.
Chemists started to study the states of matter while biologists explored the microscopic world, furthering our understanding of human anatomy. These discoveries sometimes led to conflict with the Catholic Church.