Jaydn did well in describing the events of violence that characterize the beginning of chapter 3. We further explored the distinct personalities of the two men who own the team of dogs. Jaydn emphasized the empathetic nature of one vs. the coldness of the other. I then provided instruction on how to write a literary quote analysis: context, paraphrase, and significance. We studied a metaphorical passage wherein London describes our lives as "puppet "lives and discussed how that reference applies to the Naturalist genre. I demonstrated how to draft a sentence evidencing the quote's context, and I assisted Jaydn in paraphrasing the quote and in discussing its significance to the Naturalist genre.
The First Battle of Bull Run: Civil War Blood is Shed
Lesson Outline
The First Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the American Civil War. After the fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861, President Lincoln sent troops to Baltimore to ensure that Maryland did not secede. The Union army intended on a victory at Bull Run to prepare the way for the capture of Richmond, the Confederate capitol. Most Americans were in such disbelief that Americans would fire on each other that local people took picnic lunches with their families to view the "battle." That is until shots were actually fired and people ran! Ultimately, the Union Army retreated from the field. The Confederates won, but the battle casualties suffered by both sides (5,000 total) demonstrated that the war would be much longer and bloodier than most people expected. Here is a horrific, historic fact: 750,000 soldiers died during the 4 years of the Civil War. That is a greater # military tragedies than ALL 20th century military conflicts combined!
During today's Geometry class, we continued working on Chapter 1 where we are defining the most basic concepts of geometry. We also practiced several questions to put into practice some of these concepts. Jaydn worked independently on some of the questions.
Early Battles of the Civil War/The Emancipation Proclamation
Lesson Outline
The Anaconda Plan was seen as a humanitarian way to force a Confederate surrender by denying supplies and resources. The Union set up blockades along the Atlantic Coast to deprive the Confederacy of supplies. They also hoped to control the Mississippi River to move their troops and supplies into the South. But as the war raged into into its 2nd, horrific year, President Lincoln issued he Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, granting freedom to enslaved peoples in ten states. But it was ignored by southerners. It was issued during the American Civil War and helped allow the Union to win the war. While it did not make slavery illegal and there was criticism surrounding the document, its existence brought on the abolition of slavery in 1865. The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States.
I. What is a sentence?
Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamatory
II. Identifying Subjects and Verbs
III. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
IV. Antonyms and Synonyms
V. Periods, semicolons and commas
Assignment
Notes in Google Docs to be shown tomorrow-camera on tomorrow
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Jadyn and I briefly reviewed her goals and my expectations for English III. We are going to start at the top with Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 for literature, arguably one of the best known of the 154 sonnets written by the English poet William Shakespeare, as Jaydn requested reading with a "light" theme. Once that was decided, we reviewed grammar. Jaydn is not familiar with the school's IXL platform. We reviewed declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences and Jaydn learned to identify subjects and verbs and that a sentence is a complete thought with both. We discussed sentence variety and Jaydn agreed and stated that a string of declarative sentences "doesn't catch the reader's attention." Jaydn is concerned about the run-on sentence, so I taught her about the comma splice to be continued tomorrow with other methods of correctly connecting sentences.
During today's Geometry class, we continued working on Chapter 1 where we are defining the most basic concepts of geometry. We also practiced several questions to put into practice some of these concepts.
During today's Chemistry class, we described the electron configurations for the atoms for any element using orbital notation, electron configuration notation, and, when appropriate, noble-gas notation.
