We completed reading and studying this Shakespeare comedy during today's session. I discussed how the Elizabethan comedy is marked by a final act symbolizing harmony- generally a marriage or in this play a double marriage . Further, the villain is captured and brought to justice. We noted how in many ways this play mirrors parts of Romeo and Juliet but with a light and happy ending. After we finished the play ,we viewed a few clips of an excellent movie production of the play which helped bring the play to life for Joshua.

We will work example problems to prepare Joshua for the college algebra CLEP test.

Joshua was absent today.

We continued our study and reading of Much Ado. We noted the parallel between Beatrice's speech wishing she were a man and Lady Macbeth's similar yearning as she plots the murder of Duncan. Further, we parsed certain dialogue of Dogberry to study the comedic use of malapropisms.

View a video which discusses how Einstein used a thought process to arrive at the general and specific theories of relativity. Discuss and analyze how time dilation and length contraction occur in space time. Observe that a space traveler, traveling at near the speed of light, will return from a 10 year trip through the galaxy and demonstrate only a 1 year increase in age.

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We will continue through the CLEP test example problems.

We have enjoyed studying in this early comedy the antecedent plot lines , figurative language and dramatic devices that appear later in Shakespeare's more mature works. Today , we noted that Dogberry's malapropisms manifest in later tragedies , that the metaphor of water cleansing sin appears in Macbeth and Hamlet, and that Beatrice's convincing Benedict to slay his best friend is deeply reminiscent of Lady Macbeth's urging Macbeth to kill Duncan.

We continued to study and read the next act of the play. We noted the importance of certain dramatic techniques such as the "aside" to create comedic situations. We further noted in this early Shakespeare play some of the devices that later plays perfect such as the use of the closing couplet and carrying parallel sentence structure into ongoing dialogue.

Synthesis of various esher preparations which are used for scents. These include apple, cherry, rum, pear, and methyl salicylate rub. These labs are to complete some lab demonstrations which Joshua was interested in completing.