Spring Term 2017 Week 3 Intentions

April Hymn: “Up from the Grave He Arose” by Robert Lowry (Link to printable Hymnal)  (Link to YouTube)

April Folksong: “Greensleeves” (Link to printable)  (Link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet B: Sara Teasdale (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

  • Bible: (yr 8 week 4)  Judges 16-17
  • Church History : Trial and Triumph Jonathan Edwards
  • American History: This Country of Ours chapter 41: Franklin to Philadelphia
  • Science: Madam How and Lady Why pages 36-38,
  • Picture Study: Francisco Jose Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828; Spanish)    Portrait of a Young Man, ca. 1820

Morning Meeting Day 2:

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 8 week 3)   Matthew 5, Psalm 108
  • Science: Madam How and Lady Why pages 43-46
  • Shakespeare: friends are coming to finish Henry V

We are going to play catch-up with Madam How and Lady Why this week. I am trying to decide if I want to drop it or not. This is the only book I’ve ever read that my boys whine about listening to. My inclination is to push through, as it usually only ten minutes a week with five minutes of remembering where we are before and five minutes of narration and talking about it after (a 20 minute lesson, tops).

Spring Term 2017 Week 2 Intentions

Because we spent most of last week working on projects and attending events to celebrate my mother-in-law’s life, I am not updating all of the readings that are on this list. We didn’t get to all of our morning meetings last week, so we will play a little catch-up and shift some assignments. Since we school most days

April Hymn: “Up from the Grave He Arose” by Robert Lowry (Link to printable Hymnal)  (Link to YouTube)

April Folksong: “Greensleeves” (Link to printable)  (Link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet B: Sara Teasdale (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

Morning Meeting Day 2:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 39)  Judges 9, Psalm 107
  • Myths: Age of Fable chapter 4b, Callisto
  • Composer Study: Franz Liszt (1811-1886; Romantic) Piano Sonata No 1 (link to YouTube)

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 39)   Matthew 4, Psalm 108
  • Science: Madam How and Lady Why pages 36-47
  • Plutarch:  Crassius lesson 2

Spring Term 2017 Week 1 Intentions

April Hymn: “Up from the Grave He Arose” by Robert Lowry (Link to printable Hymnal)  (Link to YouTube)

April Folksong: “Greensleeves” (Link to printable)  (Link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet B: Sara Teasdale (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

Morning Meeting Day 2:

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 8 week 3)   Matthew 4, Psalm 108
  • Science: Madam How and Lady Why pages 36-47
  • Plutarch:  Crassius lesson 2

Winter Term Week 11 Intentions

March Hymn: “I Cannot Tell” by Ken Bible (Link to printable Hymnal)  (I can’t find a video of this one. We sing it at church, so it is familiar, but not memorized here. The tune is “Danny Boy.”)

March Folksong: “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet B: Sara Teasdale (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

Morning Meeting Day 2:

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 8 week 2)   Matthew 3, Psalm 107
  • Science: Madam How and Lady Why pages 28-36
  • Shakespeare:  Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V

Winter Term Week 10 Intentions

March Hymn: “I Cannot Tell” by Ken Bible (Link to printable Hymnal)  (I can’t find a video of this one. We sing it at church, so it is familiar, but not memorized here. The tune is “Danny Boy.”)

March Folksong: “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet B: Sara Teasdale (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

Morning Meeting Day 2:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 37)  Judges 3, Proverbs 1
  • Myths: Age of Fable chapter 3, Cephalus and Procris
  • Composer Study: Franz Liszt (1811-1886; Romantic) Les Preludes (link to YouTube)

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 37)   Matthew 2, Psalm 106
  • Science: Madam How and Lady Why pages 18-27
  • Shakespeare:  Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V

Winter Term Week 9 Intentions

March Hymn: “I Cannot Tell” by Ken Bible (Link to printable Hymnal)  (I can’t find a video of this one. We sing it at church, so it is familiar, but not memorized here. The tune is “Danny Boy.”)

March Folksong: “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet B: Sara Teasdale (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

Morning Meeting Day 2:

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 36)  Joshua 22; Matthew 1
  • Science: Madam How and Lady Why pages 9-18
  • Shakespeare:  Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V

Winter Term Week 8 Intentions

March Hymn: “I Cannot Tell” by Ken Bible (Link to printable Hymnal)  (I can’t find a video of this one. We sing it at church, so it is familiar, but not memorized here. The tune is “Danny Boy.”)

March Folksong: “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet B: Sara Teasdale (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

Morning Meeting Day 2:

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 33)  Joshua 22; Luke 24
  • Science: Madam How and Lady Why pages 1-9
  • Shakespeare:  Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V

Winter Term, Week 7 Intentions

February Hymn: “One Day” by J. Wilbur Chapman (link to YouTube) (Link to printable Hymnal)  (Note: the YouTube link to to Casting Crowns’ version, which has a different tune than the Hymnary version, but the same words for the most part)

February Folksong: “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” (link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet A: James Whitcomb Riley (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

  • Bible: (yr 7 week 33)  Joshua 14; Proverbs 30:10-23
  • History: This Country of Ours chapter 35: The Founding of Maryland
  • Picture Study: Edgar Degas (day-GAH; 1834-1917; French Impressionism)     Before the Race, 1882-84

Morning Meeting Day 2:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 33) Joshua 15-16
  • Myths: Age of Fable chapter 3 (Apollo and Daphne)
  • Composer Study: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
  • Danse Hongroise (Hungarian Dance), Op. 6 No. 2 (YouTube)
    String Quartet, Romance (YouTube)

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 33) Luke 22:7-53; Psalm 102
  • History: Trial and Triumph Chapter
  • Citizenship: Plutarch’s Life of Crassus Lesson 2

Winter Term, Week 6 Intentions

February Hymn: “One Day” by J. Wilbur Chapman (link to YouTube) (Link to printable Hymnal)  (Note: the YouTube link to to Casting Crowns’ version, which has a different tune than the Hymnary version, but the same words for the most part)

February Folksong: “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” (link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet A: James Whitcomb Riley (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

  • Bible: (yr 7 week 32) Joshua 11;  Psalm 100, 101
  • History: This Country of Ours chapter 34: The Witches of Salem
  • Picture Study: Edgar Degas (day-GAH; 1834-1917; French Impressionism)   The Little Dancer, sculpture; executed ca. 1880 or 1881; cast in 1922 (another view)

Morning Meeting Day 2:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 32) Joshua 12-13
  • Myths: Age of Fable chapter 2 (1/2)
  • Composer Study: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)    6 Symphonic Dance op 45 “summarizes Rachmaninoff’s compositional output” (YouTube)

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 32) Luke 21-22:6; Proverbs 30:1-9
  • Myths: Age of Fable chapter 2 (1/2)
  • Citizenship: Plutarch’s Life of Crassus Lesson 1

Winter Term, Week 5 Intentions

February Hymn: “One Day” by J. Wilbur Chapman (link to YouTube) (Link to printable Hymnal)  (Note: the YouTube link to to Casting Crowns’ version, which has a different tune than the Hymnary version, but the same words for the most part)

February Folksong: “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” (link to YouTube)

Winter Term Poet A: James Whitcomb Riley (link to poems on AmblesideOnline) (One poem per Morning Meeting)

This Year’s Shakespeare: Henry V (We are reading through Henry with friends outside of our Morning Meeting.)

Morning Meeting Day 1:

  • Bible: (yr 7 week 31)  Joshua 9;  Psalm 98
  • History: This Country of Ours chapter 33: How the Charter of Connecticut was Saved
  • Picture Study: Edgar Degas (day-GAH; 1834-1917; French Impressionism)     Place de la Concorde, 1875

Morning Meeting Day 2:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 31) Joshua 10;  Psalm 99
  • Myths: Age of Fable chapter 1 (1/3)
  • Composer Study: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)   Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini op 43 (24 variations; 18 is the highlight; (YouTube)

Morning Meeting Day 3:

  • Bible:(yr 7 week 31)  Luke 20:27-47; Proverbs 29:16-27
  • History: Trial and Triumph Solway Martyrs
  • Citizenship: Plutarch’s Life of Publicola lesson 11