2019-2020
Semester 1/ Q1 dates: 8/12-10/11 | Semester 1 / Q2 dates: 10/14-12/20 | Semester 2/Q3 dates: 1/6/20-3/6/20 | Semester 2/Q4 dates: 3/16-5/15 | |
Time Period | 1850’s-1876 Civil War | 1877-1914 Industrial | WWI-WWII (1914-1945) | Cold War - 80’s/90’s |
Bible | Study of Peter | Peter | Devotions | Devotions |
Focus | F: Working Hard H: Working Hard | F: Attention H: Attention | F: Time Management H: Flexibility | F: Independence H: Flexibility |
Artist Study (Am. Artists) | Audubon Cassatt | Thomas Hart Benton Norman Rockwell | Jasper John Georgia O’Keefe | Peter Max Warhol |
Composer Study | Charles Ives (1874-1954) | George Gershwin (1898-1937) | Aaron Copland (1900-1990) | Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) |
Poets (American Poetry) | Walt Whitman Edgar Allen Poe | Robert Frost e.e. cummings Emily Dickenson | Carl Sandburg William Carlos Willams | Langston Hughes Maya Angelou |
Folk Songs | This Land is Your Land Slave Spirituals | I Saw three Ships Home on the Range | WWI/WWII songs This Land is Your Land Over There | If I Had a Hammer This Little Light of Mine We Shall Overcome |
Hymns | Star Spangled Banner | Greensleeves (What Child is This?) | ||
Shakespeare | ||||
Family Literature | George Mueller Bio or Augustine the Farmer’s Boy of Tagaste | A Christmas Carol (movie) Lit study | Yearling | |
Handicrafts/ Life skills | Chores | Chores | Cooking - Great Depression Meals | Presentation 4H |
History/ Geography | Geography: Union/Confederate States America: Civil War geog. Forrest lit.: Across 5 Aprils Hayden lit.: Harriet Tubman, US Presidents Cursive Copywork | Geography: Sp. Am War America: The Guided Age/Industrial Age Forrest lit.: To Kill a Mockingbird Hayden lit.:The Earth Dragon Awakes 1906 | Geography: America: Forrest lit.: Hayden lit.: Bud Not Buddy | Geography: America: Forrest lit.: Hayden lit.: Diary of Anne Frank |
Science | F:Apologia Bio H: cells, skeletal system, muscular system | F: Apologia Bio H: digestion, nutrition | F: Apologia Bio H:circulatory, nervous | F: Apologia Bio H: reproductive |
Language Arts | Forrest: Lit study - Across 5 Aprils, Huck Finn, Writing - Family Narrative (Short Story) Grammar - commas, capitalization, adjectives, types of sentences, clauses, adverbs, pronouns Hayden: Book study -Harriet Tubman, Writing - narrations,copywork, Bravewriter codes, personal timeline, Homonym minibook Spelling - Dictation Grammar - nouns, pronouns, articles, verbs, helping verbs, contractions | Forrest: Lit study - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1912), To Kill a Mockingbird (1930), Cinema Study: A Christmas Carol Writing -Essay Writing Spelling - Units 13-24? Grammar - punctuation, capitalization, writing letters Hayden: Book study - Writing -narrations, copywork, Bravewriter Five W’s, Imaginary Continent or Island Chain Spelling - Dictation Grammar - Interrogative sentences, adjectives, adverbs, modification, | Forrest: Lit study - A separate Peace WWII, Fahrenheit 451 (1950’s) Writing -American Poetry - Reading and Writing Spelling - Units 25-36 Grammar - punctuation, capitalization, writing letters Hayden: Book Study - Writing - narrations, copywork, Lap Book - Tall Tale, Month of Days journal, Poetry Spelling - Dictation Grammar -Prepositions, prep phrases, conjunctions, interjections, ellipsis, subjects | Forrest: Lit study - Raisin in the Sun (1959), The Right Stuff (NASA 1960’s- 70’s), Cinema Study: Field of Dreams Writing -MLA Research Paper Hayden: Book Study - Writing - narrations, copywork, Mail order catalog, Nine steps to competence, more narrations Spelling - Dictation Grammar - Action and Linking Verbs, DO, IO, PN, Nouns of Direct Address, Appositives |
Projects/ Odds & Ends/ Field Trips | Jan 8 FL Orchestra Coffee Concert March - Swim Orlando March - Dump | 4H Gainesville Area - Ginnie Springs | ||
Family Movies | Glory Dances with Wolves Brooklyn Bridge Documentary Gone with the Wind | Miracle Worker Men Who Built America Titanic To Kill a Mockingbird | Sounder Legends of the Fall Unbroken | Hidden Figures |
Revised 9/9/19