Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan. 27-28

No online classes on Jan 27.
These are for Jan 28.

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem Painting a Room by Katia Kapovich
  2. Read the poem Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
  3. Review So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  4. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 01 Ch 7-9  (Link to main page here)
  5. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 01: Ch 10-11
  6. Read Romeo and Juliet, Act 4 Scene 4 &  Scene 5
Music:
  1. Practice banjo. Review Ed Haley's Rebel Raid on banjo. (Select song from left hand column.)
History:
  1. Read The Constitution, page 95-98 (PDF page number 128-130)
  2. Read the Bill of Rights, Amendments 11-14
  3. Begin a new section--watch video and do quiz afterward The Oregon Trail: Westward Migration to the Pacific Ocean
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Mechanics: Newton's Law and Weights
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Energy and Heat: What is Nuclear Energy?
  3. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Biomolecules: DNA Double Helix Structure and Hereditary Molecule
Economics:
  1. Watch video: The Multiplier Effect and the Simple Spending Multiplier

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan. 24

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem Fault by Ron Koertge
  2. Read the poem Thanks For Remembering Us by Dana Gioia
  3. Perform So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
Music:
  1. None Today
History:
  1. Finish up DBQ question from yesterday found in American Revolution, page 95 (PDF page number 127)
  2. Read the Bill of Rights, Amendments 1-10
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Mechanics: Third Law of Motion
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Energy and Heat: What is Electrical Energy?
  3. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Biomolecules: DNA Adenine, Guanine, Cystosine, Thymine
Economics:
  1. Watch video: Cost-Push Inflation

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan. 23

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem Nights by Kevin Hart
  2. Read the poem Grammar by Tony Hoagland
  3. Read and continue to memorize So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  4. Start Volume 3. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 01 Ch 1-4  (Link to main page here)
  5. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 01: Ch 5-6
Music:
  1. Scroll down the page and select Oh! Susanna. Download audio and text. Sing along and try to learn the words.
History:
  1. Watch video and take quiz at the end: Antebellum America: Abolitionist Movement. This is the last video in this section.
  2. Do the multiple choice questions in American Revolution, pages 89-90 (PDF page numbers are 121-122). Select a question from page 95 (PDF page number 127) and use the documents on the prior pages to write a DBQ Essay. 
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Mechanics: Second Law of Motion
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Energy and Heat: What is Chemical Energy?
  3. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Biomolecules: DNA Chemical Structure
Economics:
  1. Watch video: How to Calculate Real GDP Growth Rates

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan. 22

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem The Green One Over There by Katia Kapovich
  2. Read the poem A Man I Knew by Margret Levine
  3. Read and continue to memorize So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  4. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 08 Ch 8 A Successful Interrogatory (Link to main page here)
  5. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 08: Ch 9 Cloistered. This concludes Volume 2.
Music:
  1. Scroll down the page and select Oh! Susanna. Download audio and text
  2. Select a new song to learn on banjo. 
History:
  1. Watch video and take quiz at the end: Antebellum America: Abolitionist Movement. This is the last video in this section.
  2. Read American Revolution, pages 86-88 (PDF page numbers are 118-120)
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Mechanics: First Law of Motion
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Energy and Heat: What is Radiant Energy?
Economics:
  1. None today.

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan. 21


Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem In The Well by Andrew Hudgins
  2. Read the poem The Poetry of Bad Weather by Debora Gregor
  3. Read and continue to memorize So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  4. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 08 Ch 6 Between Four Planks (Link to main page here)
  5. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 08: Ch 7 In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying 
Music:
  1. Listen to song of choice from previous selections.
  2. Continue learning to play Ed Haley's Rebel Raid on banjo. (Select song from left hand column.)
History:
  1. Watch video and take quiz at the end: Antebellum America: Slavery in America
  2. Read American Revolution, pages 83-85 (PDF page numbers are 115-117)
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Mechanics: Implications of Mechanics on Objects
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Biomolecules: Proteins II
Economics:
  1. Watch video Gross Domestic Product : How to Caclualate Real GDP

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan. 20

Thee are no lessons for Jan 17 since we took that day off.

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem Snow by David Berman
  2. Read the poem Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly
  3. Read and continue to memorize So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  4. Read or listen to Les Miserables:: Bk 08 Ch 4:  In Which Jean Valjean has quite the air...(Link to main page here)
  5. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 08: Ch 5: It is Not Necessary to Be Drunk
  6. Read Romeo and Juliet, Act 4 Scene 2 &  Scene 3
Music:
  1. Listen to Jump Jim Crow
  2. Continue learning to play Ed Haley's Rebel Raid on banjo. (Select song from left hand column.)
History:
  1. Watch video and take quiz at the end: Life in the South: Ordered Society and Economy of the Southern States
  2. Read American Revolution, pages 80-82 (PDF page numbers are 112-114)
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Mechanics I: Speed and Velocity
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Mechanics II: What is Acceleration?
Economics:
  1. Watch video Gross Domestic Product Nominal vs Real GDP
  2. Watch Milton Friedman's Free to Choose, part 2, the last 30 minutes.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan 16

This is a continuation of our online lessons for each day. The lessons for Jan 6-10 were posted in December if you care to look back at them.

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem She Didn't Mean To Do It by Daisy Fried
  2. Read the poem Cartoon Physics, part I by Nick Flynn
  3. Read and continue to memorize So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  4. Read or listen to Les Miserables:: Bk 08 Ch 2: Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty (Link to main page here)
  5. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 08: Ch 3: Mother Innocente
  6. Read in book or online Uncle Tom's Cabin, chapter 31
Music:
  1. Listen to Old Folks at Home by Stephen Foster and read over the lyrics. Sing along. 
  2. Listen to Those Johnson Boys and Johnson Boys with lyrics
  3. Listen to Little Brown Jug 
  4. Continue learning to play Ed Haley's Rebel Raid on banjo. (Select song from left hand column.)
History:
  1. Watch video and take quiz at the end:  Problems of Urbanization and Daily Life in the North
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Biomolecules: Proteins I
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Energy and Heat: What is Thermal Energy?
Economics:
  1. Watch video Inflation Measurement: Adjusting Wages for the Inflation

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan 15

This is a continuation of our online lessons for each day. The lessons for Jan 6-10 were posted in December if you care to look back at them.

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem Hand Shadows by Mary Cornish
  2. Read the poem The Printer's Error by Aaron Fogel
  3. Read and continue to memorize So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  4. Read or listen to Les Miserables:: Bk 06 Ch 10: Origin of the Perpetual Adoration (Link to main page here)
  5. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 07: Ch 05: Prayer
  6. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 07 Ch 06: The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
  7. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 07 Ch 07: Precautions to be Observed in Blame
  8. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 07 Ch 08: Faith, Law
  9. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 08 Ch 01:Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
  10. Read in book or online Uncle Tom's Cabin, chapter 30. Read from "_______ "  to "_______  " 
Music:
  1. Listen to Old Folks at Home by Stephen Foster and read over the lyrics. Sing along. 
  2. Listen to Those Johnson Boys and Johnson Boys with lyrics
  3. Listen to Little Brown Jug 
  4. Continue learning to play Ed Haley's Rebel Raid on banjo. (Select song from left hand column.)
History:
  1. Read The Constitution, pages 96-98 (PDF page 128-130) and take notes on the reading. Read and revise essay from yesterday (DBQ question 1 (PDF page 127)). Type into final draft.
  2. Read The Bill of Rights, amendments 1-10
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Biomolecules: Structure and Function of Lipids
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Energy and Heat: What is Mechanical Energy?
Economics:
  1. Watch video Inflation Measurement: Consumer Price Index and Substitution Bias
Art:
  1. Watch video Art Through Time: A Global View, under themes select "#4: Ceremony and Society"

Monday, January 13, 2014

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan 14

This is a continuation of our online lessons for each day. The lessons for Jan 6-10 were posted in December if you care to look back at them.

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem The Meadow by Kate Knapp Johnson
  2. Read the poem Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer by Chris Forham
  3. Perform Shakespeare's sonnet Shall I compare thee to a summer day from memory
  4. Watch video Byron's Don Juan and take quiz at the end (about 12 minutes)
  5. Read and continue to memorize So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  6. Read or listen to Les Miserables:: Bk 06 Ch 10: Origin of the Perpetual Adoration (Link to main page here)
  7. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 06 Ch 11: End of the Petit-Picpus
  8. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 07 Ch 01: The Convent as an Abstract Idea
  9. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 07 Ch 02: The Convent as an Historical Fact
  10. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 07 Ch 03: On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
  11. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 07 Ch 04: The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
  12. Read in book or online Uncle Tom's Cabin, chapter 30 (read from "The soft, earnest, quiet moonbeam looks in fixedly..." to ------------------?
Music:
  1. Listen to Old Folks at Home by Stephen Foster and read over the lyrics 
  2. Listen to Ring de Banjo by Stephen Foster 
  3. Listen to Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster
  4. Begin learning to play Ed Haley's Rebel Raid on banjo. (Select song from left hand column.)
History:
  1. Read American Revolution, pages 89-90 (PDF page 121-122) and take notes on the reading then write essay for DBQ question 1 (PDF page 127)
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Biomolecules: Structure and Function of Carbohydrates
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Energy and Heat: Second Law of Thermodynamics 
Economics:
  1. Watch video Milton Freidman's Free to Choose, part 2: The Tyranny of Control. Watch first 30 minutes. 

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Jan 13

This is a continuation of our online lessons for each day. The lessons for Jan 6-10 were posted in December if you care to look back at them.

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem Marcus Millsap: School Day Afternoon by Dave Etter
  2. Read the poem Publication Date by Franz Wright
  3. Perform Shakespeare's sonnet Shall I compare thee to a summer day from memory
  4. Watch video Lord Byron: Poems and Biography and take quiz at the end (about 12 minutes)
  5. Read and begin to memorize So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  6. Read or listen to Les Miserables:: Bk 06 Ch 06: The Little Convent (Link to main page here)
  7. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 06 Ch 07: Some Silhouettes of this Darkness
  8. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 06 Ch 08: Post Corda Lapides
  9. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 06 Ch 09: A Century Under a Guimpe
  10. Read Romeo & Juliet, act 4 Scene 1
  11. Read in book or online Uncle Tom's Cabin, finish chapter 29 and start chapter 30 (stop at "The soft, earnest, quiet moonbeam looks in fixedly..." 
Music:
  1. Listen to Old Folks at Home by Stephen Foster and read over the lyrics
  2. Listen to Ring de Banjo by Stephen Foster 
  3. Listen to Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster
  4. Sing songs learned so far this year. 
  5. Practice musical instrument(s)
History:
  1. Watch video and then do quiz afterward Antebellum America #4 Economic Developments in the North 
  2. Read American Revolution, pages 86-88 (PDF page 118-120) and take notes on the reading
  3. Read Articles 4-7 of the US Constitution 
Science:
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Biomolecules: Introduction to Organic Molecules II 
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Energy and Heat: First Law of Thermodynamics 
Economics:
  1. Watch video and do quiz Inflation Measurement: The GDP Deflator and Consumer Price Index (part 2 of 10)