Class Notes

Friday January 27, 2012
After sharing the pictures we got on the Dunhuang caves and Wu Zetian's tomb, we reviewed the two chapters: 31 and 32.  Did dragons, monsters, and dinosaurs exist at the same time as man?  According to the Bible, there were Leviathans as well as Behemoths and dragons! Check out Job chapters 40, 41; Ps.74, and 104; as well as Is. 27:1.  If we believe as we say we do that the Bible is the Word of God and is true......
check it out for yourself.
I assigned extra credit for this new nine weeks.  You may do 1 or both.  Each one that you do will replace your lowest grade(s).  Remember that you need to do these projects seriously and well above what is normally expected.  They need to be FANTASTIC!!  If you choose to use poster board, then you may use markers.  If you choose to use cardboard, then you are required to use paint.  You do NOT have to use the Activity Supplement for your shield, but it DOES have to be life size.  The instructions for the shield may be helpful, however.  Read them just in case.  You must make the shield AND the sword which is for one (1) grade.  The 2 projects are due by March 16.  I am NOT going to remind you of this.  This is your extra credit and you are to remember everything about it. I don't erase these blogs so you can go back and read if you forget something.  That is YOUR responsibility.
We also went over how to do a timeline.  Please don't wait until the end of the 9 weeks to correct yours or to start a new timeline.  Get it ready to go now.  The same for your Memory Cards.  Go ahead and put the title, vol.# and edition, and Lesson # on your cards.  You can then put the summary on after we read the lesson and review.  You could do Lessons 31 and 32 now.
Some of you are STILL not turning in your work on time.  This is very disturbing to me.  If this is you, then you need to get a folder that is marked Homework, and, as you finish ANY homework, it goes in that folder so that whatever the class, you look in that folder and there is the homework you did.  I am going to start taking off points for late homework.  It is going to be 5 points per day unless you were absent.  Absent students get a day for every day they are absent before points come off.

If it is taking you longer than 50 minutes to do your homework, please let me know.

Parents, I sent home History and Literature report cards at the end of Literature class today.  Please sign them and return them to me by Tuesday.  If you have questions or need copies, please call me at: 524-8034.  If you call my cell I may not get back to you.  I don't always have my cell or check it.  Please call my home phone.  Thank you.  I was disappointed in some of the grades this nine weeks.  If you are too, let's have a conference to straighten out any problems, please.  Call me.

Your assignments are:

Monday 30 January 2012
1. Pg. 182: 32C: #2-Write a paragraph about Caedmon.  Google "caedmon" and write about his birth, death, what his accomplishments were.  IF you can, bring in music from "Caedmon's Call".
2. Get Report cards signed.
3. Fix timelines and memory cards.

EXTRA CREDIT:
1. Pg. 181: 32A: follow directions.  Read Activity Supplement 32.
2. Pg. 181: 32B: Follow directions carefully.  Short paragraph should be on any similarities between these "monsters" and modern-day species.