Week 11 | Seminar Notes

Habit is overcome by habit. ~ a Kempis

Henle II, p. 512

PreCalculus - Adv A
We reviewed factoring equations. While we stop and review concepts from time to time, keep working on your math lessons. The guide has us on pace to complete Lesson 24 by next week.

Chemistry
Today we compeleted the caleulations from our Module 5 experiment in week 10.
We worked through the first few OYO problems from Module 6. Students are to have Module 6 completed this week. We'll have an experiment in class next week.
Remember, even weeks are labs and experiments and odd weeks we bring questions and work through OYO problems in class.

American History
Students should follow the reading assignments from the guide. Students should be picking their topic for their next essay, which is due week 14, and getting their outline together.
Students are to research the Lincoln-Douglas debate and you can begin with page 49 in your guide.
Assignment: Bring notes to class on what a Lincoln-Douglas debate is and what is its purpose?
Summary: Essay due week and Lincoln-Douglas debate will be week 14.

Lincoln-Douglas topics. Look these topics over and pick two you would like to see our class debate. Bring your two to class this coming week. Here are the five topics to choose from:

1. The US has a moral obligation to mitigate international conflicts.
2. A government's legitimacy is more determined by its respect for popular sovereignty than individual rights.
3. When forced to choose, a just government ought to prioritize universal human rights over its national interests.
4. The US is justified in intervening in the internal political processes of other countries to attempt to stop human rights abuses.
5. In the US criminal justice system, truth-seeking ought to take precedence over attorney-client privilege.

I have decided to select teams and assign your side of the argument. See the team selections below.

Shakespeare/Poetry
Students are finishing up their essay this week and it should be emailed to me by Monday evening. Be sure to reach for parallelism in your proofs. Students should be ready to perform their lines this coming week, week 12.
How's your poetry coming? Poetry Corner is week 13.
Summary: Julius Caesar lines and essay due next week, week 12. Email Ms. Shirley the essay at fiveshirleys@aol.com.

Philosophy
Kant, Marx, and Kierkegaard...

People demand freedom of speech

 as a compensation for the freedom of thought 

which they seldom use.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/soren_kierkegaard.html#QQTpg5VS4DxLtL3J.99

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/soren_kierkegaard.html#QQTpg5VS4DxLtL3J.99

Students did an exceptional job of including each other and helping each other clarify ideas and meaning. Well done, students. Read the next chapter and highlight interesting passages or sentences.
Philosophy presentation: Choose your philosopher, begin compiling your information and forming an outline for your five minute presentation due week 15.

Latin
We looked at the vocative case and the imperative mood. In class, we read Doubting Thomas on p.511. Students did an excellent job of translating as we read this together.
Assignment from Lesson 29: Exercises: 216, 218, 219 (select 5 to translate).



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Week 8 | Notes from Seminar

Picture Day next week, week 9.

Adv Math A
Work lessons 17 and 18 this week. In class, we went over polar coordinates and worked a few examples of converting from rectangular coordinates to polar coordinates.
Here are some helpful videos:
Angles and lines:  https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/parallel-and-perpendicular-lines/ang_intro/v/angles-at-the-intersection-of-two-lines
Completing the square:  https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/quadratics/completing_the_square/v/solving-quadratic-equations-by-square-roots
Polar coordinates: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/trigonometry/parametric_equations/polar_coor/v/polar-coordinates-1

Chemistry
We completed experiment 4.1.
Read and complete On Your Own for Module 5. Check out my blog post for Module 5 for help on the concept of a mole.

Latin
Well done, Jacob, in facilitating our Latin discussion on the gerund!
This week we work on translation exercises from Lesson 27 and the gerundive.
Assigned exercises are:197, 198, and 204
Master Latin scholar, Joe Hyde, will be facilitating our time together next week.

American History
We enjoyed a lively discussion and impromtu skills practice around the Panic of 1837. Using the common topic of relation: we thought on events that came before (antecedent) and events that came after (consequent) the Panic of 1837.
American History Essay #2 is due next week.
Please email it to fiveshirleys@aol.com next Monday.

Shakespeare
Finish reading Julius Caesar.
Highlight one or two passages that are interesting to you.

Think on these questions and ideas as you read:

1. Who is the better rhetorician: Mark Antony or Brutus?
2. Does Cassius envy Caesar?
3. Does Brutus love Caesar?
4. Are Brutus and Caesar friends?
5. Does true friendship require virtue?
6. What is virtue? Be ready to define virtue next week.
7. Is Brutus an honorable man?
8. In the play, note references to ceremony.
9. Note dreams, superstitions, and nature.
10. Note references to beasts and to divinity.
11. What robes and apparel references do you find?

Keep working on your poetry making a special note of metaphors and parallelism.

Philosophy
Read chapter 9 and be ready to discuss.
Pick a philosopher and be ready for your presentation on week 14.

Chemistry Module 5–Supplementary Tutorials

These 6 to 10 minute tutorials are nice supplementary resources for students in understanding the concept of a mole and molecular mass, as well as a good reminder to watch significant digits in final calculations.



More short tutorials:
Moles to grams, grams to moles