January Apprentice

APPRENTICE:

Read:  

-Titus Chapter 2

-Stories of Great Artists: Sir Joshua Reynolds

-Finish reading your book for this month:  Girls:  Understood Betsy, Boys:  Johnny Tremain

Watch: -This video Joshua Reynolds painting

 -And watch this video:     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQo3W5CgmI

Email: Favorite Joshua Reynolds art work to Isaiah or Megan by Thursday at noon.

Think and Write: Do a word study on “work”.  Write your own poem or story about the things you have learned about hard work. What are you feelings about work?  Why is work important?  How have your feelings changed about work this month?  What have you learned by working on your work project?  How is work a blessing to you?

Write your favorite quote from the book you read for this month, or something you learned about yourself by reading the book.  Make sure your writings come to class with you

Memorize: Work on memorizing the poem and scripture for the month

Ladies:

Understood Betsy - As you read, consider some of these questions: Why do you think this book is called Understood Betsy? What are some of the lesson's that Betsy learns in the book? What is your favorite comment or question that the author inserts in the story?

And choose one or more of the following to teach us what you learned from Understood Betsy:

·       Write a poem about a theme from Understood Betsy.

·       Be a book critic for the day. Write a critique of Understood Betsy

·       Write a newspaper article about some event that happened in Understood Betsy

·       Act out a scene from understood Betsy during class and tell us what you learned

from that scene

·       Make a movie from a scene from Understood Betsy and send us the file or a link

online so we may watch it before class time.

·       Create a piece of art work from a theme in Understood Betsy

·       Learn some new skill that Betsy learns in the book, share your experience

·       Practice understanding children, without pay or reward, seek to understand a

child using some of the tools the characters use in the book.

·       Keep a life lesson journal. Record in your journal whenever you learn a life

lesson, whether it be from a book, a person, or life.

Young men:

Johnny Tremain - As you read, consider the following questions: What is Johnny's biggest fault? How does this fault hinder him? What are some of the lesson's that Johnny learns in the book? What was your favorite comment or question that the author inserted in the story?

And choose one or more of the following to teach us what you learned from Johnny Tremain

·       Create a letter from Mr. Lyte to Johnny telling him of his family history.

·       Write a newspaper article about a Revolutionary War event

·       What are you passionate about? What do you think is worth fighting for? Write a

persuasive essay to convince others to join your cause.

·       The Son's of Liberty had their own symbols to identify themselves. Create your

own symbol to represent the things you stand for in your life.

·       Political Cartoons have played a part in history. Create your own political cartoon,

either about an event from the book, or about a current event.

·       Act out a skit, or make a movie (please send out before class time) depicting a

scene from the book.

·       Johnny learns many life lessons from his friends and his enemies. Record some

of Johnny's life lessons. Make a list of your own friends, and enemies. Record in some way the things that you have learned from them.

·       Create something useful that you make with your own hands.

·       What are some ways to become politically active without open rebellion? Choose

a cause you believe in, and do something to help the cause.  Share!

·       Skills or a trade are just as important in our world as they were in Johnny's. Choose a skill or trade that you need to work on. Do some work on it, share with us what you do.

Project:   Complete your project for the month.   Please plan to share in some way what you did for your project and what you learned from the project.   We may do this in class, or it may be an outside class activity.

January Journeyman

Journeyman:

Preteach: This month we are learning about Vivaldi, a composer who worked very hard to make beautiful music. We are also learning about some very difficult things that Christian has to work through in his pilgrimage. We are also encouraging you to work hard to really think about these concepts in your inspirements. Consider the following questions as you study:  Why do you think people put the hard work into creating something beautiful to see or hear? Does their hard work inspire you to also work hard at what you create? These days it seems that people want a lot for a very little effort.  What has happened to our society that has caused us to see work as a bad thing?

1. Read: Pilgrim's Progress until Hopeful becomes Christian's new travel companion

2. Word Study: One of the names of the people or places that Christian encounters and come to class prepared to represent that person or place. Write your choice in the comment section below by Tuesday at noon.
3. Read: How to Write a Compare and Contrast Essay

4. Quiz: Click here

5. Listen: The Four Seasons with hand-out pages 9-11,  listen for the sounds that represent the words that are in bold in the sonnets

6. Email: Class Preparation Sheet by Tuesday at noon

7. Find: A principle and application from your chosen research below to share in class

8. And choose one or more of the following to research (use more than just wikipedia), be prepared to share what you learned AND A PRINCIPLE AND APPLICATION YOU THINK YOU FOUND IN YOUR RESEARCH OR PROJECT  (don't forget this underlined, bold, capitalized statement before you come to class - see here for help):

Choose something to learn more about from the terms in this week's cultural literacy or any of your readings in Apprentice, Journeyman or Master (such as: dairy farming, one-room school house, alcoholism, Boston Observers, The Boston Tea party or other event, Doctor Warren or another historic person, Trinidad, making tools or shelters, uninhabited islands or survival skills, for example). Do page 3 and 4 of the I-Search Paper link.( or map your thoughts in another similar way)***

Complete this study guide to help you analyze your reading of Johnny Tremain***

It is thought that Vivaldi was inspired to write the Season concertos because of four paintings by Marco Ricci. Read he Vilvadi handout and learn to play a song by Vilvadi; or create paintings/drawing etc. of your own that this music makes you think of, one for each season; or look up paintings by other artists that feel like this music to you.  Bring them to show us, or email links before class to share with us. Remember to share a principle/truth you learned from doing this.***

The Four Seasons has a Sonnet written for each season. Learn about how to write a sonnet and create a sonnet about a truth that is meaningful to you in nature.***

Compare Elizabeth Anne to Betsy, Betsy or Johnny Tremain to yourself, Robinson Crusoe to Friday, cannibalism to the "natural man", or anything else you would like to gain additional insights into by comparing and contrasting (see page 3 on compare and contrast link for ideas).  Do page 4 of the Compare and Contrast Essay link.(or map you thoughts in another similar way)***

Write your opinion to one of the questions in the preteach section.Use examples from your life or from the reading.***

Research anything you are interested in from a musical, literary, artistic or imaginative perspective. Write about it in one of these formats.

***Don't forget to: be prepared to share what you learned AND A PRINCIPLE AND APPLICATION YOU THINK YOU FOUND IN YOUR RESEARCH OR PROJECT 

January Master

Pre-teach: Robinson Crusoe is a great story that can teach us how to become masters of something that we are now subject to - bad habits, weaknesses, rebellion, circumstances, etc. In the beginning, Crusoe feels he is a prisoner (or subject) to an island. As you read, ask yourself what you would do if you were in similar circumstances (you may learn something about yourself) and what you may have learned from the experience.

1. Read: Robinson Crusoe

2. Choose: A principle you found in your reading

3. Bring: A question  to discuss and a favorite quote

4. And do one or more of the following:

-Write an I-search Paper from the research you did in Journeyman

-Write a Compare/Contrast Essay from the research you did in Journeyman

-Take what you researched in Journeyman and improve another skill to present the principle and your evidence (research) in a beautiful, appealing, or persuasive way through story, essay, art, speech, presentation, video or other way of your choosing.

-Read pages 9- 18 of this study guide.  Choose one writing assignment and one activity to do from the guide.  Include an application.

Read: A Postcolonial Presidency: Our Man Obama. If you disagree with anything he says, write a Persuasive Letter to the author, explaining your point of view and why you think that way.

-Write a Persuasive Letter to Robinson Crusoe to try to get him to make a different choice than one which you did not agree with in the book.