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.