September 30 - October 4

This is an exciting week! We've ditched Summit and Edgenuity, you have new curriculum and we're finishing the week at a good friend's house (in Austin, Texas). So why not open a brand new blog, just for you and your education. I hope it works.
Your primary goal for this week is to adjust to a new style of school. We're going to work out some kinks without pushing too hard.

  1. Language Arts
    1. Read a chapter of Just Mercy each day, starting with Chapter 1 on Monday.
    2. Each day except Friday, do either one vocabulary or one grammar exercise in IXL, being sure to do two of each by the end of the week. Before you start, please make sure that you're logged in as you. We can also try this on your tablet.
    3. Sometime this week, work with dad to create somewhere on this blog for adding vocabulary words that you identify in your book.
    4. You're going to start writing an essay about our civil rights module. On Friday, develop an outline. Your first step should be completing this sentence so that you know what you're trying to accomplish: "Dear [intended audience], if there's one single thing I want you to know about our civil rights tour in the south, it is..." This does mean you have to decide on your audience. Nana? Mr. Hilyard? Your Girl Scout troop?
  2.  Math
    1. Our goal this week is to cover Chapter 1 of Dimensions Math. This material is meant for 15 1-hour class periods but because it is review for you, we think it will go much faster. Your objective should be to recognize which problems are easy and which are hard. Our objective is to figure out how to use the three different books provided for the same material.
      1. Monday: Aim to complete Section 1.1 (Order of Operations, pages 1-10). Watch for the "discuss" bubbles, like the one on page 4 about 2^3 versus 3^2. Complete the exercises on pages 10-11. (Skip the "try it" exercises throughout the chapter, unless you want to refresh your memory on those topics.)
      2. Tuesday: Aim to complete Section 1.2 (Factors and Multiples), pages 11-15. Again, look at the "discuss" balloons, skip the "try it" examples and complete the exercises on pages 15-16
      3. Wednesday: Aim to complete Section 1.3 (Multiplication), pages 16-23. Using the same approach as before, work on the exercises on pages 23-24.
      4. Thursday: Aim to complete Section 1.4 (Division), pages 24-31 then do the exercises on page 1.4.
      5. Friday: Read 33-38 and do the exercises on page 38. Also: sit with one of us and flip through chapter 1 in the workbook. Don't do each question but use markers to mark each one as easy (green), scary (red), and in between (yellow).
  3. Blog Management
    1. Get an google account up and running.
    2. Play with the blog to create a style that you like.

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