Weekly Wrap UP 11/1/19-- School update 10th grade

MarioFan has been plugging along with his school work and it has been a a bit since I posted what he has been working on, so I thought I would share a little of what is going on here in that regard.

In Literature we have been reading "The Scarlet Letter".  I remember reading this book in high school and hating it.  I am surprised to find I am enjoying it so much better this time around, although MarioFan is NOT.

In order to help him better understand the book, the characters, symbolism, plot, and conflicts we have been referring ourselves to a great website Course Hero.  It has great videos and explanation of this book and hundreds of others.  I plan to use this site a lot this year.

The boys are also learning about Character Maps and this book is great for reviewing, conflicts, themes, symbolism and character analysis

Boys working on there character map

they didn't completely finish by the end of class so have a bit of homework to do:)

For history we are relearning about the Revolutionary war and some additional reading that I have had MarioFan do are the following 2 books.

I know these books are a bit younger but I really like them and still think they are a good read.  We are of course using grade appropriate text book to review this era:)

Our bucket drumming class is going very nicely and the boys have learned two songs so far.  Dance of the reed pipes and the Liberty bell march.  I recorded the boys doing both songs.  I wasn't able to get the boys playing downloaded by the time this post goes up, maybe by the next update I will manage it:)



We are also working on watching the video series on Music appreciation for Course history.  The boys aren't thoroughly enjoying it but we are learning a lot.  Not sure how much they are retaining but it is nice to see that their piano lessons have been paying off as they are able to recognized most of the musical terms within the video:)

For biology we are plugging along and are relearning the human body systems which is book 4 of EO Wilson Biology of life book series.  Most of this is a review as we delved into this in middle school pretty deeply.  we are doing some labs but they are mostly field trips and I will be posting about them soon.

MarioFan is also continuing with his Piano, Spanish and Kung Fu lessons.