Morning Time November 2009

Shakespeare:
Coriolanus
First up we are going to watch the BBC production which I ordered from Netflix.

Plutarch:
Aristides

Bible:
New:

Proverbs 15:31-33
Read one Daily Proverb with discussion
Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World
As you may have noticed I am reading this in tiny paragraph sections with lots of discussion.

Review:

Books of the NT


Books of the OT


Habakkuk 3:17-19


12 Tribes of Israel


List of Judges


Hymns:

New:

You are Holy (Prince of Peace)

Review:

Now Thank We All Our God

Come Ye Thankful People Come

Bringing in the Sheaves

We Gather Together




Poetry:
Read and discuss one poem a day from 101 Famous Poems

New:

Finishing up the poem from Cymbeline

Review:

Lullaby of an Infant chief

My Daily Creed

Courtesy for Church

In Flander’s Field

Stopping by the Woods on Snowy

Misc Memory:

New:

Oath of Citizenship:

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."

This is a great thing to memorize. The vocabulary alone is worth the effort and the sentence structure is evocative of a more beautiful time.

Review:

Presidents Bee

We Shall Fight

Apostle’s Creed

Continents and Oceans

Heidelberg Ques #1

Reading Aloud:


Mother Tongue II with all children

Little Boys:

We finished The Jungle Book and The Horse and His Boy.
I was going to move into The Silver Chair but decided we better read Alice in Wonderland and Through Looking Glass before the new movie comes out.

The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Fabulously written book, if a tiny bit blunt. Not for everyone but excellent all the same.
A History for Peter: America is born, America Grows Up, and America Moves Forward (3 volume set) (Some object to Johnson's editorial viewpoint. I just use his opinions as a way to open discussions with the boys.)


Things get tricky from here until January. The week before Thanksgiving is a hard week for me to stay on track. I consistently end up skipping MT during this week. The thing that keeps me going is knowing that we are going to be singing some of my favorite Thanksgiving hymns. I love Thanksgiving and this year it is going to be special with both grand-babies visiting.

Just think in two weeks our tree will be up and we will be reveling in the advent of Christ with Handel's Messiah.

Ambleside Selections for 2009-2010

Ambleside Schedule 2009/2010

Term 1:

Artist:

Jan Van Eyck (1395-1441) Flemish Northern Renaissance (composer Saint-Saens and Berlioz, Early Romantic)

The Crucifixion and The Last Judgement are two of Van Eyck's most important and well-known works; however, they're gruesome, so alternatives have been suggested along with them.
1. The Crucifixion, 1425-30 OR Birth of John the Baptist, 1422
2. The Last Judgement, 1425-30 OR Madonna with Child Reading, 1433
3. Adoration of the Lamb (From the Ghent Altarpiece, 1425-30)
4. The Annunciation
5. Arnolfini Wedding, 1434
6. Man in a Red Turban, 1433

Composer:

Edvard Grieg (1890) & Jean Sibelius (nationalists)
Listening selections for this term:
Grieg Peer Gynt Suite no 1
Grieg Piano Concerto in A
Grieg Norwegian Dance no 2
Sibelius Finlandia
Sibelius Symphony 1 OR 2 (4 weeks)

Plutarch: Aristides/ Coriolanus
Shakespeare: Finish Cymbeline/ Coriolanus
Folk Song: The Old Oaken Bucket

Term 2:

Artist:
John Singer Sargeant (1856-1925) American

Composer:
Liszt, Romantic
Franz Liszt (1855) (Early Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Piano Concerto no 1
Hungarian Rhapsodies (esp no 2)
Les Preludes
Liebestraum for piano
Piano Sonata in B min
Mephisto Waltz

Plutarch: Cato the Censor
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Folk Song: The Jam on Gerry's Rocks


Term 3:

Composer:
Maurice Ravel (1915) (Impressionist)
Listening selections for this term:
Daphne et Chloe - selections
Bolero
Mother Goose Suite
Pavane pour une infante dufunte
Piano Concerto in D for left hand
Rhapsody espagnole

Artist:
Claude Monet (1840-1926) French Impressionist



Plutarch: Romolus
Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
Folk Song: Farewell to Nova Scotia, Land of the Silver Birch

Morning Time September 2009

Artist:
Rembrandt's Self Portraits




Composer:
Bach's Mass in B Minor

Folk Song:
Working on incorporating these into our morning.

Shakespeare:
Cymbeline (Yes, leftover from last year)

Plutarch:
Aristides

Bible Time:
Proverb of the day
Psalm 100 (relearn)
Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World

Review this week:
I John 4:1-11
Proverbs 4:10-17
Proverbs 20:11

Hymns:
Review:
Great is the Lord our God (Soldiers of Christ Arise tune)
Psalm 98 (Book of Psalms for Singing) This is one we actually sound halfway decent on.
I Love Thy Church, O Lord
O, Thou in Whose Presence
Let us With a Gladsome Mind

Poetry:
Read and discuss one poem a day from 101 Famous Poems

Learn Poem from Cymbeline

Fear no more the heat o' the sun;
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers come to dust.

Fear no more the frown of the great,
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dread thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.

No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renowned be thy grave!

William Shakespeare

Review:
The Gift by Christina Rossetti
Keep a' Goin'
Be Strong Babcock
Trees Kilmer
How Did you Die?

Miscellaneous Memory:

The US Oath of Citizenship

Review:
Ambleside Creed
Presidents Bee
West Point Cadet's Prayer
Apostle's Creed
Contemplate by Sam Adams


Reading Aloud:
Mother Tongue II with all children

Little Boys:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Don't let Disney rob you of this one.)
The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Fabulously written book, if a tiny bit blunt. Not for everyone but excellent all the same.
A History for Peter: America is born, America Grows Up, and America Moves Forward (3 volume set) (Some object to Johnson's editorial viewpoint. I just use his opinions as a way to open discussions with the boys.)

These 3 books are all so well-written that our reading time is a joy this year. For some reason this combination of books is one of the most successful combinations I have ever employed in Morning Time.

March 2009

Morning Time Plans March 2009

Morning Time Plans October 2008

Morning Time Plans for the Week Of October 2008

Morning Time Plans September 2008

Artist:
Van Gogh



Composer:
Bach
Bach Cello Suites from eClassical

Folk Songs:
Follow the Drinking Gourd
An Emigrant's Daughter

Shakespeare:
Love's Labour's Lost
Here I will admit this least favorite play of many is one of my favorites. The word play is just jolly good fun.

Plutarch:
Camillus

Grammar Moment:
Mother Tongue II

Bible Time:
I am using a book that my friend Linda gave me called Suffer Little Children Book 3 by Gertrude Hoeksema. We go through one lesson a week. We were taking such a long time to get through OT, I thought it was high time we studied the life of Christ. I highly recommend this study.

We are still in Psalm 91 because basically after last March our life fell apart. We had company for over a month last spring with lots of family visits during school spring breaks. Then my mom had a brain aneurysm. The good news is that she is home and though recovering, alive and well.

Review:
Romans 6
Books of the Bible
Psalm 20
Psalm 23

Hymns:
Non Nobis Domine

Review:
Rock of Ages ( I wish people would quit messin' with this one. The original poetry was spot-on)
O, Sacred Head
Saviour Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Softly and Tenderly
Soldiers of Christ Arise

Poetry:
Finishing finally How Sweet the Moonlight and The Man that Hath no Music from The Merchant of Venice.

Review:
I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General Here is a clip of the song...we don't sing it....with Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline.
The 2nd Coming Yeats
Horatius at the Bridge. Good news: you can find this at Librivox which saves some breath.
To Be a Pilgrim. I may add this to our list to re-memorize. It is by John Bunyan and I like it!
Where the Boats Go. RLS

Misc Memory:
Presidents Biographies. From the back of The Buck Stops Here. One a day. We just did Abe Lincoln.

Review:
Presidents Bee
Bill of Rights #s 7,8,9,10
Gettysburg Address

Reading Aloud:

While we did finish about 20 books last year, you will be happy to see we really are going very slow through some of these.

English Literature for Boys and Girls. I hope to finish this one up soon. We are on Burns.

The Little History of the World. Also coming to a close.

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. Probably shouldn't have started this last year but I didn't know how the year would end up. This book is on my top ten list.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis

Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey

Andersen's Fairy Tales

Rod and Staff Manners 2nd Grade. I have this very, very old workbook from R&S and I just love it for teaching manners and hygiene. We discuss one page a week.