11/15/13

Shipwreck photos

Will have to probably do this link and several below (including from Orange, always like those links) later in week when our bandwidth has replenished

swimming with friends

einstein, hayak, kipling, almayer

math videos, way things work videos

11/14/13 Orange

Hot

Art

Latin

Ward method

Choir

Fencing

Just Right

Writing games

Latin 

Ward method

Choir

Reading

Watched-  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naO1zxhiVWg (Preview)

Cold

Lots of time with mom

Jenga and Spot It (yesterday) 

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Orange-410-Spot-It/dp/B0039S7NO6

Cleaning windows

Designing Lego sets

Reading

11/14/13

Co-op day

Then extra play time after

Connections video

Irish dance and errands

Individual reading (Brian's Winter finished, on to Brian's Return;  Portrait of the Artists abandoned for Christmas Carol;  Because of Winn Dixie finished for Nobody's Boy)

Here's what we do at co-op, although we don't count it for school:

Youngest:  P.E., art, handbells, Spanish

Middle:  art, choir, girls' club, writing

Oldest:  dance, choir, helps in nursery, general Apologia science

11/13/13

Hayak

Borneo (for Almayer's Folly)

Kipling on lying, which we just read about in his autobiography

(links ended abruptly when we saw our bandwidth was running out!  Yikes!)

Morning work, Math Mammoth, Fred, Murderous Maths, Almayer, Einstein, Hayak, Kipling, all abridged to get down to town

Quiz

11/13/13 Quiz

1.  Where did Rudyard Kipling’s mother go when he entered boarding school?

2.  What poet hung out with his mother’s friends?

3.  When he was at boarding school, he had to stay there over the Easter holiday.  Was it horrible or fun?

4.  What was Stalky, M’Turk, and Beetle?

5.  Was the Malay girl taken in by Lingard happy or unhappy about it?  Why?

6.  What did she expect to happen after she was captured?  What did happen?

7.  Was she happy to marry Almayer?  Why or why not?

8.  Was Almayer happy to marry her?  Why or why not, do you think?  What were his plans for his married life?

9.  Did Almayer start to get rich after going into business with Lingard?  Why or why not?

10.  What does Hayak mean by a hierarchical society? 

11.  Has Goldbach’s idea been proven right or wrong?

12.  The light bubble is a model trying to show the relationship between t_____

and sp______, and how g___________ affects them.

13.  What does a light bubble look like when the ship is in the middle of empty space?  Describe, or draw a picture.

14.  What happens to our astronaut’s light bubble near a massive object?  Describe or draw.

15.  What happens to the poor guy’s bubble on the edge of a black hole? Describe or draw.

16.  What happens to his future inside a black hole?

Extra credit:

1.  What did one of the three women who watched after him do “on her knee before the fire”?

2.  What is the Goldbach conjecture?

3.  What is our future biased towards?  What would we have to do to overcome that bias?

4.  Using the model of the light bubble, or a time bubble, explain why apples are lazy.

11/12/13

Quiz yesterday was a huge failure, lots of wailing an gnashing of teeth all day, so adjusting to have less covered on the hard topics and add some more fiction back in

Covering colonialism with Almayer's Folly and Kipling's autobiography

Talked about colonialism first

Einstein, Hayak

Murderous Maths, Fred

Math Mammoth, writing, reading

sewing projects on the side, some house cleaning and cooking from recipe book from library

New Quiz:

 

11/12/13 Quiz

1.  How did Fred get Bobbie to give him the remote control for Roger?

2.  How did Dolly get the gang out of jail?

3.  Hayak believes Western Civilization was distinct because, being based on Christianity and the thought of ancient Greece and Rome, it concentrated more on the

______________ than on the _____________.

4.  What is totalitarianism?  Why does Hayak think has led to the totalitarianism in his lifetime?

5.  Close to a black hole, the path of light is curved so that you might be able to see

around _______________.

6.  Name one problem with the use of a rubber sheet with weights on it to model the curvature of space around massive objects?

7.  What is happening to the river as Almayer watches it?

8.  Who is Nina? Who was her mother?

9.  Almayer’s family is from the Netherlands.  How often has he been there himself?

10.  Why did Almayer agree to marry Lingard’s adopted daughter?

11.  What is an ayah?

12.  So far, we have seen four different places Kipling lived as a child.  Briefly describe three of them.

13.  Why did Kipling begin to have a hard time in school?

Extra Credit: 

1.  How did Almayer’s youth affect his hopes for the future?

 

2.  Kipling was often accused of lying as a young child.  What kinds of thing did his accusers call lies that Kipling thought were not lies?

11/11/13

J. K. Rowling

Curving space time

Writing hour, math mammoth

Typer Island


Einstein, Serfdom




Quiz 11/11

1.  Why does light tend to fall towards earth?

2.  Around objects with mass, what does space do?

3.  What model is used to help see the effect of very massive objects on space?

4.  When demonstrating the effects of gravity, sometimes it’s useful to make the gravity

extreme and imagine space near a _______________.

5.  Explain what the model of a “light bubble” is (four points for this question, more complete answers get more points).

6.  In what way is the spaceship’s astronaut’s future limited by the bubble?

7.  Explain what happens to a spaceship’s light bubble if it’s on the surface of a black hole.

8.  What is totalitarianism?

9.  What does Hayak say has led to the totalitarianism in his time?

10.  How did commerce change Europe during the time of feudalism?

11.  Is Hayak concerned mainly about freedom for nations, for ethnic groups, for religious groups, or for individuals?

12.  Does Hayak think individualism is the same as selfishness?

13.  Why does Hayak believe people began to discard and be ashamed of the thinking on freedom that led to so much prosperity in innovation?

Extra credit

1. Why does an apple’s light bubble show that a falling apple is really just a lazy apple?

2.  Which three cultures or factors does Hayak say became important influences during the Renaissance, helping to develop Western Civilization?

C____________

The G_________

The R____________

3.  Name one of the philosophers, politicians, economists, or historians that Hayak lists in this chapter.

11/10/13

Individual reading (Finished Brian's Winter, Because of Winn Dixie finished, Sackett book finished, new books started)

Walk with youngest around the block

Connections

Piano

done another day, The Way Things Work Musical Instruments

One hour reading

11/9/13

Writing hour, Fred, Proverbs

Watched video of play done over summer with group

Mass

Thor