12/21/13

Hayak video, and answer questions

Oldest completed Red Cross training program, babysitting basic, online

Youngest King of Ireland's Son and Planets -- Venus

Two kids to town with dad, errands and Mass;  one kid sick.

Oops -- Mass off, snow made me nervous about them getting back too late.

Individual reading.

Icons, Orange

12/18/13, 12/19/13 Orange

Wild Boar
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Math
Editing 20,000 leagues diary
Reading Eagle
Co op
Finished icon!
Latin


Choir practice
Violin lesson
Fencing

Pig
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Baking scones
Reading Madeline
Piano practice
Copywork
Finished icon!
Choir
Violin
Drawing

Piglet
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Baking scones
Reading
Lego kit
Drawing

12/20/13

Links:

Ambrose Bierce, just the first two pages

Thika, Einstein, Hayak

page Math Mammoth, hour reading (Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, Adventures of Reddy Fox on the reader)

 Quiz (spaces removed here):

 

12/20/13 Quiz

1.  Tell me about the three women in “The Flame Trees of Thika”.  What kind of people are they?  What kind of women are they?  How are they alike?  How are they different?  Are some more sympathetic than others?  Less?  Do the characters change as the book goes on?

Don’t answer the questions one by one, give a complete answer describing and comparing the women, and evaluating them, and answer the questions within your essay.

2.  What is a “mission boy”

3.  Why is the district commissioner not to worried about one of the Kikuyu being imprisoned unfairly?

4.  Explain how scientists can measure distance using radar waves.

5.  When Einstein developed his theories, he could attempt to prove them mathematically but could not attempt to prove many of them experimentally.  Later, others were able to confirm his predictions using experiments.  Why did the experiments have to wait?

6.  Gravity affects light because light has m_______.

7.  Massive objects alter both s_______ and t_________.

8.  Light passing close to the sun, for example, will slow down / speed up as measured by a distant observer.  

9. Hayak doesn’t believe government should “plan” the economy in such a way that there is one central plan that governs every part of the economy and that people are coerced to follow;  but he does believe we should “plan” the economy in that we work in

such a way that the economy allows for as much useful c______________ as possible.

10. If you have competition, Hayak believes you will have better results, but he also believes there will be less government coercion.  What does coercion mean?

11.  Give one example of something Hayak feels the government needs to step in and do to protect the free market.

12.  Why did they burn Sammy’s hut?

Extra Credit

1.  What school is MIT?

2. Give me an example of an area where Hayak believes full, free competition will not work.

3.  It’s all right to make reasonable regulations that are a burden on a company as long as the regulation does what?

4.  Give a short description of individual animals we have “met” so far in Thika – one point per good description.

12/19/13

Flame Trees of Thika

non-school day otherwise, Christmas ball at night

12/18/13

Rube Goldberg

Sick kid, doctor visit

Video Mars Rover program

Flame trees of Thika

1 hour writing

12/17/13 Orange

Platter
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Book club meeting
Math
Violin practice
Wrote diary entry for 20,000 leagues adventure
Started The Eagle of the Ninth

Plate
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Math (mammoth and 100 number chart)
Copywork
Narration- Samuel Champlain
Started Madeline to the Rescue
Violin practice
Baked cinnamon raisin bread

Saucer
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Reading
109 number chart messing around
Baked cinnamon raisin bread

12/17/13

One kid sick, one specialist appointment, trip to town

Library

Watched video on The Great Rift

12/16/13

Catch up on links

Figure skating

Figure skating

Amateur skating

Team skating, amateur, audience silliness, starts at 2 minutes

More pro, team

Looked up more skate stuff, Nanowrimo projects with friends

Flame Trees of Thika read, watched rest of Hanging Gale (very, very edited, be warned), math page, hour writing, hour reading

12/15/13 Pictures

One of the times it's nice to have pets.  Many times it's pretty not. . . .

Kids didn't help, but they got to know the alternator was being replaced and hear talk of it.

Molding and casting

Pancakes