Parallel Construction in CM's Volume 3 (and a beautiful thought too)

We owe it to the past 
to use its gains worthily 
and to advance from the point at which it left off. 

We owe it to the future 
to prepare a generation better than ourselves. 

We owe it to the present 
to live, 
to live with all expansion of heart and soul, 
all reaching out of our personality 
towards those relations appointed for us.

CM Series Vol. 3 Chapter 8

2012-2013 School Year

I have neglected the blog lately.  I hope I will post more this school year.  (No promises!)  I do want to put out our plans for the new school year.  First, here are dh's priorities for this year.  (They change a bit every year.  I cannot find last year's list, nor do I remember it, but if I do, I will post it.  The link above is from two years ago.)

PRIORITIES

Bible

English

Geography

History

Civics

Science

Life Skills

P.E.

Once again, English is high on the list.  Yay!  Civics and history have been two and three for the last couple years.  Geography made a surprising third place showing, which means I need to get my mapwork act together.  

First, group work.  Aravis will be out of pocket most days and may not get to participate in much of this, so I have geared it mostly to Mariel and Cornflower.

Bible-- read straight through with narration.  We are currently in Joshua (OT) and just finished Revelations (NT) and will start again with Matthew.  I really want to do Psalms this year also.  I'm working out a plan for it.

Be Ready to Answer (new edition) by Elder Michael Gowens

Hillsdale College Constitution 101

Waverly by Sir Walter Scott

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

It's (not that) Complicated by the Botkin sisters

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

Words that Shook the World (book and CD of speeches with commentary)

I am also working on a short list of scriptures, poems, speeches, etc. for memorization.

This will be Aravis' final year of homeschool.  Joyful, thrilling and bittersweet all at the same time. She is studying the ancients.  Here are the books we have chosen, based partly on Cindy's list for her daughter.

The Christian Imagination by Leland Ryken

Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

Has God Spoken? by Hank Hanegraaff

Heroes of the City of Man by Peter J. Leithart

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Aristotle's Poetics

The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton

The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Plato's Republic

The Portable Greek Historians

The Portable Roman Reader

The Blood of the Moon by Dr. George Grant

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg

Vanity Fair by Thackeray

Middle March by George Eliot

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Ben Hur

and some short stories (James Joyce, William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut...) 

I hope to get my hands on the King's Meadow Antiquity lectures when they are released. Aravis will also work through Dave Ramsey's college level personal finance course in terms 2 and 3.  She is taking English composition and biology with lab at the local college to round things out.

Mariel will be in her first year of high school.  Eek!  How exciting!  She is reading HEO Year 9, time period 1688-1815.

The God Who is There by Francis Schaeffer
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
Postmodern Times by Gene Edward Veith (if we have time)
History of the American People by Paul Johnson (first year)
Churchill's Age of Revolution (might be a free read)
Founding Father by Brookhiser
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
assorted source documents
One or two other biographies from the time period-- we have quite a few and I will let her pick.
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
Map drills from Seterra and Sheppard websites
Are You Liberal, Conservative, Confused? by Maybury
Maybe The English Constitution by Bagehot, Common Sense and Rights of Man by Paine
Essays by Jane Haldeman Marcet
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Ourselves (third year)
How to Read a Book (third year)
History of English Literature for Boys and Girls (third year)
Simond's American Literature
Two or three novels of her choosing from the Year 9 list
Finish Grammar of Poetry
Pope, Cowper and Wheatley
Dr. Robert Einarsson's Grammar (still wondering about this)
MEP Math (Years 8-9)
Apologia Biology
The Microbe Hunters (first year)
The Arts by Van Loon (might be a free read)
Spanish with Javamom
In His Image by Dr. Paul Brand (might be a free read)
Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson (first year)

Mariel is drawn to history.  I suspect she will want to read some of the other books in Year 9 as well, but I will let her pick and choose from among them and not require them as school reading.  This list looks long.  I may need to trim a few things.

Now for Cornflower.  My baby is going into middle school this year.  Hard to believe it!  She is reading Year 6, which contains one term of 20th Century and two terms of Ancients.

Story of the World Vol. IV
Augustus Caesar's World
Story of the Greeks
Story of the Romans
Genesis:  Finding Our Roots
Carry a Big Stick (T. Roosevelt)
Never Give In (Churchill)
The Story of David Livingstone
Map drills from Seterra and Sheppard websites
School of the Woods
It Couldn't Just Happen
Secrets of the Universe
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Galileo and the Magic Numbers
MEP Math (Year 5 into 6)
Frost, Sandburg, Noyes
Age of Fable (third year)
Animal Farm
Black Ships Before Troy
The Bronze Bow
KISS Grammar workbooks (6th grade)

We are still doing the Fine Arts co-op, orchestra and drama club.  In fine arts, the kids will be reading Hamlet, listening to Haydn, Wagner and Copland, and studying the works of Titian, Waterhouse and Byzantine Gothic artists.  I think.  In art class they will be learning color concepts and techniques.  And, of course, they will sing hymns and folksongs.  Ahh.  The drama club play this year is "Night at the Wax Museum".  Aravis is directing and Mariel is doing set design.  Cornflower is finally old enough to audition.  :)  We hope to get to the Y a couple times per week as well.  Sheesh.  It sure seems like a lot.  The girls study pretty well on their own at this stage of the game.  I'm mostly the activity-and-assignment-facilitator.

Notes on Mr. Shakespeare's "As You Like It"

These are reading notes I did for a Shakespeare co-op class.  I'm just putting them out here in case anyone wants to use them.  The post is incredibly long, and for that I apologize, but it was faster to post everything at once than do twelve different posts.  Also, it might be more convenient for someone wanting to print the entire thing.

Act I Scene I

Characters (in order of appearance)

Orlando de Boys, son of Sir Rowland de Boys

Adam, his faithful old servant

Oliver de Boys, Orlando’s older brother

Dennis, Oliver’s servant

Charles, Duke Frederick’s wrestler

Vocabulary

to breed me well- to make sure I was raised well

mines my gentility- ruins my good birth

be naught- get lost

you are too young in this- you don’t know anything about (fighting)

physic your rankness- cure your insolence

shall acquit him well- will do well

Act I Scene II

Characters

Celia, the daughter of Duke Frederick

Rosalind, the daughter of Duke Senior

Touchstone, a fool in Duke Frederick’s court

Le Beau, one of Sir Frederick’s courtiers (an attendant)

Duke Frederick

Orlando

Charles

Vocabulary

righteously tempered- pure or true

lineaments- features

Nature’s natural- a fool

forsworn- lying

taxation- slander

of what color? what kind?

quintain- a post or object mounted on a post and used as a target in tilting

humorous- temperamental

Act I Scene III

Characters

Celia

Rosalind

Duke Frederick

Vocabulary

working-day: wearisome

hem: cough

curtal-axe: sword

Jove: Roman king of the gods (counterpart of the Greek Zeus)

Act II Scene I

Characters

Duke Senior, the older brother of Duke Frederick (and rightful Duke)

Amiens, a lord one of Duke Senior’s attendants

First Lord

Second Lord

Vocabulary

old custom: experience

forked heads: arrows

cope: argue

Act II Scene II

Characters

Duke Frederick

First Lord

Second Lord

Vocabulary

roynish: troublesome

Act II Scene III

Characters

Orlando

Adam

Vocabulary

priser: champion

Act II Scene IV

Characters

Rosalind

Touchstone

Celia

Corin, an old shepherd

Silvius, a young shepherd

Vocabulary

batler: washing stick

dugs: udder

peascod: peapod

thou shalt have to pay for it of us: we will pay for it

mend your wages: raise your wages

Act II Scene V

Characters

Amien

Jaques, a lord, one of Duke Senior’s attendants

Vocabulary

I’ll end the song—sirs cover the while: I’ll finish the song while you set the table

in despite of my invention: although it isn’t imaginative

an if he will come to me: if he will only come to me

Characters and Vocabulary

Act II Scene VI

Characters

Orlando

Adam

Vocabulary

conceit: vanity, pride

desert: wild, uncultivated area

Act II Scene VII

Characters

Duke Senior

First Lord

Jaques

Orlando

Amiens

Vocabulary

discord in the spheres: disorder in the universe

dial: watch

wags: moves

chanticleer: a rooster from Aesop’s Fables

sans intermission: without stopping

my only suit: my only request

bob: joke

pard: panther

wise saws and modern instances: both old and new rulings (legal precedents)

effigy likeness or image of a person

limned: outlined in clear, sharp detail

Act III Scene I

Characters

Duke Frederick

Lords

Oliver

Vocabulary

I should not seek an absent argument… you present: I wouldn’t look for him with you present

Till thou canst quit thee: till you clear yourself (of charges)

Act III Scene II (Part A)

Characters

Orlando

Corin, the old shepherd

Touchstone

Rosalind (as Ganymede)

Celia (as Aliena)

Vocabulary

parlous: perilous

instance: example

fells: fleece

civet: a type of wild cat

perpend: understand

content with my harm: satisfied with my ill-fortune

the right butter-woman’s rank to market: they plod like dairymaids on their way to market

medlar: a type of fruit that was eaten rotten

half-ripe: partially wise

scrip: a small bag

more feet than verses would bear: in poetry, a foot is a certain number of syllables contained in part of a verse (For example, the word “upon” is two syllables. Its rhythm is short-LONG. It is an iambic foot.)

atomies: specks

holla! Whoa!

Act III Scene II (Part B)

Characters

Celia (as Aliena)

Rosalind (as Ganymede)

Orlando

Jaques

Vocabulary

cipher: one having no influence or value

penury: extreme poverty

cony: rabbit

quotidian: commonplace

(Begin at: “’Tis he; slink by, and note him.”)

Act III Scene III

Characters

Touchstone

Audrey, a goatherd

Jaques

Sir Oliver Martext, a country vicar

Vocabulary

Aside: a stage direction that indicates speaking privately (to oneself or the audience)

feign: pretend

a foul slut: a dirty, sloppy woman

I thank the Lord I am foul: Audrey is thanking the Lord she is unattractive?

wainscot: wooden paneling

horns: represent strength and honor; also sometimes indicate a husband’s loss of honor due to the unvirtuous behavior of his wife

bawdry: sin

Act III Scene IV

Characters

Rosalind

Celia

Corin

Vocabulary

dissembling: pretending

Judas: the apostle that betrayed Jesus with a kiss

verity: honesty, truth

concave: empty

tapster: tavern-keeper

puisny tilter: young, unskilled knight

Act III Scene V

Characters

Phebe

Silvius

Celia (as Aliena)

Rosalind (as Ganymede)

Corin

Vocabulary

cicatrice/impressure: a scar left by a leaf or seed on a plant

Thou hast my love: you have my friendship

earst: earlier

carlot: peasant

Act IV Scene I

Characters

Rosalind (as Ganymede, and eventually as Ganymede playing Rosalind!)

Celia (as Aliena)

Jaques

Orlando

Vocabulary

censure: ridicule

emulation: rivalry

politic: crafty

nice: fussy

rumination: thought

humorous: moody

blank verse: non-rhyming poetry in iambic pentameter (most of this play is written in blank verse)

I’ll warrant him heart-whole: I guarantee he is not in love

jointure: offer

leer: face

graveled:

suit: courtship

die by attorney: die by proxy

videlicet: namely

I might ask you for your commission: I might ask what right you have

casement: window

Act IV Scene II

Characters

Jaques

Lords

Act IV Scene III

Characters

Rosalind

Celia

Silvius

Oliver

Vocabulary

this is a letter of your own device: you wrote (devised) this letter

eyne: eyes

perlieus: outskirts

sheepcote: shepherd’s cottage

bottom: valley

osiers: willows

Act V Scene I

Characters

Touchstone

Audrey

William, a country boy in love with Audrey

Corin

Vocabulary

flouting: jeering, mocking

cover thy head: William has taken off his cap to salute Touchstone and Audrey; Touchstone bids him put it on again.

ipse: (Latin) he

trip: hurry

Act V Scene II

Characters

Orlando

Oliver

Rosalind (as Ganymede as Rosalind)

Phebe

Silvius

Vocabulary

thrasonical: boastful

incontinent: without control

I can live no longer by thinking: I cannot pretend anymore

Act V Scene III

Characters

Touchstone

Audrey

Two Pages

Vocabulary

woman of the world: married woman

Act V Scene IV

Characters

Duke Senior

Amiens

Jaques

Orlando

Oliver

Celia

Rosalind

Silvius

Phebe

Touchstone

Audrey

Hymen, the mythological god of marriage

Jaques de Boys, brother to Oliver and Orlando (the other Jaques)

Vocabulary

purgation: being cleansed of an accusation, esp. by a trial of fire, water or combat (ie., if you survived the trial, you were declared innocent)

copulative: that which unites or couples

sententious: abounding with sentences

bear your body more seeming: watch your posture

addressed a mighty power: gathered a great army

good wine needs no bush: in Shakespeare’s time, it was customary to drape branches of ivy in tavern windows as an advertisement for wine.