1. Read chapters 6-12 of Bark of the Bog Owl . Answer the questions given at the table: Ch. 6 After all the excitement of Bayrad’s visit what worries Aidan? What animal does Aidan particularly take notice of in his forest rambles? Describe it. What does Aidan’s father say about the beast?  What did Aidan decide about the beast? Why? Ch. 7   Describe Aidan’s capture of the beast. How does Aidan’s father feel about the capture and what does he propose? Why is there a treaty feast? How did Corenwald begin? Why is Errol against the Pyrthens? Ch. 8 Where is Tambluff Castle?  What important question does the south gate keeper ask Errol? How does the town respond to Samson? Ch. 9 Describe the clothes of the feast goers. How is the great hall of the castle decorated? To whom did the Hester offer his meat pie? Why?  What was in this pie? Ch. 10 How did the Pyrthens behave at King Darrow’s banquet? What did King Darrow do to Sampson? What do you thin...

1. Mindfulness Journal, pages ___ and ___ 2. Read The Bark of the Bog Owl , chapters 1-5, pages 1-44. 3. Answer these questions for BotBO . Chapter 1 Who is Aidan Errolson on the inside? On the outside?  What affect does the bark of the Bog Owl have on Aidan? Chapter 2 What does the old stranger say is there to find? Who is the dusty stranger?  Who is the King of Corenwald?  Describe Bayard. Wh are the sons of Errol?  What does Bayard chant? Chapter 3 Who are the feechiefolk?  What do the feechiefolk call the Corenwalders?  What is a ceremonial techie rudeswap?  Why does Dobro, the feechie boy, want to fight? What does Dobro’s mother tell him about Corenwalders? Chapter 4 What do Dobro and Aidan see after their wrestling match?  What happens to the panther? Chapter 5 Who does Bayard say Aidan is?  Fill in the blanks for these wise quotes from Bayard  a.(p41) Every great man starts out as a ________. Every great woman sta...

 We answered the questions from Story of the World chapters 41 and 42. When language barriers of the British and Maori people came up, we looked a bit at the study of linguistics and worked one of the easier linguistic puzzles from this page .  Ending Questions about No Summit Out of Sight 26. Jordan’s dad faced a great deal of criticism for taking him on these adventures. He finally says to the media, “You want to talk about irresponsible parenting? Let’s talk about the million and some parents that are standing in a fast-food restaurant waiting to supersize their kid right now for dinner tonight.” What do you think of his statement? Is he right? Which is actually more dangerous long-term? McLean says: Long term, burgers might be more dangerous, but short term, it kind of depends because inexperience could cause death! If you don't prepare well, these short-term dangers could very well be deadly. Obesity is reversible but death is irreversible. 27. List the challenges and mos...

For HW: 1. Read chapters 41-42 of Story of the World . (The last ones in the third book) 2. Answer the chapter questions. 3. Read No Summit Out of Sight chapters 26-29. 4. Finish your essay on Victorian communication. 5. Choose one page in your Mindfulness journal to fill in with at least five sentences.  At the table today we:  1. We began today talking about the difference between England/UK/Britain/British Isles/etc. and filled out the map and chart for that.  McLean wrote a response to this: I wonder why the Republic of Ireland isn't a part of the crown. I bet most people from Canada and Australia don't really care about the fact that British technically rule over them. I got a little lost when the video was talking about the differences between British Isles, UK, Ireland, and the Common Wealth. 2. We then filled out the maps

 1. Read chapters 39-40 Story of the World . 2. Answer the questions (given at the school table 3/1/21) 3. Mindfulness Journal p 109-110. 4. No Summit Out of Sight 22-25. 5. Essay rough draft: come on Friday with as much of the essay written out as possible. We will work on the final draft together. Today:  We watched an Alamo Battlefield Tour We began "The Man With the Twisted Lip," #6 of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  setting up a literary elements Story Graphic Organizer. (We're about halfway through the story to:  “Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day to-morrow.”) On Friday we will: 1. Go over the HW questions 2. Summarize the NSOOS reading and talk about the project for that book 3. Talk about the questions from the mindfulness journal  4. Finish the story and our graphic organizer 5. Work on the final dra...

 On this rainy day at the school table, we... 1. Went over the questions for chapters 37 and 38 for Story of the World . McLean wrote a response paragraph to the Trail of Tears. 2. Talked about the chapters from No Summit Out of Sight . McLean gave a verbal summary of the chapters she read.