My huge history book that I am reading (or at least trying to)

I have previously mentioned a big book that I am reading.  This is the book that I am talking about.  The book is called  History of the Ancient  World  and it is by Susan Wise Bauer.  It was meant for an older audience than a sixth grader, but I find it rather interesting.  Some of the words I don't understand, so I write them down to look them up later in a dictionary. That is what I mean to do, at least.

              Today and the day I last read this book, I was reading about the ancient Sumerians and  Egyptians. I read a lot ( in Egypt history) about the lower and the upper kingdoms. There were all these wierd kings with long wierd names and I am glad  that I did not try to read out loud, or I would have been stumped.  I hope someday you-who-are-reading-this-blog will read this book also, and I hope you will enjoy it as much a I am.



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                                                                           August 31

The First Monday, August 30th 2010, (in which I briefly study Marco Polo)

Do you know who this is?  This is Marco Polo.  Today in history I read about him. He was only 17 when he took his first journey to China in 1271!  He was a great storyteller and he told a man his adventures. That man wrote them down, and so now there is a book called,  The Travels of Marco Polo.  Today in history I also read about Richard the Lion-hearted, (whom everybody loved,)  and also his brother John, (whom nobody loved.) I read a little bit about the Crusades and an even littler bit about Robin Hood. To explain the " little bits",  you've got to realize the title is,   A Child's History of The World, and they are  are trying to recall the  beginning of the world through World War II  in 470 pages.

In math, today, I took  my first test of the school year.  One thing I really enjoyed  at school, was getting my report cards and progress reports. I liked seeing what I did well  and what I should work on in the next quarter. I will probably not get report cards this year, but, now, the fun of seeing my test scores will increase.  The test took barely half an hour, and the content was all review, so I spent the rest of my assigned hour in another lesson on estimating, bar graphs,  and rounding to the nearest 10, 100, or 1000.

              In English,  where I am using a  Shurley English Grammar curriculum, I reviewed the contents of a sentence and what defines a noun and a verb. 

I have not yet started studying science yet, for I do not have a textbook format to use.


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Schooling, (whatever kind), is worth it in the long run

Sometimes I feel like I don't ever want to spend time in school , or even just learning again.  But other times, I feel like I could learn the whole day and never get tired of it. Neither of those describes exactly  what I feel today , but my emotions are closer to the latter than to anything else.  I really enjoyed

studying German today, and while I was translating Latin sentences, I thought, " I'm really getting the hang of this now,". It gave me joy to know that I was actually getting somewhere.  I'm not quite a Latin scholar yet, but I really enjoyed that lesson. 

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My learnings between the days of August 25- 27, which mark the beginning of the school year. August 28, 2010

On the day that I began my studies, Aug. 25,a Tues., math was my first priority.  In the hour I had set aside for that subject, I completed more than 2 lessons in the curriculums. I read the short paragraph there about what I was about to undertake, completed five or six of the examples, and then did ten or so other problems of a different kind of math work. That is basically the process I will be using in math every day. These first few days will be review for me. This day I rewiewed how to add and subtract , divide and multiply  whole #'s and money. My next subject would have been Language Arts had I had my workbook. Instead I spent 10 minutes on German and then moved on to a half hour study of Latin. In Geman I went over the 5-w words.  ( where when who how why).  In Latin I reviewed the first lesson over.  History was my fourth subject. I read about  the first people on Earth. The book I'm reading from has a Christian viewpoint. It is a book that was meant for kids so it is interesting to me. It is also sometimes funny

On Aug. 27, things went much the same way on this day. In math, I worked on the numberline, story problems, and place values. In L. Arts, I did an easy excercise on synonyms and antonyms. In German, I tried to memorize the days of the week. (Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch , Donnerstag, Frietag, Samstag,)
 In Latin I did some more exercises. I worked on the parts of  a Latin sentence.  In history, I read more about the first nations of the world and their first wars.  I also started a much bigger history book which is by Susan Wise Baur.
It is meant for adults to read, so I don't understand all of it. It is interesting too. It talks a lot about how people recorded what they did and how we know what we know about them.
                                           
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