Week in Review 10/19-10/23,2015

This is actually 2 weeks in review.  Since things are just going along fairly smoothly I don't have much to say and I don't take many pictures.  I guess that is a good thing.

N. just finished week 10 in the guide.  There continue to be new types of assignments, usually these are a step up in the level of challenge.  Last week he had a Critical Thinking Using Primary Source Documents assignment.  He had several primary source documents to read about Caesar Augustus and he had to then decide a mock trial verdict of guilty or innocence of the accusations against him.  He also had several questions to answer.  This was a tough assignment and another one I hope to see growth in as the year goes on. 

He also had another You Are There assignment on the Last Days of Pompeii.  I always listen to these with him since I then scribe his notes into the notebook.  We both agreed this one was pretty chilling.  This one was harder to hear than the others so I think he struggled more with it.  He also had to give a topic oral narration and previously the topics have been listed in the guide.  This time he had to come up with the topics.  He thought it was going to be too hard and we had to discuss attitude a bit, but then he did it and did fine with it.  He also had some quotes from the book In Context that he was asked to answer some questions on, that were designed to have him make connections with his belief's or other knowledge.

He continues working on his Art History notebook.  Almost every week there is a writing assignment.  These seem to be difficult for him.  He struggles to pull in lots of details and wants to give very general answers.  We are working on that.

He is enjoying the Pilgrim's Progress Study.  This picture is grainy, but it shows how intensely he is focusing as he listens and follows along in the text.  We have had some really good discussions with the discussion questions that the guide directs us to do together.

Last weekend our church did a service project for Hands Against Hunger.  Around 100 of us went and packed 45,000 meals to go to Sierra Leon.  N. was at a table of teens, many of whom are homeschooled, and they worked very hard to get all their meals packed.  It was pretty amazing to see 4 year old up to 70+ year old working side by side.  N. was rocking his hairnet.