We finished another week of the WH guide. N. had one day where he struggled just overall in all subjects. I know he was tired that day and because of his CP this seems to affect him more than it would most kids his age.
He finished up a project in Total Health this week. It was a mental health project and he chose one that was at the end of the chapter on self image. He chose to memorize 3 bible verses that related to helping him keep a self image that is centered around who he is in God and qualities that God desires to build up in him. He picked pretty short verses, but I was ok with that. Since he is not neurotypical, he has battled some self esteem issues. The verses he picked are verses that are very applicable to his life. He then recited them for me. Here is a picture of him right after he told them to me. You will note all the exercise equipment and vault in the picture-yes my living room is his gym during the winter months.
He continues with his Art History and each week he has to answer short answer questions as well as do a "writing project", which is really just a paragraph in answer to a question. This week he was asking "why he had to write in art?". After we discussed the negative attitude I told him because writing wasn't just for history or English, that he will be asked to write in all subjects in college. I do like how this year he does have writing assignments in almost all subjects. It is very good practice for future assignments. The short answer questions can actually be very challenging. They often require some thought. Some of them are written in a way that requires some inference. He has always struggled with that, but I see some improvements this year.
In history he had to read several primary source documents about the peasant revolt that occurred during the time of Martin Luther and he had to decide if Martin Luther was guilty of inciting the peasants to revolt and then ordering them to be killed. He also had specific questions to answer about the reading and he has to go back and highlight things in the text that support his verdict. When he and I discussed what he was going to say for his verdict he gave such a good answer, but then when he put it on paper it was very simplified. That happens often and it is frustrating. I did not make him fix it because I use things as a baseline to be able to see if he is showing improvement in an area.
In Math he continues to do very well with TT Algebra 2 and I see some pretty deep thinking going on as he figures out how to solve the problems.
In literature he continues to read The Scarlet Pimpernel and says he enjoys it. We started watching the 1982 movie and while it is a good movie, it is very different from the book.
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