Reading
- Listen to the story of Paul Bunyan. Click on the play button. You can read along if you like.
- The story of Paul Bunyan is a tall tale. What parts of the story are obviously made up?
- We are going to be reading and writing poetry at first this year. When you write poems, are you going to write crazy, made up things or are you going to write about real life?
- Try and read this poem. Read it out loud a few times to practice. Then go to this timer and see how fast you can read it. (Click on stop watch.)
- If you want (and are allowed), here is a Paul Bunyan cartoon you can watch on YouTube. Here are some other tall tales.
History
- Welcome to Early American History. You are going to be reading about one explorer in particular, Christopher Columbus.
- You will be reading The True Story of Christopher Columbus.
- You are going to be reading the first seven chapters.
- Today you will read the first half of chapter 1.
- Look at the photos on this page. Click on each of them.
Devotional
- Read 3 Nephi 14:12 and Matthew 7:12
- Read this quote- "Everyday of our lives, we are given opportunities to show love and kindness to those around us." President Thomas S. Monson
- How should we treat others around us? Why is it important to treat others this way? How can you be better at this?
Foreign Language
- Languages come in families. The families probably began at the tower of Babel. Then groups of people with the same language family ended up living in different places. Over time their languages developed differently. Think of how many Americans came from England. Over time did they develop a different type of English? Yes, we use some different vocabulary. You can see that as well in the King James Bible. It was written in English, but it’s a different English than we know today. Do we say, “Thus saith?” No, our language has changed, and that’s just hundreds of years. You can find writings from Colonial times where the “S” sound was written with an “f.” Languages change over time.
- Before you start studying a foreign language, let’s look at some of the Romance languages: French, Spanish, and Latin. English is a Germanic language which is why German is an easy language for English speakers to learn. However, English has a lot of influence from the Romance languages as well. You are going to be learning some Latin and then comparing it to French and Spanish. Latin, by the way, is a dead language, meaning it’s not spoken anymore, but it’s useful in helping you learn other languages.
- Let me give you an example of related words. Avion in French means airplane. Now I don’t think avion and airplane are related, but I think avion and aviation are related. When you encounter new words, you will use your powers of observation to make connections like that to uncover their meanings.
- A Tale of Two Princesses — Episode 1 Just watch and listen.
Reading
- Write the words teeming, fathom, reverberating, cumulative in your reading notebook and pay attention to them as you read. Please write the date in the top right corner of the page and label these words as Day 1.
- Read Carl Sandburg, numbers 2-11. This poet was born in 1878.
- Look at the word monotone in poem 5. The rain is monotone and is being contrasted with a rainbow which has lots of colors. What does monotone mean? The prefix mono means one. This man is wearing a monocle.
- Look at the word catalpa in poem 6. I don’t know what it is. Do you? But the poem gives us clues. It says, “grass, catalpa and oak.” We know what grass is. Oak is referring to the tree. So we can assume catalpa is some sort of plant. This is catalpa.
- This is a mastodon in poem 8. How would you imagine a mastodon moves?
- Write what you think is the definition of each of the words you wrote in your notebook.
- Look the words up to find their definitions. If you were not correct, please add the correct definition to your notebook.
- Choose two poems and write what each poem is talking about in your own words. Label your answer with the number and title of the poem.
History
- Welcome to Early American History. You are going to be reading about several explorers. But I want you to remember something, before America was “discovered,” it had already been found and lived in. Here’s a map showing America’s territory before Europeans invaded the land.
- Today you will read the first chapter of Discoveries and Explorers. Here is the audio version if you want to listen to it.
- Write a paragraph about what people believed 400 years ago.
Devotional
- Read 3 Nephi 14:12 and Matthew 7:12
- Read this quote- "Everyday of our lives, we are given opportunities to show love and kindness to those around us." President Thomas S. Monson
- How should we treat others around us? Why is it important to treat others this way? How can you be better at this?
