U.S. HISTORY: Grade 9, 2011-2012

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1.  Book:  Which Way to the Wild West?  by Steve Sheinkin

~  "Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About America's WESTWARD EXPANSION"

2.  Field Trip:  Gettysburg 148^th Anniversary Civil War Battle Reenactment on Sunday, July 3, 2011.

(Total time, including drive:  7 hours)

• Battle:  The Confederate Surprise - "Cavalry Battle at Fairfield"
• Battle:  Pickett’s Charge – “The Artillery Opens Up!” 
• Independence Day Artillery Commemoration (Field)
• Live Mortar Fire Demonstration (Field)      

3.  Field Trip:  Fort McHenry

~  Baltimore, Maryland
~  Wednesday, August 10, 2011
~  Total time, including drive:  5.5 hours

 

WORLD HISTORY: Grade 9, 2011-2012

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1.  Book:  Battles That Changed Warfare (1457 BC - 1991 AD), From Chariot Warfare to Stealth Bombers by Devries, Dougherty, Jorgensen, Mann & McNab.

  

Peloponnesian War

2.  Book:  Cromwell and His Not-So-Civil War by Alan MacDonald (Horribly Famous Series)

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)

3.  Book:  Queen Victoria and her Enormous Empire by Alan MacDonald (Horribly Famous Series)

Queen Victoria was head of the largest Empire the world has ever seen.

4.  Film:  Exodus

~  A film about the founding of the state of Israel.
~  Actors:  Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint
~  total time:  1 hour
~  We didn't finish the film.  But the part about the founding of Israel was informative.  It gave us a feel for what it was like for the Jews.

5.  Book:  Christ the King, Lord of History (A Catholic World History from Ancient to Modern Times) by Anne W. Carroll


~  Total time:  2 hours 15 mins.
~  high school text
~  read-aloud
~  Chapter 9:  Empire Versus Church (1.5 hrs.)
~  Chapter 10:  The Great Heresies (2.5 hrs.)

A Catholic world history for high schools and adult reading. Covers mainly Western world history from a Catholic viewpoint. This book makes the Church the central figure of all history.

Recommended in Catholic Heritage Grade 8, Catholic Heritage High School, Kolbe Academy Grade 7, Laura Berquist Medieval English & Spanish Hist/Geog/Lit Syllabus, Seton High School. History, Grade 10.

Grade: 9 and up
Publisher: Tan

LITERATURE: BOOKS - Grade 9, 2011-2012

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1.   Book:  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

~  read-aloud by RED, beginning Friday. June 10, 2011:
~  Total time:  1 hour, 25 minutes  

2.  Book:  Emma by Jane Austen

~  Began on June 16, 2011

3.  Book:  The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi

4.  Book:  Comrade Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi 

~  Began on June 21, 2011

5.  Book:  Redwall - The Legend Begins! by Brian Jacques   (Re-read)

6.  Book:  Hank the Cowdog - The Case of the Vanishing Fishhook by John R. Erickson, # 31

RELIGION: The Eucharist and the Saints - Grade 6, 2011-2012

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1.  Stories of saints that I've read aloud to the boys:

a)  St. Aloysius Gonzaga  (1568-1591)

~  Italian Jesuit priest 
~  It's his feastday today:  Tuesday, June 21, 2011!
~  Happy Feastday, SLED!
~  Story:  "Aloysius Gonzaga Played Ball"
~  Book:  Golden Legend of Young Saints by Henri Daniel-Rops
~  Quote:  It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.   St. Aloysius Gonzaga
~  St. Aloysius, pray for us!


b)  St. Giles  (640-720)

 

Prayer:

O Lord, we beseech you to let us find grace through the intercession
of your blessed confessor St. Giles;
that what we cannot obtain through our merits
be given us through his intercession.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

St. Giles,
Pray for us.

~  Feast Day:  September 1
~  Book:  In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
~  a Greek, Christian hermit saint from Athens, who withdrew deep into a forest in France, where in the greatest solitude, he spent many years, his sole companion being a deer.
~  St. Giles is known as one of the "Fourteen Holy Helpers," a group of saints invoked with special confidence because they proved themselves efficacious helpers in adversity and difficulties.
~  St. Giles, pray for us!

c)  Holy Simeon  (Pray for Us!)

Simeon took Jesus in his covered arms to show reverence and spoke "The Prayer of Simeon."

The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

~  Feast Day:  February 3
~  Patron of the Elderly
~  Book:  Saints of the Bible - Exploring Scripture with Holy Men and Women by Theresa Doyle-Nelson

d)   St. Hyacinth  (1185-1257)

St. Hyacinth

St. Dominic vests St. Hyacinth with the Dominican garb.

~  Dominican missionary called “the Apostle of Poland.”
~  Book:  A Story of Saint Hyacinth by Brother Ernest, C.S.C.
~  St. Hyacinth, pray or us!

2.  Book:  Stories from The Catechist by Very Reverend Canon G.E. Howe

~  we read beautiful stories about the Holy Eucharist and Penance
~  Total time:  1 hour

Physical Education (P.E.): TRACK, Grade 9, 2011-2012

1.  TRACK MEET at Broad Run High School, Ashburn, VA

~  6:30-9:00 pm, Friday, June 10, 2011
~  Total hours with travel:  3 hours + 15 mins.

Picture shows SLED leading the OLOH Cruisers during stretching exercises before a meet on May 15, 2011.  Muddee is to his right and Libby is to his left.

Physical Education (P.E.): FENCING, Grade 9, 2011-2012

1.  Fencing Class with Ronin Fencing Foundation

a)  June:

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

b)  July:

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

c)  August:

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

• Monday, June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel
• Thursday, , June, 7:30-9:30 pm:  3 hours with Travel

LITERATURE: FILMS, Part 1 - Grade 9, 2011-2012

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1.  Film:  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

~  BBC Production (1995 TV series), 300 mins.  (5 hours viewing + 1 hours of discussions / explanations in between = 6 hours)

2.   Film:  Ben-Hur  (1959)

~  Total time viewed:  1 1/2 hours

~  Director: William Wyler
~  Actors:   Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd and Jack Hawkins
~  When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

3.  Film:  The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

~  Total time viewed:  4 hours
~  Actors:  Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone

5.  Film:  Prince Valiant  (1954)

~  Total time viewed:   2 hours

~  Nothing great.

6.   Film:  A Night to Remember   (1958)

~  Total time viewed:  4 hours 

~  The Titanic disaster is depicted in straightforward fashion without the addition of fictional subplots.

      

7.  Film:   The Sea Hawk  (1940)

~  Total time viewed:  2 hours, 15 mins.
~  Actor:  Errol Flynn 
~  Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword.  Written by R. Kessen 

8.   TV Series:  Get Smart  (1965–1970)

~  Total time viewed:  A lot of episodes~  Bumbling Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, with a great deal of help from his competent partner Agent 99, battles the forces of KAOS. 

9.   Film:  Secretariat (2010)

~  Total time viewed:  2 hours
~  Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.

 

Secretariat at Belmont

 

The Movie

10.  DVD:  Pollyanna

~  BBC Masterpiece Theater, 2004

~  starring Georgina Terry as Pollyanna

~  total time viewed:  1/2 hour