Assisi Academy

Curriculum for Mater Amabilis Level 2, Year 2

Religious Education
CHURCH HISTORY !!
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The First Christians (Hunt)

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Introduction, pp. 3-7 (end of 3rd paragraph) Introduction, pp. 7 (4th paragraph) - 12 Ch. 1, pp. 15-20 (end of 2nd paragraph) Ch. 1, pp. 20 (3rd paragraph) -24 Ch. 2, pp. 27-30 (end of 1st paragraph) Ch. 2, pp. 30 (2nd paragraph) - 34 Ch. 3, pp. 37-40 (end of 1st paragraph) Ch. 3 pp. 40 (2nd paragraph) - 44 (end of 2nd paragraph) Ch. 3, pp. 44 (3rd paragraph) - 49 Ch. 4, pp. 51-54 (end of 4th paragraph) Ch. 4, pp. 54 (5th paragraph) - 56 Ch. 5, pp. 59-64 (end of 8th paragraph) Ch. 5, pp. 64 (last paragraph) -68 Ch. 5, pp. 69-72 Ch. 6, pp. 75-78 (end of rst paragraph) Ch. 6, pp. 78 (2nd paragraph) -82 (end of 5th paragraph) Ch. 6, pp. 82 (last paragraph) - 86 Ch. 7, pp. 89-92 (end of 3rd paragraph) Ch. 7, pp. 92 (4th paragraph) - 96 Ch. 8, pp. 99-102 (end of 5th paragraph) Ch. 8, pp. 102 (6th paragraph) - 106 (end of 3rd paragraph) Ch. 8, pp. 106 (4th paragraph) - 109 Ch. 9, pp. 111-114 (end of 3rd paragraph) Ch. 9, pp. 114 (4th paragraph) - 118 (end of 1st paragraph) Ch. 9, pp. 118 (2nd paragraph) - 121 Ch. 10, pp. 123-126 (end of 3rd paragraph) Ch. 10, pp. 126 (4th paragraph) - 129 (end of 4th paragraph) Ch. 10, pp. 129 (5th paragraph) - 133 Ch. 11, pp. 135-140 (end of 6th paragraph) Ch. 11, pp. 140 (7th paragraph) - 144 (end of 3rd paragraph) Ch. 11, pp. 144 (4th paragraph) - 148 (end of 1st paragraph) Ch. 11, pp. 148 (2nd paragraph) - 152 Ch. 12, pp. 155-162 (end of 2nd paragraph) Ch. 12, pp. 162 (3rd paragraph) - 165

SAINTS" !

WEEKLY, ORDINARY TIME ONLY (Term 1: Sep.17-Nov.30)

One-of-a-Kind Friends (Ethel Pochocki)

___St. Martin of Tours!! ___St. Brigid! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

___St. Thomas More! ! ___St. Teresa of Avila! ! ___St. Philip Neri! ! !

___St. Margaret of Scotland! ___St. Hildegarde the Abbess!

___Our Lady of Guadalupe

___St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury! ___St. Francis de Sales ___Our Lady of Czestochowa

ADVENT ! !

TWICE WEEKLY

Little Flowers of St. Francis . One-of-a-Kind Friends

___St. Germaine! ! ! ! ! (Term 2 : Jan.2- Mar.19) ___St. Pierre Toussaint ! ___Marie Fitzbach Roy

___St. Rose of Lima! !

___St. Joseph of Cupertino! ! ___Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha! !

___Blessed Katherine Drexel ! ___Our Lady of Knock! ___St. Maximillian Kolbe

___Blessed Junipero Serra! !

___St. Benedict Joseph Labre

LENT !

TWICE WEEKLY

St. Jude by Michael Aquilina

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Our Ladys Book by Lauren Ford

One-of-a-Kind Friends!
___Dorothy Day!! !

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(Term 3 : Mar.31- June 20)

___Ita Ford ___Jean Donovan ! ! ! ___Blessed Gianna Molla ___Dr. Thomas Dooley ___Jean Vanier

___Caryll Houselander!!

___Mother Teresa of Calcutta! ___Archbishop Oscar Romero! ___Dorothy Kazel! ___Maura Clarke!! ! ! ! !

___Sister Thea Bowman

Recommended Reading
One saints biography to be read as independent reading each term.

CATECHISM / APOLOGETICS"

WEEKLY

Faith and Life books, as assigned in CCD class Prove It! God (Amy Welborn) Prove It! Jesus (Amy Welborn)
! ! ! Term 1: Prove It! God, Chapters 1 -10 Term 2: Chapters 11 - Epilogue; Prove It! Jesus, Chapters 1- 5 Term 3: Chapters 6 - Epilogue

BIBLE STUDY/ PERSONAL PRAYER !

DAILY

Praying in the Presence of Our Lord (Fr. Antoine Thomas)

Read one chapter every Monday; have a personal prayer time every morning, using either this book or your Bible (or both).

Mathematics!
Saxon Math 76

Daily

Study next lesson in text book. Try solving the example problems, only looking at the solutions as needed. Solve a few of the practice problems (different types); if you have trouble with any, go back and study the lesson again. If you still dont understand, ask Mom for help. Then do the assigned problems for that lesson and bring to Mom to check.

Five minutes of daily drill in math facts, particularly multiplication tables. Recommended Extras " Mathematical reading and activities from How Math Works " Calculadder " Math-related le-folder or board games " Flashcards

English
READ-ALOUDS AND INDEPENDENT READING !
__ Caddie Woodlawn (Brink) " " __ Behind Rebel Lines (Relt)" "

DAILY
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__ Little Britches(Moody) " __ Narnian Chronicles (Lewis) __ Golden Key (MacDonald)

__ Shakespeare For Children (Lamb) __ Dragon Slayer (Sutcliff) " "

__ Eagle of the Ninth (Sutcliff) __ The Treasure Seekers (Nesbitt)" " " " __ Good Master (Seredy) __ Homer Price (McCloskey) __ Hank the Cowdog series (Erickson) __ Phoenix and the Carpet (Nesbitt)

__ Five Children and It (Nesbitt) " __ Redwall (series, Jacques) " __ Winged Watchman (Stockum) __ Legend of the Cid (Goldston)"

__ Princess and Curdie (series, MacDonald)

__ Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (French) __ Freckles (Porter) __ Swallows and AmazonsSeries (Ransome) __ Olga De Polga series (Bond) __ Tales From the Arabian Nights (Lang) __ The Outlaws of Ravenhurst (Wallace) __ My Father's Dragon (Gannett) __ Rabbit Hill (Lawson) __ The Librarian and the Robbers (Mahy) __ Tales From Troy and Greece (Lang) __ Peter Pan (Barrie) __ The Borrowers (Norton) __ Tough Winter (Lawson) __The Half-A-Moon Inn (Fleischman)

__ The Great Piratical Rumbustication (Mahy) __ Twenty and Ten (Bishop) __ Humbug Mountain (Fleischman) __ Madeleine Takes Command __ Soup Ahoy (Robert Peck) __ The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode (Estes) __ The Alley (Estes) __ The White Stag (Seredy) __ Warrior Cat Series (Hunter, Erin) __ Guardians of GaHoule (Lasky) " __ By the Great Horn Spoon(Fleischman) __ The Twenty One Balloons __ Soup and Me (Robert Peck) __ The Witch Family (Estes) __ The Moffat Series (Estes) __ Philomena (Seredy) __ Rowan of Rin Series (Rodda, Emily) __ Marco Polo(Landmark) __ The Aventures of Ulysses (Ldmk)

__ The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt(Payne)

Reading time is also to be used for the books on the various reading lists for this year (history, religion, geography, literature, & science).

WRITING AND COMPOSITION!!

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DAILY

(10 min. daily)

Copy two lines daily from favourite poems, prayers, Bible passages, or the Shakespeare play being studied. Composition " " " " " " " (10-20 min. daily)

Written narrations from the book youre currently reading for history, religion, geography, literature, and science.

Studied Dictation! !

(twice weekly)

Paragraphs or passages to be dictated from a section (two or three paragraphs) of a history, literature, geography or religion book that has been studied in advance.

VOCABULARY!

TWICE WEEKLY

English From The Roots Up (1st 2/5 of book)

__ p.1 photos" __ p.2 graph " __ p.3 tele" " __ p.4 metron" __ p.5 tropos " __ p.6 philia" __ p.7 phobos" __ p.8 syn" " __ p.9 thesis" __ p.10 kinesis" __ p.11 phone" __ p.12 sonus" __ p.13 skopeo" " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " __ p.15 logos " " __ p.29 pes/pedis __ p.30 bracchium" __ p.16 verbum" "

__ p.17 nomen/nominis" _ p.31 dens/dentis" _ __ p.18 pro"" __ p.19 prae" __ p.20 ad "" " " " __ p.32 corpus/corporis " __ p.33 unus" __ p.34 duo " __ p.35 tres __ p.36 quattuor " __ p.37 quinque __ p.38 sex __ p.39 septem __ p.40 octo __ p.41 novem __ p.42 decem

__ p.21 jacio/jactum"

__ p.22 pono/positum" " __ p.23 cum" "

__ p.24 go/xum" __ p.25 jungo/junctum" __ p.26 digitus" "

__ p.27 caput/capitis" __ p.28 manus" "

__ p.14 video/visum"

GRAMMAR

DAILY

Lingua Mater (Margot Davidson)

Term 1: __Week __Week __Week Weeks 1-12 1: Nouns! ! 2: Pronouns! ! 3: Adjectives!! ! ! ! __Week 7: Conjunctions & Interjections! __Week 8: Subject & Predicate __Week 9: Review of Unit 1

__Week 4: Prepositions! __Week 5: Verbs! ! __Week 6: Adverbs! ! Term 2: __Week __Week __Week __Week __Week __Week Term 3: __Week __Week __Week __Week __Week __Week
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__Week 10: Common & Proper Nouns __Week 11: Gender of Nouns __Week 12: Nominative Case

Weeks 13-24 13: Possessive Case! __Week 19: Verb Phrase! 14: Objective Case!__Week 20: Innitives 15: Predicate Nominative! _Week 21: Clauses _ 16: Gerunds! ! ! __Week 22: Advective Clause 17: Appositives! ! __Week 23: Predicate Adjective 18: Review of Unit 2! __Week 24: Adverb Clause Weeks 25-36 25: Noun Clause! ! __Week 31: Interrogative Pronouns! 26: Kinds of Sentences __Week 32: Degrees of Adj. & Adverbs 27: Review of Unit 3! __Week 33: Building Descriptive Writing 28: Personal Pronouns! __Week 34: Synonyms 29: Relative Pronouns! __Week 35: Figurative Writing 30: Adjective Pronoun! __Week 36: Review of Unit 4 & the Course
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LITERATURE
MYTHOLOGY! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! WEEKLY

The Childrens Homer (Padraic Colum)

Term 1: Troy - Chapters 1-10 Term 2: Troy - Chapters 11-20 Term 3: Troy - Chapters 21-23; ! ! Odyssey - Chapters 1-7 Further Reading: DAulaires Book of Greek Myths SHAKESPEARE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! __Term 1: Midsummer Nights Dream __Term 2: The Tempest __Term 3: Henry V Study one play per term with family, using recommended resources.

WEEKLY

POETRY!

WEEKLY, with daily review

The Harp and the Laurel Wreath (Laura Berquist) Other poetry books from our home library
Work on memorizing at least 6-8 lines of poetry each week.

BRITISH HISTORY !
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! Three Times Weekly; additional books ad. lib.

Term 1: __Chp. 1 - OIS! ! __Chp. 2 - OIS! ! __Chp. 3 - OIS! ! __Chp. 4 - OIS! ! __Chp. 5 - OIS! ! me! __Chp. 1 - OLD! ! __Chp. 6 - OIS! ! __Chp. 7 - OIS! ! __Chp. 2 - OLD! ! ! ! ! ! __Chp. 13- OIS! ! __Chp. 3 - OLD! ! __Chp. 4 - see me! __Chp. 14 - OIS! ! ! ! ! ! __Chp. 15 - OIS! __Chp. 16 - OIS! __Chp. 17 - OIS! ! ! ! ! ! __Chp. 8 - OIS! ! __Chp. 9 - OIS! ! __Chp. 10- OIS! ! __Chp. 11- OIS! ! __Chp. 12- OIS! ! ! ! ! ! ! __Chp. 5- see me __Chp. 6 - see me __Chp. 7 - OLD! __Chp. 8- OLD! __Chp. 9- see

OIS = Our Island Story

OLD = Our Ladys Dowry

Term 2: __Chp. 10 - OLD! ! __Chp. 18 - OIS! ! __Chp. 19 - OIS! ! __Chp. 20 - OIS! ! __Chp. 21 - OIS! ! __Chp. 11 - see me! __Chp. 22 - OIS! ! __Chp. 23- OIS! ! __Chp. 24 - OLD! ! __Chp. 25 - OIS! ! __Chp. 26 - OIS! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! __Chp. 27 - OIS! ! __Chp. 28 - OIS! ! __Chp. 12- OLD! ! __Chp. 13- OLD! ! __Chp. 29- OIS! ! __Chp. 30 - OIS! ! __Chp. 31 - OIS! ! __Chp. 14 - OLD! ! __Chp. 32 - OIS! ! __Chp. 33 - OIS! ! __Chp. 34 - OIS! ! __Chp. 15 - OLD! __Chp. 35 - OIS! ! __Chp. 36 - OIS! ! __Chp. 16 - OLD! __Chp. 17 - OLD! __Chp. 18- OLD __Chp. 37 - OIS! __Chp. 38 - OIS! __Chp. 39 - OIS! __Chp. 19 - OLD! __Chp. 40- OIS

Term 3: __Chp. 41 - OIS! ! __Chp. 42 - OIS! ! __Chp. 43 - OIS! ! __Chp. 44 - OIS! ! __Chp. 45 - OIS! ! __Chp. 46 - OIS! ! __Chp. 47 - OIS! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! __Chp. 50 - OIS! ! __Chp. 20- OLD! ! __Chp. 10- OIS! ! __Chp. 11- OIS! ! __Chp. 12- OIS! ! __Chp. 13- OIS! ! __Chp. 3 - OLD! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! __Chp. 5- OLD! __Chp. 6 - OLD! __Chp. 7 - OLD! __Chp. 8- OLD! __Chp. 9- OLD! __Chp. 15 - OIS! __Chp. 16 - OIS!

__Chp. 48 - OIS! ! __Chp. 49 - OIS! !

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__Chp. 4 - OLD! ! __Chp. 4 - OLD! !

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__Chp. 17 - OIS! __Chp. 17 - OIS!

Our Ladys Dowry: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/thebookworm/old/ Our Island Story: http://www.mainlesson.com/displaybooksbytitle.php

ANCIENT HISTORY!

Twice Weekly

The Story of Greece by Mary Macgregor Ancient Times Timeline, Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
Optional Extras Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World

Usborne Time Traveller: Pyramids and Pharoahs

NATURE STUDY!

Weekly

Take at least one nature walk each week. Keep a nature notebook (make at least one entry each week).

SCIENCE!

Twice Weekly

Physical Science (Wile)

Weekly class plus daily homework

Electrical Engineering Projects class

Weekly class (Homeschool Connections)

TOPS (with Nate) Science of Ancient Greece

GEOGRAPHY & EARTH STUDIES!

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Three Times Weekly ! plus map work

All Ye Lands
Term 1 __Pgs. 1-8" " Reading Maps __Pgs. 8-14" Geography and Human Life __Pgs. 14-16" Climate and Human Life __Chp. 1 TEST __Pgs. 17-25" Infancy of Man __Pgs. 26-31" Sumer __Pgs. 31-42" Egypt __Chp. 2 TEST __Pgs. 43-50" Beginnings __Pgs. 51-55" The Kingdom __Pgs. 56-61" The Prophets __Chp. 3 TEST __Pgs. 63-70" The City-States __Pgs. 70-78" War with Persia Term 2 __Pgs. 79-84" Age of Alexander __Chp. 4 TEST __Pgs. 85-90 " Geography and the Beginnings of Rome __Pgs. 90-97 " Extension of Empire __Pgs. 97-100 " Persecution of Christians and Decline of Rome __Chp. 5 TEST __Pgs. 103-107" The Life of Christ __Pgs. 107-113" Apostolic Age __Pgs. 113-121" Persecution __Pgs. 121-129" Early Middle Ages __Chp. 6 TEST Term 3 __Pgs. 131-135" Byzantine Empire and the Church __Pgs. 136-142" Muslims __Pgs. 142-150" Spread of Islam __Chp. 7 TEST __Review of European Geography __Pgs. 151-158" The Dark Ages __Pgs. 158-167" The Middle Ages __Pgs. 167-172" England in the Middle Ages __Pgs. 172-178" Saints and Scholars __Pgs. 178-180" Plague and Nation States

FOREIGN LANGUAGE!
Weekly class plus homework

Twice Weekly

Spanish clss (Senor Ortega/ Senora Olga Frederick) Rosetta Stone PICTURE STUDY !
(Impressionists)!! ! ! ! ! Weekly

Term 1: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Term 2: Edgar Degas Term 3: Claude Monet

MUSIC APPRECIATION! ! Music Masters, Set 1

Weekly

(6 weeks per composer)

Term 1: Bach, Mozart Term 2: Chopin, Schumann/Greig Term 3: Mendelssohn, Schubert

ART""

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Weekly

The Usborne Book of Art Skills by Fiona Watt Draw Squad by Mark Kistler PRACTICAL WORK !!
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(1) Help in house and yard/ garden. (2) Work on learning a practical craft or skill of your choice. (ie. drawing, woodworking projects, home repair and renovation ! ! projects, cake decorating) (3) Master the art of doing laundry this school year