mater amabilis level 2, year 2 syllabus

Assisi Academy

Curriculum for Mater Amabilis Level 2, Year 2

Religious Education

CHURCH HISTORY !! ! ! ! ! ! ! WEEKLY

∆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 first 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

∆One-of-a-Kind Friends (Ethel Pochocki) (Term 1: Sep.17-Nov.30)

___St. Martin of Tours! ! ! ! ___St. Thomas More! !

___St. Brigid! ! ! ! ! ___St. Teresa of Avila!!

___St. Margaret of Scotland !! ! ___St. Philip Neri! ! !

___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 (Term 2 : Jan.2- Mar.19)

___St. Germaine!! ! ! ___St. Pierre Toussaint

___St. Rose of Lima! ! ! ! ___Marie Fitzbach Roy

___St. Joseph of Cupertino! ! ___Blessed Katherine Drexel

___Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha! ! ___Our Lady of Knock!

! ___Blessed Junipero Serra! ! ___St. Maximillian Kolbe

___St. Benedict Joseph Labre

LENT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! TWICE WEEKLY

∆ St. Jude by Michael Aquilina OR∆ Our Lady’s Book by Lauren Ford

∆One-of-a-Kind Friends! ! ! (Term 3 : Mar.31- June 20)

___Dorothy Day!! ! ! ___Ita Ford

___Caryll Houselander!! ! ___Jean Donovan

___Mother Teresa of Calcutta! ! ___Blessed Gianna Molla

___Archbishop Oscar Romero! ! ___Dr. Thomas Dooley

___Dorothy Kazel! ! ! ! ___Jean Vanier

___Maura Clarke!! ! ! ___Sister Thea Bowman

Recommended ReadingOne saintʼs 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! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Daily

∆ Saxon Math 76

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 don’t 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 file-folder or board games" Flashcards

English

∆ READ-ALOUDS AND INDEPENDENT READING ! ! ! DAILY

__ Caddie Woodlawn (Brink) " " __ Little Britches(Moody) " "

__ Behind Rebel Lines (Relt)" " __ Narnian Chronicles (Lewis)

__ Shakespeare For Children (Lamb) __ Golden Key (MacDonald)

__ Dragon Slayer (Sutcliff) " " __ Eagle of the Ninth (Sutcliff)

__ Five Children and It (Nesbitt) " __ The Treasure Seekers (Nesbitt)"

__ Redwall (series, Jacques) " " __ Good Master (Seredy)

__ Winged Watchman (Stockum) " __ Homer Price (McCloskey)

__ Legend of the Cid (Goldston)" " __ Hank the Cowdog series (Erickson)

__ Princess and Curdie (series, MacDonald) __ Phoenix and the Carpet (Nesbitt)

__ 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) __ Tales From Troy and Greece (Lang)

__ The Outlaws of Ravenhurst (Wallace) __ Peter Pan (Barrie)

__ My Father's Dragon (Gannett) __ The Borrowers (Norton)

__ Rabbit Hill (Lawson) __ Tough Winter (Lawson)

__ The Librarian and the Robbers (Mahy) __The Half-A-Moon Inn (Fleischman)

__ The Great Piratical Rumbustification (Mahy) __ Twenty and Ten (Bishop)

__ Humbug Mountain (Fleischman) __ By the Great Horn Spoon(Fleischman)

__ Madeleine Takes Command __ The Twenty One Balloons

__ Soup Ahoy (Robert Peck) __ Soup and Me (Robert Peck)

__ The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode (Estes) __ The Witch Family (Estes)

__ The Alley (Estes) __ The Moffat Series (Estes)

__ The White Stag (Seredy) __ Philomena (Seredy)

__ Warrior Cat Series (Hunter, Erin) __ Rowan of Rin Series (Rodda, Emily)

__ Guardians of Ga’Houle (Lasky) " __ Marco Polo(Landmark)

__ The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt(Payne) __ The Aventures of Ulysses (Ldmk)

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!! ! ! ! ! ! DAILY

Copywork " " " " " " " " (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 you’re 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.15 logos " " __ p.29 pes/pedis

__ p.2 graph " " " __ p.16 verbum" " __ p.30 bracchium"

__ p.3 tele" " " " __ p.17 nomen/nominis"__ p.31 dens/dentis"

__ p.4 metron" " " __ p.18 pro"" __ p.32 corpus/corporis "

__ p.5 tropos " " " __ p.19 prae" " __ p.33 unus"

__ p.6 philia" " " __ p.20 ad "" " __ p.34 duo "

__ p.7 phobos" " " __ p.21 jacio/jactum" " __ p.35 tres

__ p.8 syn" " " " __ p.22 pono/positum" " __ p.36 quattuor "

__ p.9 thesis" " " __ p.23 cum" " __ p.37 quinque

__ p.10 kinesis" " " __ p.24 figo/fixum" __ p.38 sex

__ p.11 phone" " " __ p.25 jungo/junctum" __ p.39 septem

__ p.12 sonus" " " __ p.26 digitus" " __ p.40 octo

__ p.13 skopeo" " " __ p.27 caput/capitis" __ p.41 novem

__ p.14 video/visum" " __ p.28 manus" " __ p.42 decem

GRAMMAR ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! DAILY

∆ Lingua Mater (Margot Davidson)

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

__Week 4: Prepositions! ! __Week 10: Common & Proper Nouns__Week 5: Verbs! ! ! __Week 11: Gender of Nouns__Week 6: Adverbs! ! ! __Week 12: Nominative Case

Term 2: Weeks 13-24__Week 13: Possessive Case! __Week 19: Verb Phrase!__Week 14: Objective Case!__Week 20: Infinitives__Week 15: Predicate Nominative!__Week 21: Clauses__Week 16: Gerunds! ! ! __Week 22: Advective Clause__Week 17: Appositives! ! __Week 23: Predicate Adjective__Week 18: Review of Unit 2! __Week 24: Adverb Clause

Term 3: Weeks 25-36__Week 25: Noun Clause! ! __Week 31: Interrogative Pronouns!__Week 26: Kinds of Sentences __Week 32: Degrees of Adj. & Adverbs__Week 27: Review of Unit 3! __Week 33: Building Descriptive Writing__Week 28: Personal Pronouns! __Week 34: Synonyms__Week 29: Relative Pronouns! __Week 35: Figurative Writing__Week 30: Adjective Pronoun! __Week 36: Review of Unit 4 & the Course

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LITERATURE

MYTHOLOGY! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! WEEKLY∆The Children’s Homer (Padraic Colum)

Term 1: Troy - Chapters 1-10Term 2: Troy - Chapters 11-20Term 3: Troy - Chapters 21-23;! ! Odyssey - Chapters 1-7

Further Reading: D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek MythsSHAKESPEARE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! WEEKLY

__Term 1: Midsummer Night’s Dream__Term 2: The Tempest__Term 3: Henry V

Study one play per term with family, using recommended resources.

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

Term 1:

__Chp. 1 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 8 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 5- see me

__Chp. 2 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 9 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 6 - see me

__Chp. 3 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 10- OIS! ! ! __Chp. 7 - OLD!

__Chp. 4 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 11- OIS! ! ! __Chp. 8- OLD!

__Chp. 5 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 12- OIS! ! ! __Chp. 9- see

me!

__Chp. 1 - OLD! ! ! __Chp. 13- OIS! ! ! __Chp. 15 - OIS!

__Chp. 6 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 3 - OLD! ! ! __Chp. 16 - OIS!

__Chp. 7 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 4 - see me! ! __Chp. 17 - OIS!

__Chp. 2 - OLD! ! ! __Chp. 14 - OIS! ! !

OIS = Our Island Story ! ! ! ! OLD = Our Lady’s Dowry

Term 2:

__Chp. 10 - OLD!! ! __Chp. 27 - OIS! ! __Chp. 15 - OLD!

__Chp. 18 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 28 - OIS! ! __Chp. 35 - OIS! !

__Chp. 19 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 12- OLD! ! __Chp. 36 - OIS! !

__Chp. 20 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 13- OLD! ! __Chp. 16 - OLD!

__Chp. 21 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 29- OIS! ! __Chp. 17 - OLD!

__Chp. 11 - see me! ! __Chp. 30 - OIS! ! __Chp. 18- OLD

__Chp. 22 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 31 - OIS! ! __Chp. 37 - OIS!

__Chp. 23- OIS! ! ! __Chp. 14 - OLD!! __Chp. 38 - OIS!

__Chp. 24 - OLD!! ! __Chp. 32 - OIS! ! __Chp. 39 - OIS!

__Chp. 25 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 33 - OIS! ! __Chp. 19 - OLD!

__Chp. 26 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 34 - OIS! ! __Chp. 40- OIS

Term 3:

__Chp. 41 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 50 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 5- OLD!

__Chp. 42 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 20- OLD! ! ! __Chp. 6 - OLD!

__Chp. 43 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 10- OIS! ! ! __Chp. 7 - OLD!



__Chp. 46 - OIS! ! ! __Chp. 13- OIS! ! ! __Chp. 15 - OIS!




Our Lady’s 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! Three Times Weekly! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! plus map work∆ All Ye LandsTerm 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 PersiaTerm 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 TESTTerm 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! ! ! ! ! ! ! Twice Weekly

∆ Spanish clss (Senor Ortega/ Senora Olga Frederick)Weekly class plus homework

∆ Rosetta Stone

PICTURE STUDY ! (Impressionists)!! ! ! ! ! Weekly

Term 1: Pierre-Auguste RenoirTerm 2: Edgar DegasTerm 3: Claude Monet

MUSIC APPRECIATION! ! ! ! ! ! ! Weekly

∆ Music Masters, Set 1 (6 weeks per composer)

Term 1: Bach, MozartTerm 2: Chopin, Schumann/GreigTerm 3: Mendelssohn, Schubert

ART"" " ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Weekly

∆ The Usborne Book of Art Skills by Fiona Watt

∆ Draw Squad by Mark Kistler

PRACTICAL WORK!! ! ! ! ! ! ! Daily

(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

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