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Page 1: St. Thomas School Grade Seven Curriculum

St. Thomas SchoolCurriculum for Grade Seven

(©2011 Jean W. and Maria C. M. Rioux)

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CATECHISM ONCE WEEKLY

The Life of Grace (Faith and Life 7)Read, Narrate, and Journal:

__ Chapter 1.__ Chapter 2.__ Chapter 3.__ Chapter 4.__ Chapter 5.__ Chapter 6.__ Chapter 7.__ Chapter 8.__ Chapter 9.__ Chapter 10.

__ Chapter 11.__ Chapter 12.__ Chapter 13.__ Chapter 14.__ Chapter 15.__ Chapter 16.__ Chapter 17.__ Chapter 18.__ Chapter 19.__ Chapter 20.

__ Chapter 21.__ Chapter 22.__ Chapter 23.__ Chapter 24.__ Chapter 25.__ Chapter 26.__ Chapter 27.__ Chapter 28.__ Chapter 29.__ Chapter 30.

APOLOGETICS ONCE WEEKLYCatholic CardsFriendly Defender Card setsAdditional Resources:

A Philadelphia Catholic in King James' Court (Kennedy)__ Chapter 1.__ Chapter 2.__ Chapter 3.__ Chapter 4.__ Chapter 5.__ Chapter 6.__ Chapter 7.

__ Chapter 8.__ Chapter 9.__ Chapter 10.__ Chapter 11.__ Chapter 12.__ Chapter 13.__ Epilogue

Half Truths (Brown)__ Actions speak louder than words__ All good things come to an end__ all men are created equal

__ Always follow your conscience__ Always keep an open mind__ Am I my brother's keeper?

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__ Animals are just as good as we are__ Be true to yourself__ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder__ believe in yourself__ Challenge authority__ Chaos is king__ Choose the lesser evil__ Competition breeds success__ Don't believe a thing he says__ Don't bite off more than you can chew__ Don't cast pearls before swine__ Don't let school get in the way of your

education__ The end justifies the means__ Everyone else does it__ Everyone has a right to his own opinion__ Everything is determined by the laws of

physics__ Experience is the best teacher__ Familiarity breeds contempt__ Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of

little minds__ A friend in need is a friend indeed__ Have the courage of your convictions__ He who hesitates is lost__ If it aint broke, don't fix it.__ If they say so, it must be true__ If you can't beat 'em, join 'em__ If you've seen one, you've seen them all__ Ignorance is bliss__ It could be worse__ It doesn't matter what you believe, so long

as you are sincere__ It's all fate

__ It's better to journey than to arrive__ It's my life__ It's not how much you know, but how

much you care__ It's okay as long as it doesn't hurt

anybody__ It's the intention that counts__ Just be yourself__ Let's agree to disagree__ Life is what you make it__ Live and let live__ Live for today__ Look on the bright side__ Look out for number one__ Love is blind__ Love means never having to say you're

sorry__ Make love not war__ Might makes right__ My country, right or wrong__ Necessity knows no law__ Nice guys finish last__ Nothing is good or bad, but thinking

makes it so__ One man's heaven is another man's hell__ Power corrupts__ The proof is in the pudding__ Prove it!__ Read the signs of the times__ Revenge is sweet__ Rules are made to be broken__ Seeing is believing__ Talk is cheap__ There is no accounting for taste

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__ There's nothing new under the sun__ Things just look different__ Think for yourself__ To err is human__ Trust your feelings__ Truth is a matter of perspective__ Violence never solved anything__ What is truth?__ What's done is done__ Whatever makes you happy

__ What will be will be__ When in Rome, do as the Romans do__ Who's to judge?__ Why trust reason anyway?__ You can only love others as much as you

love yourself__ You can't argue with success__ You can't stand in the way of progress __ You scratch my back and I'll scratch

yours. SCRIPTURE STUDY TWICE WEEKLYBible History (Newton and Horan)Unit I__ The Father of the Human Race__ Noe and the Remaking of the

Human Race__ Abraham and His Family__ TimelineUnit II__ Moses the Deliverer__ Mount Sinai and the Law__ The Wandering in the Desert__ TimelineUnit III__ Josue and the Conquest of

Canaan__ Defenders of the Nation__ TimelineUnit IV__ Samuel__ Saul__ David

__ Solomon__ TimelineUnit V__ Roboam and Jeroboam__ Elias__ Isaias__ Jeremias__ God Protects His People__ TimelineUnit VI__ Aggeus and Zacharias__ Esdras and Nehemias__ Malaachias__ Judas Machabeus__ Herod the Great__ TimelinePart Two__ New Testament HistoryUnit I__ Zachary and His Son

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__ Mary the Virgin Mother__ Joseph the Foster FatherUnit II__ John the Baptist__ Jesus Begins His Mission__ TimelineUnit III__ Jesus Prepares for the Kingdom__ The Kingdom of God__ Timeline

Unit IV__ Jesus in the North Country__ Jesus in Jerusalem__ The Last Journey to Jerusalem__ TimelineUnit V__ The Death of Jesus__ The Resurrection__ Mary Our Mother__ Timeline

The New Rosary in Scripture (Sri)

Chapter One__ Common Questions about Mary, 1-2__ Common Questions about Mary, 3-4__ Common Questions about Mary, 5-6__ Common Questions about Mary, 7-8Chapter Two__ Practical Insights, 1-2__ Practical Insights, 3-5__ Practical Insights, 6-8__ Practical Insights, 9-10Chapter Three__ The Joyful Mysteries; the

Annunciation__ The Joyful Mysteries; the Vistitation__ The Joyful Mysteries; the Nativity__ The Joyful Mysteries; the

Presentation__ The Joful Mysteries; the FindingChapter Four__ The Luminous Mysteries; the

Baptism__ The Luminous Mysteries; the

Wedding-feast__ The Luminous Mysteries; the

Proclamation__ The Luminous Mysteries; the

Transfiguration__ The Luminous Mysteries; the

EucharistChapter Five__ The Sorrowful Mysteries; the Agony__ The Sorrowful Mysteries; the

Scourging__ The sorrowful Mysteries; the

Crowning__ The Sorrowful Mysteries; the

Carrying__ The Sorrowful Mysteries; the

Crucifixion__ The Crucifixion, part 2

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Chapter Six__ The Glorious Mysteries; the

Resurrection__ The Glorious Mysteries; the

Ascension__ The Glorious Mysteries; the

Descending__ The Glorious Mysteries; the

Assumption__ The Glorious Mysteries; the

Crowning

MATHEMATICS THREE TIMES WEEKLYAlgebra 1 /2(Saxon)

__ Lessons 1-2.__ Lessons 3-4.__ Lessons 5-6.__ Lessons 7-8.__ Lessons 9-10.__ Lessons 11-12.__ Lessons 13-14.__ Lessons 15-16.__ Lesson 17-18.__ Lesson 19.__ Lesson 20.__ Lesson 21.__ Lesson 22.__ Lesson 23.__ Lesson 24.__ Lesson 25.__ Lesson 26.__ Lesson 27.__ Lesson 28.__ Lesson 29.__ Lesson 30.__ Lesson 31.__ Lesson 32.__ Lesson 33.

__ Lesson 34.__ Lesson 35.__ Lesson 36.__ Lesson 37.__ Lesson 38.__ Lesson 39.__ Lesson 40.__ Lesson 41.__ Lesson 42.__ Lesson 43.__ Lesson 44.__ Lesson 45.__ Lesson 46.__ Lesson 47.__ Lesson 48.__ Lesson 49.__ Lesson 50.__ Lesson 51.__ Lesson 52.__ Lesson 53.__ Lesson 54.__ Lesson 55.__ Lesson 56.__ Lesson 57.

__ Lesson 58.__ Lesson 59.__ Lesson 60.__ Lesson 61.__ Lesson 62.__ Lesson 63.__ Lesson 64.__ Lesson 65.__ Lesson 66.__ Lesson 67.__ Lesson 68.__ Lesson 69.__ Lesson 70.__ Lesson 71.__ Lesson 72.__ Lesson 73.__ Lesson 74.__ Lesson 75.__ Lesson 76.__ Lesson 77.__ Lesson 78.__ Lesson 79.__ Lesson 80.__ Lesson 81.

__ Lesson 82.__ Lesson 83.__ Lesson 84.__ Lesson 85.__ Lesson 86.__ Lesson 87.__ Lesson 88.__ Lesson 89.__ Lesson 90.__ Lesson 91.__ Lesson 92.__ Lesson 93.__ Lesson 94.__ Lesson 95.__ Lesson 96.__ Lesson 97.__ Lesson 98.__ Lesson 99.__ Lesson 100.__ Lesson 101.__ Lesson 102.__ Lesson 103.__ Lesson 104.__ Lesson 105.

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__ Lesson 106.__ Lesson 107.

__ Lesson 108.__ Lesson 109.

__ Lesson 110.

READING FOUR TIMES WEEKLY

For those who enjoy them:These are Our FreedomsA Book of FortitudeFact and Story Readers, Book VII

For those who don't:Reading List:

__ The Illyrian Adventure (Alexander)__ The Westmark Trilogy (Alexander)__ The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)__ Little Men (Alcott)__ Little Women (Alcott)__ Jo's Boys (Alcott)__ Anne of the Island (Montgomery)__ Anne's House of Dreams (Montgomery)

__ Sarah Bishop (O'Dell)__ When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Kerr)

__ Boy on the Rooftop (Szabo)__ The Book of Duncow (Wangerin)__ The Little White Horse (Goudge)__ Treasure Island (Stevenson)__ Kidnapped (Stevenson)__ Master of Ballantrae (Stevenson)__ Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne)

__ The Trumpeter of Krakow (Kelly)__ Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)__ Sherlock Holmes (Doyle__ The White Company (Doyle)__ Good-bye, Mr. Chips (Hilton)__ Adventures of Richard Hannay (Buchan)

__ Rabble in Arms (Roberts)__ A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)__ Oliver Twist (Dickens)__ Scarlett Pimpernell series (Orczy)__ The Insect World (Fabre)__ Women's Diaries of the Westward

Journey (Schlissel)__ Scotland's Story (Marshall)__ Emma__ Pride and Prejudice__ Sense and Sensibility__ Seven Kings of England (Trease)__ Seven Queens of Endland (Trease)

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__ Mara, Daughter of the Nile__ The Samuri's Tale__ Children's Homer (Colum)__ Aenid for Boys and Girls (Church)__ Wonder Book (Hawthorne)__ King Arthure(Pyle)__ Book of Pirates )Pyle)

__ Moccasin Trail__ Silver Branch (Sutcliff)__ The Lantern Bearers (Sutcliff)

GRAMMAR FOUR TIMES WEEKLYLingua Mater (Davidson)

Week 1__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 2__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 3__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 4__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 5__ Day 1__ Day 2

__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 6__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 7__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 8__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 9__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 10

__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 11__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 12__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 13__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 14__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3

__ Day 4Week 15__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 16__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 17__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 18__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 19__ Day 1

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__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 20__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 21__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 22__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 23__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4

Week 24__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 25__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 26__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 27__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 28__ Day 1__ Day 2

__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 29__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 30__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 31__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 32__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4

Week 33__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 34__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 35__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4Week 36__ Day 1__ Day 2__ Day 3__ Day 4

Supplemental Resource:Warriner's Composition: Models and Exercises 7

__ Lesson 1.__ Lesson 2.__ Lesson 3.__ Lesson 4.__ Lesson 5.__ Lesson 6.__ Lesson 7.

__ Lesson 8.__ Lesson 9.__ Lesson 10.__ Lesson 11.__ Lesson 12.__ Lesson 13.__ Lesson 14.

__ Lesson 15.__ Lesson 16.__ Lesson 17.__ Lesson 18.__ Lesson 19.

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VOCABULARY ONCE WEEKLY(One lesson from each text each day.) Words in Action

__ Lesson 1.__ Lesson 2.__ Lesson 3.__ Lesson 4.__ Lesson 5.__ Lesson 6.__ Lesson 7.__ Lesson 8.

__ Lesson 9.__ Lesson 10.__ Lesson 11.__ Lesson 12.__ Lesson 13.__ Lesson 14.__ Lesson 15.__ Lesson 16.

__ Lesson 17.__ Lesson 18.__ Lesson 19.__ Lesson 20.__ Lesson 21.__ Lesson 22.__ Lesson 23.__ Lesson 24.

__ Lesson 25.__ Lesson 26.__ Lesson 27.__ Lesson 28.__ Lesson 29.__ Lesson 30.

Words Are Important, Junior Level

__ Lesson 1.__ Lesson 2.__ Lesson 3.__ Review 1.__ Review 1.__ Lesson 4.__ Lesson 5.__ Lesson 6.

__ Review 2.__ Review 2.__ Lesson 7.__ Lesson 8.__ Lesson 9.__ Review 3.__ Review 3.__ Lesson 10.

__ Lesson 11.__ Lesson 12.__ Review 4.__ Review 4.__ Lesson 13.__ Lesson 14.__ Lesson 15.__ Review 5.

__ Review 5.__ Lesson 16.__ Lesson 17.__ Lesson 18.__ Review 6.__ Review 6.

CREATIVE WRITING TWICE WEEKLY

HISTORY THREE TIMES WEEKLYAll Ye Lands __ __ Chapter One: pp 1-8 __ Notes, timeline, and research

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__ __ Chapter One: pp 9-16__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Two: pp 17-29__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Two: pp 30-42__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Three: pp 43-52__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Three: pp 53-62__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Four: pp 63-76__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Four: pp77-84__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Five: pp 85-91__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Five: pp 92-101__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Six: pp 102-116__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Six: pp117-130__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Seven: pp131-141__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Seven: pp 142-150__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Eight: pp 151-165__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Eight: pp 166-180__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Nine: pp 181- 189

__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Nine: pp 190-198__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Ten: pp 199-209__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Ten: pp 210-218__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Eleven: pp 219-225__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Eleven: pp 226-234__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Twelve: pp 235-244__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Twelve: pp 245-256__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Thirteen: pp 257-265__ __ Notes, timeline, and research. __ __ Chapter Thirteen: pp 266-278__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Fourteen: pp 279-289__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Fourteen: pp 289-298__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Fifteen: pp 299-307__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Fifteen: pp 307-316__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Sixteen: pp 317-330__ Notes, timeline, and research __ __ Chapter Sixteen: pp 331-344__ Notes, timeline, and research

HISTORY READING TWICE WEEKLYOur Empire Story (Marshall)

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__ Canada__ How Lief the Son of Eric the Red Sailed West__ Westward! Westward! Westward!__ How a Breton Sailor Came to Canada__ The Story of Henry Hudson__ The Father of New France__ The Founding of Quebec__ How a Bold Answer Saved Quebec__ How the Union Jack was Hoisted upon the Fort__ The Feast of Eat-Everything__ A Knight of New France__ The Beginning of the Hudson Bay Company__ The Adventures of La Salle__ The Adventures of La Salle (continued)__ Count Frontenac__ The Story of Madeleine de Vercheres__ The War of the Boundary Line__ The Pathy of Glory__ For the Empire__ The Story of Laura Secord__ Red River Settlement__ Louis Riel__ Australia__ "There Is Nothing New under the Sun"__ The Founding of Sydney__ The Adventures of George Bass and Matthew Flinders__ A Little Revolution

__ The First Traveller in Queensland__ Through the Great Unknown__ The Tracts of Thirst and Furnace__ The Finding of Gold__ The Bushrangers__ New Zealand__ How a Great White Bird Came to the Shores__ The Apostle of New Zealand__ Hongi the Warrior__ How the Maoris Became the Children of the Queen__ "The Heavenly Dawn" and "The Wild Cabbage Leaf"__ The Flagstaff War__ The Warpath__ The Storming of the Bat's Nest__ The Taming of the Wild Cabbage Leaf__ The King of the Maoris__ To the Sound of the War-Song__ The Hau Haus and Te Kooti__ South Africa__ Early Days__ The Coming of the Dutch__ The Coming of the French__ The Coming of the British__ The Rebellion of Slachter's Nek__ The Great Witch Doctor__ About the Black Napoleon__ The Great Trek__ Dingaan's Treachery__ The War of the Axe__ The Wreck of the "Birkenhead"

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__ The Founding of Two Republics__ The Story of a False Prophet__ A Story about a Pretty Stone__ Facing Fearful Odds__ Upon Majuba's Height__ The Gold City__ War and Peace__ India__ Alexander the Great Invades India__ How Brave Men Went Sailing upon Unknown Seas__ Success at Last__ Dutch and English__ The First British Ambassador Goes to the Court__ The Hatred of the Dutch__ The French in India__ The Siege of Arcot__ The Black Hole__ The Battle of Plassey

__ Times of Misrule__ Warren Hastings, First Governor-General__ Warren Hastings-War__ Tippoo Sultan__ Warrior Chieftains__ The Mutiny of Vellore__ The Ghurkas__ The Pindaris and the Last Maratha War__ The First Burmese War__ The Siege of Bhurtpore__ Sati and Thags__ The First Afghan War__ The Sikhs__ The Mutiny-Delhi__ The Mutiny-Cawnpore__ The Mutiny-Lucknow__ The Empress of India

SCIENCE TWICE WEEKLYSecrets of the Universe (Fliesher)

__ What is Natural Law?__ Archimedes' Principle__ Planetary Motion, pp. 12-17__ Planetary Motion, pp. 17-20__ Pendulums and Falling Objects,

pp. 21-25__ Pendulums and Falling Objects,

pp. 25-28__ Pendulums and Falling Objects,

pp. 28-32__ Newtons Three Laws of Motion,

pp. 33-37__ Newtons Three Laws of Motion,

pp. 38-40__ Newtons Three Laws of Motion,

pp. 40-43__ The Law of Universal Gravitation,

pp. 44-48__ The Law of Universal Gravitation,

pp.48-51__ The Law of Universal Gravitation,

pp. 51-54

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__ Conservation of Momentum, pp. 55-59

__ Conservation of Momentum, pp 59-64

__ Optics- The Laws of Light, pp. 65-68

__ Optics- The Laws of Light, pp. 69-72

__ Optics- The Laws of Light, pp. 72-77

__ Optics- The Laws of Light, pp. 77-80

__ The Law of Conservation of Matter, pp. 81- 85

__ Pascal's Law- How Liquids Behave, pp. 86-89

__ Pascal's Law- How Liquids Behave, pp. 89-92

__ Pascal's Law- How Liquids Behave, pp. 92-96

__ Boyle's and Charle's Law- How Gases Behave, pp. 97-101

__ Boyle's and Charle's Law- How Gases Behave, pp. 101-104

__ Boyle's and Charle's Law- How Gases Behave, pp. 104-109

__ Bernoulli's Principle, pp. 110-115__ How the Elements Combine, pp.

116-120__ How the Elements Combine, pp.

120-124__ Mendeleev's Periodic Law, pp. 125-

129__ Mendeleev's Periodic Law, pp. 129-

133__ The First Law of

Thermodynamics, pp. 134-138__ The First Law of

Thermodynamics, pp. 138-141__ The Second Law of

Thermodynamics, pp. 142-148__ Laws of Electromagnetism, pp.

149-152__ Laws of Electromagnetism, pp.

152-158__ Ohm's Law and Joule's Law,

pp.159-164__ Ohm's Law and Joule's Law, pp.

165-168__ Relativity, pp. 169-173__ Relativity, pp. 173-178__ Quantum Mechanics, pp. 179-184__ Quantum Mechanics, pp. 184-187__ Quantum Mechanics, pp. 187-191__ Conservation of Mass/Energy, pp.

192-197__ The Uncertainty Principle, pp.

198-203__ The Inverse Square Laws, pp.

204-207SCIENCE READING THREE TIMES WEEKLY

Insect Adventures by J.Henri Fabre

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__ My First Pond__ The Caddis Worm__ The Mason Bees__ Bees, Cats, and Red Ants__ The Mining Bees__ The Leaf Cutting Bees__ The Cotten Bees and Resin Bees__ The Hairy Sand WAsp__ The WAsp and the Cricket__ The Fly-Hunting WAsp__ Parsites__ Fly Scavengers__ The Pine Caterpillar

__ The Cabbage Caterpillar__ The Great Peacock Moths__ The Truffle-Hunting Beetle__ TheBoy Who Loved Insects__ The Banded Spider__ The Tarantula__ The Clotho Spider__ The Spider's Telegraph Wire__ The Crab Spider__ The Labyrinth Spider__ The Building of a Spider's Web__ The Geometry of a Spider's Web

Natural Partnerships: The Story of Symbiosis by Dorothy Shuttlesworth

__ A Moth and a Plant

__ The Enemy Within__ The "Innkeeper"__ Symbiosis

__ When Two Plants Make One

__ Plant and Animal Partnerships

__ Underwater Partners

__ In the Insect World__ Big an Little__ Birds and beasts__ Beyond Symbiosis

Battle on the Rosebush (Marian S. Edsall) __ Introduction__ Battle on the Rosebush__ Green Cows (Aphids)__ Insect Farmers (Yard Ants)__ Soldiers in Orange Armor (Ladybugs)__ The Lion with no Roar (Lacywing Fly)__ Silk Snares and Balloon Pilots

(Spider)__ Mudpies and Hyperdermic Needles (Wasp)__ The Flying Bandit (Robber Fly)__ Sound all Around__ Cheerful Chirps(Cricket)__ More Fiddlers(Kaddydid)__ An Insect Rip Van Winkle (Cicada)

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__ Beebread and Baskets (Bumblebee)__ The Noise that Annoys (Mosquito)__ Clicks and Flips (Click Beetle)__ To Fly, Hop, or Crawl?__ Long Distance Flier (Monarch Butterfly)__ The Hop in the Hopper (Grasshopper)__ Expert Dodgers (Leaf Hoppers)__ Too Many Legs? (Daddy-long-legs)__ Skaters Waltz (Water Strider)__ A Miniture Catapult (Springtail)__ Loop the Loop (Inch-worm)__ The Stationary Squatter (Oystershell Scale)__ Night Adventures__ Bumbling Bug (May Beetle)__ The Beetle with Horns (Stag Beetle)__ Wings with Eyes (Polyphemus Moth)__ Flying Daddylonglegs (Crane Fly)__ Lanterns in the Dark (Firefly)__ Live Game Hunters __ The Holy Terror (Praying Mantis)__ Flying Basket traps (Dragonfly)__ The “Elephant” Hunter (Cicada

Killer)__ Flying Spears (Ichneumon)__ An Efficient Pit-Digger (Ant Lion)__ Tiger Traps (Tiger Beetle)__ Masquerades__ The Six-legged Tree Twig (Walking Stick)__ Thorn on the Side of a Gardener (Buffalo Tree-hopper)__ Insect or Soap Suds? (Frog-Hopper)__ A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing (Bee Fly)__ The Bird that Isn’t (Sphinx Moth)__ Hide and Seek__ BackYard Odditites__ The Bug with a Wheel (Assasin Bug)__ Handsome is as Handsome Does (Firery Beetle)__ Play Ball! (Tumble Bug)__ Flying Tiger (Swallowtail Butterfly)__ Insects are Where and When You Find Them__ An Insect Zoo__ Interesting Inmates

GEOGRAPHY ONCE WEEKLY

Ultimate Geography and Timeline Book

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__ Asia__ Middle East Close Up__ __ South Asia Close Up__ Southeast Asia Close

Up__ China, Korea, and

Japan Close Up__ Japan Close Up__ Europe__ __ United Kingdom__ France

__ __ Russia Close Up__ Africa__ __ Australia__ __ Oceania__ Antartica__ North America__ Canada__ __ USA Close Up__

__ Mexico Close Up__ Central America Close

Up__ __ Costa Rica and

Carribean Islands Close Up

__ South America__ __ Brazil Close Up__

RESEARCH SKILLS ONCE WEEKLY

Information, Please! Advance Level

__ Page 1__ Page 2__ Page 3__ Page 4__ Page 5

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__ Page 11__ Page 12__ Page 13__ Page 14__ Page 15

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LOGIC ONCE WEEKLY

MindBenders B-3

__ 3-D Examples 1-2__ 3-D Example 3__ 4-&5-D Example 4__ Puzzle 1 __ Puzzle 2__ Puzzle 3

__ Puzzle 4__ Puzzle 5__ Puzzle 6__ Puzzle 7__ Puzzle 8__ Puzzle 9

__ Puzzle 10__ Puzzle 11__ Puzzle 12__ Puzzle 13__ Puzzle 14

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Mind Benders B-4

__ 3-D Examples 1-2__ 3-D Example 3__ 4-&5-D Example 4__ Puzzle 1 __ Puzzle 2__ Puzzle 3

__ Puzzle 4__ Puzzle 5__ Puzzle 6__ Puzzle 7__ Puzzle 8__ Puzzle 9

__ Puzzle 10__ Puzzle 11__ Puzzle 12__ Puzzle 13__ Puzzle 14

MUSIC APPRECIATION ONCE WEEKLY

Unfinished Synmphony and Other Stories of Men and Music (Berkowitz)

__pp 3-11__pp 12-21__pp 22--32__pp 33-42__pp 43-50

Stories of Men:

__Scarlatti__Handel__Bach__Tartini__Haydyn__Mozart__Beethoven__Schubert

__Mendelssohn__Chopin__Brahms__Dvorak__Tchaikowsky__Elgar__Rachmaninoff__Copland

Additional Resources:

Discovering Music: 300 Years of Ineraction in Western Music, Arts, History and Culrture by Dr. Carol Reynolds (This resource is broken down inlater years and includes an additional portion on specifically American Music and culture.)

ART ONCE WEEKLY

Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children (Saccardi)

First Quarter The Impressionists __ Edgra Degas

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__ Claude Monet__ Mary CassattPost Impressionists__ Paul Cezanne

Second Quarter

__ Van Gogh__ Georges

Seurat

__ Toulouse-Lautrec

__ Art of Native America 1

Third Quarter__ Art of

Native America

2__ Benjamin

West__ Charles

Wilson Peale__ Anonymous

American Primitives

Fourth Quarter

__ George Catlin

__ Winslow Homer

__ Ancient Mayans

__ Diego Rivera

__ Frida Kahlo

ART 7 FOR YOUNG CATHOLICS

__ Ch. 1: Tissot

__ Ch. 2: Tissot's O.T.

__ Ch. 3: Blessed Mother

__ Ch. 4: Word Became Flesh

__ Ch. 5: The Nativity

__ Ch. 6: Childhood of Jesus

__ Ch. 7: Youth of Jesus

__ Ch. 8: Baptism of

Jesus

__ Ch. 9: Jesus Healing

__ Ch. 10: Public Ministry

__ Ch. 12: Mary Magdalen

__ Ch. 13: The Last Supper

__ Ch. 14: Jesus is Arrested

__ Ch. 15: Bridge Over Kedron

__ Ch. 16: Mocking

of Christ

__ Ch. 17: Jesus Before Pilate

__ Ch. 18: Suffering of Christ

__ Ch.19: Crucifixion

__ Ch. 20: Led to the Cross

__ Ch. 21: Carries His Cross

__ Ch. 22: Meets His Mother

__ Ch. 23: Simon Helps Jesus

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__ Ch. 24: Saint Veronica

__ Ch. 25: Nailed to the Cross

__ Ch. 26: Penitent Thief

__ Ch. 27: Casting Lots

__ Ch. 28: Seen From

the Cross

__ Ch. 29: Mater Dolorosa

__ Ch. 30: Eloi! Eloi!

__ Ch. 31: It is Finished

__ Ch. 32: Alone on the Cross

__ Ch. 33: Descent From the Cross

__ Ch. 34: Body of Jesus

__ Ch. 35: Carried to the Tomb

__ Ch. 36: The Ressurrection

Sister Wendy's History of PaintingDraw Today

GREAT BOOKS SEMINAR BI-MONTHLY

September: Homer, Odyssey, Books IX-XIIOctober: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part I: “A Voyage to Lilliput”November: Declaration of Independence, Preamble to the Constitution of the U.S.January: Virgil, The Aeneid, Books II and IIIFebruary: Plato, the Republic, Books VI and VIIMarch: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters 1-10