Lacie October 31

Over the past two days, we worked on projects: timeline of Roman emperors, maps of the Roman empire and provinces of Italy, carefully annotated with mountains, rivers, and streams.  Then Lacie worked through a packet on linear equations for Algebra.  She edited her Suffering paper for Theology.  Today, we did several algebraic exercises in Lesson 23 and 24 and some more graphing on the calculator.  Finally, Lacie spent several hours making Latin 1 vocabulary cards.  I took the JCL  Core Novice vocabulary list and looked up all eight pages of words.  Originally, I was going to have Lacie look up all the terms.  It took me four or five hours to locate all of the vocabulary using two dictionaries, a book of Latin verbs, and Google.  Lacie is making notecards with the Latin and English.  I asked her to write any English word with a similar meaning.  Yes, this is loads of work.  I believe you pick up some of the terms when you write them.   Yes, we're going ahead with my plan to do all of the exercises in Writing Better Essays as homework.