Dec 28

Both of you
1. big math books
2. math practice books, writing practice books
3. three articles from current events and from science
4. science -- I'll call you later.

Zeb
history -- Constitution:
Article 4
Answer questions in the email today
1. What is this article concerned with?

2. Read Section 1 carefully. What do you think is the real purpose of Article 4?

Dan-dan
history
War of 1812.
Re-read the US history book for seventh graders on the war of 1812. This was a very short but very important war. Nobody won, but America proved it would be independent.

The keys to the war are to understand that (1) Britain was fighting Napoleon and this war was not important to them. (2) the invasion of Canada failed (3) the US Navy performed brilliantly. (4) the US confirmed its independence from Britain

Read this five page account of the war of 1812.


5. MONDAY POEM
Robert Frost is a famous American poet. Skype me at 1:30 to discuss this. read it first. What event does the poem describe? Where does it take place -- what state and what kind of place? What kind of people are here -- country people or city people?


"Out, Out - "
by: Robert Frost

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five mountain ranges one behing the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.
And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
As it ran light, or had to bear a load.
And nothing happened: day was all but done.
Call it a day, I wish they might have said
To please the boy by giving him the half hour
That a boy counts so much when saved from work.
His sister stood beside him in her apron
To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,
As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap -
He must have given the hand. However it was,
Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep
The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all -
Since he was old enough to know, big boy
Doing a man's work, though a child at heart -
He saw all was spoiled. "Don't let him cut my hand off -
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"
So. The hand was gone already.
The doctor put him in the dark of ether.
He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.
And then - the watcher at his pulse took a fright.
No one believed. They listened to his heart.
Little - less - nothing! - and that ended it.
No more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.