Author: Reed Karman

Yesterday we got very little school done and today people are still feeling poorly so we are still doing Monday’s work but I am working a little bit ahead and Mom forgot we were doing that so we did what was going to be yesterday’s but is now tomorrow’s and we are doing some of it today’s History and Bible. I read less than a chapter of Mark Twain A Reader today.

Today all of us are sick or have a weird injury except Dad so we are only doing what was left of yesterday’s school. Vella has a sore throat, Adi feels weird, Mom has a really bad crick in her neck so she can’t move it and am still sick from last night at Boy Scouts. We already did all of our together stuff (when I say together stuff I mean subjects like Bible, History and Poems that Mom reads aloud and all of us need to do together and when I say alone stuff I mean all the rest of the stuff which is kind of like what other people call homework) yesterday we didn’t have any today. I also did Algebra 1 yesterday. Today I only did Current Events, Bible Memory, Bible Reading, Spanish and some Reading and had to take a lot of breaks because I felt sick. Today I finished The Warden and the Wolf King and continued Mark Twain A Reader which is a collection of Mark Twain’s shorter works and excerpts from his longer and less popular works.

In the real Bible we read about Palm Sunday, Jesus being mad at the moneylenders and livestock sellers at the temple and Jesus cursing the fig tree. In But Don’t All Religions Lead to God? we learned about different religions beliefs about death. In history we learned about how Japan denied any ships to leave or come to it. There was a time during the beginning of that that they allowed travel to Korea. In poems we started reading some by Samuel Coleridge. The one we read was about a river I think. We did not get very much alone stuff done today because we went to the dentist in the morning, the orthodontist in the afternoon and Boy Scouts in the evening. Dad was surprised we got any done. I got sick in the afternoon and way worse at scouts because this month’s Scout Skill theme was personal fitness and we did a troop mile run. I finished Algebra 1 about two variable inequalities, Korean and started my Module 2 summary in science. I did not do the rest and have to do that tomorrow. Over the weekend I finished The Emperor’s Code, The Monster in the Hollows, The Frozen Menace, Darkness of Dragons and started Storm Warning and started The Warden and the Wolf King. The Emperor’s Code is Book 8 in The 39 Clues. The Monster in the Hollows is the third book in Wingfeather Saga. The Frozen Menace is the eleventh and last book in the Dragonbreath series. Darkness of Dragons is tenth and last written book in the Wings of Fire series. Storm Warning is Book 9 of The 39 Clues. The Warden and the Wolf King is the fourth and last book of The Wingfeather Saga.

In The BBC Manual we learned about meditation. In the real Bible we read about Bartimaus, the disciples rebuking the children coming to Jesus and the disciples arguing who was first among them. In both our history books we read about The Thirty Years’ War which lasted 41 years. It was really a lot of small chain reaction conflicts that came from a rebellion in Germany throwing two regents out the window. Most of today so far (it is 11 o’clock am) Mom and the girls went to meet Mom’s friend at a park in a church so I have been working here without any distractions. It was lucky I did not need any extra instruction from Mom in Algebra 1. Algebra 1 was about inside and outside compound inequalities. I finished the review of Module 2 in Science and it was easy. When we made the Friday schedule we made it for a Friday’s work so it was weird today to be taking notes on my Current Events instead of typing them. Also I would normally be done with my LA assignment but I was not because it was only the second day I’ve had it. Since Mom and the girls are still gone we have not done The Ghost of Tokaido Inn. We do not have poems today. Yesterday I finished North! Or Be Eaten and started The Emperor’s Code. I have not read any books outside of school today yet. After this I will have free time because I do not have my afternoon chores yet because it is not yet the afternoon.

Today I got to school late but I am still finishing early. In Algebra 1 I learned about simplifying irrational numbers. In history we learned about the start of the empire of the Ottoman Turks. We finished learning about Character Bible Study in The BBC Manual. Most of the pages we read were printouts we didn’t really need to read and didn’t. In science I did half the review for Module 2 and some about cost/benefit of keeping to clean the air of pollutants in the US. Modules are two week sections of my science book. We have not done The Ghost of Tokaido Inn yet. We may also have poems. Yesterday I continued North! Or Be Eaten but have not read any books today outside of school. In the real Bible we read about Jesus driving out the demon that threw the boy into fires and water to burn and drown him. I made the Google doc and it looks confusing because most of the normal Friday things are on Tuesday and most of the normal Monday things are on Wednesday. After writing this I will need to do my morning chores because I skipped them to get to school today. I will also do The Ghost of Tokaido Inn at 2:30 and poems then if we have them. 2:30 is our time for Read-Aloud and this year poems. We read the last William Wordsworth poem in the book The Sun Has Long Been Set. It is now about 3 o’clock because we have now read The Ghost of Tokaido Inn and poems. In The Ghost of Tokaido Inn the ghost finally got introduced.

In Algebra 1 I finished early. It was about adding and subtracting irrational numbers. In Bible we read about Jesus feeding the 4,000 and in The BBC Manual we learned about more less common types of Bible Study and more about the common types. In History we learned about the world history of Persia. I did three days of science to catch up and did my experiment. It failed because I could not find a sunny enough place but I read the results I was supposed to get. In four days of Science I only got one experiment. It was lucky I got behind right then instead of later when I may have had many other experiments to do that were built on concepts from the one I was stuck waiting for a sunny day on. I started The Iron Peacock which is my reader and not The Ghost of Tokaido Inn like I thought. The Ghost of Tokaido Inn is our Read-Aloud like I thought The Iron Peacock was. We also started The Ghost of Tokaido Inn. I did not read at all today (in the past, now and in the future when I say this I mean outside of school). I am currently reading North! Or Be Eaten which is the second book of I need to make a Google docs sheet like I had last year to keep track of all my school with the days we did and will take off like Adi’s birthday, Labor Day and other holidays and trips. I will need to make one after writing this and fold some clothes.

We took yesterday off because it was Labor Day and we normally don’t do any school on days Dad has off of work. In Algebra 1 I finished early and started Current Events. In History we learned about the history of Angola and the African slave trade. In Bible Vella and I did not see that we were supposed to memorize two separate verses this week and we had both memorized the first and I had to memorize the second today. Mom is having me momentarily skip my experiment that needs a sunny day and work ahead in Science. I finished The King’s Fifth today. Tomorrow I will start The Ghost of Tokaido Inn. We also finished A Murder For Her Majesty.  Tomorrow we will start The Iron Peacock. I am writing this from tomorrow although we have not actually started those new books yet. Over the weekend I finished The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan, The Wyrm King, How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel, The Case of the Toxic Mutants and Knight-napped! and started North! Or Be Eaten. The Wyrm King is the third and final book of The Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles. How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel is Book 10 in the How to Train your Dragon series. The Case of the Toxic Mutants and Knight-napped are Books 9 and 10 in Dragonbreath respectively. North! Or Be Eaten  is Book 2 in The Wingfeather Saga. I have not done all of my Science but it is easy. My science also proved that there is no significant global warming today. I will need to do the experiment in the late afternoon to get sunlight.