Biographies....Respecting Guidance and Abraham Lincoln......

Today was a crazy day in the suite. We had plenty of work to cover, and as usual, never enough time to complete it all. Scholars were working on editing essays, writing paragraphs, math for the math test tomorrow, and history all in a couple hours. We then moved forward to the Odyssey where the scholars are designing their Achilles Shields to display in the hallway.

After working on those we headed into character time where we discussed the way students of this particular age can show respect to parents and other authorities. During our discussion we came to the conclusion that if you trust those elders to guide you, you won't question their motives. That then led us to an activity where scholars had to lead other scholars through a minefield. The scholar being led was blindfolded. We only had one casualty! :)

Into the afternoon speech and debate was visited by none other than Abraham Lincoln himself. He came to share with the scholars why he lost the congress seat to Douglas and how he won the election for President, and of course, to debate the issue of slavery. Scholars had the opportunity to try their hand at Lincoln-Douglas Debate.

It was a rather full day, and of course will be a full day tomorrow also. Essays are due at 8 a.m. and spelling and vocabulary tests will take place at that time. Scholars have PE and then math before we have our debate class at 11:30. It will be a busy day and go quite quickly!

getting the birthday girl ready to go

the mine field begins

heading across the gym mine field

Welcome Mr. President!

Hearing his side of the story

Debating Khylee's contention

Debating McKenna's Contention