Vive l'assemblee!

As difficult as it was to concentrate today on all of the make up work we had before us, the scholars still managed to muster up some excitement when it came to History class. We are in the midst of the French Revolution and we are about to overthrow the ancien regime. Today's class consisted of the representatives from the three estates coming together and taking the Tennis Court Oath to work together and write a constitution that provided fairness for all. Even though Jean-Sylvain Bailly (Isaac Barreto) was able to lead and get the attendees to sign the oath, he later lost his head to the revolutionaries. Knowing this Isaac was still brave enough to take on the task! Long Live the Assembly!

Scholars have a Latin test tomorrow morning, as well as charting the moon, math work tonight, and starting on their essay for this week. Most have made great progress on their poetry memorization, but should be working on that nightly. If it is memorized already then every scholar should be reciting it for someone at home each night. Over practicing does not exist with poetry memorization. For many this will be their first time in front of a mic with 200 people watching them! :)

Friday is our trip to Clark. Please contact Mrs. Tracy if you can drive. We will be leaving the school at 8:30. Please have scholars to school EARLY that day. I will bring them up and start our spelling test at 8:00 on the nose. I need them done with that so they can take the vocabulary test before we leave for Clark. Also, please pack their lunches that day as we may get back to school too late for hot lunch! Thank you.

Two weeks from Friday is our coffeehouse. Scholars will make invitations on Monday and bring them home. Each scholar is allowed to invite 9 guests for a total of 10 people. We will be asking specifically how many guests each student will have when we get to the 23rd. If some are bringing less, then that will allow for others to bring more. The coffeehouse will be at Wasatch Christian School at 6:30 pm. More info to come on that soon....

Scholars should be reading their book report books for their written book reports that are due on the 31st.
please refer to the calendar from the beginning of the month for further dates. :)

seriously writing an oath

final document

anxious to sign

vive l'assemblee!