Again today we took a trip to the Richland County Library. Lydia checked out two books. An Atlas of the Ancient World: Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent. Another book on Ancient Greece, with an emphasis of the culture which created the Classic Linear B Greek.-this book is about what scholars refer to as the Golden Age of Greek Culture, which ended shortly after the fall of Troy.
She also checked out and began reading the first chapter of The Anatomy of the Human Body for her course in Biology.
At mid-morning break, she finished her five paragraph review of Ancient Athens, and was given a verbal quiz over each chapter she had reviewed. I also asked her to extrapolate the difference between direct Democracy and Representational Democracy.
She explained the differences between what was found in Athens and what is in use in America today. -She thought that direct democratic methods were fine for smaller groups, as it was quicker, and more flexible.
When asked what she thought about a bad law... she opined that under the direct method it would make it easier to remove or repeal. She then said that a bad law under our system of governance would be very hard to remove. But at the same time she went on to explain under our system, it would be harder for a bill or law to be created in the first place.-As it would have more review and be subject to multiple levels of debate before being created in the first place.-(She remembered the School House Rock video she watched at home and at her former class at the Columbia Jewish Day School. She used this basic program to help her compare the two systems of Democracy.)
Lydia also finished the day out by completing the first section 1.1 of Chapter One of: Elementary and Intermediate Algebra by George Woodbury.-This is the Algebra Textbook currently in use at Midlands Tech, for their Algebra 101, and 102 Class.
1.1 deals with Integers, Opposites and Absolute Values. She worked through exercise problems 2 through 60 even.
-DS Baker
She also checked out and began reading the first chapter of The Anatomy of the Human Body for her course in Biology.
At mid-morning break, she finished her five paragraph review of Ancient Athens, and was given a verbal quiz over each chapter she had reviewed. I also asked her to extrapolate the difference between direct Democracy and Representational Democracy.
She explained the differences between what was found in Athens and what is in use in America today. -She thought that direct democratic methods were fine for smaller groups, as it was quicker, and more flexible.
When asked what she thought about a bad law... she opined that under the direct method it would make it easier to remove or repeal. She then said that a bad law under our system of governance would be very hard to remove. But at the same time she went on to explain under our system, it would be harder for a bill or law to be created in the first place.-As it would have more review and be subject to multiple levels of debate before being created in the first place.-(She remembered the School House Rock video she watched at home and at her former class at the Columbia Jewish Day School. She used this basic program to help her compare the two systems of Democracy.)
Lydia also finished the day out by completing the first section 1.1 of Chapter One of: Elementary and Intermediate Algebra by George Woodbury.-This is the Algebra Textbook currently in use at Midlands Tech, for their Algebra 101, and 102 Class.
1.1 deals with Integers, Opposites and Absolute Values. She worked through exercise problems 2 through 60 even.
-DS Baker
