WEEKLY REVIEW 7/25 - 7/28

We took four weeks off and got some major house cleaning and painting done. Back to school this week.

BOTH GIRLS

Bible: Revelation

Composer: Strauss - Listened to cd and/or works online daily and read about him

Artist Study: Thomas Sully

Geography: Reading How People Live

Daily poetry reading

History: TOG Week 10 - John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments - Reading Abraham Lincoln’s World, This Country of Ours, President books, In the Days of Queen Victoria, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Louis Braille bio, Audubon bio, Listening to mp3 on Erie Canal

BIG GIRL

Consumer Math

Literature: Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

BJU Cultural Geography

The Story of Art by Gombrich

The Sections and the Civil War by Clarence Carson

Bible/Religion: Bible, Pagan Christianity (with discernment and discussion)

Writing: She writes her own stories all the time

Guitar practice

LITTLE GIRL

Math: Teaching Textbooks Pre-algebra

CLE Language Arts: 4 lessons

Vocabulary Vine: intro, intra - inside, within

Spelling: Apples Spelling Drills 1

Writing: Killgallon Sentence Composing workbook

Science: Nature Friend Magazine

Independent Reading: Bible, Baker’s Bible Atlas, The Island Stallion by Walter Farley, BJU Literature book, Bobbsey Twins mysteries, Charlotte’s Web, Black Beauty, Poppy, by Avi, Sherlock Holmes stories

Keyboard practice

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Book Report: Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan Of The Apes

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

The majority of the book is set within the jungle on the coast of Africa, with a tiny portion being set in France and America. I’m not sure about the time period. They had cars so it wasn’t too far back in history.

My favorite character is surprisingly enough Tarzan. I normally prefer secondary characters. I guess I like Tarzan because the book is mainly told through his point of view, and he’s an interesting character. The one thing I don’t like about him is how many times it tells how handsome he is or how well built his body is. That gets annoying after a while, but that’s the author’s fault not Tarzan’s.

My second favorite character is probably the Professor. I know his character is pretty much a stereotype, but I love that stereotype. Professors and archeologists always interest me, whether they be villains or a side character. Also the Professor shows he has a bit more character in the scene when he and his companion are up in the tree talking after having just been chased by a lion. I think that it is one of my favorite conversations in the book. Sometimes it is better to hint at a deeper character than to lay it all out. At least to me it makes the person more fascinating.

I also rather liked the Frenchman, though that’s probably because he is French.

My least favorite character is Kerchak. If I hadn’t seen the Disney movie he probably wouldn’t have bugged me so much, but seeing him bloodthirsty and stupid just made me dislike him strongly.

The author was obviously coming from an evolutionary view, though I’m not sure if he was trying to teach any lessons. Perhaps that you can be raised by wild, even fierce beasts and still turn out good? That men can be just as cruel as the animals?

Yes, I did like the book. It was a very interesting read and not a single part of it was boring. The only part I didn’t like was the way it ended. What if an author ended a book like that and then died before he wrote the second one? That would just be evil, though it is a good way to make sure people will want to read the second book.

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