Highschool 9th Grade Week 5

Week 5 Big Bro did another argumentative essay based on Job.

He finished the reading of Genesis and started the book Cat of Bubastes. He does not like historical fiction, so this is a stretch. But I feel that ancient history is a stretch to him and my goal for him this year is to learn things even when they are hard to learn.

He is doing very very well organizing his schedule and planning his time. He did conscientious work even though they are not easy material for him.

For Biology, he finished Module 3 on Kingdom Protista (another difficult topic)

Last module on Kingdom Monera (Bacteria), we tried to do a bacteria culture, using agar.

Before culture

1 week later. I am a bit disappointed to have not found much difference. But, oh well.

He also looked through some prepared slides for the experiments in Module 3. We tried using the phone to take pictures of the microscope slides. They turned out exceedingly well. This helps a lot with the observation for his eyes get tired looking at the microscope for a long time.

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