To Do List: Monday (one day at a time!)

Being sick sure makes life difficult! We didn’t go to church on Sunday because I’ve been sick since Friday and my dh wasn’t feeling good either. The kids are still their usual selves, fortunately.

Instead of just lying around all day, {I sat around all day instead} I attempted to get the week’s schedule done. I succeeded.

Today there is a lot that the kids have to do. My dh asked me on Saturday whether I actually teach the kids or do they teach themselves. Honestly, they are self-learners. And what’s wrong with that, I ask! There are a few subjects that we do together that I ‘teach’ but even then, they usually take the ball and run with it, learning on their own more than what I have taught.

But I digress. This post is about the day’s “To Do List”.

Fox has a lot of reading to do this week. Today actually. He is a very good, quick reader so I don’t really feel too bad {really, only somewhat}. Lee has quite a bit of writing to do this week.

Fox
Bible: Reading (Deut. 22); verse (Romans 12:1-2); Saints and Heroes (Calvin, pages 60-64); Who Am I? (following the lesson plan in the Notebooking Journal)
Science: The Sciences (pages 175-185); Archimedes and the Door to Science (chapter 1)
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (finish Lesson 13)
Math: Saxon Algebra 1 (finish BA review problems #24-30)
History/Geography: Heritage History Classical Curriculum (The Story of the Greeks chapters 56, 58, 60, 62-63; read summary on page 33 of Study Guide [Ancient Greece]); Alexander the Great by Abbot (read this in its entirety this week and next- might stretch a bit farther); Around the World in 180 Days (pages 20-26, student workbook; 9 questions answered by week’s end) [this will be using World Studies by BJU, chapters 4, 13 & 17].
Artist Study: Bierstadt- Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
Composer Study: listening to WCLV

Lee
Bible: Reading (Deut. 32); verse (Colossians 3:1-16); Mark Commentary (she is on chapter 15; would like it to be done this week- today would be ideal)
Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra (Lesson 107- only one more lesson and she will complete the book)
Language Arts: Excellence in Literature (begin reading Around the World in 80 Days; may continue reading 2889); Everyman (should be just about done with this)
Science: Biology (SAS VLab: Carbon Cycle, QL# 952)
Govt/Citizenship/Logic: Current Events
History/Geography: Francis Bacon (should finish this today); Western Civilization (writing about the Anabaptists- past due)
Artist Study: Bierstadt- Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
Composer Study: listening to WCLV

Lee received a book about editing {thanks to advice from Mary Jo Tate} and she is procrastinating …by reading the book instead. The Elements of Editing by Arthur Plotnik. She read this:

A book editor is a woman or man (let’s say a she) with an eclectic education and a summer’s training (a la Radcliffe’s Publishing Procedures Course) and perhaps an  MBA degree all of which she puts to use in estimating the cost and profit-potential of a proposed acquisition or in-house project and rejecting the idea or supporting it and selling it to the marketing department and working out a contract with author or agent or packager for each of 10 or 20 manuscripts a year and parenting each project through the 5-to-9-month period of gestation into hard and maybe soft editions of a book which means watching out for Baby’s interests in the struggle for a share of promo and publicity sales and advertising while she helps initiate subsidiary rights activities with magazines and book clubs and mass-market paperback publishers and motion picture and television producers and foreign publishers and all this between weekly crisis meetings and biweekly editorial meetings and monthly meetings to transmit manuscripts to the copyediting and production departments and quarterly conventions of one association or another and all to soon the semiannual sales conferences and annual trade show of the American Booksellers Association and 100s of sessions with authors and agents and freelancers and in-house staff who copyedit and write catalog and jacket copy and design and illustrate and do whatever the editor doesn’t so she can sneak in a moment at home to do what most people think she mainly does namely, read new manuscripts that a first reader liked and edit substantively the accepted manuscripts so the line-by-line editing and production and marketing can begin and who does all of the above and more for the pay of a plumber’s apprentice if she is one of the lucky ones (Plotnik, The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists, 1982, pgs 98-100).

…and still wants to be an editor.

In terms of other things that are on the “To Do List”:

Me- finish laundry. Do dishes {if the sink is indeed fixed}. Make a good dinner. That’s all I’ve planned for me. I seem to have the good end of the deal, do you think?