I don’t know how you do it. Here’s what’s going on here these days.
(Subject-by-subject survey of the present moment here.)
I’ll take a 36-hour period, beginning with this past Monday evening.
Remember: Alabama has no homeschooling regulations other than…spend 180 days doing whatever you call school.
Monday
During the day he’d done his usual reading, plus he’d done his math for Tuesday and gone to the church that employs him as organist and practiced for this coming Sunday.
5:30-6:30pm Boxing boot camp. Drives self. Picks up friend who has a guitar lesson, and they go on to the gym.
(Me: Help serve dinner at woman’s shelter, then a social gathering with another group after.)
9-10:30 or so: I return home, he’s reading Fellowship of the Ring. I turn on the Criterion Channel and we watch about half of The Buena Vista Social Club before we both get tired.
(The first Buena Vista Social Club is on frequent rotation here. He says Silencio is his favorite from that album.)
Tuesday:
He rises about 9:30.
Wake-up/transition time. Prayer. I do a quick reminder of what he’s got “due” for me that day.
10-12:30. He reads literature (Cather) /history (Herodotus – this version)/religion. Practices piano. Eats lunch.
1-2 Math (Algebra II/Trig) tutoring at the school where his tutor teaches.
2:30-3:00 We talk about what he’d read earlier:
Willa Cather’s story “The Enchanted Bluff” – found here. Focused on the theme of the sense of the young that the world is theirs for the taking and the reality of adulthood. He dug out those themes without my prompting.
The symbol of the phoenix in Christianity, as explained in this book and a couple of other sites, with images. We’re working our way through the book for the spring.
The prologue to John’s gospel. Using the Word on Fire Bible. So after I gave him a brief overview of the Synoptic Gospels and John, and various scholarly approaches to them, we moved to discuss the material, focusing on Logos, connecting it to the Old Testament expression of God’s Wisdom.
3-3:30 ACT Science practice questions
3:45-7 He was gone, biking with his friends through town – up to the Vulcan, around UAB, to Railroad park. Then he returned to tell me about it. Took a shower, played video games with the same friends for a little over an hour, then read for a while, then to sleep…
Wednesday: 5-7:15 AM Boxing boot camp w/friends, then to Chick-Fil-A to pick up breakfast. Back home, shower, then…it’s quiet, so I’m guessing he’s asleep. He’ll wake up in an hour or so, then back to work. Focus of today: read excerpts from My Antonia, continue whatever history he’s doing, a bit of Latin, more ACT science practice (he takes it Saturday), religion (dolphin symbol, rest of chapter 1 of John), piano practice. Fraternus tonight. Tomorrow: piano lesson.
Plus whatever else we watch/dream up to do.
