Yesterday was a full day, starting with TOG Co-op in the morning. This week we learned about early Mesopotamia - from Babel to Ur, so we did our Jeopardy review, then discussed the history reading and the literature, which was a book called Gilgamesh, the Hero. Emily and Leigh read the Pageant of Philosophy dialogue between Simplicio and Job ( this is a short dialogue, included in the curriculum most weeks, between a fictional character named Simplicio, who is searching for wisdom, and various philosophers and thinkers throughout history ).
Then we made cylinder seals out of Sculpey polymer clay.
After co-op, we went to Amanda's volleyball game against a local charter school, Franklin Academy. They are somewhat of a rival, and we always have great games against them! On this occasion, both our Middle School team and our Varsity team played extremely well and won!
After Amanda's game, several of the girls and their families went out to Cici's Pizza for dinner, and then we all drove to Raleigh to watch the NC State Women's Volleyball team play Clemson. College volleyball is at such a higher level, and I think the girls were impressed with how high those ladies could jump and how hard they could hit that ball, and also how fast they reacted in order to keep those hard hits from hitting the floor! Alex ( NC State student!) met us at the game and hung out with us. He was pretty happy, because yesterday he was officially notified that he was assigned to active duty in the Army after graduation, instead of the reserves.
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