Venture and Rejoice
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Old Country
"And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that
thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order." -
Mosiah 4:27
The Bet
October 2
London
*Read chapters 1-3.
Vocabulary:
- Enigmatical
- Avaricious
- Taciturn
- Garret
- Antagonists
Strategic Solutions - Goal Setting
-
- Set goals - Including Souting, Personal Progress, etc.
- Read
Kayaks Down the Nile (goal setting)
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Principle Centered Leadership
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Goal Express! Five Secrets of Goal-Setting Success by Jim Wiltens
- Learn about John Goddard
- Write down all the goals that you ever want to accomplish in your life
Other topic ideas: 1870 London, Reform Clum, Byron, 'Change (Exchange?),
Nodebe, whist, charities, kindness, mansion, servants (domestics), gas lighting, electric bells, speaking tubes, electric clock, organized closet, "The unforseen does not exist" - Phileas Fogg,
pounds, moderation
Departure
October 2
London
*Read chapter 4
Light of the World - England
Light of the World - Mansions
- Visit a mansion
- Design an ideal mansion. Make the floor plan.
Day 1
October 3
Paris
Light of the World - France
-
- Read or watch Les Miserables
- Read Tale of Two Cities
- Find out how long it takes to get from London to Paris today. How is this possible?
- Read or watch The Scarlet Pimpernel
-
Day 2
October 4
Italy - Turin by Mount Cenis
Light of the World - Italy
- Read The Romans (mystery adventure)
Day 3
October 5
Brindisi
Light of the World - Greece
- Read Archimedes and the Door to Science
- Read Greek myths
Day 4
October 6
Mediterranean Sea
Way to go! - Train & Boat - Adventuring-
Tell which transportation is better - train or boat
- Read about adventurers, i.e., Lindburgh, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong, Columbus,
Mike Melvill (SpaceShipOne), Lewis & Clark
Other topic ideas: passports, Alabama Claim
Day 5
October 7
Mediterranean Sea
Paradigms of Virtue - Jules Verne
- French
- As a child, he read adventure stories like Robinson Crusoe and Swiss Family Robinson.
- Imagined future inventions very close to the way they really did become, i.e., airplanes,
submarines, radio, TV, and spaceships.
- Studied to be a lawyer
- Raised with religion
- Condemned superstition and the many forms of religious, class, and racial fanaticism and
bigotry.
- Had a large library
- Had over one hundred thousand notes on scientific, technological, geographical, and
cultural matters.
- Wrote 103 works.
- See if Daddy can guess Jules Verne in a game of 20 questions
- Research the life of Jules Verne and write and interview with him.
- Illustrate a book cover of a biography about Jules Verne.
- Compare Jules Verne's era to your own.
- Create a dissplay announing Jules Verne's visit to an author book signing.
- Make a mind map about all that you've learned about Jules Verne's life.
Paradigms of Virtue - Charity
- Phileas Fogg gave his winnings to charity
- Read about charity in the scriptures
Jambo! Jambo!
(Africa)
"A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger." Proverbs
15:1
Day 6
October 8
Port Said, Egypt
*Stamp passports
Light of the World - Continent of Africa
- Which African country would you most like to visit? Why?
Day 7
October 9
Suez Canal
*Read day 7
Vocabulary:
- Bespoken
- Minarets
- Presentiment
- Quay
- Phlegmatic
- Fob
- Cogitate
- Equanimity
- propitious
Strategic Solutions - Suez Canal
- How long did it take to get from England to India prior to the canal?
- Compare the Suez Canal to the Panama Canal.
Other topic ideas: warrant, telegraph, colsul, shillings/pounds
Day 8
October 10
Red Sea
*Read day 8
Vocabulary:
- Propitiating
- Indefatigable
- alacrity
Light of the World - Egypt
-
Read the Golden Goblet
- Read mara, Daughter of the Nile
- Read Tales of Ancient Egypt
- Read Miriam
- Read The Bronze Bow
- Read Vinegar Boy
- Read The Greatest Story Ever Told
- Read The Robe
- Read or watch Ben Hur
- Read Kayak Down the Nile by John Goddard
Day 9
October 11
Red Sea
Light of the World - African Nation (South Africa, Kenya or Nigeria?)
Day 10
October 12
Red Sea
Paradigms of Virtue - Keeping confidences
- "In which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps, than is prudent."
Land of Honor
(Asia)
"I beseech you therefore, bretheren, by the mercies of God, that
ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
reasonable service.
"Be ye not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." -
Romans 12:1 & 21
Day 11
October 13
Red Sea, Mocha (Al Mukha), Yemen
*Passport
*Read day 11
Light of the World - Yemen
-
ruins
- date trees
- coffee fields
Day 12
October 14
Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, Yemen
*Read day 12
Light of the World - Land formations
-
Straights
- Peninsulas
- Make a fictitious country with all the land formations on it.
- Read Desert Rat
Day 13
October 15
Steamer Point, Gulf of Aden
*Read day 13
Light of the World - Asia
Day 14
October 16
Arabian Sea
Light of the World - Saudia Arabia
Day 15
October 17
Arabian Sea
Light of the World - Iraq
Day 16
October 18
Arabian Sea
Light of the World - Afghanistan
Day 17
October 19
Arabian Sea
Light of the World - India
- Viharis (abandoned monastaries)
- Indian Architecture
- Malligaum, Ellora, Arungabad, Aureng-Zed, Nizam, Burhampoor, Assurghur,
Surat, Khandeish, Bundelcund, Rothal, Kholby, Allahabad, Kallenger, Ahmehnagara,
Golconda, Benares, Casi, Behar, fort of Chupenie, Gazipur, Bengal, Golconda,
Gour, Murshedabad, Burdwan, Hughly, Chandernagor, Calcutta, Buxar, Patna,
Maonghir
- pagodas
- Thuggees
- Indian slippers
- Salcette, Callyan, Kandallah, Pounah, Pauwell, Nassik
- Indian architecture
- viharis (abandoned monastaries)
- parse
- Ucaf Uddaul (poet king)
- brick houses & clay huts
- Vicvarcarma
- Lord Cornwallis
Day 18
October 20
Bombay, India
*Read day 18
Vocabulary:
Light of the World - Bombay
- famous city hall
- library
- forts
- docks
- bazaars
- mosques
- synagogues
- Armenian Churches
- Malebar Hill pagoda
- elephanta
- hypogea
- Buddhist architecture
- Kanherian grottoes
- Europeans, Persians with pointed hats, Banyans with black mitres, long-robed Armenians
- Parsee Festival of the Zoroaster (religion - some people speculate that the wisemen who visited Jesus
were from this religion.)
Day 19
October 21
Khandeish, India
*Read day 19
Vocabulary:
Light of the World - Animals in India
- snakes, tigers, elephants, zebus, bears, wolves, alligators, gulls,
turtles
- Draw an animal in it's natural setting
Day 20
October 22
Kholby, India
*Read day 20
Vocabulary:
-
Perambulating
- Pailings
- rubicund
Strategic Solutions
Way to go! - Elephants
- howdahs
- Read Modoc (may want to skip parts)
- Read Echo of the Elephants
- Write a poem
Day 21
October 23
India
*Read day 21
Vocabulary
- Lugubrious
- Caparisoned
- Damasceened
- Palanquin
- Habiliments
- Colloquy
- Assiduous
- Aperature
- sots
- mitres
- juggernaut
Light of the World - Brahmins, Suttee, human sacrifice, fakirs
Other topics: tambourines, cymbals
Day 22
October 24
Allahabad, India
*Read day 22
Vocabulary:
- Spectre
- Prodigy
- Pelisse
- Vermilion
- Habiliments
- Verdure
- ablutions
Paradigms of Virtue - Personal Sacrifice
Other topics: Celon, pollution
Day 23
October 25
Calcutta
*Read day 23
Vocabulary
-
Equipages
- Plying
- phlegmatic
Light of the World - Court, bail
Day 24
October 26
Bay of Bengal
Way to go! - Carriages that look like perambulating pagodas, palanquins,
palki-gari (or palkigharis?)
-
Make a transportation timeline showing types of transportation throughout time.
- Make a palanquin
Day 25
October 27
Bay of Bengal
Light of the World - Hinduism
- goddess Kali, Thuggee chief, godess Death, rajas, Kama (goddess
of love), Vishnu, shiva, brahma
Day 26
October 28
Near Andaman
Light of the World - India’s landscapes & climates
-
cotton, coffee, nutmeg, clove, pepper plantations
- Godavery, Jumna, Cani, Ganges & Tapty Rivers
- Gulf of Cambray
- jungles, thickly-leaved, dense forests, dry plains
- Sutpour & Vindhia Mountains
- viaducts
- copses of dates & dwarf-palms
- syenite
- bananas
- fields of barley, wheat, & corn
Day 27
October 29
Near Andaman Islands, India
*Read day 27
Vocabulary:
- phlegmatic
- Propitious
- confidant
Light of the World - Andaman Islands, India
- Saddle Peak
- Papuans
- Vasts forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, gigantic mimosa, tree-like
ferns, swallows
- Celestial Empire
Other topics: cannibalism
Day 28
October 30
Straits of Malacca
*Read day 28
Volcabulary:
Light of the World - Sumatra, Indonesia
Day 29
October 31 (Halloween?)
Singapore
*Read day 29
Vocabulary:
Light of the World - Singapore
-
New Holland Horses
- Malacca
- clove-tree flower, pepper plants, sago-bushes, ferns, tropical, nutmeg trees,
mangoes, forests
- monkeys, beautifully-furred tigers
Other topics: steam & sail, Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, Portuguese,
Anam, Cochin China
Day 30
November 1
South China Sea
*Read day 30
Light of the World - Borneo
Day 31
November 2
South China Sea
Light of the World - Malaysia
Day 32
November 3
South China Sea
*Read day 32
Vocabulary:
Light of the World - Vietnam
Other Topics: tempest, squall
Day 33
November 4
South China Sea
*Read day 33
Light of the World - Philippines
Day 34
November 5
South China Sea
Light of the World - China
- Play ping-pong
- Make the Great Wall of China
- Read
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
The Good Earth
Gladys Aylward
Day 35
November 6
Hong Kong
*Read day 35
Vocabulary:
-
Flotilla
- Macadamized
- Antipodes
- Parterres
- Raillery
- complicity
Paradigms of Virtue - Drug Use
Other topics: steam engine, boiler, junks, tankas, fishing boats
Day 36
November 7
Hong Kong
*Read day 36
Vocabulary:
-
Taciturn
- Extradition
- Espying
- Capricious
- impunity
Light of the World - Hong Kong
- Treaty of Nankin
- war of 1842
- Victoria prt
Other topics: phases of the moon, pilot-boat
Day 37
November 8
Straits of Fo-Kien
*Read day 37
Vocabulary:
-
Esconced
- Repast
- Chagrin
- Palatable
- stifle
Light of the World - Taiwan
- Fo-Kien = Formosa = Taiwan
Other topics: tropic of Cancer, eddies, straits
Day 38
November 9
East China Sea
*Read day 38
Vocabulary:
- Capriciously
- Phosphorescent
- Scintillations
- Luminous
- Adroit
- scudded
- founder
Light of the World - weather
- Gale, tempest, squall, typhoon,
- Baromemter
- Meteorologist
Day 39
November 10
East China Sea
*Read day 39
Vocabulary:
Way to go! - Kinds of boats
- Junks, tankas, fishing boats, men-of-war, trading
vessels, sempas, flower boats, clippers, steamers, steam boats
Day 40
November 11
Shanghi
*Read day 40
Vocabulary:
-
Capricious
- Zephyrs
- Torpor
- Singluar
- fickle
Light of the World - Shanghi
Day 41
November 12
East China Sea
Light of the World - Japan
- sacred gates
- bridges
- temples
- blackened teeth
- Empire of the Sun
- Car of Juggernaut
- coolies
- Make some origami
- Watch Mikado
Day 42
November 13
Yokohama, Japan
*Read day 42
Vocabulary
-
Peristyles
- Interminable
- Lac
- Equipages
- Motley
- Inveigles
- Hauberk
- importunate
- torpor
- singular
Light of the World - Yokohama, Japan
- Benten (goddess of the sea)
Other topics: Hottentots
Day 43
November 14
Yokohoam, Japan
*Read day 43
Vocabulary:
-
Accoutred
- Equilibrist
- Shuttlecocks
- Battledores
- Adroitness
- Mountebanks
- Recitilinear
- Pacific
- Eulogies
- Melodious
- Ere
- Plackard
- Precipitate
- Interminable
- presentiment
Light of the World - Circus
Day 44
November 15
Pacific Ocean
Strategic Solutions - Passepartout figured out how to get to USA.
- What would you do if you found yourself in Japan with no money?
Day 45
November 16
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Japan’s plant life
-
fir & cedar groves, bamboo, reeds, cherry, plum, & apple trees
- camillias
Day 46
November 17
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Buddhism
Day 47
November 18
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Japan’s animals
- short-legged poodles, yellowish cats, sparrows, pigeons, ravens,
eagles, herons, crows, ducks, hawks, cranes
- Draw an animal in it's natural setting
Day 48
November 19
Pacific Ocean
Way to go! - Japan’s transportation
-
carriages, palanquins, barrows with sails, bamboo litters
Day 49
November 20
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Japan’s clothes
-
pointed hats, canvas shoes, straw sandals, clogs
Day 50
November 21
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Japan’s music
-
flutes, bones, large drums, cymbols, tam-tams, tambourines, gongs
Setting Sail
(Oceans)
"And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you
fishers of men." Matthew 4:19
Day 51
November 22
Pacific Ocean
*Stamp passport
Light of the World - Ocean
- Read:
-
Explorations of Captain Cook in the Pacific
- Treasure Island
- Swiss Family Robinson
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Robinson Crusoe
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Shipwrecked!
- Man Without a Country
- Steamboat
Day 52
November 23
Pacific Ocean
*Read day 52
Vocabulary:
-
Antipodes
- Pugilistic
- Rogue
- Extradition
- vanquished
Light of the world - Longitude & Latitude
- 100 & 80th meridian (180th?), 50th parallel
Other topics: exctadition
Day 53
November 24
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Australia
Day 54
November 25
Pacific Ocean
Paradigms of Virtue - Ocean explorers
Day 55
November 26
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Sea animals
- Draw an animal in its natural setting
Day 56
November 27
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Underwater landscapes
Day 57
November 28
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Ocean currents
Day 58
November 29
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Waves & tides
Day 59
November 30
Pacific Ocean
Light of the world - sharks
Day 60
December 1
Pacific Ocean
Light of the World - Ocean mammals
Promised Land
(North America)
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
"Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." - John 15:13-14
Day 61
December 2
Pacific Ocean
*Stamp passport
Light of the World - USA
- American Indians
- Omaha, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, Platte River, Wahsatch mountains,
Laramie Territory, Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Tuilla Valley, American
Desert, Cedar & Humboldt River, range, & mountains, Sierra Nevada, Sacramento,
Rocky Mountains, Rocklin, Auburn, Colfax, Oakland, American River, San Pablo Bay,
Cisco, Carson Valley, Reno, Nevada, Elko, Weber River, Bitter Creek Valley, Muddy Creek,
Green Creek, Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, North Platte River, Rocky
Laramie Peak, Arkansas River, Missouri River, Fort Halleck, Medicine Bow,
Medicine Creek, Fort Saunders, Cheyenne Pass, Denver, Colorado, Camp Walbach,
Lodge Pole Creek, Wyoming, Nebraska, Sedgwick, Julesburg, Fort McPherson,
Great Island, Columbus, Schuyler, Fremont, Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Iowa
City, Mississippi River, Davenport, Rock Island, Illinois, Chicago, Lake Michigan,
Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
- pines
- praries, plains, desert
- buffaloes
Day 62
December 3
San Francisco
*Read day 62
Vocabulary:
-
Palatial
- Banditti
- Incendiaries
- Emporium
- Undulations
- Verdant
- rout
Light of the World - San Francisco, California
- Sacramento River
- Golden Gate Bay
- Anglo-Sazon Gothic Churches
- dried beef, oyster soup, biscuits, cheese
- Read:
- John Muir
- Crazy Horse
- Daniel Boone: Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
- Lewis & Clark
- Sacagawea
- Little House
- Caddie Woodlawn
- Little Britches
- Laddie
- Life on the Mississippi
- California Gold Rush
- Coolies
- Ten Mile Day
- Full Steam Ahead: Transcontinental Railroad
- Davey Crockett
- Old Yeller
- If You Lived During the Great San Francisco Earthquake
Other topics: Mexico, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Europe, Asia, Pacific Islands,
Cormorants, pelicans
Day 63
December 4
San Francisco
*Read day 63
Vocabulary:
Way to go - Transportation in America
- clippers, steamers, steam boats, conveyances, omni buses,
horse-cars, trains, carriages
Other topics: 112'to 1 mile grade, snow
Day 64
December 5
*Read day 64
Volcabulary:
-
Defile
- Insurmountable
- Ruminating
- encumbered
Way to go! - Trains
- Union Pacific Railroad
- Parts - funnel, bell, cow catcher
- Intercontinental railroad
- Bradshaw's Continental Railway Steam Transit and General Guide
Day 65
December 6
Salt Lake City, Utah
*Read day 65
Vocabulary:
-
Ambuscade
- Vicissitudes
- Culvert
- Esconced
- Gainsay
- visage
Paradigms of Virtue - Stand for Truth & Righteousness
Other topics: pioneers, polygamy, Church history
Day 66
December 7
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
*Read day 66
Vocabulary:
-
Sedentary
- Pretensions
- Declevity
- Insolent
- Conspicuous
- Apprise
- Prodigiously
- propitious
Strategic Solutions - Bridges
Other topics: sea level
Day 67
December 8
Fort Kearney, Nebraska
*Read day 67
Vocabulary:
-
Insolent
- Blusterer
- Alacrity
- Waylaid
- Garrison
- Decamped
- Pallor
- Effaced
- Insurountable
- Swoon
- Forebodings
- capricious
Paradigms of Virtue - Personal sacrifice
Other topics: Sioux & Pawnees, railway pioneer, Amphion's Lyre, 101st meridian,
duels, John Bull (c. 1562-1628, English composer and organist)
Day 68
December 9
Fort Kearney, Nebraska
*Read day 68
Vocabulary:
-
Sloop
- Brigantine
- Plaintive
- presentiment
Strategic Solutions - Inventions
- Read about inventors
- George Washington Carver
- Madame Curie
- Alexander Graham Bell
- First Flight
- Wright Brothers
- Thomas Alva Edison
- Burt Rutan (SpaceShipOne)
- They All Laughed
- 21 Balloons
Day 69
December 10
Chicago, Illinois
*Read day 69
Light of the World - Politics
Day 70
December 11
New York, New York
*Read day 70
Light of the World - New York, New York
- Broadway
- Bordeaux, Hudson Bay, Sandy Hook, Long Island, Fire Island
- Read Little Lord Fauntleroy
Day 71
December 12
New York, New York
*Read day 71
Vocabulary:
-
Inseparable
- Indemnifies
- Stokers
- Unpropitious
- Conjecture
- Plausible
- Gamut
- anon
Strategic Solutions - Where there’s a will, there’s a way
- Read Thread Across the Ocean, Trans Atlantic Cable
Day 72
December 13
Atlantic Ocean
*Read day 72
Light of the World - Newfoundland, Canada
Day 73
December 14
Atlantic Ocean
Light of the World - Greenland (belongs to Denmark)
Day 74
December 15
Atlantic Ocean
*Read day 74
Vocabulary:
Light of the World - Iceland
Day 75
December 16
Atlantic Ocean
*Read day 75
Vocabulary:
Light of the World - Map making
Day 76
December 17
Atlantic Ocean
Light of the World - Oceans, continents, states/providents, cities
Day 77
December 18
Atlantic Ocean
*Read day 77
Vocabulary:
-
Apoplectic
- Paroxysm
- Imperturbable
- Prodigious
- Colloquy
- Pickaroon
Strategic Solutions - Utilizing all resources
Day 78
December 19
Atlantic Ocean
*Read day 78
Way to go! - Steam engine
Day 79
December 20
Atlantic Ocean
*Read day 79
Vocabulary:
Way to go! - Boat parts
- sheathing, masts, brigantine, foresail, stormjib, standing-jib,
aft, bow, poles, pulleys, knots, sails, poop, hull, rafts, spars,
railings, fittings, deck, hulk
Day 80
December 21
Ireland
*Read day 80
Vocabulary:
- portico
- practicable
- heinous
Light of the World - Ireland
A
December 21
England
*Read A
Vocabulary:
-
Imperturbable
- Pensive
- Ruefully
- Impassibility
- Rectitude
- Paralytic
- Fastidious
- Phlegmatic
- pecuniary
Light of the World - International Dateline
Other topics: Westminster Clock, Pall Mall
B
December 22
England
Strategic Solutions - Goal setting - evaluating - How did you do on your goals?
C
December 23
England
*Read C
Paradigms of Virtue - Wedding/marriage
D
December 24
England
*Read D
Vocabulary:
Paradigms of Virtue - Accomplishments - CELEBRATION!
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