Thursday, January 28th. Happy Birthday to Maryelle!
My day consisted of exercise bike, course prep and yoga.
After school, I helped Laureva make flashcards for her medieval castle vocabulary. Soon it was 6pm and time for PAELP: Tigers and Pangolins. I learned that tigers can leap 32 feet from a static position and that there is a forest in Western India where lions and tigers still share the same territory. Pangolins don't do well in captivity which explains why I've never seen one in a zoo. They are the world's most trafficked animal at 200,000 per year. February 20th is World Pangolin Day.
The incidence rate for Covid-19 in our department is currently over 400. The Health Minister has said that whereas the national curfew was having an effect on the original strain, it is no longer proving effective against the new variants which are circulating more and more actively in France. Further measures may be necessary. We have been learning about more deaths in Roquevaire where the nursing home has apparently been hit.
Jenny and I finished The Queen's Gambit last week and started Bridgerton this evening. Pretty costumes, scandal and accents. What's not to like?!
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Medieval castle vocabulary sounds fun. Any good words?
Nicole has also been watching Bridgerton.
Le beffroi. Les créneaux. L'huile bouillante! Le trébuchet. La catapulte. Le donjon. La cours. Le pont-levis. Les douves. . .
My research suggests that beffroi refers to both siege towers and bell towers. But maybe the former in medieval times? Donjon is a little surprising, though evidently dungeon in English also once referred to the primary tower in a castle. Does la cours have something to do with jousting? I couldn't find a specific medieval meaning.
Yes, that's correct. I only knew the bell tower meaning, but Laureva is using the other.
La cours is the courtyard, the open
space inside the walls.
La herse. Les machicoulis. Le chemin de garde. Les meurtrières. La baliste. Les arcs et les flèches. Les tours. Des blocs de pièrre. Des lances.
She got some new ones related to armor, but I'll have to have her worksheet in front of me before I can tell you . . .
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