Memorize, Research & Explore these topics this week.

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History
Cyrus the Great claimed Persia, Media, then Asia, made Achaemenid Empire in 540 BC. Finally he conquered Babylon and Canaan and allowed the Jews to go back home to build Jerusalem.

Story of the World, Vol. 1, Chapter 21
Ancient History Encyclopedia
Wikipedia

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Geography
Southern Asia:
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Nepal
Bhutan
Bangladesh

Lizardpoint

Practice labeling from memory on this map.
Challenge: Practice drawing the map free hand from memory.

 

 

English
Helping verbs, helping verbs there are 23: am are is was were being been be have has had do does did shall should will & would. There are 5 more helping verbs: may must might can could

Grammar Revolution

 

Greek
ἡ φωνή the voice
ἡ ψυχῇ the soul, life
ἡ καρδία the heart
ἡ ἀγάπη the love
ἡ ἁμαρτία the sin

Etymonline Dictionary of the etymology of words.

 

Science
An atom is the smallest unit of ordinary matter that forms a chemical element.
A vacuum is space devoid of matter.

Math
Volume of a prism & cylinder is area of the base times height V=Bh, volume of a pyramid & cone is one third area of the base times height V=1/3Bh, sphere is four thirds pi r cubed 4/3πr^3

 

Art
lion applique

Philosophy
By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
I would rather discover a single demonstration [in geometry] than become king of the Persians.
Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus

Music Appreciation
Traditional Persian Music

Literature
The Histories
Herodotus

 

Assignments

Tuesday
Grammarians (K-4th graders)

Memory Work
Review this week’s Memory Work (above). Be sure to listen to the History Song & Timeline song.

Presentation
Choose one topic above, do a little research and prepare a 2-3 minute presentation to teach us what you learned in class next week.  Hint: Follow the links above, the suggestions below and/or search Khan Academy or Youtube for good educational videos.

Suggestions:
An historical figure or event
A timeline event
A country from Geography
English Grammar
Latin vocabulary and its English or Spanish derivates
The mathematician or math topic
The scientist’s discoveries, experiment or science
A style of art
Music from that country/time

Tuesday
Dialecticians (5th-8th graders)

Cornerstone Writing Assignment
Choose an ancient religion for your Cornerstone this session. Write the introduction and conclusion.

Quiz next week
Europe Map Quiz

Presentation
Think of three questions from the memory work above. Choose your favorite, and research it online. Hint: look for good educational videos on Youtube or Khan Academy. Make a key word outline of key facts, then do a 5 minute presentation in class next week. Use this Presentation Template.

 

Wednesday

Writing Club
Write 3 key word outlines from 3 sources on “Cyrus the Great: Expanding the Empire.” Then merge the outlines and write one paragraph. Be ready to present the paragraph out loud in class next week. Diagram Week 18 sentences.

Make Science
Make a model of atoms with paperclips.

Math Club
Calculate the volume of prisms & pyramids.

Art Appreciation
Make a golden lion applique.

 

Thursday

Euclidean Geometry
Construct Euclid’s Postulates.

Greek 1
Complete Lesson 18 homework and study for Test 18 next week.

Latin 2 & 3
Complete Lesson 16 homework and study for Test 16 next week.

Book Club
Read the Odyssey in class. Finishing reading The God King at home, annotating interesting quotes, vocabulary words, themes or allusions as you read. Then prepare a creative book report to present. Complete Week 18 Editing.

Make History
Make a Pillar of Ashoka, and take the chapter 21 quiz in Story of the World, Vol. 1.

Friday

Chronos Explorers Outdoors
Local hike & Gift Drive

Timeline

8000 BC  Citizens of Jericho build the first walled city
3300 BC  Sumerians invent writing
3100 BC  Narmer unifies Egypt
3100 BC  Early Britons start constructing Avebury and Stonehenge
2750 BC  Imhotep’s first stone pyramid
2700 BC  Uruk’s great King Gilgamesh
2500 BC Harappa was founded on the Indus River
2340 BC Sargon of Akkadia
2100 BC Domestication of the horse, Sintashta
2100 BC Patriarchs of Israel
2000 BC Minoans of Crete
1950 BC Akkadia falls to Babylon
1792 BC Hammurabi the Amorite rules as King of Babylon
1628 BC Thera Erupts and tidal waves destroy coastal empires
1600 BC Hittites rule Anatolia
1558 BC Shang Dynasty rules the Yellow River Valley
1500 BC Aryan people enter India
1500 BC Moses leads the Hebrew Exodus
1500 BC Phoenicians trade on the Mediterranean
1450 BC Mycenaeans, the first Greeks
1200 BC Olmecs, the first Meso- american civilization
1100 BC Zhou Dynasty overthrow the Shang
1070 BC Kush rule Nubia
1010 BC David, King of Israel
1000 BC Bantu migrate throughout Africa
850 BC Greek Dark Ages
814 BC Phoenicians settle Carthage
800 BC Homer writes his poems
768 BC Etruscans spread south ofthe Alps
685 BC Assurbanapal collected cuneiform tablets in his Library at Ninevah
626 BC Chaldeans defeat the Assyrians
620 BC The Seven Sages of Greece
605 BC Nebuchadnezzar exiles the Jews
599 BC Mahavir, Jain teacher
563 BC Siddartha Gautama
559 BC Cyrus the Great rules over Medes and Persians
551 BC Confucious Reforms China
530 BC Pythagoreans believe in numbers
500 BC Darius the Great attacks Greece
500 BC Lau Tzu teaches Taoism
500 BC Warring States Period leads to the Qin (Chin) Dynasty
431 BC The Peloponnesian War
425 BC Herodotus writes The Histories
399 BC Socrates teaches Plato
336 BC Aristotle tutors Alexander the Great
335 BC Alexander the Great conquers the Persians and Egypt
321 BC Chandragupta and the Mauryan Empire
300 BC Euclid’s Elements
268 BC Ashoka rules India
264 BC Rome fights Carthage in three Punic Wars
250 BC Archimedes of Syracuse
221 BC Shi Huangdi, Chinese Emporer
197 BC Roman Republic conquers the world
140 BC Hipparchos catalogues the stars in Nicaea
105 BC Heron’s College in Alexandria
100 BC The Nazca people flourish
70 BC Lucretius, Epicurean
59 BC Julius Caesar, emporer for life
45 BC Cicero
3 BC Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, born in Judea, Israel Israel
30 Paul, Missionary to the Gentiles
54 Nero persecutes the early Church
70 Titus destroys Herod’s Temple and Jerusalem
168 Ptolemy writes The Almagest
180 Marcus Aurelius writes Meditations
300 Yamato dynasty in Japan
306 Constantine the Great converts to Christianity
320 Sri Gupta starts India’s Golden Age
380 Augustine of Hippo writes his Confessions
395 Roman Empire divides East and West
410 Visigoths sack Rome
449 Anglo-Saxons invade England
453 Attila King of the Huns
496 Clovis unites the tribes of France
514 Mayans found Chichen Itza
537 Isidore of Miletus builds Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
590 Yan Chien unifies China
622 Muhammad travels to Medina
639 Muslim Caliphs expand the Arab Empire
683 Zero used in Cambodia
700 Ghana trades gold and salt
732 Charles Martel defeatsal al Rahman near Tours, France
768 Charlemagne becomes the first Holy Roman Emperor
790 Vikings raid Europe
802  King Jayavarman II of the Khmer Empire
810  Al-Khwārizmī (Algoritmi) publishes his Book on Calculation (Algebra)
900  Tiwanaku culture builds south of Lake Titicaca
947  Ce Acatl founds the Toltec Empire in Yucatan
980  Vladimir becomes ruler of Kiev
1000  Leif Ericsson sails to North America
1054 The Great Eastern Schism of the church
1054 Crab Nebula supernova
1066 William the Conqueror wins the Battle of Hastings
1095 Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade
1096 Teaching begins at Oxford University
1113 King Suryavarman II builds Angkor Wat
1157 Ibn Rushd translates Aristotlex
1200 Maori arrive in New Zealand
1202 Fibonacci publishes Liber Abaci
1209 Genghis Khan’s conquests
1215 King John of England signs the Magna Carta
1271 Marco Polo’s journey to China
1273 Aquinas interprets Aristotle
1299
Osman I founds the Ottoman Empire
1320
Dante’s Divine Comedy
1324
Wealthy Mansa Musa of Mali
1325
Aztecs build Tenochtitlan
1347
Black Plague from China to Europe
1368  Hongwu’s Ming Dynasty in China
1387  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
1400  Fra Angelico’s rare and perfect talent
1415  Henry the Navigator
1430  Durer and Bruegel in the Northern Renaissance
1431  Joan of Arc in France
1450  Incas build Machu Picchu
1453  Turks conquer Constantinople
1455  Gutenberg invents the printing press
1462  Ivan the Great rules Russia
1466  Leonardo da Vinci
1470  Sunni Ali expands the Songhay Empire
1488  Michelangelo and the High Rennaissance
1492  Columbus sails west to find Asia
1497  Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope
1517  Martin Luther’s Reformation
1519  Cortes conquers the Aztecs
1520  Suleiman the Lawgiver in the Ottoman Empire
1522  Magellan’s expedition circumnavigates the globe
1527  El Greco and Mannerism
1536  John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
1543  Copernicus publishes The Revolution
1550  Caravaggio, Bernini and Baroque
1558  Elizabeth I, Queen of England
1588  Britian defeats the Spanish Armada
1590  William Shakespeare’s first play
1607  Jamestown founded
1609  Galileo’s first telescope
1620  The Mayflower sails to Plymouth Rock
1633  Iemitsu closes ports in Japan
1637  Renee Descartes, the father of modern western philosophy
1653  Oliver Cromwell’s Civil War
1665  Newton’s and Leibniz’s Calculus
1690  John Locke
1703  Johann Sebastian Bach
1727  Leonhard Euler
1753  Carl Linnaeus, Biologist
1764  Mozart and the Classical period
1769  James Watt patents the steam engine
1776  James Cook ocean explorer
1776  US declares independence from Britain
1778  Beethoven and the Romantic Arts
1780  Jacques Louis-David, Neo-Classical painter
1781  Immanuel Kant’s philosophy
1787  US Constitution ratified
1801  Hegel’s absolute idealism
1801  Georg Friedrich Gauss teaches Bernhard Riemann
1802  Napoleon crowned consul for life
1808  Goethe publishes Faust
1819  Delacroix, Romantic Painter
1820  The British claim the South African Cape Colony
1821  Mexico independence
1840  Millet, Realist painter
1848  Marx’s Communist Manifesto
1859  Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1861  The American Civil War
1863  Khan defends Afghanistan
1864  Faraday and Maxwell
1865  Mendel founds genetics
1865  U.S. Congress bans slavery
1865  Claude Monet, Impressionist
1868  Emperor Meiji restores imperial rule in Japan
1873  Gauguin, Post-Impressionist
1876  Bell patents the telephone
1879  Edison’s electric light
1900  Boxer Rebellion in China
1900  Matisse, Picasso, and Duchamp
1901  Roosevelt and his rough riders
1903  Wright brothers’ first plane flight
1904  Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst
1905  Einstein’s annus mirabilis
1908  Ottoman Empire reforms
1912  Hubble’s galaxies
1914  Gandhi in India
1914  Armenian Genocide
1914  World War I
1915  René Magritte, surrealist
1917  Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution
1924  19th Amendment: Women’s Suffrage
1929  The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
1933  Hitler’s Holocaust
1940  World War II
1945  United Nations
1945  Green Revolution
1948  Mohandas Gandhi assassinated
1948  Nation of Israel
1954  Brown v. Board of Education
1957  Sputnik & Yuri Gargarin
1963  John F. Kennedy
1969  American astronauts walk on the moon
1975  The Vietnam War ends
1989  The Berlin Wall falls
1991  Gorbachev resigns; Communism outlawed
2001  September 11 and the War on Terror
2004  Information Age and the global internet