Ancients Week 11

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Grammarians (Optional)
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “The Assuwa League revolted with the help of the Mycenaeans but lost to the Hittites in 1400 BC. Two hundred years later, the Mycenaeans defeated them in the Trojan War.”
  • This week’s history sentence includes the Assuwa league. This Wikipedia article has a bit of information about them. In short, they were a collaboration of cities including Troy that revolted against the Hittites a couple hundred years before the Trojan War.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assuwa_league
  • Commit the memory work for the week to memory.
  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 20.
  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 11.
  • Measure a tree or a building using similar triangles & ratios.
  • Practice Thales’ theorem. Draw a circle with a compass and see if the diameter makes a right triangle with any point on the circle.
  • Color a tile pattern.
  • Read The Odyssey to learn more about the Trojan War. Order or check out this “retelling” for easier comprehension. http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/259868/the-odyssey-by-homer/
  • Get into Greek culture!  Try a Greek recipe or organize your own Olympic games.
  • Look for pronouns in books & in conversations.  Identify their antecedents, the nouns they replace.

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 11 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram
  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/
  • Learn vocabulary through lesson 10 in IEW pg 258
  • Key Word Outline of “The Handwriting on the Wall” & Brainstorming Style pre writing IEW pg 99-105 (No need to go sentence by sentence!  Use the questions to describe the Setting, Characters, Background; Conflict; and Climax & Resolution.)
  • Write a first draft with checklist IEW pg 105
  • Ask a parent to edit for spelling & punctuation, then write a final draft.
  • Be prepared to present your paragraph in class next week!

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders
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Rhetoricians
9th-12th Graders

  • Find an archaeological site at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Archaeological_sites_of_ancient_Anatolia and log the coordinates, who made it, year constructed, the first sentence of the article, & your name in Google Sheets shared doc. Prepare a two minute presentation about the site or that civilization. This list might have some poorly documented sites. Be aware!
  • The Assuwa league is an area of current research by historians and archaeologists. This Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assuwa_league captures some of the information that is known, but not all the sources that are available have been presented in the article yet. Your assignment is to carefully read a small portion of a few documents I have collected on the topic. They are academic and full of challenging vocabulary. Your parents will likely scratch their head on these as well, but if we can collectively get our heads around this topic, the class will collaboratively edit the article and make it better. We’re going to make history!
  • Practice blobbing the continents & drawing and/or labeling settlements around the Mediterranean on the map.
  • Learn something interesting about Thales of Miletus (so many things to know!) and present on it. Choose one of the numbered topics in this article: http://www.iep.utm.edu/thales/ 
  • Daily math on Khan Academy (KA) 40 minutes minimum on KA. Scores and times posted weekly.
  • Measure a tree or a building using similar triangles & ratios.
  • Practice Thales’ theorem. Draw a circle with a compass and see if the diameter makes a right triangle with any point on the circle.
  • Color a tile pattern.
  • Read The Odyssey to learn more about the Trojan War. Order or check out this “retelling” for easier comprehension. http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/259868/the-odyssey-by-homer/
  • Get into Greek culture!  Try a Greek recipe or organize your own Olympic games.
  • Look for pronouns in books & in conversations.  Identify their antecedents, the nouns they replace.
  • Read The Story of the World, Chapter 20 and complete the activities in the activity guide.
  • Practice Greek workbook through Chapter 11
  • Memorize all subjects orally or copy and illustrate.