Ancients Week 9

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Grammarians (Optional)
PreK-4th graders

  • Commit the memory work for the week to memory.
  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 15.
  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 9.
  • Learn something interesting about the Phoenicians.
  • Learn something interesting about comets.
  • Practice identifying important Phoenician Settlements around the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Prepare a presentation on your favorite history topic so far.
  • Share a pizza or cookie and tell your beneficiary what fraction you are giving them.
  • Make dyes from plants.
  • Create a model of a comet. Here’s a close up of one: http://www.space.com/31569-philae-comet-lander-last-contact-attempt.html
     

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 9 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram
  • Check your answers on
  • Learn vocabulary through lesson 8 in IEW pg 258 (vocab quiz next week)
  • Key word outline of “Croc and Croak” & Brainstorming Style prewriting IEW pg 82-84 (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 85
  • Ask a parent to edit for spelling & punctuation, then write a final draft.
  • Be prepared to present your paragraphs in class next week!

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