Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

Memorize “Twin brothers, Romulus and Remus founded Rome in 753 BC. Romulus killed Remus in an argument, to become the first of seven kings. Later Rome became a great republic in 510 BC then a great empire spread across the Mediterranean sea reaching its peak in 117 AD.”
Commit all the other memory work for the week to memory.
Read The Story of the World Chapter 27.
Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a map of the Mediterranean and locate Rome, Sicily, Alba Longa, Tiber River, Samos, & Metapontum on a map. Draw a map of the city of Rome or create a topographical map!
Try constructing a regular pentagon using 108 degree angles or follow this guide for a real challenge!
Watch this fun video on the rock cycle. Try identifying rocks you find!
Study or draw Roman columns. Look for them in US architecture.
Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 13.
Memorize the prepositions and identify them in books & in conversations.

Writing Club (3-5th)

Grammar Week 13 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 12 in IEW pg 258 - We’ll have a quiz in class next week!
Key Word Outline of your own story & Brainstorming Style pre writing from lesson 12 “Borrowing a Conflict” IEW pg 115-118 (The outline comes from your own ideas this week! Use the questions to describe the Setting, Characters, Background; Conflict; and Climax & Resolution.)
Write a first draft with checklist IEW pg 119
Ask a parent to edit for spelling & punctuation, then write a final draft.
Be prepared to present your paragraph in class next week!

Students earn double stamps this Thursday and will cash them in at the stamp store!!!

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

Find an archaeological site at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Archaeological_sites_in_Italy 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! Get information from elsewhere. I primarily use sites ending in .edu or .gov and links provided at the bottom of the article.
Grammar Week 13 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram
Quiz on prepositions list.
Practice blobbing the continents & drawing and/or labeling settlements and cities around the Mediterranean on the map.
Daily math on Khan Academy (KA) 40 minutes minimum on KA. Scores and times posted weekly. Please make me your coach if you haven’t already: daniel@goldengatetutoring.com
Read The Aenead https://archive.org/details/aeneidforboysand012552mbp
Download Dan Callahan’s excellent Euclid’s Elements Redux and work through Propositions I.1 through I.16 (we’ve covered these in Drawing Out Arithmetic on Tuesdays).
Read The Story of the World Chapter 27.
Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 13.
Find or make a big pile of clay or dirt, then figure out a plan to dig a hole from each side to a meeting point in the middle. Dig it.
Study the seven hills of Archaic Rome. Create a model of the hills using a topographic map. Here are a few websites that will help get a vision of what you can create:
Study ancient columns: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
Memorize all subjects orally or copy and illustrate.
Work to answer one of these questions asked during class last Thursday:
- How do you build one city on top of another?
- Why are the planets named after Roman gods if the Greek gods came first?
- What was the first tunnel?
- Where did dirt come from?

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