Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

Memorize “In about 585 BC three kings combined their family trees. Lydian Croesus, Median Astyages, and Nebuchadnezzar, they became allies until Cyrus the Great conquered their nations to create the Achaemenid Empire in 540 BC.” to the tune of We Three Kings
Commit all the other memory work for the week to memory.
Read The Story of the World Chapter 21.
Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a map of Mesopotamia and locate Lydia, Media, Neo-Babylonia, Achaemenid Empire, Cyrene & Pasargadae on your map.
Investigate irrational numbers.
Investigate colors of light with a prism or glass of water!
Identify objects or art as opaque, translucent and transparent.

Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 15 and practice all the noun forms of “ἄνθρωπος” to the tune of A-Tisket, A-Tasket!
Look for linking verbs in books this week.

Writing Club (3-5th)

Grammar Week 15 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram. We learned a new structure and a new pattern this week! Complex sentences with Subject-Verb Transitive-Indirect Object-Direct Object. For more info on complex sentences, indirect objects & diagramming them
Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

Review vocabulary through lesson 13 in IEW pg 258.
IEW pp. 121-126
Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 129) of “Word from Greek Myths: Tantalize” (p. 124). Don’t outline sentence by sentence! Choose information you find interesting or important to create a one paragraph summary.
After an adult edits, compose a final draft. Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

Find an archaeological site at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Archaeology_of_the_Achaemenid_Empire 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 15 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram
Practice blobbing the continents & drawing and/or labeling settlements and cities in The Achaemenid Empire on the map.
Daily math on Khan Academy (KA) 40 minutes minimum on KA.
Explore the optical effects of rainbows in soap bubbles: https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/soap-film-painting
Read, and understand, a definition of irrational numbers. I.e. https://www.mathsisfun.com/irrational-numbers.html

Play Conquer Mesopotamia on Page 62 of the Student Activity Guide for Story of the World. If you don’t have a copy email me, I’ll send you a file.

Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 15.
Memorize all subjects orally or copy and illustrate.
Read Herodotus Histories: https://archive.org/details/boysgirlsherodot00hero PARENTS: I only recommend the Boys and Girls translation for your child. The unabridged translation is very adult in content. Students, discuss your decisions with your parents.
Presentation ideas:
- Define irrational numbers. Do it well, we’ll have good questions for you.
- Present on your archaeological site of choice.
- Tell all or part of the story of the rise of Cyrus the Great.
- Tell a story about Nebuchadnezzar from the book of Daniel in the Bible: https://lumina.bible.org/#!l/bible%3ADaniel%201%3A1-net_strongs__notes%3ADaniel%201
- Who was Croesus, King of Lydia? Find out and let us know.

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