Ancients Week 16

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “Sixth century BC religious reformers all over the world:  Mahavir, Jain teacher in India; Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha; Confucius wise teacher of China; Pythagoras worships numbers in Greece; and Lao Tzu founds Daoism; religious reformers of the world.”

  • Memorize all subjects through song, motions, pictures, games, etc.

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 30, 33.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand and locate Lumbinī, Qufu, Bodh Gaya.  Then draw a larger map of Greece and locate the islands of Samos, Kos, & Chios on your map.

  • Calculate the area of rectangles, parallelograms, triangles & circles.

  • Read the original Hippocratic Oath in Greek & English!

  • Interview a doctor this week and ask how they use the Hippocratic Oath in their work!

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 16 and memorize our new five feminine nouns!

  • Look for linking verbs in books this week:

  • Memorize “Linking verbs: am are is was were be being been become seem feel, look, remain, grow, appear, smell, taste, turn, and sound, Linking Verbs” and look for linking verbs in books this week.

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities and share with the class next week!

 

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 16 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  This is more practice with our new structure and a new pattern: 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 14 in IEW pg 258.

  • IEW pp. 131-133, 136-137 “Sisyphus”

  • Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 129) of “Expressions from Greek Myths” (p. 132).  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

Mandatory for All Students

  • Presentation ideas (choose one or more!) :

    • Interview a doctor this week and ask how they use the Hippocratic Oath in their work. Report on your findings

    • Make art with Lunes. Explain how you constructed each lune and what purpose it has in your artwork.

    • Teach us about the life of Mahavira, Confucius, Lao Tzu or Buddha.

    • Create a presentation from one or more of the assignments listed below.

Mandatory for Full Week Students; Enrichment Students Choose 2

and log the coordinates, who made it, year constructed, the first sentence of the article, & your name in the Google Sheets shared doc. Prepare a two minute presentation about the site or that civilization. Wikipedia 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.

  • Memorize all subjects for week 16 orally or copy and illustrate.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand and locate Lumbinī, Qufu, Bodh Gaya.  Then draw a larger map of Greece and locate the islands of Samos, Kos, & Chios on your map.

  • Daily math on Khan Academy (KA) 40 minutes minimum on KA.

  • Grammar Week 16 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (or learn what’s going on).

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 16 or attend Greek on Tues.

  • Learn even more about Lunes and their importance to Hippocrates of Chios or attend Math Club on Wednesday!

  • Book Club on Tuesday - read and be prepared to discuss your historical fiction book.

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Make a Confucian Tortoise Borne Stela or a Buddhist Stupa

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Propositions II.4 and II.5

  • Art Appreciation on Wednesday: Cork stamps with foam and wax seals

  • Writing Club on Wednesday -IEW pp. 127-129 -- Do a Keyword Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 129) of “Word from Greek Myths: Arachnid” (p. 124).  Don’t outline sentence by sentence!  Choose information you find interesting or important to create a one paragraph summary.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Diagnose your partner with a Four Humors indicator board. Then prescribe treatments. Look at your own mouth bacteria and identify the species using a chart (come pick up a petri dish if you can’t make it to the class, we’ll include instructions for use).