Ancients Week 14

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Ancients, Week 14 Homework

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “In 668 BC, Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, expanded his empire and took the Israelites as slaves never to return, and his name was feared throughout the whole region. His home in Ninevah housed a huge library of cuneiform tablets from all over the Ancient Near East.”

  • Commit all the other memory work for the week to memory.

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 16.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand.  Draw a map of Mesopotamia and locate Ninevah, Israel, Elea, Tarsus & Neo-Assyria on your map.

  • Illustrate the negative powers of two by cutting a dowel rod or string in half and then half again and again as many times as you can.

  • Test the hardness of rocks you find by scratching  a penny, ceramic tile (or unglazed bottom of a dish), glass or steel spoon.  Then Streak them on ceramic to identify their color. Shine a flashlight to test opacity. Look at their reflections to identify luster.

  • Visit a local library and ask a librarian for a tour of the various sections to reflect Ashurbanipal and his earliest known library of cuneiform tablets.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 14 and conjugate the verb “γράφω” to the tune of the Mexican hat dance!

  • Memorize the articles (a, an, the) and count them in books & in conversations.

 

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 14 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram

  • Check your answers on the photo below or  http://1aiway.com/

  • Review vocabulary through lesson 12 in IEW pg 258.

  • No writing assignment over the break, but feel free to edit and illustrate your favorite for your homeschool portfolio.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

  • Find an archaeological site at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ancient_Assyrian_cities 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 14 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 Mesopotamia 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

  • MANDATORY: Read and Memorize The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron. Everyone with recite the poem on Thursday, January 12.

  • Download Dan Callahan’s excellent Euclid’s Elements Redux pg. 108-109 and work through Proposition I.47 Pythagorean Theorem (we’ve covered these in Drawing Out Arithmetic on Tuesdays).

  • Design and make a model neo-assyrian siege weapon

  • Identify various minerals in a kit or on a website such as: http://facweb.bhc.edu/academics/science/harwoodr/geol101/labs/minerals/

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 16.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 14.

  • Memorize all subjects orally or copy and illustrate.

  • Take the cumulative test. This covers all the first 14 weeks. Work hard on it. Available mid-week the first week of January.
Week 14 homework diagrammed in class

Week 14 homework diagrammed in class