Ancients Week 17

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “Darius the Great attacked Greece but lost at Marathon while a Greek messenger ran 153 miles from Athens to Sparta, in 490 BC. Then Xerxes I crossed Hellespont on a pontoon bridge, won Thermopylae, Spartans' last stand, yet Greece never fell.”

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 24 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a larger map of Greece and locate Hellespont, Marathon, Salamis, Cnidus & Thermopylae on your map.

  • Learn about direct & inverse variation.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 17 and memorize our new five feminine nouns.

  • Go star gazing and compare the sky to your sky map’s right ascensions (spokes) and declinations (concentric circles).  Find Polaris!

  • Memorize “A helping verb helps another verb portray time in the sentence.” and look for helping verbs in books this week.  Read about verbs here!

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

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 17 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/

  • Study vocabulary through lesson 15 in IEW pg 258.  We’ll have a vocabulary quiz in class next week!

  • IEW lesson 15: pp. 139-146 “Athens” or “Olympia

  • Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 146) of either “Athens” or “Olympia”.  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!) LET’S IMPROVE OUR PRESENTATIONS! Work hard!

    • Tell the story of Leonidus’ Last Stand at Thermopylae

    • Describe the crossing of the Bosphorus by either Darius or Xerxes

    • Describe the Marathon Run by Pheidippides

    • Describe the life of Eudoxus of Cnidus. Explain the Theory of Proportion (email me for help).

    • Explain the connection between Propagation and Propaganda.

    • Teach us about recent developments concerning the Human Micro-Biome (follow the links)

Mandatory for Full Week Students; Enrichment Students Choose 2

  • Draw something amazing using single vanishing point.

  • Memorize a passage from Aratatus’ Phaenomena (listen to it being read by the translator a few times before picking your passage) 8-20 lines will suffice. You will recite your passage in class next week IN ADDITION to your regular presentation.

  • Study the construction and use of the Trireme, Greek ship during the Persian Wars.

  • Find an archaeological site about the Persian Wars, maritime (especially triremes), 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.

  • Learn about direct & inverse variation.

  • Go star gazing and compare the sky to your sky map’s right ascensions (spokes) and declinations (concentric circles).  Find Polaris!Memorize all subjects for week 17 orally or copy and illustrate.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand.  Then draw a larger map of Greece and locate Hellespont, Marathon, Tarentum, Salamis, Cnidus,  and Thermopylae on your map.

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

  • Grammar Week 17 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 17 or attend Greek on Tues.

  • Learn even more about Proportions and the Method of Exhaustion by Eudoxus of Cnidus 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 Pontoon Bridge across a tub

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

  • Art Appreciation on Wednesday: Learn about the statues and paintings of Boddhisatva

  • Writing Club on Wednesday -IEW pp. 131-137 “Sisyphus” or “Pandora’s Box” Choose one essay.  Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 137) Don’t outline sentence by sentence!  Choose information you find interesting or important to create a one paragraph summary.  Ask an adult or parent to edit it then compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Make a Eudoxian Sphere of the stars