Ancients Week 20

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

• Memorize “Chandragupta established the Mauryan Empire in India in 321. His grandson Ashoka waged a terrible war to conquer Kalinga. Then he regretted his terrible war and converted to Buddhism in 263 BC then led his empire with justice and peace.”

• Research the Maurya Empire.

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

• Read The Story of the World Chapter 31 and do the activities in the activity guide.

• Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed in larger map of India and label Pataliputra, Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, Deccan Plateau, & Kalinga.

• Memorize the planets in order by their distance from the sun: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

• Memorize Euclid’s Postulates to the tune Go Tell Aunt Rhody:
  1. Two arrows: line, one arrow: ray, no arrows: segment.
  2. Extend a segment into a ray. Extend a ray into a line.
  3. Point in the center, measure the radius, around the circle.
  4. All right angles are congruent
  5. Postulate of Parallel Lines

• Research the postulates and draw them yourself!

• Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 20 and memorize the Present Active Indicative Verb "to be”

singular
1. εἰμί
2. εἶ
3. ἐστί
plural
1. ἐσμέν
2. ἐστέ
3. εἰσί

• Memorize “Relative pronouns relate a clause to a sentence: that which who whom whoever whomever whichever” and practice using them to form complex sentences.

• Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-5th)

• Grammar Week 20 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on complex sentences, indirect objects & diagramming them.

• Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

• Study vocabulary through lesson 18 in IEW pg 258.

• Read and complete IEW lesson 17: pp. 153-159 “Archimedes”

• Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 159) of “Archimedes”.  Don’t outline sentence by sentence!  Choose information you find interesting or important to create a one paragraph summary. Don’t forget to include a when, while, where, as, since, if, although or because clause somewhere in your paragraph.

• 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

From our session Thursday 2/16/17 - Everybody do this; it’s where your presentation will likely come from:

• Practice: Map of World, The Mauryan Empire

• Read about the Expansion of the Mauryan Empire and Ashoka in The Story of the World Chapter 31.

• The Jakata Tales (choose 3 or more tales)

  • Here’s an easy to read set of stories about the Buddha. Read as many as you like. Tell a few of them to the group as a presentation. http://mocomi.com/fun/stories/jataka-tales/

  • Another story is on page 235 of Story of the World: Ancients.

• Read about Euclid (choose 2 or more)

  • I have about 6 books with text about him. Come by and get one.

  • Read the introduction to this book: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106453581/euclid-usletter.pdf

  • Here’s an OLD book of the Elements (888 AD): http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/eucmsd/index.html

  • How about a presentation on how to prove one of Euclid’s propositions?

• Learn more about Aristarchus and his connection to Copernicus. (choose 2 or more)

  • http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Shipprc2.htm

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos

    • Follow the exernal links.

  • http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sarist.htm

  • Why not buy a book? I’ll probably get a copy for myself sometime. https://www.amazon.com/Aristarchos-Samos-Polymath-Collection-Interrelated/dp/148178949X

Daily homework for Full Week Students

• Find a Memorial to Ashoka 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 presentation about the site or 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.

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

• Grammar Week 20 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).

• Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 20 and memorize the Present Active Indicative Verb "to be”

singular
1. εἰμί
2. εἶ
3. ἐστί
plural
1. ἐσμέν
2. ἐστέ
3. εἰσί"

• Math Club on Wednesday: Spotlight on 2-3 propositions of Euclid--tie back to work on Thales, non-Euclidean geometry, number theory, ideas of axiom, proof, and logic, and historical significance and longevity

• Book Club on Tuesday: Read and be prepared to discuss your historical fiction book.

• MAKE: History on Tuesday: Finish your tumbler lock

• Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Propositions 3.2

  • Quiz on Proposition II.4 memory work http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookII/propII4.html

The quiz will continue until math improves.

• Writing Club on Wednesday:

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 17: pp. 153-159 “Archimedes”

  • Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 159) of “Archimedes”.  Don’t outline sentence by sentence!  Choose information you find interesting or important to create a one paragraph summary. Don’t forget to include a when, while, where, as, since, if, although or because clause somewhere in your paragraph.

  • After an adult edits, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin. Be ready to present in class Wednesday.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Figure out how to prove the sun in the center of the solar system, also the sizes and distance of the sun and moon.