Ancients Week 18

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

• Memorize “In 431 BC, the city states of Greece, Athens, Sparta and others, fought the Peloponnesian War. Eight states of ancient China warred for 250 years, and the states of Yan, Zhao & Qin built The Great Wall of China then.”

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

• Read The Story of the World Chapter 24 & 32 and do the activities in the activity guide.

• Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a larger map of Greece and locate Thebes, Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Boetia, Attica & Peleponnesus on your map.

• Research Plato this week.

• Learn about the Platonic Solids from Numberphile or Annenberg

• Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 18 and memorize our new five feminine nouns.

• Memorize “Helping verbs, helping verbs there are 23: am are is was were being been be have has had do does did shall should will & would.  There are 5 more helping verbs: may must might can could” and look for helping verbs in books this week.  Read about verbs here!

• 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 18 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 16 in IEW pg 258.

• IEW lesson 16: pp. 147-151 “Sparta”

• 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

From our session Thursday 2/2/17 - these links will take much of the week to read and process. Start early so you can read everything. One of these will be your presentation next week.

Everybody do this: Read text from both links, compare them. These are challenging texts. I recommend reading them with someone with academic experience, the vocabulary and sentence structure is high-school or higher education. Don’t give up without first asking for help, I’m happy to work with you.

• Practice: Map of World, Ancient Greece, Ancient China

• Peloponnesian War

  • http://www.livius.org/articles/concept/peloponnesian-war/ Feel free to click on any link in this article that interests you. This is a very well written and documented account. Find a topic during the war that interests you and focus on that. You are in charge of your own curiosity, aim it then see where it leads.

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

• Warring States Period

  • http://www.philosophy.hku.hk/ch/Lord%20Shang.htm

  • https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-legalism/#TilSolRulPeo

These will be much easier to approach and understand. Same thing, read both (cliffsnotes.com and sparknotes.com) and compare. Just follow the second links, we discussed just a small part of The Republic, which is a very long book. Watch as many videos from the first link you want.

• Republic

  • http://theoryofknowledge.edublogs.org/2012/04/15/videos-of-allegory-of-the-cave/

  • https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/r/republic/book-summary

    • https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/r/republic/summary-and-analysis/book-vi-section-iii

    • https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/r/republic/summary-and-analysis/book-vii-section-i

  • http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/republic/

    • http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/republic/section6/page/3/

    • http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/republic/section7.rhtml

Work through this page. Master the material. I expect clear dialogue about the Platonic Solids at any time in the classroom.

• https://www.learner.org/interactives/geometry/platonic.html

Daily homework for Full Week Students

• Draw the continents and oceans by hand.  Then draw a larger map of Greece and locate Thebes, Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Boetia, Attica, and Peleponnesus on your map.

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

• Grammar Week 18 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 18 or attend Greek on Tues.

• Learn even more about Platonic Solids and even Archimedean Solids at Math Club on Wednesday!

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

• MAKE: History on Tuesday: Model the Great Wall of China

• Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Propositions II.6

• Writing Club on Wednesday 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.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Find out just how imperfect a copy of an idea can be when you Copy a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of an idea.