Ancients Week 22

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “In 1869, José Serrano discovered gigantic heads carved out of stone by the Olmec people in south Mexico before 900 BC a long, long time ago. In the 1940s Paul Kosok flew a plane above the Nazca Desert looked down and exclaimed, giant images of animals below created sometime around 2000 years ago.”

  • Research the Olmecs or Nazca People.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 29 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of the Americas and label Tres Zapotes, La Venta, Nazca Desert, Tuxtla Mountains, Peru, & Mexico.

  • Memorize "The circumference of the Earth is 40,075 km at the equator.
    The diameter of the Earth is 12,756.1 kilometers at the equator.”

  • Memorize the prime numbers to the tune of Old Virginy: “some prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101” and learn more about them!

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 22 and memorize these adjectives:
    ἀγαθός good (moral)
    ἄλλος other
    ἔσχατος last
    κακός bad
    καλός good"

  • Memorize “Coordinating conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses that are the same: for and nor but or yet so” and practice using them!

  • 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 22 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on compound-complex sentences and object complement nouns.

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

  • Study vocabulary through lesson 19 in IEW pg 258.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 19: pp. 175-182 “In the Colosseum with Lions”

  • Do a Key Word Outline from your imagination based on the three pictures on pg. 178.  Each picture starts with a central fact that is reflected in the clincher as well as four descriptive sentences about each picture.  Write a three paragraph story from your key word outline using the checklist on pg. 182.  Notice each paragraph needs all the dress-ups and a decoration.

  • 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 3/9/17 - Everybody do this; it’s where your presentation will likely come from:

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 22 and memorize some adjectives:

    • ἀγαθός good (moral)

    • ἄλλος other

    • ἔσχατος last

    • κακός bad

    • καλός good

  • Math Club on Wednesday: What did Eratosthenes know that we should find out?

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 19: pp. 175-182 “In the Colosseum with Lions”

    • Do a Key Word Outline from your imagination based on the three pictures on pg. 178.  Each picture starts with a central fact that is reflected in the clincher as well as four descriptive sentences about each picture.  Write a three paragraph story from your key word outline using the checklist on pg. 182.  Notice each paragraph needs all the dress-ups and a decoration.

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

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Determine whether the seasons are the same in the northern hemisphere compared to the southern. Also, get a grip on solar rays.