Ancients Week 23

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “Of the Warring States the Qin became the strongest and in 221 BC the emporer was Shi Huangdi. He joined the Great Wall to keep the Xiongnu steppe peoples out of China in the North. He was buried in a grave, the size of a city, filled with treasures guarded by a life-sized Terracotta Army.”

  • Research the Warring States Period in China.

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

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

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of China and label the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer in Xianyang, Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Wei, Zhao

  • Memorize "Plants propogate sexually with seeds, or asexually by cutting, grafting, budding, layering, division, sectioning or cloning.”

  • Memorize The Great Greek Problems: squaring the circle, doubling the cube, trisecting an angle.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 23 and memorize these adjectives:
    πιστός faithful
    πρῶτος first
    ἅγιος holy
    πονηρός evil
    μικρός small, little

  • Memorize “Subordinating conjunctions join dependent clauses to independent clauses: when, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, unless, because” and learn more about subordinating conjunctions.

  • 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 23 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 21: pp. 183-188 “Roman Gladiators”

  • Do a Key Word Outline of each source then fuse the two into one key word outline.  Do the brainstorming activity on page 187, then write a paragraph using the checklist on page 188.  Try to include each dress-up, sentence opener, vocabulary word, and decoration as you write the first draft!

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

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/16/17 - Everybody do this; it’s where your presentation will likely come from:

  • Practice: Map of the World, then Draw a zoomed map of China and label the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer in Xianyang, Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Wei, Zhao

  • We’re still reading through a Hellenistic Comedy. Enjoy!

  • Memorize “Of the Warring States the Qin became the strongest and in 221 BC the emporer was Shi Huangdi. He joined the Great Wall to keep the Xiongnu steppe peoples out of China in the North. He was buried in a grave, the size of a city, filled with treasures guarded by a life-sized Terracotta Army.”

  • Memorize "Plants propogate sexually with seeds, or asexually by cutting, grafting, budding, layering, division, sectioning or cloning.” Here’s a very good video of several types!

  • Read about Ancient China in Story of the World Chapter 32.

  • Read these articles about Emporer Shi Huangdi and his Tomb. Write a short essay comparing and contrasting the information presented in at least three articles.

  • Find a Chinese Archaeological Site 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.

  • Read about the Great Greek Problems then learn about Nichomedes’ 200 BC solution to two of them!

  • Grammar Week 23 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).

    • 1.     After the Warring States declared Qin the strongest state, who became emperor in 221 BC, and who fortified the Great Wall?

    • 2.     Did Britain defeat the Spanish Armada, and did William Shakespeare whom the British named The National Poet of England write his first play in 1590?

    • 3.     Was Jamestown, which historians consider the first American Colony, founded in Virginia, or did Galileo create his first telescope in 1609?

    • 4.     Where did the Mayflower sail in 1620 and which ports did Iemitsu close in Japan?

    • 5.     Mathematicians name these problems the Great Greek Problems because they will never be solved through construction, but who solved them?

    • 6.     How do plants reproduce and who named these methods asexual reproduction?

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 23 and memorize these adjectives:
    πιστός faithful
    πρῶτος first
    ἅγιος holy
    πονηρός evil
    μικρός small, little

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

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 1 and study the words and their definitions.  We’ll have a quiz on these vocabulary words next week.

    • Memorize “Subordinating conjunctions join dependent clauses to independent clauses: when, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, unless, because” and learn more about subordinating conjunctions.

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 22: pp. 189-194 “Ancient Rome: Its Beginnings”

    • Do a Key Word Outline of each source on the topic how Rome began, then fuse them into one key word outline.  Write one paragraph using the checklist on page 194.  Try to include each dress-up, sentence opener, vocabulary word, and decoration as you write the first draft!

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

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Learn about Theophrastus then propagate a plant by cutting.