Ancients Week 24

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “Rome’s dictator, Julius Caesar, expanded the empire he defeated the Celts, crossed the Rubicon River, traveled to Egypt, fell in love with Cleopatra. In 44 BC he came home, to rule his empire, the senators conspired against him to assassinate him in Rome.”

  • Research the life and times of Julius Caesar on wikipedia or biography.com.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 34-35 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Europe & the Mediterranean, and label the Rubicon River, Germania, Gaul, Britain, & Spain

  • Memorize "The major latitudes are Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Antarctic Circle”

  • Memorize “The conic sections are a circle, an ellipse, a parabola, or a hyperbola,” and try out this interactive tool.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 24 and memorize these words:
    δίκαιος righteous
    νεκρός dead
    δεύτερος second
    ὁ Φαρισαῖος the Pharisee
    ἀποστέλλω I send

  • Memorize “Comparatives compare two people, places or things with ‘more’ or ‘-er.’ Superlative compare three or more with ‘most’ or ‘-est’” and learn more about 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 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 all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • 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.
     

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/23/17 - Carefully read the whole list, then get started.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Europe & the Mediterranean, and label the Rubicon River, Germania, Gaul, Britain, & Spain

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

  • Your Chronos Capstone topic is due this Thursday. We will be making a trip to the library. So far:

    • Eva is researching Enheduanna.

    • Cosmo is researching Alexander the Great.

    • Maggie is researching Hypatia.

    • What are you writing about?

  • Memorize “Rome’s dictator, Julius Caesar, expanded the empire he defeated the Celts, crossed the Rubicon River, traveled to Egypt, fell in love with Cleopatra. In 44 BC he came home, to rule his empire, the senators conspired against him to assassinate him in Rome.”

  • Read about the life and times of Julius Caesar:

  • Read about Namoratunga:

  • I didn’t introduce Apollonius’ Conic Section curves to you last Thursday. We’ll discuss on monday. Here’s a good video about them: https://youtu.be/VAz-X6uaSs4

    • Long read. Skim it. Maybe even get really, really interested!

  • Find Julius Caesar’s Tracks in archaeology. I’m sending a Google search this time. Find out 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.

  • I mentioned a list of Ancient History Errors on Thursday. Enjoy!

  • Grammar Week 24 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).

    • Julius Caesar, after you cross the Rubicon River, declare yourself emperor, but beware of assassination attempts in the Senate!

    • Because philosophers declare you the Father of Western Philosophy, Mr. Descartes, coin Cartesian Argument in the field of logic, and create the Cartesian Plane in mathematics.

    • Resolve your conflict over Calculus, Mr. Newton and Mr. Leibniz, and become intellectual friends, since your students consider both of you geniuses!

    • If you declare everyone a blank slate at birth, Mr. Locke, teach them good governance, and give the United States a precedent for their Constitution.

    • J.S. Bach, compose us a Baroque Minuet in the key of G, and we will consider you a great composer, as we play your piece on the harpsichord.

    • Apollonius of Perga, call conic sections parabola, ellipse and hyperbola, so that Copernicus can later declare the planets' orbits ellipses, or create a gasket of nested circles.

  • We discussed this article during philosophy.

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 23 and memorize these adjectives:
    δίκαιος righteous

νεκρός dead

δεύτερος second

ὁ Φαρισαῖος the Pharisee

Ἀποστέλλω I send

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Apollonius and the Conic Sections

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read and be prepared to discuss The Aeneid.

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 2 and study the words and their definitions.

    • Memorize “Comparatives compare two people, places or things with ‘more’ or ‘-er.’ Superlative compare three or more with ‘most’ or ‘-est’” and learn more about them.

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 23: pp. 195-198 “Ancient Rome: Government”

    • Do a Key Word Outline of each source from the previous lesson (pp. 190-192) on the topic Roman Government, then fuse them into one key word outline.  Write one paragraph using the checklist on page 197.  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: Mark the rising and setting of major stars on the fences in the parking lot