Ancients Week 21

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

• Memorize “As Rome expanded throughout the Mediterranean, they fought with Carthage in the Punic Wars for three hundred years. Hannibal crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alps with an army of elephant warriors and terrorized Italy, but fell to Scipio in 202 BC.”

• Research the Punic Wars and Hannibal.

• 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 in larger map of the Mediterranean.  Find and label Strait of Gibraltar, Alps, Pyrenees, Sicily, Sardinia, & Syracuse

• Research Archimedes Principle: “Archimedes principle states that anything submerged in gas or liquid is acted upon by an upward force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.”

• Memorize the Volume formulas: “Volume of a prism & cylinder is area of the base times height V=Bh, volume of a pyramid & cone is one third area of the base times height V=1/3Bh, sphere is four thirds pi r cubed 4/3πr^3”

• Practice calculating the volume of solids.

• Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 21 and memorize our new vocabulary:

ἐγὼ I
καλύπτω I hide
ἡ οἰκία the house
ὁ καρπός the fruit
ὁ Χριστός the Messiah, Christ

• Memorize “Demonstrative pronouns identify a noun nearby or far away: this that these those” and practice using them to form compound-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 21 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. 169-174 “A Wild Ride in the Aqueducts”

• Do a Key Word Outline from your imagination based on the three pictures on pg. 171.  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. 174.  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 3/2/17 - Everybody do this; it’s where your presentation will likely come from:

• Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed in larger map of the Mediterranean.  Find and label Strait of Gibraltar, Alps, Pyrenees, Sicily, Sardinia, & Syracuse

• Memorize our poem this week: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/55101

• Ancient Carthage, in pictures!
  
  Here it is modern day from the ground pretty much the same angle as the above illustration, just closer. It’s still there. See what you can find on Google Earth! https://www.google.com/maps/place/Les+ports+punique+de+carthage/@36.844277,10.322325,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xcc3096b269660b7d!8m2!3d36.845036!4d10.3254533

• Also: here’s a photo of a Fresco about Hannibal http://en.museicapitolini.org/collezioni/percorsi_per_sale/appartamento_dei_conservatori/sala_di_annibale/annibale_in_italia

• Read about Archimedes (choose 2 or more)

  • http://archimedespalimpsest.org/about/history/archimedes.php (with videos!)

  • Read aloud with an adult: https://ia801409.us.archive.org/13/items/archimedes00heatuoft/archimedes00heatuoft.pdf

  • How about a presentation on how to prove the area of a circle?

Daily homework for Full Week Students

• Find an Archaeological Site anywhere for any time period 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 21 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 21 and memorize our new vocabulary:

ἐγὼ I

καλύπτω I hide

ἡ οἰκία the house

ὁ καρπός the fruit

ὁ Χριστός the Messiah, Christ

• Math Club on Wednesday: Circles and Spheres!

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

• MAKE: History on Tuesday: Make little model Quinquiremes to place on our model of Rome.

• Drawing out Arithmetic: Finish constructing 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 19: pp. 169-174 “A Wild Ride in the Aqueducts”

  • Do a Key Word Outline from your imagination based on the three pictures on pg. 171.  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. 174.  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: Differentiate between different liquids using Archimedes's Principle.