Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

Memorize: “Jesus was born in Judea in 3 BC. He taught "The Kingdom of God is nigh." Some thought he spoke truth; others thought he spoke blasphemy. They convicted him of treason and crucified him. The story of his resurrection traveled all over the empire. People who believed Jesus was the Messiah were named Christians and persecuted.”
Research the life and times of Jesus on wikipedia or biography.com.
Memorize all subjects through song, motions, pictures, games, etc.
Read The Story of the World Chapter ?? and do the activities in the activity guide.
Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Palestine during the time of Jesus, and label Bethlehem, Judea, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Samaria, Capernaum & Nicaea.
Memorize "The earth rotates on its axis, which itself rotates slowly, completing a rotation in approximately 26,000 year.” Research this on Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Learn more about Hipparchus who first discovered earth’s wobble.
Memorize “Three trigonometric ratios of right triangles are sine of an angle equals the opposite divided by the hypotenuse, cosine of an angle equals the adjacent side divided by the hypotenuse, and tangent of an angle equals the opposite side divided by the adjacent (SOH CAH TOA),” and learn more about trigonometry!

Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 26 and memorize these nouns & prepositions:
ἡ ἔρημος the desert
ἡ ὁδός the road, the way
πρό before
παρά from
περί about
Memorize “Nominative case personal pronouns: I you he she it we you they.” and learn more about the nominative case and pronouns.
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 26 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 objective complements.
Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/
Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.
Read and complete IEW lesson 24-25: pp. 199-203 “Ancient Rome: Engineering Feats.” Do a Key Word Outline of each source on the topic Roman Engineering, then fuse them into one key word outline. Write one paragraph using the checklist on page 200. 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.
Put 3 paragraphs together into one essay: How Rome Began, Roman Government & Roman Engineering. Add an introductory sentence to the first paragraph and a final clincher to the last following the instructions on page 202. Write a Bibliography (we did this in class) to give credit to each source.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 4/6/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Europe & Judea, indicating Bethlehem, Judea, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Samaria, Capernaum, Nicaea.

We’re still reading through a Hellenistic Comedy. Enjoy!
Also, this week’s poem! A letter from Caroline Herschel by Siv Cedering. Memorize the last stanza (Beginning with “Sometimes when I am alone” to the end of the poem). Recitation 4/20.
Your Chronos Capstone topic is due this Thursday. We made a trip to the library. So far:
- Eva is researching Enheduanna.
- Cosmo is researching Julius Caesar.
- Maggie is researching Hypatia.
- Maisy is researching Aglaonike.
- Eli is researching Julius Caesar.
- Luca, I’ve forgotten again. Fill me in.
Memorize “Jesus was born in Judea in 3 BC. He taught "The Kingdom of God is nigh." Some thought he spoke truth; others thought he spoke blasphemy. They convicted him of treason and crucified him. The story of his resurrection traveled all over the empire. People who believed Jesus was the Messiah were named Christians and persecuted.”
Read about the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth (Pick 3):
- http://dmoztools.net/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Jesus_Christ/
Read about Hipparchus (read at least 4 all the way through). Please indicate to me what you don’t understand, but use a dictionary.
Find Early Christian Inscriptions. 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.
Grammar Week 25 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. Do Christians consider Jesus holy because he called himself Son of God, and did others consider him treasonous?
- 2. Who considers Immanuel Kant's philosophy important, and who studies it diligently?
- 3. Who declared themselves the Constitutional Congress that wrote the Constitution in 1787, and where did they meet?
- 4. Hegel considered "absolute idealism" effective; the message will prevail, whereas the messenger is inconsequential?
- 5. Did Georg Friedrich Gauss teach Bernhard Riemann mathematics, because he considered Riemann intelligent, and later did Riemann present a hypothesis which remains unsolved?
- 6. The Pope almost crowned Napoleon Consul in 1802, although he took the crown in his hands and crowned himself in the end?
Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 26 and memorize these prepositions:
ἡ ἔρημος the desert
ἡ ὁδός the road, the way
πρό before
παρά from
περί about

Math Club on Wednesday: Trigonometry!
Book Club on Tuesday: Read and be prepared to discuss The Aeneid.

MAKE: History on Tuesday: Make an ancient style tent.
Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.8
- 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:
- Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 3 and study the words and their definitions.
- Memorize “Nominative case personal pronouns: I you he she it we you they.” and learn more about the nominative case and pronouns.
- Read and complete IEW lesson 25: pp. 201-203 “Ancient Rome: Putting it all Together”
- If you haven’t already, finish your three paragraphs from Lessons 22-24: How Rome Began, Roman Government & Roman Engineering. Ask an adult to edit for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Label each item from the checklist (see page 200), and make sure you have one of each in each paragraph!
- Put the 3 paragraphs together into one essay: How Rome Began, Roman Government & Roman Engineering. Add an introductory sentence to the first paragraph and a final clincher to the last paragraph following the instructions on page 202. Write a Bibliography (we did this in class) to give credit to each source and include this with your final draft. Label each item from the checklist in the margin and underline each in the document. Don’t forget to double space!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Make a Dioptra.

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