Ancients Week 27

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

• Memorize: “Warrior Queen Boadicea fought Rome in 60 AD with Celtic British tribes like the Iceni. They successfully attacked many settlements but when they fought Roman troops, Boadicea’s army lost.”

• Research the life and times of Queen Boadicea on wikipedia or Historic UK. She fought in the Battle of Watling Street.

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

• Read The Story of the World Chapter 40 and do the activities in the activity guide.

• Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of England and label Icene, Londinium, Watling Street, & Uroconium.

• Memorize "All nature is founded on two things: bodies and empty space, or void, in which these bodies are placed and through which they move about.” Learn more about Lucretius who first said atoms & void existed.

• Memorize Some common fraction/decimal pairs:
  3/4 = .75
  2/3 = .666
  1/2 = .5
  1/3 = .333
  1/4 = .25

• Investigate fraction & decimal equivalents.

• Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 27 and memorize these nouns:
  ὁ κύκλος the circle
  τό τρίγωνον the triangle
  ἡ γωνία the angle
  ἡ γράμμή the line
  τό σημεῖον the point

• Memorize “Objective case personal pronouns: me you him her it us you them” and learn more about  the objective 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 27 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.

• Chronos Capstone

  • Choose a topic - a person or civilization from ancient times.

  • Read about your topic in an encyclopedia.

  • Pick 3 subtopics to research.

  • Reserve 3 or more books at the library & bring them to class Thursday.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 4/20/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

• Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of ancient England.

• We’ve finished the Hellenistic Comedy. Enjoyed!

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

  1. Eva is researching Enheduanna.

  2. Cosmo is researching Julius Caesar.

  3. Maggie is researching Hypatia.

  4. Maisy is researching Aglaonike.

  5. Eli is researching Julius Caesar.

  6. Luca, you’ve got Augustus Caesar.

• Memorize “Warrior Queen Boadicea fought Rome in 60 AD with Celtic British tribes like the Iceni. They successfully attacked many settlements but when they fought Roman troops, Boadicea’s army lost.”

• Read about Lucretius (read at least 3 all the way through). Please indicate to me what you don’t understand, but first use a dictionary.

  1. Lucretius | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  2. Lucretius (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

  3. The Internet Classics Archive | On the Nature of Things by Lucretius

  4. Lucretius | Latin poet and philosopher | Britannica.com

  5. The Answer Man - The New Yorker

  6. Lucretius, Man Of Modern Mystery : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR

  7. Lucretius, Man Of Modern Mystery : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR

• Learn about Boudica and the Iceni:

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Watling_Street

  2. Thetford's Great Heritage - Eras

  3. Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni

  4. Battlefield Britain - Boudicca's Rebellion Against The Romans | Culture24

• Learn about Jing Fang (sometimes spelled Jing Feng or even Ching Fang) Search for his name in each web page. Can you calculate the two numbers he calculated?

  1. Music and Mathematics - part 1

  2. Sacramento Chinese Culture Foundation | Science and Mathematics in Ancient China

  3. Huang Zhong Diao

  4. History of mathematics

  5. List of Chinese discoveries - Wikipedia

  6. Jing Fang - Wikipedia

  7. Thomas Noll's Talks at Chicago on Mathematical Music Theory | The n-Category Café

• 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. Consider Queen Boadicea fierce because she fought Roman settlements, but call her weak because she lost to the Roman Army.

  2. Publish Faust and consider it the greatest literature of Germany, while you paint Goethe a portrait of Delacroix.

  3. Claim South Africa and call it a British colony, but then call Mexico independent.

  4. Paint "The Gleaners," and call it real, since Millet's works were realistic!

  5. Name Carl Marx, who wrote The Communist Manifesto, a Communist, but call him brilliant also!

  6. Imagine bodies that are the smallest building blocks of matter and name them atoms, but name the space, where they exist, void.

• Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 27 and memorize these prepositions:
  ὁ κύκλος the circle

τό τρίγωνον the triangle

ἡ γωνία the angle

ἡ γράμμή the line

τό σημεῖον the point

• Math Club on Wednesday: Music Theory!

• Book Club on Tuesday: Read your play or poetry book.

• MAKE: History on Tuesday: Make an Iceni Torc.

• Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.18

• Writing Club on Wednesday:

  1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 3 and study the words and their definitions.

  2. Memorize “Objective case personal pronouns: me you him her it us you them” and learn more about  the objective case and pronouns.

  3. Put all 3 paragraphs about Rome together into one essay.  Add a topic sentence about all 3 paragraphs at the beginning of the first and a final clincher at the end of the third as well as a bibliography of your sources.  Turn it in next week!

  4. Read and complete IEW lesson 26: pp. 207-211 “If I lived in Ancient Times.” Pick two things you would miss if you lived in ancient times and write a key word outline of your ideas.  Write 2 paragraphs using the checklist on page 211. Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

• MAKE: Science on Wednesday: compare water & ice to solid & liquid coconut oil.