Ancients Week 30

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “In 250 in Japan, Yamato became the strongest clan. Their patriarch became emperor; they rule Japan today.”

  • Learn about the Yamato.

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

  • Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages, Chapter 9 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Japan/China and label Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tokyo, Shaoxing, and Yamato

  • Memorize “The water cycle: Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation.” Investigate the water cycle in more detail.

  • Memorize “A chord is a segment that intersects a circle at two points.
    A secants is a line that intersects a circle at two points and a tangent is a line that intersects a circle at one point.” Learn math facts about circles.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 30 and memorize these nouns:
    κοινός common
    κάθετος perpendicular
    ορθός right
    λοιπος remaining
    αυτός same, self

  • Memorize “Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives are forms of verbs which function as nouns or adjectives.” Investigate verbals on Grammar Revolution.

  • 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 29 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on 2 of the 3 types of verbals: gerunds, and participles.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Finish up your edits & final draft if you haven’t already.

    • Add a Bibliography of the sources you used in your research. Use EasyBib to help!

  • Write 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!

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 5/11/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

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

  • Your Chronos Capstone topic is looking good. Time to edit and prepare your presentation for June 10!

  • Memorize: “In 250 in Japan, Yamato became the strongest clan. Their patriarch became emperor; they rule Japan today.”

  • Learn about Yamato Japan.

  • Choose one of these three poems to memorize and recite on Thursday:

    1. http://sacred-texts.com/shi/hvj/hvj096.htm

    2. http://sacred-texts.com/shi/hvj/hvj077.htm

    3. http://sacred-texts.com/shi/hvj/hvj013.htm

  • Read about Wang Chung.

    1. Download his book, Lunheng, then read pages 276-277. What is he arguing about the source of rain?

    2. Read about his life and work: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/authors/wang.chung.html

    3. http://www.iep.utm.edu/wangchon

  • Read about Menelaus of Alexandria

    1. Come to me for books. I have about 5 that have information about him.

    2. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Menelaus-of-Alexandria

    3. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Menelaus.html

    4. https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Menelaus%27s_Theorem

  • Grammar Week 30 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (and learn what’s going on).

    1. In 250 in Japan, because Yamato became the strongest clan, their patriarch became ruling emperor, and they are still the reigning clan today.

    2. Painting & sculpting, Henri Matisse, who was named "wild beast," founded Fauvism.

    3. Riding to San Juan Hill, Colonel Roosevelt charged the Spanish troops.

    4. After building an airplane, the Wright brothers flew the first successful flight.

    5. Creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques  in 1904.

    6. During his annus mirabilis, Einstein published four groundbreaking papers at the age of 26.

    7. Favoring constitutional monarchy, Young Turks reformed the Ottoman Empire in 1908.

    8. Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives are forms of verbs which function as nouns or adjectives.

    9. First evaporating then condensing, water collects in clouds so that it may precipitate as rain or snow.

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 29 and memorize these prepositions:
    κοινός common
    κάθετος perpendicular
    ορθός right
    λοιπος remaining
    αυτός same, self

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Menelaus spherical triangles. More skills! More games!

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

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Japanese Manga and how it relates to Ancient Japanese art.

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.24

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 6 and study the words and their definitions.

    2. Memorize “Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives are forms of verbs which function as nouns or adjectives.”

    3. Read and complete IEW lesson 29: pp. 219-224 “Greek and Roman Gods, Part 2.” Write a key word outline then your introduction and conclusion paragraphs for your compare/contrast essay of Greek gods and the Judeo-Christian God.   Ask an adult to edit and create a four paragraph final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: ReMake Heron’s Fountain, and cloud jars!