Ancients Week 31

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

• Memorize: “On Africa’s western coast, Ghana stood between two mines: gold in the South, salt in the North. By taxing a bit of each they got rich. Ghana became a wealthy nation.”

• Learn about the Kingdom of Ghana and the art they created.

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

• Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages, Chapter 29 and do the activities in the activity guide.

• Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of West Africa and label Ghana, Koumbi Saleh, Senegal River, Niger River, Sijilmasa

• Memorize “Apparent retrograde motion is the apparent motion of a planet in an opposite direction of the stars. Direct motion or prograde motion is motion in the same direction.” Explore retrograde motion. Explore a model of Ptolemy’s Theory of the Universe.

• Memorize “The set of real numbers consists of natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, and irrational numbers.” Investigate real numbers.

• Practice this Greek vocabulary:
  περιέχω I include
  ἅπτω I join
  πίπτω I cut
  ἐμπίπτω I fall on
  προσπίπτω I fall upon

• Memorize “An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.” Investigate appositives 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 31 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: infinitives, gerunds, and participles.

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

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

• Chronos Capstone

  • Work on your tri-fold boards for our End of the Year Celebration June 10.

• Read and complete IEW lesson 27: pp. 213-214 “If I were an Emperor.” Write a key word outline of your ideas of what it would be like if you were an Emperor.  Write 2-3 paragraphs using the checklist on page 213. Don’t forget to underline each dress-up and label them in the margin.  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 5/18/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

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

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

• Memorize: “On Africa’s western coast, Ghana stood between two mines: gold in the South, salt in the North. By taxing a bit of each they got rich. Ghana became a wealthy nation.”

• Read about the Ancient Empire of Ghana

  1. Ancient Africa for Kids: Empire of Ancient Ghana

  2. The Empires of the Western Sudan: Ghana Empire | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  3. Kingdom of Gali

  4. The Story of Africa| BBC World Service

• Read about Ptolemy and the Almagest (look at each one).

  1. Just look at this Koine Greek edition! http://www.wilbourhall.org/pdfs/HeibergAlmagestComplete.pdf

  2. Read and annotate too many words: http://susanwisebauer.com/ptolemy-almagest-c-150-ad/

  3. Or read the whole thing in plain English with the rest of the History of Astronomy to remember: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/Books/Syntaxis/Syntaxis.html

  4. Watch the model! https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~dduke/nptolemy.html

  5. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Ptolemy.html

  6. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy

  7. http://arnett.us.com/psc/theman.html

• Read a great Anansi story, then tell it to the class from notes next Thursday: http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/index.htm

• 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. On Africa’s western coast, Ghana became wealthy by mining gold in the south and salt in the north!

  2. Did Hubble use math to prove his theory of an expanding universe?

  3. Using passive resistance, Gandhi taught the lower castes to protest peacefully.

  4. Germany, Austria and Turkey named themselves the Central Powers, and Great Britain, Russia and France allied to defend their nations against them.

  5. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, Rene Margritte was known to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.

  6. Vladimir Lenin was determined to bring Socialism to Russia, so he led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917?

  7. When planets appear to move in the opposite direction as the stars, scientists name it "apparent retrograde motion," but they call planets moving in the same direction "prograde motion."

  8. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that serves to rename another noun beside it.

  9. To learn the subsets of real numbers is helpful!

• Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 29 and memorize these prepositions:

περιέχω I include
ἅπτω I join
πίπτω I cut
ἐμπίπτω I fall on
προσπίπτω I fall upon

• Math Club on Wednesday: Ptolemy’s trigonometry. More skills! More games!

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

• MAKE: History on Tuesday: Ghanaian scarfs with symbols and color meanings.

• Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.31

• Writing Club on Wednesday:

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

  2. Memorize “An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.”

  3. Read and complete IEW lesson 31: pp. 227-232 “The Curse of the Sphinx.” Write a key word outline for an introduction, a three-paragraph summary of the story sequence and conclusion paragraph critique of “The Curse of the Sphinx.”  Be sure to follow the checklist on page 232 and underline and label each dress-up in your essay.  Ask an adult to edit and create a four paragraph final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: More circles than you’ve worked with before!