Ancients Week 32

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “In 312, Emperor Constantine saw a vision of a cross in the sky and the very next day won at Milvian Bridge and declared, ‘A new Christian am I.’ Then he legalized Christianity and established Constantinople, on the Bosphorus by the Black Sea, the brand new Roman capitol.”

  • Learn about Constantine and Constantinople.

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

  • Read The Story of the World, Vol. 1, Chapter 39 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of the Roman Empire and label "Constantinople, Milvian Bridge, Antioch, Ephesus, Nicaea as well as Nanyang, Zhang Heng’s home in China

  • Memorize “Three causes of earthquakes are: Fault movement, Volcanism and Induced Seismicity.”

  • Learn about Zhang Heng’s seismograph.

  • Memorize “Skip counting 6s & 7s: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 60, 66, 72
    7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70, 77, 84” and practice multiplying them!

  • Practice this Greek vocabulary with motions:
    τέμνω I cut
    συμπίπτω I coincide
    ἀφαιρέω I take away
    καλέω I call
    ὑπότείνω I subtend

  • Memorize these irregular verbs

    • begin-began-begun

    • come-came-come

    • eat-ate-eaten

    • find-found-found

    • get-got-gotten

    • give-gave-given

  • Investigate verbs 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 32 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Investigate appositives on Grammar Revolution.

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

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.  We’ll have a vocabulary quiz next week!

  • Chronos Capstone

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

  • 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 five paragraph final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 5/25/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

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

  • Memorize: “In 312, Emperor Constantine saw a vision of a cross in the sky and the very next day won at Milvian Bridge and declared, "A new Christian am I." Then he legalized Christianity and established Constantinople, on the Bosphorus by the Black Sea, the brand new Roman capitol.”

  • Read about the Constantine’s rise to power and accomplishments as Roman Emperor.

    1. Khan Academy has a good write-up.

    2. Encyclopedia Britannica article

    3. Here’s the big temple that had his big statue inside.

  • Read about the Nicene Creed:

    1. The Creed

    2. Interesting and Unusual Facts about the Council of Nicaea

  • Read about Diophantus and his great work Arithmetica:

    1. Check with me about books that have information about him. His work influenced a BIG mathematical proof in 1994.

    2. MacTutor biography

    3. Diophantus’ Riddle

    4. A very, very thorough article.

  • Read about Epictetus

    1. Today’s article.

    2. Lots of quotes.

    3. The Manual

    4. The Navy Fighter Pilot who endured seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam relied on the teachings of Epictetus.

  • Read about Zhang Heng and his inventions

    1. Read the section The Earliest Seismoscope on pages 183-184.

    2. This page includes our video: http://seismoscope.allshookup.org/

    3. MacTutor Biography

    4. A short article with nice photos.

  • 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 312 AD, after Constantine, Emperor of Rome, saw a vision of a cross in the sky, won at Milvian Bridge and declared himself a Christian, he legalized Christianity.

    2. The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, the Women's Suffrage Amendment, granted women the right to vote!

    3. The Great Depression began after Black Friday, the day of the stock market crash of 1929.

    4. Hitler's autocracy The Third Reich caused World War II.

    5. In World War II, the Allies: Great Britain, France, United States and Russia, fought the Axis Countries: Germany, Italy and Japan.

    6. After World War II, an international coalition the United Nations formed to prevent another world war.

    7. Norman Borlaug, the Father of the Green Revolution, received the Nobel Peace Prize for saving a billion people from starvation!

    8. Three causes of earthquakes are fault movement, volcanism, and induced seismicity.

    9. Which irregular verbs are most commonly misused?

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

τέμνω I cut

συμπίπτω I coincide

ἀφαιρέω I take away

καλέω I call

ὑπότείνω I subtend

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Diophantus’ Algebra (before it was called Algebra!). More skills! More games!

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

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: shields with chi rho, reenact Battle of Milvian Bridge.

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

  • Art Appreciation on Wednesday: Create "Roman" coins of our own, showing our status through symbols. http://www.metmuseum.org/-/media/Files/Learn/For%20Educators/Publications%20for%20Educators/Roman.pdf

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 7 and study the words and their definitions.

    2. Memorize the irregular verbs:

      • begin-began-begun

      • come-came-come

      • eat-ate-eaten

      • find-found-found

      • get-got-gotten

      • give-gave-given

    3. Read and complete IEW lesson 30: pp. 225-226 “Vocabulary Story.” Write a key word outline for a three paragraph story.  Use the story sequence on page 226 and the checklist I gave you in class.  Use at least 30 vocabulary words from Lessons 1-6 in Wordly Wise!  Print your story, underline and label each dress-up in your essay.  Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Make a chinese seismograph.