Ancients Week 29

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

• Memorize: “In 66 AD, a group of Jewish rebels called the Zealots took over Jerusalem and kicked out the Romans. General Titus seized the city and destroyed all the walls, including the Temple. The Arch of Titus still stands in Rome today.”

• Learn about the Jewish Wars.

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

• Read The Story of the World Chapter 38 and do the activities in the activity guide.

• Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Jerusalem and label the starting point of the fire, the Upper City, Lower City, New City, Mount Moriah, & the Temple.

• Memorize "Heron's Aeolipile converts chemical energy into heat energy by burning, then heat energy into pressure energy by boiling, then pressure energy into kinetic energy as the steam escapes.” Learn more about Heron of Alexandria.

• Memorize “Square numbers: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196, 225, 256.” and investigate square numbers!

• Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 28 and memorize these nouns:
  ἴσος equal
  άνισος unequal
  ὅλος whole
  παράλληλος parallel
  ευθύγραμμος perpendicular

• Memorize “Homophones: are/our, affect/effect, here/hear, than/then, to two too, their there they're, which/witch, you're/ your” and play a homophone game.

• 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 gerunds.

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

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

• Chronos Capstone

  • Create a key word outline for your introduction & conclusion using the ideas on IEW page 220-223.

  • Write the introduction & conclusion paragraphs from your outline using the checklist on page 224 and add it to your essay from last week.

  • Ask an adult to edit it for grammar & spelling mistakes.

  • Create a final draft to present in class next week.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 4/27/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

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

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

• Memorize: “In 66 AD, a group of Jewish rebels called the Zealots took over Jerusalem and kicked out the Romans. General Titus sieged the city and destroyed all the walls, including the Temple. The Arch of Titus still stands in Rome today.”

• Learn about Titus’ attack on Rome:

  1. http://preteristarchive.com/JewishWars/timeline_military.html

• Read about Hero of Alexandria.

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

  2. On this link, find a great invention of Hero’s and explain how it worked. http://himedo.net/TheHopkinThomasProject/TimeLine/Wales/Steam/URochesterCollection/Hero/index-2.html

  3. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heron.html

  4. https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabrit13chisrich#page/378/mode/1up

  5. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heron-of-Alexandria

  6. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Hero_of_Alexandria

• Grammar Week 28 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 66 AD, a group of Jewish rebels who were called the Zealots controlled Jerusalem and exiled the Romans, but later General Titus sieged the city and destroyed all the walls, including the Temple.

  2. Monet preferred painting in the Impressionist style.

  3. Emperor Meiji restored imperial rule in Japan by consolidating power.

  4. Since Gauguin tried experimenting with color and style, art enthusiasts called him a post-impressionist.

  5. Inventing the telephone drastically changed our way of communicating, and we can thank Alexander Graham Bell for it!

  6. Edison is known for inventing the light bulb.

  7. The Boxers' goal was exterminating foreigners and Christians, and they called Qing their prince.

  8. Sounding alike is what homophones do best!

  9. Heron's Aeolipile converts chemical energy into heat energy by burning, but then boiling changes heat energy into pressure energy, and as steam escapes, pressure energy becomes kinetic energy.

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

ἴσος equal
άνισος unequal
ὅλος whole
παράλληλος parallel
ευθύγραμμος perpendicular

• Math Club on Wednesday: More video! More skills! More games!

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

• MAKE: History on Tuesday: make a model of Herod's temple

• Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.22

• Writing Club on Wednesday:

  1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 5 and study the words and their definitions.

  2. Memorize “Sentence requirements: Capital letter, end mark, subject, verb, makes sense.”

  3. Read and complete IEW lesson 28: pp. 215-218 “Greek and Roman Gods, Part 1.” Write 2 key word outlines comparing Greek/Roman gods to the Judeo-Christian God.  Write 2 paragraphs using the checklist on page 218. Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Make Heron’s Fountain