Ancients Week 33

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Grammarians

PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “In 320, Chandragupta I was Maharajadhiraja, King of Kings of the Gupta Empire in India. Later, his successor, Skandagupta, fought the Huns, who attempted to invade India.”

  • Learn about Chandragupta and the Gupta Empire.

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

  • Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2 The Middle Ages, Chapter 5 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of India: the Gupta Empire, Narmada River, Ganges River, Varanasi, Rann of Kutch, and Pergamon.

  • Memorize “Anatomy is the study of parts and their organization and interrelationships. Physiology is the study of biological functions.”

  • Learn about Galen.

  • Memorize “Skip counting by 8s & 9s 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96 & 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90, 99, 108” and practice multiplying them!

  • Practice multiplying in a minute to increase your speed.

  • Practice this Greek vocabulary with motions:
    ἐκβάλλω I throw out
    πρόἐκβάλλω I extend
    ἀπόλαμβάνω I take from
    ποιέω I do, make
    ἀλλά but

  • Memorize these irregular verbs

    • go-went-gone

    • know-knew-known

    • lay-laid-laid

    • leave-left-left

    • lie-lay-lain

    • make-made-made

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

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

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Work on your oral presentation of your research paper and your tri-fold boards for our End of the Year Celebration June 10.

  • 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! Print your story (if it’s typed), 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!

 

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 320, Chandragupta I was Maharajadhiraja, King of Kings of the Gupta Empire in India. Later, his successor, Skandagupta, fought the Huns, who attempted to invade India.”

  • Learn about the Gupta Dynasty and their accomplishments.

    1. Khan Academy has a good video set.

    2. I have a super good book on it.

    3. Samudragupta carved his deeds into an Ashoka Pillar. Here’s what he said.

    4. Read text from a buddhist pilgrim from China about his visit to the Gupta’s land.

  • Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations.

    1. Listen to a free audiobook.

    2. Read the text itself (starts on Page 74)

      • REQUIRED: create a list of people to whom you are indebted as Marcus Aurelius wrote in the first section. Describe their attributes that you admire and aspire to be like.

      • REQUIRED: Find a good short passage that applies to your life. Memorize and recite it on Thursday.

    3. Marcus Aurelius's One Question to Beat Procrastination, Whining, and Struggle

    4. The Daily Stoic has a good intro.

  • Read about Pappus of Alexandria and his great work Synagoge:

    1. A good, quick overview (don’t get bogged down in the proofs).

    2. MacTutor biography

  • Read about Galen, Surgeon to the Stars!

    1. Read his biography.

    2. Listen to an interesting discussion about him.

    3. Learn how to check your pulse!

  • Grammar Week 33 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 320, not only was Chandragupta I Maharajadhiraja, King of Kings of the Gupta Empire in India, but also his successor, Skandagupta, fought the Huns, who attempted to invade India.

    2. In 1948 either Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated or the nation of Israel was established.

    3. The decision, Brown v. Board of Education, both paved the way for integration and served as a model for future civil rights cases.

    4. Who knows whether Soviet astronauts or American astronauts first walked on the moon?

    5. John F. Kennedy was not only a Congressman representing Massachusetts but also the 35th President of the United States.

    6. Galen was a physician to not only gladiators but also emperors in 157 AD!

    7. Pappus of Alexandria writes Synagoge (Collections) which is a guide to Greek geometry.

    8. Either anatomy is the study of parts of the body and their organization and interrelationships, or physiology is the study of biological functions.

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

ἐκβάλλω I throw out

πρόἐκβάλλω I extend

ἀπόλαμβάνω I take from

ποιέω I do, make

ἀλλά but

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Pappus of Alexandria! More skills! More games!

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

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Make Indian milk tea.

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.33

  • Art Appreciation on Wednesday: The Golden Age - religious or secular - we wrap up the year with our best depictions of ancient art, OR finish paintings, OR create a peacock using feathers and beads.

  • 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:

      • Go-went-gone

      • Know-knew-known

      • Lay-laid-laid

      • Leave-left-left

      • Lie-lay-lain

      • make-made-made

    3. Read and complete IEW Challenge: pp. 204-205 “Ancient World.” Write a 12 line or more poem about the ancient world using dual adjectives, adverbs, and verbs and alliteration.  Be sure to brainstorm first.  There is an example on page 249.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: copy anatomy illustrations