Middle Ages Week 1
/Middle Ages, Week 1 Homework
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
Memorize: “In 434, Central Asian Huns bonded as one under King Attila, attacked Rome in Italy, then left them alone in exchange for money. Meanwhile, British High King Vortigern hired the Angle & Saxon tribes to help him fight his enemies, but they took over England for their families.”
Learn about Attila the Hun & the Huns and King Vortigern & the Angles and Saxons.
Memorize all subjects through song, motions, pictures, games, etc.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 1, Chapter 41 and Vol 2, Chapter 2 and do the activities in the activity guide.
Draw the continents and oceans by hand.
Memorize “Orbital inclination is the measure of the tilt of a planet's orbit above or below the ecliptic, the path of the sun through the sky.”
Learn about Aryabhatta.
Memorize “π is the ratio of the Circumference of the circle to the Diameter and is approximately 3.1416.”
Practice the Greek alphabet
Memorize the 4 sentence structures: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex.
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 (3-4th)
“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”: Complete Unit One, Lesson 1. We will continue with Lesson 2 next week.
“Fix it! Grammar”: Complete week one in your student book. We will review it next week and then you will be able to copy the grammatically correct sentences into your notebooks, which are forth coming. Yeah!
Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders
From our session Thursday 8/31/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.
Draw the continents and oceans by hand from memory.
Memorize: “In 434, Central Asian Huns bonded as one under King Attila, attacked Rome in Italy, then left them alone in exchange for money. Meanwhile, British High King Vortigern hired the Angle & Saxon tribes to help him fight his enemies, but they took over England for their families.”
Upper Dialecticians (7-9th grades) present one essay on one of these topics next week. Present another topic from a keyword outline.
Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades) choose one of these and prepare a 2-3 minute presentation to share in class next Thursday. Write a paragraph summary of St. Patrick's life.
Learn about the Huns and their king, Attila.
Upper Dialecticians (7-9th grades) research the answers to your annotation questions. Turn them in next week.
Learn about the Angles, the Saxons, and their one way trip to Britain. Annotate as you read.
Read Patrick’s Confession and write a one paragraph summary of his account.
The Confessio of St. Patrick (There are a lot of interesting articles and images on this website. Please click around and see what interests you.)
Read Augustine of Hippo’s City of God
Learn about Aryabhatta’s Aryabatiya.
The Aryabatiya Page 16 (linked) has this text about Orbital Inclination: The greatest deviation of the Moon from the ecliptic is 4 degrees, of Saturn 2 degrees, of Jupiter 1 degree, of Mars 1 degrees, of Mercury and Venus 2 degrees.
Later parts of the book are about his mathematics. It’s not an easy book at all, but you have access to it! Skim it to see what you can find!
Math: Khan Academy,
Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!
Lower Dialecticians (5th-6th grades), ALSO complete the PEMDAS worksheet.
Diagramming: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram the (Simple S-Vi) sentences below and for a challenge, diagram the second part of the history sentence above
1. Jericho was founded.
2. Sumerians write!
3. Egypt unifies.
4. Britons construct.
5. Imhotep builds.
6. Gilgamesh ruled.
7. Huns invade!
8. Orbits tilt.
9. People count.
10. Rivers flow.
11. The Greeks alphabetize.
Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 1 and memorize the Greek alphabet.
Math Club on Wednesday: Aryabata & pi
Book Club on Tuesday: Read your Medieval library book, make notes in your Book Club journal and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far.
MAKE: History on Tuesday: Tie Celtic knots
Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.2
Art Appreciation on Wednesday: Draw Celtic knot patterns
Writing Club: Dialecticians 5-8:
“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”: Complete Unit One, Lessons 1 and 2. Be prepared to present your COMPLETED paper from a printed copy. No computers allowed. One or two papers will be selected to be critiqued and returned the following week.
“Fix it! Grammar”: Complete week one in your student book. We will review it next week and then you will be able to copy the grammatically correct sentences into your notebooks, which are forth coming. Yeah!
