Middle Ages Week 4

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Middle Ages, Week 4 Homework for Chronos Cohorts

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Over the River to South China in 581 AD, Yang Chien expanded his empire and made the Sui Dynasty.  He built a canal to join North and South, and his son completed his task. The taxes made him unpopular, yet the The Tang Dynasty would last.”

Learn about Yang Chien who became Emporer Wen of the Sui Dynasty.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 8 and do the activities in the activity guide.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the West African countries: Western Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Surgical tools: Scalpel, Forceps, Clamp, Retractor, Babcock, Rogeur, Scissors, Syringe

Math: Memorize The sum of a converging infinite geometric series is a1/(1-r).

Investigate geometric series and sequences here.

Greek: Practice some feminine Greek nouns:

ἡ ἀλήθεια the truth
ἡ βασιλεία the kingdom
ἡ ἐκκλησία the church
ἡ ἡμέρα the day
ἡ ὥρα the hour
ἡ φωνή the voice
ἡ ψυχῇ the soul, life
ἡ καρδία the heart
ἡ ἀγάπη the love
ἡ ἁμαρτία the sin

English: Memorize the 8 Parts of Speech are

interjection, verb, adverb, noun, conjunction, adjective, pronoun, preposition

Investigate the Parts of Speech on Grammar Revolution.

Presentation: 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 4.

Diagram Week 4 sentences.

 

Lower Dialecticians
5-6h grades

Writing & Literature: Do a key word outline, first draft, edits & final draft of what happens after chapter 2 in Outlaws of the Marsh. (We started a key word outline in class.)

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and don’t come without a notecard - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are the topics you picked in class:

Sabine - Golden Age of China & Tang Dynasty and ice cream
Gino - Indigo dye art
Catalina - Yang Chien & Sui Dynasty
Jocelyn - Brahmagupta’s math
Cooper - Another chapter in Outlaws of the Marsh
Henry & Phoebe can choose a topic from week 3 or 4

History: Memorize “Over the River to South China in 581 AD, Yang Chien expanded his empire and made the Sui Dynasty.  He built a canal to join North and South, and his son completed his task. The taxes made him unpopular, yet the The Tang Dynasty would last.”

Learn with your ears on the Almost Forgotten Podcast.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the North & Western African countries from memory.

Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,

Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger

Practice memorizing the countries with this game.

Math: Finish the worksheet on the commutative and associative property.  Do grade level math on Khan Academy or in your own curriculum.

Investigate geometric series and sequences here.

English: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 4 sentences:

1. Phoenicians traded goods.
2. Mycenaeans inhabited Greece.
3. The Olmecs built giant heads.
4. The Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Shang.
5. Kush rule Nubia.
6. King David ruled Israel.
7. Yang Chien expanded his empire.
8. Surgeons use scalpels and forceps.
9. Mathematicians calculate series.

Greek: Complete lesson 4 in your workbook.

Science: Annotate the article on Paul of Aegina.

Philosophy: Annotate the article from class.
 

Upper Dialecticians
7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 9/14/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the North African countries for Week 3: Western Africa: Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game.

History: Memorize “Over the River to South China in 581 AD, Yang Chien expanded his empire and made the Sui Dynasty.  He built a canal to join North and South, and his son completed his task. The taxes made him unpopular, yet the The Tang Dynasty would last.”

Literature - Prepare a play of the action in Chapters 2 and 3 of The Outlaws of the Marsh.

ALSO: REwrite the comparison essay on Agathias’ My Partridge and To a Cat Which Had Killed a Favorite Bird. Compare:

  • Emotion

  • Audience

  • Action

  • One of five other points of comparison that you discover.
    Include an introduction and a conclusion.

Philosophy - Learn about Xuanzang on pages 28-30.  Annotate the article from class.

Math - Learn more about Brahmagupta. Especially pay attention to the rules for arithmetic of negatives and zero. Fill in the proper squares on our number system arithmetic sheets.

Create your own way of writing numbers like Brahmagupta. Try this:
The supreme court justices (9), the eggs in a carton (12) ---> 129
The Ezell children, the points on the star of David, the days of the week ---> 763
Now make up your own!

Science -  Annotate Paul of Aegina’s Surgeries.

Math: Khan Academy,

Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!

Investigate geometric series and sequences here.

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 history sentences above

1. Phoenicians traded goods.
2. Mycenaeans inhabited Greece.
3. The Olmecs built giant heads.
4. The Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Shang.
5. Kush rule Nubia.
6. King David ruled Israel.
7. Yang Chien expanded his empire.
8. Surgeons use scalpels and forceps.
9. Mathematicians calculate series.

 

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. We finished White Stag in class last week.  We’ll start Beowulf this week!

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 8 in class and make lacquer.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.3

Greek: Complete & study lesson 4 for our quiz!  We’ll practice Greek Workbook Lesson 5.

 

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll study anatomy!

Math Club: Investigate negative numbers like Brahmagupta did.

Art Appreciation: Illuminated Manuscripts with carolingian cross

Writing Club:
Dialecticians 5-8:  IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 5. Read “The Introduction”.

Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read “The Assignment” on page 37 . Complete page 40 then write your first draft from your Key Word Outline (page 39).  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1).

Use the checklist on page 41 to be sure you have included every element required this week. Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-4, see if you can include some vocabulary words in your paragraph!

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 4 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 12 in preparation for week 5!

Upper Grammarians (3-4): IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 4.  Read “The Assignment” page 31. Complete pages 34, then write your paragraph from your Key Word Outline..  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1) Use the checklist on page 35 to be sure you have included every element required this week.

Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-4.  There will be quiz next week!

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 4 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 12 in preparation for week 5!